Bear Down Wildcats

Olsondogg wrote:Gonna get real ugly...

CalStateTempe wrote:But sign an autograph while in school...

3goggles wrote:Why couldn't this be Kentucky!!!!

Olsondogg wrote:

3goggles wrote:Why couldn't this be Kentucky!!!!

Patience is a virtue...

scumdevils86 wrote:immensely less?

The notice of allegations came six months after Kenneth Wainstein, a former top U.S. Justice Department official, delivered an extensive report that found strong ties between the fake classes and athlete eligibility. He reported that Debby Crowder, the longtime administrative manager for the African and Afro-American Studies department, had created them in 1993 after the academic support program for athletes complained about independent studies that required too many meetings.

Crowder responded by creating independent studies that had no professor. She assigned a paper and provided high grades so long as one was turned in. In the late 1990s, Crowder began converting lecture-style classes into the paper classes, in part because the university had limits on how many independent studies a student could use toward graduation.

Her boss, department chairman Julius Nyang’oro, not only knew about the fake classes, he offered a few more after she retired in 2009.

More than 3,100 students enrolled in the classes, roughly half of them athletes, who are less than 5 percent of the student body. Several experts have said the academic fraud is the worst in NCAA history.
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I find the timing interesting. The NOA was given to UNC on a Friday before Memorial Day weekend. You release news you don't want talked about on a Friday, and you release news you want buried on a Friday before a holiday weekend.

Because of the timing, I feel the NCAA wants this to blow over quickly. Thus I feel it will officially be considered a punishment but unofficially be nothing.

Ha. We will see re: the N&O. I think they have a vested interest to keep some kind of investigation wrt to UNC alive. UNC scandals sell papers. Folks who get off on the UNC scandals don't care if it is new or old information.

Huh? It could've been a LOT worse. NCAA states the easy classes were created by academics... not athletics to keep athletes eligible. That's freaking huge and counters what the media has been saying for years. Oh yeah, we'll get sanctions, probation, fines, etc, but the athletic department is relatively clean.

The NCAA had the consideration to wait until after Dean's passing to start issuing notice. I think they are on our side.

ASUHATER! wrote:Unc fans and some media and blog articles I've read have basically said nothing will come of this and it will be a slap on the wrist...solely because it wasn't just athletes that benefited from the classes. Half of the people were regular students. They say that because of that it is a school admin issue and not an ncaa one and the ncaa will be powerless to hurt unc.


I laughed.

An accreditation agency important to colleges receiving federal funds put the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on probation Thursday for a year over its academic fraud scandal.

The board of Southern Association of Colleges and Schools' Commission on Colleges stopped short of imposing the harshest penalty, which would have blocked the country's oldest public university from receiving federal funds including student loan proceeds.