UNC Academic Scandal

[asiseeit]

I fully expected UNC to get slammed right after Clinton, Lynch, Obama and Lerner
were prosecuted...........never

[WuShock16]

How is a team like WSU supposed to compete for recruits when they get hammered for giving someone a discount on athletic wear, while these blue bloods can get away with buying people houses and giving kids unworthy parents 6 figure jobs to get the kid to wear their jersey? I almost said come to their college, but that would actually imply that they were required to attend college, which the NCAA just made very clear is not the case. The NCAA needs the proverbial swamp drained so everyone can be on at least a somewhat even playing field.

As petty as it was, I can at least wrap my head around punishment for UnderArmourGate. What I still can't wrap my head around is Clevin Hannah getting punished for something that was LITERALLY not his fault...had nothing to do with it...it was a paperwork mistake by the compliance office. Included in Clevin's three missed games was a 13-point loss to eventual 3-seed Pitt in the CBE Classic. You think having our starting point guard would have helped? What might that have done to our RPI that season?

[bleednblackngold]

Still can't even start to comprehend how this is ok. We should have offered merchandise discounts to the entice student body I guess. Complete and utter Bullshit. At least we now know the ground rules! Let the cheating begin for everyone!

[WstateU]

I find it even easier to be a fan of WSU. And Marshall. I want to cram it up their cram-hole with 2 arms and a leg tied behind our backs.

Probably not appropriate, but I don’t give a $hit at this point…

[WstateU]

I find it even easier to be a fan of WSU. And Marshall. I want to cram it up their cram-hole with 2 arms and a leg tied behind our backs.

"It's time to win the whole f****** thing!"

[Kung Wu]

I want to cram it up their cram-hole with 2 arms and a leg tied behind our backs.

I can think of only four things left we could use to cram with:

1) Our other leg.
2) Our head.
3) Our tongue.
4) The final one assumes we are male.

If we use #2 we would be Wildcats, and using #3 or #4 would make us Jayhawks. So I guess we use our one good leg!

[Kung Wu]

Still can't even start to comprehend how this is ok. We should have offered merchandise discounts to the entice student body I guess. Complete and utter Bullshit. At least we now know the ground rules! Let the cheating begin for everyone!

Actually we did. I believe even students from OUTSIDE of WSU got in on the discounts (Juco students if I remember right).

[golferc]

What little credibility the NCAA had is gone. So disappointing

[Heinro]

The NCAA is a terrible institution with zero integrity at this point. "the N.C.A.A.’s enforcement staff pointed to the high enrollment of athletes in the classes — nearly half" and the NCAA decides they cannot punish UNC because “While student-athletes likely benefited from the so-called ‘paper courses’ offered by North Carolina, the information available in the record did not establish that the courses were solely created, offered and maintained as an orchestrated effort to benefit student-athletes.” Therefore, the NCAA has told every college and university, so long as non-student athletes are involved, that the NCAA has no authority to take action. It doesn't matter if the entire matter was created to directly benefit student athletes?

People can think what they will about Rodger Goodell, but he doesn't concede this authority to punish. He makes the courts make a determination whether he has that authority. Ultimately, this was a clever, spineless way for the NCAA to show that they didn't want to pass down any punishment. Otherwise, no institution would concede its authority to punish egregious offenses without being required to by the courts.

[pogo]

At least ECU didn't get the death penalty.

[Heinro]

I'm seriously at a loss for this ruling, not because I didn't think UNC would get any sort of tangible punishment, but because essentially what the NCAA has made apparent. So if I own a car lot, can I request the school to provide a mailing list for me to give away free cars. If it turns out that 45% of those in the mailing list were student athletes, it won't be a problem because non-student athletes were involved?

[Kung Wu]

At least ECU didn't get the death penalty.

Yet.

[WuDrWu]

As petty as it was, I can at least wrap my head around punishment for UnderArmourGate. What I still can't wrap my head around is Clevin Hannah getting punished for something that was LITERALLY not his fault...had nothing to do with it...it was a paperwork mistake by the compliance office. Included in Clevin's three missed games was a 13-point loss to eventual 3-seed Pitt in the CBE Classic. You think having our starting point guard would have helped? What might that have done to our RPI that season?

Be happy we didn't get hit with the death penalty and me personally a "show cause" for my involvement (for being a fan).

[WuShock16]

Gary Parrish: "Dear boosters: Go pay players and members of the 'general student body,' then use the defense that it didn't benefit only student-athletes."

This just in: Doug Compton has been hired to teach a business class at KU. All students who take the class receive a $100 bill after each class period. The five-credit-hour course meets five days a week. Since Doug has a busy schedule due to his activities as a fine upstanding citizen, classes tend to only last five minutes...long enough to take roll and hand out the dough. Enrollment is limited to 30 students in the class. It just so happens that fifteen men's basketball players will be able to take the class.

[another shocker]

this is an outrage. williams and the ncaa truly are hand in hand.. i mean, we knew that since his ku days, but still.. damn.