UNC Academic Scandal

[WuDrWu]

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.

Doug's classes have been held at local watering holes for years. Cash in the napkins.

[wufan]

Doug's classes have been held at local watering holes for years. Cash in the napkins.

Unsigned birthday and Christmas cards with cash in them, mailed from a Lawrence address. Hundred dollar bills left on the desks in dorm rooms while players are on the road for games...it happens.

[HockeyShock]

And here's the kicker: The NCAA just declared NC State freshman guard Braxton Beverly ineligible.

Seriously, pray for Cleveland State. The day's only half over.

[BOBB]

And here's the kicker: The NCAA just declared NC State freshman guard Braxton Beverly ineligible.

Seriously, pray for Cleveland State. The day's only half over.

I hope the FBI exposes the NCAA for the criminal enterprise that it is. If the end result is that the entire system breaks down and WSU plays against the Fort Hays, Pitt States and Newmans of the world, at least we can know we are playing in a fair system.

[ShockerPhi]

And here's the kicker: The NCAA just declared NC State freshman guard Braxton Beverly ineligible.

Seriously, pray for Cleveland State. The day's only half over.

What did Cleveland State do again? Sorry, I'm ignorant

[SHOCKvalue]

This is my shocked face.

[SHOCKvalue]

I hope the FBI exposes the NCAA for the criminal enterprise that it is. If the end result is that the entire system breaks down and WSU plays against the Fort Hays, Pitt States and Newmans of the world, at least we can know we are playing in a fair system.

Who knows, there could be a legitimate RICO or anti-trust angle for federal prosecution of the NCAA. Unless the FBI itself is corrupt (highly possible, at least to some degree), then the NCAA's non-action in this matter might as well be interpreted as a middle finger to the FBI, in the context of the past few weeks' developments.

[Kung Wu]

What did Cleveland State do again? Sorry, I'm ignorant

Joined the NCAA.






See the first quote here: https://www.unlv.edu/tark/quotes

[1972Shocker]

Surprising? No. Sad? Yes. Perhaps pathetic (at best) is a better word.

At this point what good is the NCAA. Perhaps it's a dinosaur that needs to join its fellow dinosaurs in the duct bin of extinction.

[BOBB]

Who knows, there could be a legitimate RICO or anti-trust angle for federal prosecution of the NCAA. Unless the FBI itself is corrupt (highly possible, at least to some degree), then the NCAA's non-action in this matter might as well be interpreted as a middle finger to the FBI, in the context of the past few weeks' developments.

Unless there is blatant corruption at the top, RICO would be hard to prove. Antitrust??? Maybe not so hard. I don't think the FBI gives two squirts about academic fraud, but bribery and coercion and blackmail...

[shoxlax]

History is writing the greatness of Tark the Shark

[another shocker]

the ncaa set a bad precedence with this crap.

[Cdizzle]

the ncaa set a bad precedence with this crap.

They didn't change anything about precedent.

Are you a have?
Yes - Do whatever you want.
No - You're screwed regardless.

[pogo]

I didn't expect nc to get much of a punishment but none is tantamount to the ncaa inability to manage itself much less the schools in the ncaa.. This is going to really open a flood gate of corruption the likes we have never seen. The scenarios where a person has a car lot and is going to give away x amount and opens it up to athletes who just happen to know about it and shows up first and the leftovers available to the general student jpopulation is not so far fetched.

[1972Shocker]

Would not some, perhaps even most, of the players who took these course be academically ineligible if it these courses were not included? That would seem easy enough to determine. Disallow all academic credit for these courses and to the extent that resulted in academically ineligible players participating for UNC they should be forced to vacate any wins from games those players participated in in the same manner that WSU was forced to vacate baseball wins for the self-reported Under Armor discount violations at WSU.

If that includes any conference or post-season championships then so be it.