Another academic scandal; UNC is f-cked

I took music appreciation (in an 8 a.m. class) with William "The Fridge" Perry. He fell asleep during the opening movements of the "Surprise" symphony, then woke up flailing at the surprise.

 

One thing I saw as a doctoral student was really troubling, but it got shut down in a hurry once the powers-that-be became aware of it. A lot of the doctoral students worked as night-time tutors for the athletic department, and I knew a couple who did it a lot. Then my department administrators found out that one of the guys doing the tutoring was also teaching the classes for which the players were getting tutored. So if you were a football player in Marketing 302, you went to tutoring for Marketing and lo and behold, there was your instructor. Both the department and athletic administers put a stop to that, making it a rule that you couldn't tutor if you were actually teaching.

The guy doing the tutoring, he was a piece of work. Over time, it got to the point that his classes consisted solely of athletes, guys from his fraternity and girls from his younger sister's sorority. He always angled for M-W-F classes, and then he'd declare Fridays to be "reading days" with no actual class. All of his shenanigans led to him getting chased out of our doctoral program, but he finished elsewhere and is now tenured at a top-echelon SEC power. God only knows what stunts he's pulling these days.

 

Do I have this right? There's no problem because everyone was doing it?

Who's writing the NCAA manual, the IOC?

 

This Forde column rather perfectly nails my view.

North Carolina ruling proves NCAA is useless

I've never been less interested in college sports, and increasingly feel like a dumb sucker for having spent so much of my life as a fan.

 

Did I read that the NCAA laid a show-cause on the AFAM guy? Has the NCAA ever levied such on a non-athletics type? That's ... I don't know about that.

 

UF, right?

 

Not UF ... that's all I'll say.

 

Damn. But I think I know the answer.

 

Given the corruption of Calipari, Boeheim and Pitino it seems a reasonable inference that the better the program the more corrupt it is. UNC, Kentucky and Duke probably cheat like a married NBA player on a long road trip

 

But wouldn't it be better if everyone played 4 years of college basketball? Can't imagine why anyone would want to leave early for the NBA.

 

That's what I'm not getting, either. How does it take years to reach the conclusion using that basis, when that could have been settled in months, if that. Get records of who took classes, see if it was just athletes or others as well, and there's your decision.
Maybe if the NCAA wants to be taken seriously, they can just let the FBI handle all investigations from now on. It's obviously pointless for the NCAA to do its own investigating.