Another academic scandal; UNC is f-cked

Jalen Rose thinks all of Duke's African-American players flunk "black experience."

 

God, I love you.

 

He's probably right.

 

Wow - this looks awful. Can the NCAA give the death penalty to the entire UNC athletic program? Is that possible?

 

It just wasn't a very good experience?

 

I failed white experience.

 

There's still hope for me ... I haven't taken the cumulative final yet!

 

Anyone else notice ESPN's peculiar lack of coverage here? On the CBS and Sporting News sites you've got columnists screaming that it's biggest academic fraud case in sports history, meanwhile on ESPN the story appears wholly ignored, not even a tiny blurb on either their college football or basketball pages.

 

If Emmert (with the tacit endorsement of NCAA membership) blew up Penn State because the conversation was starting to turn toward how the culture of college football as a whole contributed to the protection of Sandusky, then he's going to have to blow up North Carolina, because the conversation is going to turn quickly to how the culture of college sports encourages academic fraud.

Heck, I bet anyone here who went to a big-time sports school (or even small-time) has stories about clear shenanigans going on when it comes to keeping athletes eligible. When I went to Indiana, there clearly were classes that were stacked with friendly professors who worked with the athletics department to ensure a good grade no matter.

One in particular I recall was Sports and the Afro-American Experience. Usually the class was made up of athletes, and sportswriters from the Indiana Daily Student (I was the latter, obviously). Now, the athletes actually showed up and nominally did work, but while some of us were turning in five-page, typed, double-spaced papers that were assigned, I saw jocks (including one who later got himself a Super Bowl ring) turn in two paragraphs (one of which was crossed out) written on notebook paper. Then I would see the professor dancing on the court before or after basketball games.

 

I love that Peppers' agent was also his "tutor" at UNC. Sounds like Mr. Carey latched his opportunistic paws on Peppers from a very early age.

Also suggests that Carey's interest in shutting up the reporter might be related to more than just protecting his client. I noticed from looking at the Peppers transcript that, other than the bogus AFAM classes, his best grades all came in extremely vaguely worded classes such as "Independent Studies", "Field Research", etc. I suspect Carey may know better than anyone how the "independent" work was done in those classes.

 

Yeah. Not to defend ESPN here, but this story doesn't seem like it has generated the stories nationally that it merits. Been in the background a lot.

 

It may be that people are inured to academic fraud, given the long history of it in college sports. Though this might be the worst fakery since Tates Locke invented a black fraternity to get black players to Clemson in the early 1970s.

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