NCAA investigating Cam Newton

He also stated that discussing a kid's academic record is a violation of federal law. He CAN'T talk about it whether it's true or not.

And even if it is true that he was kicked out for cheating, the NCAA had to certify the kid eligible to play, which they have done or the kid wouldn't be playing now.

Any academic issues prior to Newton enrolling at Auburn are between Newton, UF and his JUCO and neither Jacobs - or anybody else other than Newton (and maybe his family or possibly anybody Newton designates to comment) - can comment publicly.

The pay for play issue is an entirely separate discussion and at this point there is no evidence that Auburn paid Newton to sign with them.

 

I greatly enjoyed this, from an AP story:

Well, yeah. We all know Meyer doesn't talk to the media when he doesn't have to.

 

Also...

Does this change if the kid is a straight-A student? It seems like most people only get upset about academic records when the grades are poor.

 

The way I understand it, as long as the kid agrees with the info being made public - prior to it being released - it's ok.

The Tom Penders era at Texas ended due to some academic records being released. Can't remember the player's name but it was a kid who transferred.

An assistant took the fall for the release but Penders was still canned.

 

Good, bad or indifferent, academic records cannot be released without a whole pile of authorizations. You're not even supposed to release information regarding what courses a student takes, regardless of grades.

I just went through a huge cluster-f**k of an integrity violation involving more than a handful of students. I had family members emailing me about it, and I couldn't even respond to the emails without running afoul of FERPA. There was an individual hearing for each student, even though all students were in on it together, so that other students' privacy would be maintained.

 

Right. I didn't want my grades released because I didn't want to get the big head.

 

Gregggg Doyle nails it.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/story/14267701/consider-the-source-on-newton-story

 

The schools are using them now.

 

Luke Axtell. He transferred to Kansas.

http://www.caller2.com/1999/august/05/today/texas_sp/4095.html

 

find one college president that says i'll scale it back and turn out D1 (FBS or whatever the f it is) team into a non-scholarship Patriot League team and i'll find you someone who'd be gone before Wade Phillips.

Big time athletics is not necessary for a university???

seriously??? so USC can go D2 and tell everyone they're the academic equivalent of Stanford? do you know how much money from just TV contracts and alumni they get for football.

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Big time athletics isn't a necessity. It's something nice to have, if you're the university, the students who cheer for them, and the alum fan-bois. And it generates a heckuva lot of money in both ticket sales and alumni donations.

But it's not an absolute necessity to have.

 

FERPA is nothing to screw around with. I spent 18 years in higher ed. admin. It's the area the schools train their employees on CONSTANTLY. You can't say anything to anyone (without the student's permission) about grades, enrollment, financial aid, admission status, disciplinary status, medical situations, mental health issue...NADA. Not even to the parents (once the student hit 18) Shoot, during the Weiss era, ND wouldn't even talk about sports injuries, citing FERPA. Someone could literally go to jail over this.

 

You would think the theory of mutually assured destruction would keep programs from ratting each other out, but obviously not.