(01-26-2015 08:07 AM)KnightLight Wrote:  

(01-23-2015 02:11 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  

(01-23-2015 02:00 PM)tribe_pride Wrote:  Not saying that UNC is not crap for all of this and should get punished by the NCAA but where is personal responsibility for the students who skated by? Couldn't the individual student athletes have signed up for real classes and actually have done real work? Sounds like people trying to take advantage of a system twice - first by taking joke classes when they had an opportunity to take real classes and now trying to sue for "damages" because they were allowed (but assuming not forced even if they were encouraged) to take the joke classes.

I concur - the article says, "This case involves allegations of breach of contract against UNC for a failure to provide "academically sound classes with legitimate educational instruction.""

I'm pretty sure that the vast majority of courses offered by UNC are "academically sound." The athletes just chose to take other courses instead. So UNC provided good academics; it's not their fault that athletes chose to skate by.

Disagree...because there are hundreds of past interviews of former athletes that were "forced" to take easy, and in this case, no-show classes, so that they could spend more time in the workout rooms, film rooms, easily keep their eligibility so they could play sports for said school.

You are blind to think that ALL Athletes can take "any" class offered by the Univ.

Since there are hundreds, can you link a couple? I can't remember ever reading one. They've been encouraged or steered to take easy classes. They've been warned away from tough classes (and that might be appropriate for some of them). But I don't recall them ever being forced into taking certain classes or prohibited from taking classes.