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UNC whistleblower stands firm: Player couldn’t read, and she’ll show evidence to Williams

http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/01/10/3...-firm.html

And we should lower our admission standards...

Wasn't there a former football player who sued Auburn in the 90s because he played four years and finished still unable to be functionally literate? This may work out to require literacy testing for all players who finish eligibility at all Post Secondary schools in America. Does anyone believe this only can happen at UNC?

This could result in a boom in literacy education for a lot of teachers, particularly elementary level instructors to keep the schools covered..

I hope no one thinks this is a new development. Athletes have been given a free pass for a very long time.

(01-10-2014 10:48 PM)dfarr Wrote:  And we should lower our admission standards...

Your degree will be diminished in no shape or form so relax Festus.

Gene Bartow adamant that this needed to happen to become competitive again. I think it is ridiculous that you can qualify to go to UAB but cannot qualify to play athletics here so a big YES to you. UAB would have not had a FRACTION of success in all sports had these standards been in place when we first started a program. We might possibly be a Lower level DI or DII program.

BTW since you do not want to hear it we are already making exceptions again in basketball the last two seasons and this year in football so it's getting better.

We should be on par with par peers. If not we need to go join the Big South. That are don't ***** when we get beat.

(01-10-2014 10:48 PM)dfarr Wrote:  And we should lower our admission standards...

yes. it makes no sense to require athletes have a higher GPA to attend UAB than non athletes.

It is a flat out disgrace that winning on the playing field is so damned important, such big business, that so-called "institutions of higher learning" will prostitute themselves they way they do to get a winning record. Nowhere else in the world have schools gotten into the entertainment business to such a degree that they devalue the degree they offer in this way.

Enroll kids who are not really very good students? Sure. There are a lot of students who enter UAB and have to start out with what is basically remedial, high school level english and math courses, and if they complete them, build that foundation, and go ahead in school I have no problem with it whatsoever. That goes for athletes or for regular students of all sorts.

This is several orders of magnitude different from admitting someone because he is 6'4" and runs a 4.4 forty in pads, knowing that he reads on the fourth grade level, and then having someone else do his classwork for him. It devalues the degree a school awards, and it discards the athletes without giving them the education they need to get ahead in later life. Few athletes get the chance to play professional sports. In theory, the bargain they make is to sweat and risk injury in a school's athletic program in exchange for an education, not to be used up and then tossed like used kleenex.

It is corrupt and unconscionable, and there is no excuse to be made for it.

So, this spring, Little Smaug, with her 3.96 GPA, 25+ ACT, and about a dozen or so extra-curriculars applies to Vandy and doesn't get accepted. Meanwhile, a classmate of hers, DeAndre Woods, gets a free ride at same.

She says to me, "Daddy, he's as dumb as a sack of hammers and didn't just get accepted, but got a free ride. How does that happen?"

I told her, "Because, dear heart, you're not 6'4" and you don't run a sub-4.5 forty."

Welcome to higher education.