Tuesday night on HBO.

Here's the link from the NY Post about the segment scheduled for tomorrow night: "Academic Corruption continues"

Real Sports segment an eye-opener
"Given that HBO has no NCAA deals to stop it, and given that your better senses likely can handle the ugliest of truths, watch “Real Sports” Tuesday night at 10, featuring Bernard Goldberg’s piece on the staggering, worsening academic corruption on behalf of football and basketball at Baylor, Oklahoma, Memphis, Iowa State and North Carolina — all NCAA Tournament qualifiers."

LINK: From the Carolina News Observer

The segment, reported by Bernard Goldberg and produced by Josh Fine, looks at how lower admission standards, coupled with higher graduation requirements, have required many top schools to commit to learning specialists to ensure student athletes can keep up. Goldberg interviews Mary Willingham, a UNC whistle-blower who formerly worked with athletes. Willingham has claimed to have data showing that 60 percent of 183 athletes at UNC, specially tested over an eight-year period, could not read at the high school level and that another 10 percent could not read above the third-grade level. Goldberg also interviews two football players from the university – Michael McAdoo and Bryan Bishop.

“Real Sports” says its investigative team spent six months vetting multi-million dollar academic advising centers, which are responsible for helping student-athletes with “elementary educations” graduate from college. In addition to UNC, the episode looks at programs at the University of Memphis and University of Oklahoma.

Not-CUSA related.

We all know it happens everywhere. All you have to do is listen to a post game interview with most of these kids and you can tell, that they don't belong in college and are their strictly to help win games. jmo

Hell, I really admire kids from Stanford, Rice, The Academies and the Ivy schools, etc. who excel in the classroom as well as the field of competition.

Yeah, it's a shame some don't take advantage of the opportunities in front of them...can't judge though as I've let some slip through my fingertips for various reasons myself. I read an article on the Cathey fellow supposedly highlighted in the show. Sad :( It makes me want to love on my kids all the more and create an environment that fosters the skills and confidence they need to thrive in the world. It's hard to see the forest for the trees when you're living day by day.

You mean Marshall wasn't mentioned? According to some fans from other conferences we're on the verge of an academic transgression.

The priorities of this country.

As I said in another thread, This show is still on the air?

(03-25-2014 08:27 AM)gotigers1 Wrote:  As I said in another thread, This show is still on the air?

That is what you have to say about this?

WOW. Guess you weren't kidding shiftyeagle. The priorities of the fans of one of these schools is shown by brushing this off. Very alarming.

I know this kind of crap goes on at USM, and probably most other CUSA schools outside of Rice.

I don't have to read any of this thread to state that .Bryant Gumbel is an irrelevant d!ckhead....is funny how his brother has passed him by on the food chain....

(03-25-2014 09:15 AM)stinkfist Wrote:  I don't have to read any of this thread to state that .Bryant Gumbel is an irrelevant d!ckhead....is funny how his brother has passed him by on the food chain....

Agreed, but the issue is not irrelevant. Can and should be addressed imo

(03-25-2014 09:16 AM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  

(03-25-2014 09:15 AM)stinkfist Wrote:  I don't have to read any of this thread to state that .Bryant Gumbel is an irrelevant d!ckhead....is funny how his brother has passed him by on the food chain....

Agreed, but the issue is not irrelevant. Can and should be addressed imo

agreed....however, once the power has been achieved, 'at all costs' is fair game....it's a sad state of affairs, eh?

(03-25-2014 07:55 AM)SVHerd Wrote:  We all know it happens everywhere. All you have to do is listen to a post game interview with most of these kids and you can tell, that they don't belong in college and are their strictly to help win games. jmo

Hell, I really admire kids from Stanford, Rice, The Academies and the Ivy schools, etc. who excel in the classroom as well as the field of competition.

Judging a person's intelligence by how they talk is folly.

No schools north of the Mason-Dixon....hmmm

(03-25-2014 10:28 AM)FIUFan Wrote:  No schools north of the Mason-Dixon....hmmm

It is highlighting a few schools. You're an ignoramus if you think none of the northern schools cheat their kids the way through college.

(03-25-2014 08:21 AM)MUsince96 Wrote:  You mean Marshall wasn't mentioned? According to some fans from other conferences we're on the verge of an academic transgression.

They are highlighting universities this week. They don't do junior colleges until next week. So relax.

(03-25-2014 10:54 AM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  

(03-25-2014 10:28 AM)FIUFan Wrote:  No schools north of the Mason-Dixon....hmmm

It is highlighting a few schools. You're an ignoramus if you think none of the northern schools cheat their kids the way through college.

Is that how you were brought up, to name call at the first sign of disagreement? Have a little decorum if you will. Of course I realise that; it was my point.

geez, there are some real backward yahoo's on this board; almost makes me long for our days back in the Sun Belt.

p.s. holy crap, you're a moderator too. do they seek your type out for that post.

(03-25-2014 11:00 AM)PirateMarv Wrote:  

(03-25-2014 08:21 AM)MUsince96 Wrote:  You mean Marshall wasn't mentioned? According to some fans from other conferences we're on the verge of an academic transgression.

They are highlighting universities this week. They don't do junior colleges until next week. So relax.

there's another playground call the acksmack....did you already get booted???

(03-25-2014 11:00 AM)PirateMarv Wrote:  

(03-25-2014 08:21 AM)MUsince96 Wrote:  You mean Marshall wasn't mentioned? According to some fans from other conferences we're on the verge of an academic transgression.

They are highlighting universities this week. They don't do junior colleges until next week. So relax.

And without naming particular schools, one of the ones I had in mind comes out of the woodwork. The obsession continues...

Was only name-calling if you're actually stupid enough to believe what you said.....I hope you were simply being hypothetical.

You see, you aren't stupid or an ignoramus unless you're actually stupid or an ignoramus.