http://m.si.com/news/wr/wr/detail/520353...BD3.cnnsi1

I have no idea how UNC works, but this is an outrage if that's the case. How do they punish UCONN for APR issues when UNC essentially issued fake grades for their fake classes? I am no expert, but shouldn't fake As be punished for APR issues?

And ucf gets a bowl ban plus loss of scholarships and we didn't even successfully cheat. The NCAA needs to be reviewed.

In May, UNC made public an internal probe that found 54 AFAM classes were either "aberrant" or "irregularly" taught from summer 2007 to summer 2011. That included unauthorized grade changes, forged faculty signatures on grade rolls, and limited or no class time.

UNC has said that no student received a grade without submitting written work. But more than 50 percent of the students in those suspect classes were athletes. As first reported by The News & Observer of Raleigh, one class last summer had an enrollment of 19 -- 18 football players and one former football player.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/...t-violated

Maybe they bought their way out of penalties, like Penn State

Slightly off topic:

1, What conference does North Carolina University belong too?

2, Who owns the broadcasting rights to that conference?

3, How important is North Carolina University to the ACC?

3, What conference will UCF be playing in next year?

4, Who owns the broadcasting rights for that conference, (Not gonna be ESPN)?

5, How important is UCF to it's new conference?

My guess is that the answer to question #2, doesn't care about the answer to question #5.

(08-31-2012 03:57 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  In May, UNC made public an internal probe that found 54 AFAM classes were either "aberrant" or "irregularly" taught from summer 2007 to summer 2011. That included unauthorized grade changes, forged faculty signatures on grade rolls, and limited or no class time.

UNC has said that no student received a grade without submitting written work. But more than 50 percent of the students in those suspect classes were athletes. As first reported by The News & Observer of Raleigh, one class last summer had an enrollment of 19 -- 18 football players and one former football player.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/...t-violated

And the Chief of that dept was basically forced to resign...but again, NO CHEATING!

As one UCF fan (who has PhD from UNC) likes to say:

"NCAA President is a UNC Alum....nothing will come out of this academic scandal" and with every passing day...he looks more and more right.

(08-31-2012 04:32 PM)KnightLight Wrote:  

(08-31-2012 03:57 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  In May, UNC made public an internal probe that found 54 AFAM classes were either "aberrant" or "irregularly" taught from summer 2007 to summer 2011. That included unauthorized grade changes, forged faculty signatures on grade rolls, and limited or no class time.

UNC has said that no student received a grade without submitting written work. But more than 50 percent of the students in those suspect classes were athletes. As first reported by The News & Observer of Raleigh, one class last summer had an enrollment of 19 -- 18 football players and one former football player.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/...t-violated

And the Chief of that dept was basically forced to resign...but again, NO CHEATING!

As one UCF fan (who has PhD from UNC) likes to say:

"NCAA President is a UNC Alum....nothing will come out of this academic scandal" and with every passing day...he looks more and more right.

I believe the NCAA president also worked at UCONN. He was denied the president job back in the 90s. I am not sure if the guy still holds a grudge against UCONN in some way.

Clearly the intent and execution of this class was to give out A's to athletes, without supervision and legit testing, to
bolster GPA's and keep athletes eligible.

It is ESPN's fault

The NCAA i guess has bought UNC's defense that these classes were also full of non-athletes so it wasn't an NCAA violation. I get what they are saying but it's BS.

If anything, the NCAA accepted UNC self-imposing a one year bowl ban.

Do I think what they did is right? Hell no. If the ACC thought they were worthy of being censured and fined, at a minimum the NCAA should have done the same thing.

As for the assertion that Mark Emmert worked at UNC, he never did nor did he attend there. He was courted for an admin job there, but never worked there nor did he get his undergrad there (for you conspiracy theorists, Washington for his undergrad, Syracuse for his PhD). He did work as UConn's chancellor.

(08-31-2012 08:10 PM)mattsarz Wrote:  If anything, the NCAA accepted UNC self-imposing a one year bowl ban.

Do I think what they did is right? Hell no. If the ACC thought they were worthy of being censured and fined, at a minimum the NCAA should have done the same thing.

Last year's 1 year bowl ban had nothing to do with the latest academic scandal uncovered over the last few months by a NC newspaper.

ncaa is a joke

And Boises football team gets penalized for allowing kids to sleep on couches. Where's the justice?

Great column in si.com on the joke of a decision by the NCAA.


NCAA fails miserably, turns a blind eye to UNC's academic misdeeds

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/wr...z25BxxyR9h


In a class called How To Embarrass Your School Without Getting In Trouble With the NCAA, I give the North Carolina Tar Heels an A-plus. And they don't even have to write a paper.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/wr...?eref=sihp