Kansas Facing Major Allegations

[CL82]

There was nothing they could do about it. It's outside of their authority. They push the boundaries of what they can do as it is (boosters are defined way too broadly). It's a voluntary association of the participating schools. They are not handing over the power to direct academic affairs. If anything they will pull back powers the NCAA has today.

The thing is that the university took inconsistent positions with different regulatory agencies. With the NCAA they said, yeah we think it these were valid courses and you can't tell us otherwise but with the accrediting agency they stated that were invalid courses run by rogue staff. It can't be both. The NCAA could have looked at the statements to the accrediting agency and found that the university lied to the NCAA, that the scores were not valid, by way of the admission to the accrediting agency, for APR purposes and recalculated player APR GPAs. If players who participated in games were found not to be eligible, those games would be deemed a forfeit. Finally, the coach/school should have been slapped with "failure to monitor" for allowing the fake courses to be included in APR. It was easily "doable." The NCAA chose not to do it.

 

[ctchamps]

Amen. That class should have been removed and GPA's recalculated. Any games played with an ineligible student athlete are forfeited. Easy answer.

Exactly. They had Rashad McCants admitting the sham and the tutor Willmingham stating kids couldn’t read as well as many not attending even the fake classes or submitting any work and still getting grades to stay eligible.

Those admissions should have in the least made those players academically ineligible, impacted the GPA and resulted in disqualified games.

The NCAA doesn’t want to go that route for fear that a large number of it’s student athletes are not eligible. They are probably right. Given that the NCAA is university governance and extremely profitable there are two problems with looking the other way.

The first is blatant exploitation of kids for profits. The second is the APR. It has been exposed as a sham and those universities punished from it might have an opportunity to be compensated.

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