Is dizzying. And the case with this guy White opens up a whole realm of questions about online courses not just for athletes but for all students, and the big question will be, who's on the other end of the line? It's hard enough ensuring any semblance of integrity in systems outside of UNC where students are generally supposed to be attending classes, but in the virtual world of MOOCs, the potential for abuse is limitless.
But at least some athletes will be getting an in-depth education in the business of college football, and that's nothing to be sneered at because there's a lot of meaningful employment within it as coaches, academic advisers and substitutes, sports ethics consultants, agents, fixers, personal medical assistants and pharmaceutical representatives, helmet repair technicians, the sideline guy who asks dazed athletes "Do you know where you are?," and on and on and on.