ot: Evidence of fraud found in UNC academic department

[husky99]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...-academic-department-20120505,0,6242802.story

Heard some top unc players majored in
George Lynch
Antawn Jamison
Ed Cota
Vince Carter
Sean May
Jerry Stackhouse
David Noel

 

[Fishy]

Dear Mr. Emmert:

Please get out your calculator - there's an APR out there that needs some recalculatin'. Let loose the dogs of war, white bread!

Hugs and Kisses,

Fishy

PS - You're still a raging.

 

[upstater]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...-academic-department-20120505,0,6242802.story

Heard some top unc players majored in
George Lynch
Antawn Jamison
Ed Cota
Vince Carter
Sean May
Jerry Stackhouse
David Noel

Very serious, and there is a lot more to this story than they are letting on. That's an incredible amount of fraudulent courses. 43 courses over 2 years at a university with a 2-2 load? These could be independent studies, I initially thought. But then they list 59 enrolled students in 9 courses with forged signatures.

There is something much bigger going on here since almost anyone in the department would know this information. Faculty are all aware of how many majors the department has, and how many courses are taught. This would have been noticed, not to mention the unfamiliar names on grad lists.

The NCAA will do nothing about it though just as it has done nothing about similar shenanigans at Tennessee and Georgia and Alabama in the past.

 

[upstater]

Dear Mr. Emmert:

Please get out your calculator - there's an APR out there that needs some recalculation'. Let loose the dogs of war, white bread!

Hugs and Kisses,

Fishy

PS - You're still a raging.

Strictly speaking, this shouldn't impact the APR. The students were in good academic standing by passing bogus classes.

 

[uconnfan68]

Strictly speaking, this shouldn't impact the APR. The students were in good academic standing by passing bogus classes.

I wish we could retroactively pretend ours did too.

 

[ktuck911]

they won't get a tourney ban like us.. they're a "respected program"... smh...

 

[CL82]

So, if you have three guys who were otherwise in good standing, who choose to pursue a career rather than finish their degree, your institution is so heinous that it must receive draconian punishment - twice - for the same offense...but if you instead commit fraud, everything is fine. Complete BS.

 

[TheRogers]

The NCAA has then released a statement from Emmert saying in effect that he was "deeply moved" by the diligence and follow through exhibited by the University to the point where UNC was given a one time waiver card that gives them an automatic waiver on APR deficiencies. Emmert added, "However we should not forget there was fraud involved which is why the waiver card will expire in 2050."

 

[willie99]

Dear Mr. Emmert:

Please get out your calculator - there's an APR out there that needs some recalculatin'. Let loose the dogs of war, white bread!

Hugs and Kisses,

Fishy

PS - You're still a raging.

far too many for him to take on

he'll only go after schools that "self-report". Y'know, the real cheaters in this world.

 

[hoopsknowitall]

The NCAA has then released a statement from Emmert saying in effect that he was "deeply moved" by the diligence and follow through exhibited by the University to the point where UNC was given a one time waiver card that gives them an automatic waiver on APR deficiencies. Emmert added, "However we should not forget there was fraud involved which is why the waiver card will expire in 2050."

LOL

The NCAA is its own worst enemy and should ban itself from ever issuing ANY public statement EVER. Seriously how funny is this?

 

[Hoophound]

LOL

The NCAA is its own worst enemy and should ban itself from ever issuing ANY public statement EVER. Seriously how funny is this?

Lol.

 

[7774]

LOL

The NCAA is its own worst enemy and should ban itself from ever issuing ANY public statement EVER. Seriously how funny is this?

Less funny than your post.

 

[upstater]

I'd like to see freescooter address this one.

 

[UConn Hoops1]

Strictly speaking, this shouldn't impact the APR. The students were in good academic standing by passing bogus classes.

EXCUSE ME, but "letting out the dogs of war is infinitely more appealing!! Now if we could only initiate some covert training so that they, eventually, would attack their owner(Mr. W. Bread) I would be very happy.

GO HUSKIES!!!

 

[babysheep]

Of course, nothing being reported by ESPN.

If there was even a RUMOR that UConn committed fraud (let alone after the football team was found to receive impermissible benefits), it would be all over every sports reporting media.

 

[upstater]

Of course, nothing being reported by ESPN.

If there was even a RUMOR that UConn committed fraud (let alone after the football team was found to receive impermissible benefits), it would be all over every sports reporting media.

This is actually a massive story, but I bet it won't see the light of day. It's too technical for most people to understand the degree of fraud. I'm not sure many of them can really understand what the department chair was doing. This is why something like the APR works so well. You toss out some bogus statistic for public relations, and people will have a difficult time parsing it. Bilas is one of the few who can actually mention things like clustering or progress to degrees in the media but his colleagues will absolutely not go that route.

I read recently of a journalist who got some guff from readers after she blasted three dissertations whose synopses she'd read (a synopsis is usually about 5 lines long). This was her response to the criticism: "Finally, since this is a blog about academia and not journalism, I’ll forgive the commenters for not understanding that it is not my job to read entire dissertations before I write a 500-word piece about them."

It's a typical attitude these days.