OT: Massive payments to ex-officials trigger IRS audit of U of L Foundation

[Scrutineer]

Serious question: Do you want the NCAA deciding what course content is acceptable? Because that is what you are asking for in the UNC case. As they say. Bad cases make bad law.

It doesn't require the NCAA to decide on what course content is acceptable. The school admitted there were no classes, no exams, "papers" being graded by administrative people, and thus the courses didn't exist.
What I always asked for in the UNC case is that the players grades for the phony classes be exempted from their records.
If they would still be eligible, then don't penalize them.
If some players would then be ineligible for failure to maintain the required GPA or because they didn't have the required minimum credits then the games in which they played should be forfeited.

 

[DarthGrumpy]

It doesn't require the NCAA to decide on what course content is acceptable. The school admitted there were no classes, no exams, "papers" being graded by administrative people, and thus the courses didn't exist.
What I always asked for in the UNC case is that the players grades for the phony classes be exempted from their records.
If they would still be eligible, then don't penalize them.
If some players would then be ineligible for failure to maintain the required GPA or because they didn't have the required minimum credits then the games in which they played should be forfeited.

While the classes in question may have been 'open' to the entire university (UNC has roughly 18,500 undergraduates), its almost statistically impossible for the classes to be taken by 50% of the football team (85 scholarship players) and nearly the entire basketball team (13 scholarship players) without proactive steering by someone in the university.

 

[uconnfan68]

Serious question: Do you want the NCAA deciding what course content is acceptable? Because that is what you are asking for in the UNC case. As they say. Bad cases make bad law.

Real courses vs. fake courses. Easy decision.

 

[intlzncster]

While the classes in question may have been 'open' to the entire university (UNC has roughly 18,500 undergraduates), its almost statistically impossible for the classes to be taken by 50% of the football team (85 scholarship players) and nearly the entire basketball team (13 scholarship players) without proactive steering by someone in the university.

Iirc it's well documented (via phone/txt/email records) that the kids were steered towards them.

 

[DarthGrumpy]

Iirc it's well documented (via phone/txt/email records) that the kids were steered towards them.

Which is the defense that UNC used and the NCAA swallowed. Meanwhile, UConn flunks its kids taking classes (like many college student tend to do), and wham-o. And there there was Syracuse, Penn St, Louisville (3 or 4 times), U Miami, and now Michigan St. For a 2 year period, the NCAA was out to sink UConn and the found a 'crime' to fit their narrative.