Pat Forde. What will the NCAA do to UNC

[mcs333]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf--fbc-ncaa-north-carolina-academic-fraud-investigation.html

 

[Santini35]

I sort of get that you don't want the NCAA policing what is and isn't a stringent class at any given university or college, but if your not going to, how can have any kind of punishment tied to academics at all

 

[UConnSportsGuy]

Based on history, they will probably give UNC an academic award and an automatic berth in the Final Four. But East Carolina will be punished severely for this!

 

[mattp]

if they don't receive a more stringent punishment than we received for poor APR it'll be a joke. in reality, creating an entire department to push through athletes should really threaten their accreditation as well. the point of the accreditation process is to ensure that students that graduate from a school actually receive an education, and that's clearly not the case at UNC.

if students and alumni at UNC had the value of their degrees threatened, there would be some pressure for the school to stop committing academic fraud

 

[SubbaBub]

If the % of scholarship athletes in a class exceeds the campus average by more than one standard deviation, then it shouldn't count toward eligibility.

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[upstater]

if they don't receive a more stringent punishment than we received for poor APR it'll be a joke. in reality, creating an entire department to push through athletes should really threaten their accreditation as well. the point of the accreditation process is to ensure that students that graduate from a school actually receive an education, and that's clearly not the case at UNC.

if students and alumni at UNC had the value of their degrees threatened, there would be some pressure for the school to stop committing academic fraud

UConn had a bad rolling average in the APR for one year.
UNC has been cheating for at least 12 years.

Assuming that cheating is 2x as bad as a substandard APR, this should mean UNC's punishment is 24x worse than UConn's.

 

[CL82]

The failure to take action against UNC, undemines the credibility (such as it is) of the APR. Have kids transfer? We'll sanction you. Have a kid struggle with college? You are in big trouble. Have a lot kids move on to a pro career and not finish their last semester? You can't participate in March Madness. Set up fake classes for kids, you are fine so long as you let other undergrads falsify their records.

At a minimum, UNC should be forced to recalculate APRs with a 0.00 grade for each bogus course. Practically speaking they should be looking at PSU's punishment. It is hard to imagine at bigger lack of institutional control. Oh by the way each game they played a kid who would have ineligible but for one or more bogus course they should should have to forfeit.

Will it happen? No. Just another example of how the NCAA has failed in it's core mission, just another reason why it should be shut down.

 

[CTMike]

Absolutely infuriating, for all the reasons folks are mentioning... hypocrisy at it's finest.

 

[TRest]

if they don't receive a more stringent punishment than we received for poor APR it'll be a joke. in reality, creating an entire department to push through athletes should really threaten their accreditation as well. the point of the accreditation process is to ensure that students that graduate from a school actually receive an education, and that's clearly not the case at UNC.

if students and alumni at UNC had the value of their degrees threatened, there would be some pressure for the school to stop committing academic fraud

That coursework has already cheapened the value of a UNC degree. I remember back in the day Marcus Camby had a similar "course of study" at UMass.

 

[formerlurker]

UMass? I love the kid but I think Marcus might have had the same course of study at Conard and HP!