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Message: [QUOTE="Scrutineer, post: 5264947, member: 8240"] uNC's violations were so egregious UConn was almost given the death penalty because of them............I know, old joke, but I couldn't help it. What follows is my best recollection of what transpired due to the academic fraud perpetrated at uNC for 18 years, beginning under the exalted Dean Smith in 1993. As an aside, Smith won 2 NC's: the first in 1984 when Fred Brown of Georgetown passed the ball to Michael Jordan at the end of the game, negating any chance for G-Town to have the last shot, and in 1993 when Chris Webber called a timeout when Michigan had none. Very fitting in view of how crooked that school was shown to be, and not only with their [B]18 years of fake Afro Studies courses[/B]. See the in depth violation summaries in Wikipedia: [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_North_Carolina_academic-athletic_scandal']University of North Carolina academic-athletic scandal - Wikipedia[/URL] The NCAA purposely dragged out their review of the allegations of academic fraud, hoping no one would pay attention, and a year or more later tried to finesse it as "nothing to see here". They were foiled when Rashad McCant's sister, Rashada, who had played on the uNC women's team filed, along with a football team member, a lawsuit alleging uNC cheated them out of the education they'd been promised. Their allegation was they were forced into worthless classes that never met and only required a "paper" to be submitted at the end of the semester. Their "papers" were then graded by an admin person in the athletic dept as I recall. Because of the bad PR from the filing of the lawsuit, the NCAA reopened the case and took a very long time to review the allegations and evidence, ostensibly because it was a complex case but more likely because it took a long time to figure out how to do nothing while claiming to have carried out an exhausting review. Voila, they got very creative, and came up with a reason they (the NCAA) had no jurisdiction over academics in such a case and it had been adjudicated by the SACSCOC, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges which gave uNC one year of probation. Had they lost accreditation they would have lost all Federal grants and other penalties.......can't have that with Dookie Vitale pumping up the ACC! So, in the end, uNC got away with 18 years of fake classes called Afro and African American Studies. There were no actual classes where a teacher imparted knowledge to the students, only "self study". In addition, there were no exams, only "papers" to be submitted at the end of the academic period. Conveniently, there was a university database complete with previously submitted "papers" that could be easily downloaded and re-submitted as new work once a few cosmetic changes were made. For all that (and more) there were no penalties levied on uNC's athletic department, nor on any of the teams, because the NCAA said they had no jurisdiction. All matters related to academics were the purview of the SACSSOC. Kind of makes you wonder how they had jurisdiction over Calhoun and UConn over the APR.............they'd probably say that the APR was the NCAA's measure not that of an accrediting body. [/QUOTE]

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