Cheating at North Carolina

[MidwestChomp]

UNC created bogus classes for more than 3000 students from 1993-2011. Will the ax fall on them?

https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaa...dent-athletes-to-bogus-classes-181214478.html

 

[Captain Sasquatch]

Holy crap, that's leaps and bounds worse than initially reported.

 

[NavetG8r]

Wow, I sense a death penalty coming.

 

[GatorTAG]

Were they online courses?

 

[G 2]

The weird part is that football players only made up approximately 25% of these courses. Did the rest of their students really need the GPA boost?

 

[TN G8tr]

Wonder how many were basketball?

 

[Swamp Donkey]

The weird part is that football players only made up approximately 25% of these courses. Did the rest of their students really need the GPA boost?

Basketball players? Volleyball? Baseball?

 

[NoGaGator]

And this is a school that has a relatively high academic reputation, unlike say, FSU.

To have this go on for as long as it did just goes to show how athletics control the "game" at some campuses - and their football team was never even relevant!

Just wonder how much this helped Roy Williams Bball team. Did they win a NC during this and could it be vacated based on players courses then?

 

[Bernardo de la Paz]

Were they online courses?

Not in 1993

 

[MidwestChomp]

Many courses were made up courses called paper courses...essentally independent studies with no professor. All they had to do was submit a paper at the end of the semester. I bet these papers were plagarized as well.

 

[Okeechobee Joe]

U. of North Carolina is not the only school where this type of thing goes on. Some lesser academic schools have bogus easy courses for the student body at large. Universites are hypocritical in this. The academic people always act morally superior, but reality shows a different story. The desire to win football games, and the money involved, is driving the cheating. Big disconnect. Charade. There are creative ways to keep these kids elgibible. This type o

 

[gardnerwebbgator]

Dean and Roy not pure? Color me shocked! (sarcasm)

 

[rogdochar]

Maybe the NCAA will give them a "pass" on this?

 

[GMDGator]

You know every school has their own version of this... Does anyone really think these athletes are still students?

 

[NCOGator]

What about the those that earned degrees by taking those classes? Will those degrees be pulled?