Congratulations to the student athletes wearing Tar Hole blue...

[laughedatbytime]

10 out of 12 3 pt shooting, from a team shooting 31% from behind the arc. Remarkable, maybe one of the UNC players could calculate the odds of that occurring.

 

But that might require going to class. And this is UNC athletics.

 

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill academics-athletics scandal has become one of the most widely-publicized academic fraud cases in NCAA history.[1] It is an ongoing controversy about fraud and academic dishonesty committed by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). Following a scandal that began in 2010 involving academic fraud and improper benefits with the university's football program, new accusations arose of academic improprieties with the university's African and Afro-American Studies department (commonly known as AFAM) and men's basketball program. This controversy has also sparked debate about whether the university is educating some of its student-athletes properly and the role of NCAA Division I athletics in colleges.[2]

An internal investigation by the university released in 2011 and another investigation commissioned by former North Carolina governor Jim Martin in 2012 found numerous academic and ethical issues with the AFAM department, including unauthorized grade changes and faculty signatures, classes with very little teaching taking place, and a disproportionate proportion of the student-athletes enrolled in affected classes. Then in 2014 began charges and countercharges between university officials and former learning specialist Mary Willingham, including disputes about statistics and methods of analysis by Willingham alleging that certain student-athletes are not academically qualified for college.[3] Additionally, former basketball player Rashad McCants, a member of the North Carolina basketball team that won the 2005 NCAA championship, alleged that he took substandard classes and had much of his classwork done by tutors. As a result of these revelations, there could be NCAA sanctions, including vacated wins.[4][5] It affects a variety of different people in different ways, including coaches, players, judges, politicians, academics, rivals, whistleblowers, lawyers, alumni, college administrators, the NCAA, state governors,[3] and journalists.[6]

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_North_Carolina_at_Chapel_Hill_academics-athletics_scandal

 

Go Notre Dame.

[The Analog Cub]

I'm rooting for the Irish the rest of the way. They've always reminded me a lot of Iowa State with their playing style, and I have a friend going there right now.

 

Kansas can go f**k themselves with a chainsaw, sideways.

[Slack jaw gaze]

10 out of 12 3 pt shooting, from a team shooting 31% from behind the arc. Remarkable, maybe one of the UNC players could calculate the odds of that occurring.

 

But that might require going to class. And this is UNC athletics.

 

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill academics-athletics scandal has become one of the most widely-publicized academic fraud cases in NCAA history.[1] It is an ongoing controversy about fraud and academic dishonesty committed by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). Following a scandal that began in 2010 involving academic fraud and improper benefits with the university's football program, new accusations arose of academic improprieties with the university's African and Afro-American Studies department (commonly known as AFAM) and men's basketball program. This controversy has also sparked debate about whether the university is educating some of its student-athletes properly and the role of NCAA Division I athletics in colleges.[2]

An internal investigation by the university released in 2011 and another investigation commissioned by former North Carolina governor Jim Martin in 2012 found numerous academic and ethical issues with the AFAM department, including unauthorized grade changes and faculty signatures, classes with very little teaching taking place, and a disproportionate proportion of the student-athletes enrolled in affected classes. Then in 2014 began charges and countercharges between university officials and former learning specialist Mary Willingham, including disputes about statistics and methods of analysis by Willingham alleging that certain student-athletes are not academically qualified for college.[3] Additionally, former basketball player Rashad McCants, a member of the North Carolina basketball team that won the 2005 NCAA championship, alleged that he took substandard classes and had much of his classwork done by tutors. As a result of these revelations, there could be NCAA sanctions, including vacated wins.[4][5] It affects a variety of different people in different ways, including coaches, players, judges, politicians, academics, rivals, whistleblowers, lawyers, alumni, college administrators, the NCAA, state governors,[3] and journalists.[6]

 

https://en.wikipedia...hletics_scandal

 

Go Notre Dame.

 

Every athletic department knows where the easy classes are and steers athletes to them. The job of the "academic" advisers is to keep everyone eligible. I learned pretty quickly that if I wanted a meaningful degree, I had to do my own class scheduling. That was 35 years ago...same as it ever was.