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So...Why Did UNC Get Off Again?

By 11W Staff - 30 September 2012
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"There were no lectures or readings, and the class never met, one of dozens of such classes offered between 2007 and 2011." (NewsObserver.com)

Source newsobserver.com/2012/09/30/2379206/unc-players-needed-academic-help.h...

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cplunk on 30 Sep 2012 - 12:56pm #

C'mon, it's not like they purchased a QB who led them to a national championship. Then the NCAA would really come down hard.

Colin on 30 Sep 2012 - 1:09pm #

They got off because this is an academic problem not a football problem...or something.

cajunbuckeye on 30 Sep 2012 - 1:18pm #

It's not like they oversign recruits year after year, because we all know were the NCAA stands on that

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SEC BUCKEYE on 30 Sep 2012 - 1:19pm #

academic problem I agree

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Poe McKnoe on 30 Sep 2012 - 1:21pm #

There should be some sort of governing body that can create rules and impose penalties when those rules are broken...

cajunbuckeye on 30 Sep 2012 - 1:24pm #

That's a great idea! A governing body where all university's followed the same rules. I think your on to something POE

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SEC BUCKEYE on 30 Sep 2012 - 1:31pm #

^^^^I agree....My only issue is that Ohio State gets crucified for selling their own stuff while everyone else gets off scott free.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

jfunk on 30 Sep 2012 - 3:50pm #

I read somewhere that they got off on another NCAA technicality... Since there was no evidence that athletic personnel specifically steered athletes towards those classes it wasn't an NCAA violation.

"Anything easy ain't worth a damn." - Wayne Woodrow Hayes

Colby3333 on 30 Sep 2012 - 4:16pm #

Considering the sensitivity of issues that could flare up and take center stage, the NCAA will never touch this one. No further action. Case closed period.

larzdapunk on 30 Sep 2012 - 5:33pm #

UNC: SchLOLar athletes.

btalbert25 on 30 Sep 2012 - 8:09pm #

I think it's because there are implications that UNC's basketball team may have received some benefits as well. Can't have the heels basketball team getting sanctions.

dsbgobux on 30 Sep 2012 - 8:57pm #

Ok, academic issues do not fall under the NCAA, but the Penn State mess does? Don't get me wrong, the PSU mess disgusts me to no end, but why should they get hammered and not UNC? Academic fraud undermines the whole educational establishment!

Buckeye in PA purgatory

ShowThemOhiosHere on 1 Oct 2012 - 12:01pm #

But but but regular students were in these classes too! No way that these classes could've been set up to be passed easily so that athletes could stay eligible to play!

Class of 2010.