Yesterday, a transcript at UNC was made public that supposedly belongs to Julius Peppers. This brought up more questions about the academc fraud scandal that UNC was investigated for. Then, Matt Hayes comes out with this article today and says that this "will become the worst infractions case in the history of college sports". Worse than Penn State? I know academic fraud is a serious offense, but is it really worse than a pedophile running around the Penn State football program for so many years? To put it kindly, I don't agree with him. That's just me. I'd like to hear what everyone else has to say about it.
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In terms of sheer NCAA rules violations, it may very well be. This is almost SMU-level in the egregiality of explicit NCAA violations here.
Penn State's was an infinitely worse scandal, but violations-wise they were a textbook case in the ethical failings of football-centric institutional culture. To say they explicitly violated NCAA rules is incorrect: they so egregiously violated the "spirit" and "moral obligations" that any sane school's athletic department should have (and the lack of necessary accountability mechanisms they had in place to check the power of those at the top) that crippling sanctions were more than warranted--but also, therin lies the "controversy" of said action.
For what it's worth, I think that Emmert should bomb UNC back to the Stone Age. I'm talking on-par or worse than Penn State (~2 year death penalty on Football and Basketball, for starters, scholarship reductions, postseason bans, even TV bans as well). This is not just four men committing one horrendous act (and punishing said institution for the complete autonomy they gave said four men), this is a prestigous university being complicit in academic fraud to allow athletes to skirt student-athletes' obligations. If that's not torpedoing the ideals that the NCAA supposedly holds so dear, I don't know what is.
I think what surprises me is how little coverage (comparatively speaking) this story has gotten to the Penn State scandal. When I think of UNC- Chapel Hill, I always thought of it as a very good school academically to go with a top class basketball program. Now with this coming to light, I feel that this may be just the beginning of something that could get real ugly.
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@TEXAS - Penn State's scandal is mainly to blame here, especially since the story is so much more sordid. Like it or not, Americans love to consume bad news. But the other reason that this wasn't making waves is because of the fact that UNC football isn't sexy. No one cares is Butch Davis lost his job, the school is a fledgling program that can best annoint itself as a launching pad for Mack Brown. Now that the basketball program has been implicated, this story's about to get a lot more play--and we might see the next domino fall in terms of top programs falling from grace.
As Samuel L. Jackson said in Jurassic Park, "Everybody, hold on to your butts."
Carolina's won a couple of recruiting battles with Duke over the past few years...one wonders whether the easy grades had anything to do with it.
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@Hodge: Agreed, I'm starting to think that Carolina basketball is what's going to make this story bigger if it heads that direction. I guess I'm still a bit naive that this sort of widespread academic fraud can happen at such a respected institution. That being said, basedon the scandals that have hit many different schools in recent years (including tOSU), I'm realizing that I shouldn't be surprised by anything anymore.
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I agree Hodge, from what I've heard isn't basketball also being implicated? I don't know that the evidence is there yet etc, but I thought I've read that it involves basketball too. When UNC, probably one of the top 2 or 3 public universities(depending whose list you read I suppose) has widespread academic fraud, well that hurts the entire university. They should get bombed and bombed HARD.
@BTALBERT - Yeah, that was just a typo in my previous post. I meant "now" and not "not" haha. I hope that Emmert doesn't let them slide here, it will do more damage to him and the NCAA's credibility if they whiff on this than if they ignored Penn State. I'd be remiss if I said that I wasn't worried about that actually transpiring.
As Emert says, if that kind of fraud can exists at UNC, it can exist anywhere. It will be interesting to see how it plays out.
well, if you couple, the Butch Davis issues with UNC, the dozen or so football players that served suspensions 2/3 years ago and now the acedemic fraud talk, I'd say no.
The University of Miami Hurricanes are the worst case and have been for the past 20 years.
John, which "U" infractions case of the last 20 years? You have a few to choose from.
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