Posted on 06/07/2014 7:31:19 AM PDT by Perdogg
Rashad McCants, the second-leading scorer on the North Carolina basketball team that won the 2004-05 national title, told ESPN's "Outside the Lines" that tutors wrote his term papers, he rarely went to class for about half his time at UNC, and he remained able to play largely because he took bogus classes designed to keep athletes academically eligible.
McCants told "Outside the Lines" that he could have been academically ineligible to play during the championship season had he not been provided the assistance. Further, he said head basketball coach Roy Williams knew about the "paper class" system at UNC. The so-called paper classes didn't require students to go to class; rather, students were required to submit only one term paper to receive a grade.
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Auburn did the same exact thing so it’s no big deal to the NCAA.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/14/sports/ncaafootball/14auburn.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Disagree..Roy Williams will be gone, and they will forfeit the 2005 NCAA championship..just watch..
Having watched Williams at KU and met him and various staff any number of times during his tenure, found the culture to be nurturing but not false or dishonest.
Do universities have a machine to keep their athletes playing with as much propping up as possible, they always have in the last fifty years.
One of many
Dexter Manley did the 12 years ‘Public Schooling’, 4 years at Oklahoma State and they basically had to read his contract and newspapers etc to him.
He was walking down the street one day and a kid said
“Paper Mister”?
“No, I can’t read”
“SO WHAT MISTER, BUY THE PAPER, CARRY IT UNDER YOUR ARM AND NO ONE WILL KNOW THE DIFFERENCE”.
Roy Boy was dirty at KU. Recruiting rules did not apply to the cryer.
If UNC is doing what McCants is alleging then every other major university football and basketball program is probably doing the same thing. College sports is big money and most of these schools want in on the cash flow.
Disagree..Roy Williams will be gone, and they will forfeit the 2005 NCAA championship..just watch..
You never know.
Some schools just seem to get away with everything.
(1) Everyone with an IQ above 11 knows Cam Newton was sold to auburn.
(2) Auburn even had a player with a fake transcript that was actually caught by Notre Dame. Auburn had violated NCAA rules to sign this guy. He’s the to JUCO player in the nation and he’s committed to Auburn now.
(3) The Eric Ramsey deal where they were caught paying players only got them what amounted to a slap on the wrist. Coaches paying players and they only lose a few scholarships?
(4) They had players receiving money from agents — Victor Riley and Stephen Davis — and the NCAA did nothing.
(5) Their current basketball coach has a “show cause” with the NCAA because he was caught cheating and lying to the NCAA.
The list is long but I don’t want to spend my weekend doing it. I guess one of the best strategies for cheating is hiring folks from the NCAA’s compliance office the way Auburn does.
The NCAA is a bunch of bureaucratic politically correct liberals that are very biased and arbitrary in their enforcement and punishment. Therefore, I have no clue what they’ll do next.
ESPN.
Paragon of virtue and objectivity.
This Rashad Dude is writing a book.
Read his self important melodrama: “... I’m putting my life on the line for the younger generation right now, and I know that nobody else wants to step up and speak out because everybody’s afraid, fear, submission, especially the black athletes ... ”
Yeah, he’s so selfless.
And: “It’s about my kids, about your kids. It’s about their kids. It’s about knowing the education that I received and knowing that something needs to change,”
It’s about only playing 4 years in the NBA, having to play in Europe and being broke.
Be careful. I’ve heard McCants is going to “write” a book.
This is right out of the Clinton playbook. When things get dicey, put an over-the-top accusation out into the public arena. When it’s proven wrong, use the story to ridicule all other accusers.
There’s some smoke emanating from the Chapel Hill campus but this report seems just a bit too blatant.
We’ll see.
Rashad McCants was not the only UNC men’s basketball player from the 2005 national championship team who relied heavily on African studies classes that didn’t meet, according to whistleblower Mary Willingham, who tutored athletes during that period.Data she provided to The News & Observer show that five members of that team, including at least four key players, accounted for a combined 38 enrollments in classes that have been identified as confirmed or suspected lecture classes that never met. The data also show that the five athletes accounted for 13 enrollments that were accurately identified as independent studies.
Those classes are also suspect because for much of the last decade, the department offered far more independent studies than it could properly supervise, previous reviews have shown.
The revelation of the classes, plus McCants’ interview broadcast Friday by ESPN, are the strongest links between the basketball program and the academic scandal that has stretched into its third year.
I just knew you were a Bama fan. You think this stuff doesn’t happens at Alabama?
When are colleges going to be forced to admit that there are students, and there are athletes , and with very few exceptions other than in very minor sports, they are rarely both. The amount of games played to make these people appear to be students is an incredible waste of resources
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