Posted on 01/23/2015 4:50:08 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
Two former University of North Carolina student-athletes have filed a lawsuit against the university and the NCAA claiming that neither entity is doing enough to ensure that student-athletes are receiving a proper education. The suit is seeking damages for all student-athletes affected by UNC academic scandal.
According to CNN’s Sarah Ganim, the suit was filed by Michael Hausfeld, one of the lawyer’s in the O’Bannon suit against the NCAA.
Rashanda McCants, a former women’s basketball player, and Devon Ramsay, a former football player, are named as plaintiffs, though the lawsuit, which was filed Thursday afternoon in Durham County court, is seeking class-action status. McCants is also the sister of Rashad McCants, a starter on the 2005 UNC men’s basketball team that won the national championship.
Ramsey was kicked off the football team in 2010 after receiving improper help from a tutor. Ramsey's attorney, Robert Orr, convinced the NCAA that his client had been wrongly accused and Ramsey was allowed to return to the team. However, he then suffered a career-ending knee injury.
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Accusations against North Carolina[edit] Main article: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill academics-athletics scandal On June 6, 2014, the ESPN program Outside the Lines broadcast an interview with McCants in which McCants claimed to have taken phony classes at North Carolina and had tutors write his classwork.[4] The accusations by McCants followed reports by university administration and former governor Jim Martin finding academic and ethical issues with the university's Department of African and Afro-American Studies, including classes with little work assigned.[5][6] However, all sixteen other members of the 2005 team released a statement that disputed McCants's account.[4] Additionally, coach Roy Williams, separately interviewed by the same program, disputed McCants's claims.[7]
Interviewed again on Outside the Lines on June 11, McCants stood by his claims about his academic experience at North Carolina. He also called on his fellow members of the 2004–05 basketball team to release their university transcripts because, in his opinion, "the truth is there in the transcripts" regarding bogus classes.[8]
University officials contacted McCants via mail and text message in the days following the first Outside the Lines interview, because McCants expressed "knowledge of potential NCAA rule violations involving the University of North Carolina," according to a letter signed by the athletics director of compliance.[9] However, McCants had not responded as of July 7, nor had he discussed his claims with the NCAA, according to the Associated Press.[10]
There is a state college in the south (I won’t give the name or the city associated with it)...four-year university....which produces departments for teacher certification and IT-related degrees. The general perception in the region (250,000 people)....is that anyone with such degrees from this university (bachelor degrees)...are probably only one-step above a high school diploma. No trust in the instrcutors/professors...they all stay for 30 to 40 years and collect a fair-sized pension.
These kids will take the degree and go try to get real commercial work, and find people apprehensive about hiring them at the level of a four-year degree person. The teachers have no problem...they get connected to local board of education and slide right in....producing one to two star marginal high school teachers. The county and district are at a loss over last four decades to explain why certain schools are total failures.
The real issue is that the public hasn’t caught onto this gimmick of fake-positive degrees. People are doing work way above their capabilities.
Strip away all the righteous indignation and what remains is this:
African-American ‘studies’ are a fraud regardless of institution, faculty or student.
Exhibit A: Julius Peppers
you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink*g
................. to school but you can’t make him think
And even if they get a full-ride scholarship, it isn’t enough. You have to guarantee them a successful life after college, even if they didn’t bother to learn a thing.
The NCAA hasn’t done anything to UNC, have they? Meanwhile, they’ve got the resources to crack down on the SMU golf program.
Silly, silly people.
You’re not going to college to learn anything.
You’re going to college to entertain the masses by bouncing a ball.
And people will give you free $hit in exchange for your entertainment value.
A scandal in a golf program??? SMH
This shows the corruption of the NCAA. I have a nephew that is really smart and a really good soccer player. He was looking for a scholarship at a school known for engineering. The coaches tried to steer him away from engineering because the time commitment of soccer and an engineering degree. Turns out that at an engineering school, the soccer team had 2 engineer majors. The kicker, this wasn't even a D1 school!.
So much for the argument that student athletes should not complain or ask for wages because of the "free education".
Back in the 90s, I knew a professor from University of West Virginia. He said the athletes majored in “Safety”, or something like that. That major is still around. I’m wondering if the “homeland security” major and the “parks and rec” major also house a few athletes.
I’m willing to bet there are more women than football players in the African American Studies department at many schools, but I guess schools create that pipeline for the athletes where they can.
An education has never been the primary purpose behind athletic scholarships. The main purpose of athletic scholarships is to provide entertainers for our entertainment. Athletic programs at universities are all about money. Student athletes provide the manpower that fuels the lucrative entertainment engine. Basketball and football programs, especially, are big businesses. Lots of money involved. Student athletes, university administrators, coaches, fans and everyone involved in the college sports entertainment industry should simply acknowledge the reality and then relax and enjoy the roles they play.
That’s where corporate ‘diversity’ trainers and (yes) executives go to live.
These ‘diversity’ trainers are, to a man/woman, black. Funny sort of diversity! It’s the usual white guilt/white privilege routine delivered via banal PowerPoint and cringworthy role-playing exercises.
While we rail about Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, the reality is that businesses i.e. for-profit entities are squandering untold wealth on keeping small-time race hustlers at bay - even to the point of putting them on the payroll.
They are like the KGB’s Political Officers onboard a Russian sub. Everybody knows who they are, what they are and dislikes them intensely.
You might be right but it would be possible to investigate UNC's Black Studies Program and level charges without condemning all Black Studies programs.
To me, this helps illustrate the hypocrisy of the NCAA. The NCAA grandstands and gets involved in the Penn State debacle and ignores the UNC scandal. The former generated no advantage for the athletic programs while the latter did. Without these programs, it is highly unlikely that UNC could have kept many of its star athletes eligible. In the PSU case, the NCAA got involved when it had no business there and in the UNC case, it refuses to get involved when it should.
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