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Found this on Yahoo
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http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-the-...-151005969.html

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is one of our nation's finest universities, ranking 30th in the latest U.S. News and World Report list of top schools and eighth on Forbes' list of top public colleges. And the bit of drivel above apparently earned an A-minus, according to ESPN.

Why? Simple. That paper was written by an athlete for a class specifically designed to keep them moving through the university.

"Athletes couldn't write a paper," Mary Willingham, a specialist in the school's learning-support system-turned-whistleblower, told ESPN. "They couldn't write a paragraph. They couldn't write a sentence yet." She said that some of the students were reading at a second- or third-grade level, which is considered illiterate for a college-age student. As Willingham notes, in the "AFAM" classes, players were notching As and Bs, but in actual classes such as Biology and Economics were receiving Ds and Fs.

The academic scandal at UNC has deep roots; hundreds of classes since the mid-1990s fell into a "no-show" category, classes made up primarily or completely of athletes who didn't even show up to class and yet earned an A. Such dry statistics generally receive a disbelieving shake of the head, but it's not until you actually see what kind of work these "students" were producing that you start to see the way a "student-athlete," and an athletic department, can game the system:


That paper doesn't even make it six words before its first error (the actual date of Rosa Parks' bus incident was Dec. 1, 1955), and the rest of the paper would make a fourth-grade Language Arts teacher burn through two red pens.

One of the key arguments of the NCAA and its defenders, or those opposed to paying players, is that the players are "receiving a valuable education." Giving an A-minus to a paper like this shows how false that premise can be.

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So I found this on Yahoo and of course it made me furious.

Last season UConn was banned from postseason play by the NCAA because of crappy academic scores from a couple years before. The new academic standards were put in place, yet held schools accountable for grades two years before the new standards were implemented.

And I always wondered how other basketball factories weren't dealing with this same problem. Well here it is. UNC, with their fake college majors for the basketball/football players, and accepting a paper like this one as an A-.

I taught freshman social studies, and if I was handed this as a "final paper", it would probably have gotten a D. That's 9th graders. I'd probably ask the student to work on it some more, may be even with me after class if they wanted. But this shows either A) Complete lack of effort or B) someone that has been pushed by in school systems, and continues to get pushed by through UNC. Chances are it's actually C) All of the above

It makes me sick that the NCAA would ban UConn's postseason last year, yet they have done absolutely nothing to UNC for their academic scandals. They were supposed to do an investigation into this with UNC, when they made up majors exclusively for their basketball/football players. Obviously it didn't work.

But don't worry folks, there won't be any action taken on this one. Why? Because UNC is a money making powerhouse for the NCAA. Even if their teams haven't been particularly good lately. The hypocrisy makes me sick. It's a business for the NCAA. They don't care about the "student" part in student athlete. And, if that's the case, screwem, more power to Northwestern Univ kids

Lots of these athletes shouldn't be in college. Just pay them as a school employee, and call it a day. They're there to play sports anyhow.

The NCAA being incredibly corrupt is nothing new.

I will be very careful of what I say, because it could severely affect my career, and my future career plans, but as someone who has seen what she is talking about, I would agree she is spot on in many instances, but I will also say that the resources made available to athletes has had a very positive effect on many who would never have been able to get through college without it. The only problem is there is a fine line, and sometimes that line is crossed in the name of winning, and money.

KING

What does the NCAA have to do with a school choosing to allow players to get by on nothing?

The NCAA didn't tell UNC or UCONN to basically give their players a free pass. Those schools chose to do it..