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NCAA could not conclude academic violations in North Carolina case
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<blockquote data-quote="whovous" data-source="post: 1324300" data-attributes="member: 67129"><p>The report makes it very clear a number of student athletes, and particularly football players, would not have been eligible if their AFAM paper class grades were subtracted from their GPAs. But isn't the defense obvious? It is the job of athletes' academic counselors to keep them eligible. To do so, they steer them into any easy course they can find. The AFAM paper classes were just the easiest examples they could find.</p><p></p><p>That does not show the counselors, the players, or the coaches necessarily knew the classes were created for the primary purpose of inflating student grades. Apparently at least some of the student athletes worked really hard on their papers for some of these classes.</p><p></p><p>Based on the Weinstein report, the football team appears to be the clearest exception to this argument. That team has already forfeited games and received a variety of other sanctions as well. But that same report also suggests a number of coaches didn't really know what was going on with AFAM.</p><p></p><p>The problem with all of this, of course, is that UNC bought and paid for the Weinstein report.</p><p></p><p>My bottom line is that I'd like to see UNC forfeit its 2005 basketball banner (and I know that does not make Illinois the new champ), but I just don't see the case that can be made using the NCAA by laws. You can make a case without reference to the bylaws, but I find it hard to imagine the NCAA going down that road.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="whovous, post: 1324300, member: 67129"] The report makes it very clear a number of student athletes, and particularly football players, would not have been eligible if their AFAM paper class grades were subtracted from their GPAs. But isn't the defense obvious? It is the job of athletes' academic counselors to keep them eligible. To do so, they steer them into any easy course they can find. The AFAM paper classes were just the easiest examples they could find. That does not show the counselors, the players, or the coaches necessarily knew the classes were created for the primary purpose of inflating student grades. Apparently at least some of the student athletes worked really hard on their papers for some of these classes. Based on the Weinstein report, the football team appears to be the clearest exception to this argument. That team has already forfeited games and received a variety of other sanctions as well. But that same report also suggests a number of coaches didn't really know what was going on with AFAM. The problem with all of this, of course, is that UNC bought and paid for the Weinstein report. My bottom line is that I'd like to see UNC forfeit its 2005 basketball banner (and I know that does not make Illinois the new champ), but I just don't see the case that can be made using the NCAA by laws. You can make a case without reference to the bylaws, but I find it hard to imagine the NCAA going down that road. [/QUOTE]
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