Don't understand why people don't get it.
There's an accreditation board that determines the validity of courses provided by a school. These courses were provided for and attended by the general student body, not just athletes. End of story.
We got GaTech coming up and we're sitting here worrying about another school, in another sport. Must be a millennial thing to be this pathetic. Our cloud has already passed over. Move on man.
The bottom line is, as always, the NCAA is only concerned with things that threaten its revenue model. They don't care about academics or even children being molested. They care about somebody buying a kid a hamburger because it's an "improper benefit" and only the NCAA gets to decide what a proper benefit is. They trot out that old trope of "the kids are getting the benefit of an education in exchange for playing sports" yet when it becomes obvious that kids leave college still functionally illiterate because they had tutors taking classes for them, it kinda makes you wonder why the DOJ hasn't charged universities and the NCAA with defrauding student athletes. Students receive a scholarship with the expectation they will get a quality university education, but when the university sets up a tutoring system that is built on making sure kids can be at practice rather than class, then the students were not given what they were entitled to under the terms of the scholarship. The charges in the Adidas scandal can cut both ways.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/unc-verdict-ncaa-ruling-sanctions-student-athlete-amateurism-fbi-probe/
Nice write up of everything wrong in this situation, but good luck getting UNC donors to abandon their school or the D1 College Presidents to leave the NCAA because they hold "Academic Integrity" sacrosanct...Like Harveywood, the all mighty $$$$$$ rules.
This case highlights how easliy a billionaire booster could take a relatively smaller populated D1 school like Miami and easily buy championships; the key is EVERY undergrad student gets the 50K a year, Nice car, housing...For about $2 million a year, it would be a breeze and the NCAA couldn't do squat because ALL the students are getting the benefits...
Don't understand why people don't get it.
There's an accreditation board that determines the validity of courses provided by a school. These courses were provided for and attended by the general student body, not just athletes. End of story.
We got GaTech coming up and we're sitting here worrying about another school, in another sport. Must be a millennial thing to be this pathetic. Our cloud has already passed over. Move on man.