What a despicable corrupt organization. This decision came from the oversight committee not the staff.
I like North Carolina, but my god, how does the ncaa let them, especially hoops, out of this situation involving clear academic fraud?
And, the Griz, with that dumb ass Engstrom and Jean Gee at the helm, no lawyer for 6 months, and then a B team inexperienced lawyer, losses 4 scholarships and gets other sanctions.
NC got out of this because the committee concluded ii was merely not academic fraud not an impermissible benefit or something that non-athletes didn't get. "200 fraudulent classes over nearly two decades"
"Rather than look squarely at the academic policies, the enforcement staff chose to focus its charges on benefits student-athletes received that were "materially different" from the general student body -- about special arrangements made for student-athletes to be placed in these classes, where they were sure to get an A or a B and stay eligible.
This is the definition of "impermissible benefits." And though Sankey admitted that North Carolina student-athletes "more than likely" received "fraudulent credit" for taking paper classes in the Department of African and Afro-American Studies, and that North Carolina personnel "more than likely" used the courses to "purposely obtain and maintain student-athlete eligibility," the NCAA found it could do nothing."
Does the ncaa think that the mom of the Griz player would not have bailed out any friend of her son or any college kid, whose grandpa called her, concerned, in the middle of the night and asked her to bail out the guys (and then he would pay her back in a week)? That she wouldn't have bailed them out if they weren't football players? Or, that the law firm that represented the guys, who frequently represents college students pro bono, only helped them because they were players, and that their trying to set up a plaintiffs contingency fee case,which is common in MT, was done only because the guys were football players?
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/21012530/the-ncaa-did-not-impose-sanctions-north-carolina-tar-heels-again-shows-organization-weakness
I like North Carolina, but my god, how does the ncaa let them, especially hoops, out of this situation involving clear academic fraud?
And, the Griz, with that dumb ass Engstrom and Jean Gee at the helm, no lawyer for 6 months, and then a B team inexperienced lawyer, losses 4 scholarships and gets other sanctions.
NC got out of this because the committee concluded ii was merely not academic fraud not an impermissible benefit or something that non-athletes didn't get. "200 fraudulent classes over nearly two decades"
"Rather than look squarely at the academic policies, the enforcement staff chose to focus its charges on benefits student-athletes received that were "materially different" from the general student body -- about special arrangements made for student-athletes to be placed in these classes, where they were sure to get an A or a B and stay eligible.
This is the definition of "impermissible benefits." And though Sankey admitted that North Carolina student-athletes "more than likely" received "fraudulent credit" for taking paper classes in the Department of African and Afro-American Studies, and that North Carolina personnel "more than likely" used the courses to "purposely obtain and maintain student-athlete eligibility," the NCAA found it could do nothing."
Does the ncaa think that the mom of the Griz player would not have bailed out any friend of her son or any college kid, whose grandpa called her, concerned, in the middle of the night and asked her to bail out the guys (and then he would pay her back in a week)? That she wouldn't have bailed them out if they weren't football players? Or, that the law firm that represented the guys, who frequently represents college students pro bono, only helped them because they were players, and that their trying to set up a plaintiffs contingency fee case,which is common in MT, was done only because the guys were football players?
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/21012530/the-ncaa-did-not-impose-sanctions-north-carolina-tar-heels-again-shows-organization-weakness
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