It was a shot at our supposed insiders, not you.
Gotcha, yeah our insiders are more daydreamers than insiders.
It was a shot at our supposed insiders, not you.
I would love to see Miller spill the beans. If the NCAA is serious, he's the only person they can really turn the screws on since he's coaching. Everyone else is fired, "retired" or has "graduated".
I'd love to see what that dude got paid. He stayed in the same job as the academic adviser to a college basketball team for the better part of a career (21 years). Why would someone stay in that job for so long? It's a job that can be done by a recent college grad for $40K a year.
According to a recent post on PP, the answer is $70k.
Precedent exists for Wes Miller to be more concerned about telling the truth than anyone. Remember that former Baylor assistant who blew the whistle on Dave Bliss? He's a part time D3 assistant coach or something now. He's been blacklisted to the point where he can't make a living from coaching.
UNC-CH course provided smooth sailing
Once again, here is an example of an “academic support program” being aimed at keeping the stars on the field – or on the court. That is not, or should not be, the purpose of a counseling program supposedly aimed at helping people achieve in the classroom on their own.One hopes Chancellor Holden Thorp, who is resigning to return to the faculty, could get to the bottom of that on his own, without waiting for reports from ongoing investigations related to the previously disclosed academic fraud.
21 years at the same job and he was only making $70K as a guy who was so important that Roy brought him to NC from Kansas. That doesn't add up. If I were a State super sleuth, I'd start investigating other orgs he has been involved with that may have been supplementing that income.
“The players went to class, they did work, there was a final exam that was a group project, they said it was an interesting class,” UNC Athletics Director of Communications Steve Kirschner says.
Hilarious response from UNC:
http://chapelboro.com/UNC-Athletics-Nothing-Strange-About-Athletes-In-Na/14418938
I realize this class sounds like a lot of work compared to the AFAM no-show sham classes, so I guess it makes sense that UNC is now patting themselves on they back because hey, kids actually attended this sham class.
Can anyone recall the last basketball or football player at UNC to be suspended or dropped from the team for grades? That's where the "everyone does it" argument breaks down for UNC. Every school does have easier classes and majors where athletes go for an easier workload (I don't believe every school has complete sham classes like UNC), but most every other school also has athletes that don't make the grade and are forced to sit. Pepper's leaked transcript showed a GPA below the NCAA requirement of 1.9, yet he was never held off the field.
Article yesterday followed up by editorial this morning. There's a pattern developing at the N&O.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/10/03/2388508/smooth-sailing.html
That last sentence seems to be yet another warning shot across the bow (we are talking the Navy here) for Thorp to come clean. Looking forward to seeing what else they have in store.
One has to give Lubitz this: Compared to the courses other athletes, primarily football players, were taking in the Department of African and Afro-American Studies, his Naval Science course was Harvard Law.
How does it feel to see stories like this come out about UNC?
"It’s upsetting, because I feel like there are people saying things and writing things when they don’t have all the facts in front of them, and they don’t have an understanding of what truly went on. I can only speak to my degree personally. It is legitimate as any college degree out there. I certainly, like any other college student, studied until three or four in the morning, wrote papers, took tests, took quizzes. For people to question those things, that’s frustrating and upsetting. But honestly, I don’t really pay a whole lot of attention to it because I know what’s correct and what’s not. It’s just like we tell our players at UNCG, all you can do is make the right decisions every day. You can’t always control what everybody thinks. You can control how you handle yourself. I can’t control what people write and don’t write. I can tell you that my degree from North Carolina is completely legitimate.”
What factors point to this "story" be a complete fabrication?
Would that be against the rules?