define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); academic fraud – Rush The Court http://rushthecourt.net The Independent Voice of College Basketball Thu, 23 Oct 2014 19:50:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.9 http://rushthecourt.net http://rushthecourt.net/wp-content/mbp-favicon/RTC.jpg Rush The Court ACC M5: UNC Fraud Edition http://rushthecourt.net/2014/10/23/acc-m5-unc-fraud-edition/ http://rushthecourt.net/2014/10/23/acc-m5-unc-fraud-edition/#respond Thu, 23 Oct 2014 13:31:01 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=105478

Raleigh News & Observer: At a widely-viewed press conference yesterday in Chapel Hill, independent investigator Kenneth Wainstein publicly revealed his findings concerning the academic fraud that we now know began as far back as 1993 at North Carolina. His detailed 131-page report confirms much of what the Raleigh newspaper has already been uncovering since 2011. In this piece, Luke DeCock captures the significance of yesterday’s revelations in Chapel Hill, including the fact that the school’s administration finally admitted what was suspected all along – UNC academic advisors steered athletes to phony classes in order to keep them eligible to compete in football and [...]]]>
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Beer & Circus, Indeed… http://rushthecourt.net/2007/09/30/beer-circus-indeed/ http://rushthecourt.net/2007/09/30/beer-circus-indeed/#comments Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:11:40 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/2007/09/30/beer-circus-indeed/

Note: if you’re not predisposed to a healthy dose of introspection and self-immolation with respect to college athletics, please skip this missive. We hate ourselves and everything we stand for after writing this.

Consider the following quotation:

If you were giving the [athletic] scholarship to an intellectually brilliant kid who happens to play a sport, that’s fine. But they give it to a functional illiterate who can’t read a cereal box, and then make him spend 50 hours a week on physical skills. That’s not opportunity. If you want to give financial help to minorities, go find the ones who [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2007/09/30/beer-circus-indeed/feed/ 9