UNC settles out of court with Mary Willingham
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You guys need to read her book "Cheated". I finished it last week and I can tell you it is a real eye opener to the sheer magnitude of corruption at UNC. The UNC faculty chair setup/taught 160 fake classes...and she was the head of the Ethics Center at UNC.
Here is a good rundown of the book done by TheGooch1...
Cheated lays out in shocking detail how UNC's athlete eligibility scam started with a few courses for basketball players before exploding into a full-fledged alternate curriculum for athletes in many UNC sports.
Here are some highlights to get the conversation going. Sorry for the length; there's a ton of info in there.
One of Nyang'oro's earliest independent study courses, created "in the fall semester of 1988, was offered to two basketball players with marginal academic records." (Ch.1) Both players were given a B in the course.
It wasn't until 1993-1994 that other sports started getting in on the sweet, sweet scam. In 1993, football, wrestling, women's bball, & men's soccer players "discovered the advantages of independent study under Nyang'oro." (Ch.1)
"In the fall of 1994 ... two basketball players were given the opportunity to enroll in an advanced lecture course ... made available to no one else." (Ch.1)
Email records clearly show both Nyang'oro and Crowder were big UNC basketball fans. At an academic conference, Nyang'oro gave two Duke professors grief when UNC landed Stackhouse. Crowder was extremely close with Burgess McSwain, the decades-long academic counselor for the basketball team. Of course, we already knew of Crowder's long-time relationship with a former UNC basketball player.
Through the manipulation of course codes, UNC athletes could take more fake classes than would otherwise have been allowed based on enrollment requirements. In other words, even someone majoring in AFAM would have a limited number of courses to take within the department (around 13). By using different course codes (AFAM, AFRI, SWAH, WOLO, LING), athletes could take as many fake classes as necessary to boost their GPA.
Fake classes during summer sessions were reserved almost exclusively for athletes. Their enrollment ranged from 77.5% to 96% of "anomalous" courses in the Martin report. (Ch.6)
According to a former AFAM student, lecture courses required work for regular students but not for athletes. "It was pretty clear they weren't doing the work ... For some reason, we all just accepted that." (Ch.1)
From 1990 through 1998, enrollments in paper classes increased from a handful early on to 15 in 1993, 34 in 1995, and 50 in 1997-98. In the next year, "86 students signed up for independent work, thus matching the six-year total between 1987 and 1993." However, the record was set in 2002-03 with a staggering 291 paper classes!
University rules restricted the number of independent study classes regular students could take to four (12 credit hours). UNC athletes were thus given a benefit not available to other students. Some took independent study classes for 1/3 or more of their total course load.
Athletes had access to "private SWAH sections made just for them." (Ch.2)
THE TRUTH IS IN THE TRANSCRIPTS. Willingham has said this from the start, and Julius Peppers's transcript shows the scam in action. Every time Julius was in danger of becoming academically ineligible, fake classes were arranged to boost his GPA. We saw the same with McCants's transcript. There's no reason to believe this same pattern doesn't exist in thousands of other UNC athletes' transcripts.
Assigning incompletes allowed the scam architects to wait on the players' legitimate grades to come in first. Once those were known, the paper class grade could be assigned accordingly.
"A single statistic underlines the enormity of the fraud from which the 2005 team benefited. A handful of players ... took a total of thirty-one paper classes over a few semesters and summer sessions. All thirty-one grades awarded, without exception, were either A or A-." (Ch.2)
Crowder catered to athletics personnel "offering the equivalent of academic room service for the counselors (and sometimes for players) who would put in requests for specific courses that met certain requirements or filled specific needs." (Ch.2)
Chapter Seven has a great rundown of other friendly departments and instructors willing to keep UNC athletes' GPAs in the eligible range.
Importantly, Pack Pride was pivotal in revealing two of the primary turning points in the UNC scandal. Wufwuf1 spotted the plagiarism in McAdoo's paper, and hdog16 confirmed beyond a shadow of a doubt that Peppers's transcript was his. Without these two events, we may never have known any of what's come out in the bullet points above.
Cheated lays out in shocking detail how UNC's athlete eligibility scam started with a few courses for basketball players before exploding into a full-fledged alternate curriculum for athletes in many UNC sports.
Here are some highlights to get the conversation going. Sorry for the length; there's a ton of info in there.
One of Nyang'oro's earliest independent study courses, created "in the fall semester of 1988, was offered to two basketball players with marginal academic records." (Ch.1) Both players were given a B in the course.
It wasn't until 1993-1994 that other sports started getting in on the sweet, sweet scam. In 1993, football, wrestling, women's bball, & men's soccer players "discovered the advantages of independent study under Nyang'oro." (Ch.1)
"In the fall of 1994 ... two basketball players were given the opportunity to enroll in an advanced lecture course ... made available to no one else." (Ch.1)
Email records clearly show both Nyang'oro and Crowder were big UNC basketball fans. At an academic conference, Nyang'oro gave two Duke professors grief when UNC landed Stackhouse. Crowder was extremely close with Burgess McSwain, the decades-long academic counselor for the basketball team. Of course, we already knew of Crowder's long-time relationship with a former UNC basketball player.
Through the manipulation of course codes, UNC athletes could take more fake classes than would otherwise have been allowed based on enrollment requirements. In other words, even someone majoring in AFAM would have a limited number of courses to take within the department (around 13). By using different course codes (AFAM, AFRI, SWAH, WOLO, LING), athletes could take as many fake classes as necessary to boost their GPA.
Fake classes during summer sessions were reserved almost exclusively for athletes. Their enrollment ranged from 77.5% to 96% of "anomalous" courses in the Martin report. (Ch.6)
According to a former AFAM student, lecture courses required work for regular students but not for athletes. "It was pretty clear they weren't doing the work ... For some reason, we all just accepted that." (Ch.1)
From 1990 through 1998, enrollments in paper classes increased from a handful early on to 15 in 1993, 34 in 1995, and 50 in 1997-98. In the next year, "86 students signed up for independent work, thus matching the six-year total between 1987 and 1993." However, the record was set in 2002-03 with a staggering 291 paper classes!
University rules restricted the number of independent study classes regular students could take to four (12 credit hours). UNC athletes were thus given a benefit not available to other students. Some took independent study classes for 1/3 or more of their total course load.
Athletes had access to "private SWAH sections made just for them." (Ch.2)
THE TRUTH IS IN THE TRANSCRIPTS. Willingham has said this from the start, and Julius Peppers's transcript shows the scam in action. Every time Julius was in danger of becoming academically ineligible, fake classes were arranged to boost his GPA. We saw the same with McCants's transcript. There's no reason to believe this same pattern doesn't exist in thousands of other UNC athletes' transcripts.
Assigning incompletes allowed the scam architects to wait on the players' legitimate grades to come in first. Once those were known, the paper class grade could be assigned accordingly.
"A single statistic underlines the enormity of the fraud from which the 2005 team benefited. A handful of players ... took a total of thirty-one paper classes over a few semesters and summer sessions. All thirty-one grades awarded, without exception, were either A or A-." (Ch.2)
Crowder catered to athletics personnel "offering the equivalent of academic room service for the counselors (and sometimes for players) who would put in requests for specific courses that met certain requirements or filled specific needs." (Ch.2)
Chapter Seven has a great rundown of other friendly departments and instructors willing to keep UNC athletes' GPAs in the eligible range.
Importantly, Pack Pride was pivotal in revealing two of the primary turning points in the UNC scandal. Wufwuf1 spotted the plagiarism in McAdoo's paper, and hdog16 confirmed beyond a shadow of a doubt that Peppers's transcript was his. Without these two events, we may never have known any of what's come out in the bullet points above.
Well Packed House you just saved me the cost of that book. Just like Mr. Cliff.
Thanks to you and your compatriots for your small part for keeping the heat on and helping to bring to light this scandal.
Now how about putting your focus on the NCAA and the ACC to do something.
The Syracuse folks want some action too.
Thanks to you and your compatriots for your small part for keeping the heat on and helping to bring to light this scandal.
Now how about putting your focus on the NCAA and the ACC to do something.
The Syracuse folks want some action too.
FRANKLY........THEY SHOULD GET THE DEATH PENALTY.......THIS WASN'T THE FIRST TIME.........BUT DO NOT
COUNT ON IT.......'
NCAA HAS BEEN STUDYING, LOOKING INTO......HEMMMING AND HAWWWING FOR THE LAST 3 + YEARS....
AND OTHER THAN TAKING A FEW SCHOLARSHIP REDUCTIONS.....
N C A A HASN'T DONE S Q U A T !!!!!...... AND THE STENCH LINGERS ....
PER FAMILY CONNECTIONS......UNC LAW SCHOOL & UNC LAWYERS PREPARING DEFENSE & THREATENING SUIT ..... TO PREVENT HEAVY SANCTIONS AND PENALTIES..... BOTH THE SCHOOL & NCAA HOPE THINGS COOL DOWN THAT CFBALL /CB BALL GAMES WILL DISTRACT & DIFUSE FURTHER COMPLAINTS, NEWS STORIES,
OR SANCTIONS....... ANY PUBLIC WILL FORGET,
COUNT ON IT.......'
NCAA HAS BEEN STUDYING, LOOKING INTO......HEMMMING AND HAWWWING FOR THE LAST 3 + YEARS....
AND OTHER THAN TAKING A FEW SCHOLARSHIP REDUCTIONS.....
N C A A HASN'T DONE S Q U A T !!!!!...... AND THE STENCH LINGERS ....
PER FAMILY CONNECTIONS......UNC LAW SCHOOL & UNC LAWYERS PREPARING DEFENSE & THREATENING SUIT ..... TO PREVENT HEAVY SANCTIONS AND PENALTIES..... BOTH THE SCHOOL & NCAA HOPE THINGS COOL DOWN THAT CFBALL /CB BALL GAMES WILL DISTRACT & DIFUSE FURTHER COMPLAINTS, NEWS STORIES,
OR SANCTIONS....... ANY PUBLIC WILL FORGET,
BDH - It is definitely getting hotter in Chapel Hill. The NCAA is catching hell from big media and senators to do their job and slam the holes. Linked is a recent CBS article. Here is a little snippet...
Page 4 of the NCAA Manual reads, "... The admission, academic standing and academic progress of student-athletes shall be consistent with the policies and standards adopted by the institution for the student body in general."
To many, it's time to prove that decades-old proclamation still means something.
CBSSports.com spoke to several college administrative sources who did not want to speak on the record because of the sensitivity of the subject. On various levels, they all agreed:
The entire NCAA enterprise may be on trial with the North Carolina case.
If the school isn't hammered, then what good is the NCAA Manual? If thousands of athletes being passed through the system isn't a mockery of the mission, then what is?
Penn State was an unmitigated disaster. The Miami investigation was a mismanaged mess. The NCAA is still in court almost five years after USC was decided.
Fox Sports did a show on it last night...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tte6zlQZoU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83y4H7IEmzY
And now the UNC Board of Governors (BOG) has a new member...Former NC Senator Tom Goolsby was just appointed to the BOG.
Senator calls for criminal probe, trustees to resign at UNC
"It is past time for a criminal
investigation into these fraudulent activities," added Goolsby, R-New
Hanover. "For far too long, academic scandals have been treated with the
soft glove approach. The local district attorney's office should begin
an immediate criminal probe. If the DA does not wish to handle this
matter, he should request that the Attorney General appoint a Special
Prosecutor to handle this case."
Forget the ACC doing anything. The ACC Commish is a former UNC football player and was also AD at UNC when the fake class scandal started. He is the one that needs to be investigated.
SACS is still doing their investigation and they expect it to last into the summer due to the sheer magnitude of the situation. Our guys have been giving them data/emails garnered from the Wainstein investigation that UNC omitted in their report to SACS. It shows UNC admins were complicit in the scandal. Once more data comes from other FOIA requests, they will be parsed and sent to SACS, big media, certain people with political power, and also to NCAA enforcement so that they can not say they did not know about it.
The Feds are also investigating...I assume for Pell Grant fraud. That is one of the things that busted FSU. You have to be full time (12 hrs) to get the money. If you applied for Pell Grant showing 12 hours but a class was fake, you fraudulently obtained federal money.
This post was edited on 3/19 11:14 AM by PACKed House
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