re: Tennessee losing streaks

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Nice edit Walt

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Thanks!

Walt

UT '81

Top Grades and No Class Time for Auburn Players
By PETE THAMEL JULY 14, 2006


"James Gundlach, an Auburn professor, voiced concerns about directed-reading courses for football players and other athletes.

A graphic popped up on James Gundlach’s television during an Auburn football game in the fall of 2004, and he could not believe his eyes.

One of the university’s prominent football players was being honored as a scholar athlete for his work as a sociology major. Professor Gundlach, the director of the Auburn sociology department, had never had the player in class. He asked two other full-time sociology professors about the player, and they could not recall having taught him, either.

So Professor Gundlach looked at the player’s academic files, which led him to the discovery that many Auburn athletes were receiving high grades from the same professor for sociology and criminology courses that required no attendance and little work.

Eighteen members of the 2004 Auburn football team, which went undefeated and finished No. 2 in the nation, took a combined 97 hours of the courses during their careers. The offerings, known as directed-reading courses, resemble independent study and include core subjects like statistics, theory and methods, which normally require class instruction."

LINK

More, as they say, at the link.

In re Auburn. Not to be confused with the 2013 scandal.

Walt

UT '81

Gee, did I kill this thread?

Walt

UT '81