re: Didn't know bama's troubled past...

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2007 Book Troubles

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I guarantee this was going on everywhere and commonplace among all scholarships with book inclusions.

A large portion of it was a loophole I, myself, backed into on academic scholarships in the mid-90s. My scholarship covered books and classes between 12-18 credit hours. If I dropped a class and returned the book, depending on when I returned the book, I'd get full price or a significant portion back in cash. There was no accountability for it, and no eyeballs raised so long as I stayed a full time student.

I never intentionally signed up for classes with the intention of dropping the class and pocketing the ~100+ bucks for the book. But, I did benefit from dropped classes multiple semesters.

I was not surprised when it came out. I was surprised at Alabama actually being punished for it. Very dumb. It was just the NCAA being pissy, as the Langham and Means events had left them looking dumb.