re: UNC Cheating Scandal

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But a slap on the wrist is window dressing. I have never thought of miami as an ncaa love child like unc.

I will say i thought socal was untouchable....so i was wrong about that.

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If you want to discuss the severity/proportionality of the penalties, that's a different and entirely valid discussion. But it's also a much more complicated one, likely requiring charts, graphs, and massive stone tablets, since we'd have to do all sorts of apples and oranges comparisons. Initially, I'd point out that you can add Bama to the SoCal one...Bama was absolutely crippled by sanctions, so that wasn't a slap on the wrist.

(I listed Miami simply because they won the BCS and they are, or were, valuable to the NCAA because they have a large national fan base even if their local fan support leaves something to be desired.)

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I imagine that this is the type of paper many OM football players write.

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Agreed.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but this isn't just a problem with athletes. It's a problem that effects the entire student body. Why? Students in K-12 are no longer taught to write. Instead, they are taught to pass standardized tests.

You would not believe the number of smart kids who can't write a college paper -- they're not illiterate -- they have never been taught the mechanics of how to write one. Hell, most don't know how to write a 5 paragraph theme because they were never taught too.

Ever wonder why so many start college but never complete it or why the High School Valedictorian flames out? Wonder no more. The inability to write college papers kills them.

If you're a parent get on this NOW. I don't care how smart or good your child's grades are put him/her in a writing lab where they teach him/her to write academic papers if you want him/her to succeed because the K-12 schools are no longer teaching it. They're too busy teaching to the test.

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The investigation is still ongoing and the consequences will be very severe. They are not even close to being out of the woods.

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Funny, that was the same thing they said when investigating UCLA and Papa Sam. They drug it on till most folks had forgotten then dropped it saying it was too old. This in spite of the investigation starting when it was still in the prosecution window.

What is that? A paper for ants!?

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And I'm guessing the football player didn't even write that.

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I agree. It's like the student paid to write the athletes paper just half-assed it.

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I agree. It's like the student paid to write the athletes paper just half-assed it.

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It's as if the student had been pulling an all-nighter studying for his/her own classes and then realized that it was 8:30 AM, and the paper was due at 9:00 AM. Therefore he/she had to put SOMETHING on a sheet of paper. However UNC's a really difficult school to get into, so I'm not sure that a real student would write with such poor grammar. Maybe it was an ESL student receiving a stipend to help athletes. Or it could be that our ghost writer had to write the paper in a way that it was plausible that our "student-athlete" could have written it. We can't have illiterate athletes turning in Pullitzer Prize-winning papers.