U.N.C. Investigation Reveals ‘Shadow Curriculum’ to Help Athletes
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#2Pretty shocking but I imagine this is just the tip of the iceberg.
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#4Sometimes I wonder why these requirements are there in the first place. Why not just be honest about it, pay the athletes and get on with the sports program. It's not like 80% of the degrees at most universities are worth anything anyways.
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#5Why is every semi-pro athlete expected to get a decent GPA in order to play on a university's football team? It's a completely different skillset. I don't blame players for ditching classes to pursue their dreams. Quite the opposite, in fact. It's the same drive as an entrepreneur's: to test yourself, to excel. It's just a different context.
They are adults. If, as adults, they choose not to pursue academic studies, and instead choose to focus all of their energy on sports, then they should be allowed to do that without putting their sports career at risk.
I do blame everyone involved in the fakeness, though. Their decisions should stand on their own.
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#6Pretty shocking but I imagine this is just the tip of the iceberg.
It's probably happening at a lot of other universities with big sports programs. UNC just happened to get caught.
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#7Why is every semi-pro athlete expected to get a decent GPA in order to play on a university's football team? It's a completely different skillset. I don't blame players for ditching classes to pursue their dreams. Quite the opposite, in fact. It's the same drive as an entrepreneur's: to test yourself, to excel. It's just a different context. They are adults. If, as adults, they choose not to pursue academic studies,…
Sure; but they shouldn't be playing on a college team. As in, if you don't work at a company you shouldn't play on the company team.
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#8Pretty shocking but I imagine this is just the tip of the iceberg.
It's probably happening at a lot of other universities with big sports programs. UNC just happened to get caught.
Say, Stanford? http://www.stanforddaily.com/2011/03/09/1046687/
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#9Why is every semi-pro athlete expected to get a decent GPA in order to play on a university's football team? It's a completely different skillset. I don't blame players for ditching classes to pursue their dreams. Quite the opposite, in fact. It's the same drive as an entrepreneur's: to test yourself, to excel. It's just a different context. They are adults. If, as adults, they choose not to pursue academic studies,…
Sure; but they shouldn't be playing on a college team. As in, if you don't work at a company you shouldn't play on the company team.
Why not? (I ask this in hopes of being persuaded, not to defend a position.)
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#10Pretty shocking but I imagine this is just the tip of the iceberg.
It's probably happening at a lot of other universities with big sports programs. UNC just happened to get caught.
Oh, its probably happening at most universities. I went to N.C. State and would be surprised if it WASN'T happening there too. I assume any school which gets a amount of money from their sports program would have something similar to UNC.