🏈 Did Auburn get away with cheating?

[AFF]

It's at least good to see someone in the media calling attention to the the NCAA's selective reasoning.

By Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports
Sep 24, 1:05 am EDT
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In 2006, Auburn sociology professor Jim Gundlach detailed a case of academic fraud to The New York Times. Athletes, mostly football players, were flocking to a “directed-reading” program run by a professor notorious for handing out A’s while requiring little to no class work.
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“We (had) people who couldn’t put together complete sentences going out there saying they had a sociology degree from Auburn University,” Gundlach said.
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This time, the NCAA went by the letter of the law. All those football players taking the easy class were considered a coincidence. Receiving A’s while doing no work merely was a secondary violation. The NCAA turned out easier to pass than sociology.
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“I had this notion that the NCAA did care about athletes being students, too,” Gundlach said. “That’s a myth. They only care about money. (The enforcement process) is primarily used as PR to maintain the tax-exempt status of big-time college athletics.”

For blowing the whistle Gundlach said he was “harassed” within the department and community. It caused him to retire early and after the NCAA’s empty decision, he wishes he never tried to take on Auburn football.

“It’s just impossible for a single individual (to fight).”

Recently a professor at a different school uncovered similar academic fraud on his campus. He called Gundlach and asked whether he should step forward.

“Unless you’re ready to retire,” Gundlach told him, “just let it slide.”

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NCAA naps during golden age of cheating

 

[Guest]

I'll say this for the NCAA. They also did nothing when a very similar situation involving the psychology department at Michigan, and they didn't do anything to Michigan either.

 

[Red_Tsunami]

I hope we win the NC before long and when Myles Brand comes out to give the trophy, Bama fans boo him off the stage.

 

[Guest]

I hope we win the NC before long and when Myles Brand comes out to give the trophy, Bama fans boo him off the stage.

Or a swift kick in the gonads.