wow...got to hand it to @bdl...
he's diggin...
@bluedevilicous is connecting the dots.
wow...got to hand it to @bdl...
he's diggin...
"One POSSIBLE future. From your point of view... I don't know tech stuff.".... Kyle Reese
i was thinking about this last night...we are all KIND of assuming that judgement day hasn't come to UNC yet, but, wouldn't it really be the hammer of thor, if the punishment has already been handed down INCLUDING a post ban THIS YEAR (along with all of our other hopes and dreams)?
could the NCAA bring down a more decisive strike than that? if they want to show that they aren't str8 BS'ing about their willingness to bring down the cheats, that could be the way...
"One POSSIBLE future. From your point of view... I don't know tech stuff.".... Kyle Reese
Last edited by devildeac; 02-04-2016 at 04:40 PM.
[redacted] them and the horses they rode in on.
Last edited by OldPhiKap; 02-04-2016 at 04:53 PM.
Oh, I realize that but I was considering the whole steaming, ginormous landfill of bovine excrement that accumulated over ~23 years and then adding this truckload to it and wondering if the NCAA is ignoring it, not aware of it (yet) or waiting for a more opportune moment to add this to their ongoing investigation.
[redacted] them and the horses they rode in on.
I don't want to sound like the UNC administration but is the LD/ADD stuff really under the jurisdiction of SACS? UNC found a way to give extra classroom help specifically to their athletes (NCAA impermissible benefit). However, if those getting the extra classes took legitimate classes, SACS would not care because the classes were legitimate.
To be honest, it's really unclear to me the extent of what does fall under SACS's purview. That said, I have to believe it's a violation of the institutional integrity that SACS charges it's members to uphold. A lot of that document basically says "be honest with us," much the same sort of thing they said a while back when telling UNC that if there was any additional fraud, they had best come clean. The emails clearly indicate a lot of people were connected to and knew about this LD diagnoses stuff. At the very least, it would constitute UNC not being forthright with SACS again.
If they are really doing what Tydreke said in terms of getting false designations so they can more easily help athletes essentially commit academic fraud, then SACS would care. It takes a pretty charitable view to believe that athletes that are not really learning disabled, but set up to have "assistance" from note-takers etc. are not cheating on tests and papers.
Here's Tydreke Powell talking about it with a call-in radio show: http://carolinablitz.com/2014/11/10/...-an-education/. Doesn't sound like he's afraid to talk about it.
Edit: also doesn't seem reluctant to talk about taking paper classes. Whatever kept Rashad McCants from talking doesn't seem to have the same effect on Powell. Maybe it's because Powell already got his degree.