Originally Posted by
swood1000
One allegation that UNC disputes (on page 35 of its response) is that the paper classes “Awarded Artificially High Final Grades to Students.”
Now, it is true that the chairman of the department described the classes as having “Lax Paper Writing Standards” but UNC insists that such quotes should not be considered by the COI since they resulted from UNC’s own investigation, and UNC did not require its investigator to utilize procedures that it now laments were not used. UNC believes that if an institution conducts its own investigation it should have the option of not using the formal procedures called for in an NCAA investigation, giving it the right to exclude any findings from the COI if it wishes. What could be wrong with that?
One would have expected UNC to directly respond to the Cynthia Reynolds email described by the Wainstein (CWT) Report as follows:
But they did not. Instead they dispute which classes the paper classes should be compared to in order to determine that the grades were too high. They end with their standard refrain:
But the fact that Wainstein was not tasked with determining whether student-athletes received extra benefits is irrelevant. It is relevant whether the classes awarded artificially high final grades to students (if student-sthletes received preferential access to the classes).
Sorry, swood, but the UNC response is just pettifogging -- UNC insists that the NCAA apply the highest standards of evidence and then apologizes that its devastating (to UNC) internal report did not meet these standards and, therefore, can not be used to make a finding against UNC. Holy moly!!! No one on the COI will buy that ridiculous argument, but I understand why UNC and its team felt compelled to make it as an act of desperation.
Kindly,
sage Grouse
'swood, I am saying "sorry" because you are an attorney and the standard of reasoning here is beneath your profession'
Sage Grouse
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