Originally Posted by
howardlander
Couldn't agree more. Does anyone really believe that all of the football players at Alabama or Clemson (just to pick out a couple) stay in good academic standing year after year without something we would consider cheating? It's a question of A) degree and B) getting caught. UNC cheated in a truly egregious fashion and they got caught red handed. Considering all that ensued, I don't think any fair minded person can ever view their athletic programs without a significant degree of skepticism again. But if you asked me, on a scale of completely clean to Carolina and worse, where I think many big time athletic programs sit, I'm doubtful that many are completely clean.
Obligatory Carolina Cheating story: When I was in grad school there for Computer Science, my girlfriend at the time was a law student. One year we had a big party for her birthday. Several of the guys living across the street were varsity Carolina soccer players who came over for the party. After a couple of beers, one of the guys was complaining about J.R. Reid getting an advance copy of a test for a class they shared. Basically, his complaint was that his scholarship was just as good as J.R.'s and he thought he should also have gotten the test in advance. I'd like to think that sort of thing doesn't happen everywhere, and I'd be furious if I thought it was happening at Duke, but I guess I'm not naive enough to think it's not fairly widespread.
Howard
That guy must not have been in the right fraternity to get the copy that J.R. got.
“Those two kids, they’re champions,” Krzyzewski said of his senior leaders. “They’re trying to teach the other kids how to become that, and it’s a long road to become that.”