North Carolina-academics?

[Noonzy]

I'm surprised that no one has made any comment on the North Carolina allegations that were made by McCants. When is this school going to get what they deserve?

[Omaha1]

No chance they get hammered, but my god what more does a school have to do to get major penalties?

[Bill Marsh]

The UNC. Situation exposes the dark underbelly of college sports for all to see. The reason the college sports establishment will probably continue to ignore this is the fact that they're all doing the same thing. If Carolina is punished, reports will start coming out of the wood work about every one else.

Imagine what's going on right now with one-and-done. As I understand it, players are eligible for a year at a time. Although there are situations where players are declared academically ineligible during the season like smith at Georgetown last year, that's the university's policy and not an NCAA rule.

So, once a player is accepted into the university as a freshman, he is eligible for the season and basically can fail every course that year but still play. He doesn't even have to go to class. The incentive not to do this is that he's screwed if he has a bad year on the court and is not NBA material bynseason's end. It's also a problem for the coach to get other players to go to class if there's a double standard.

But there's no doubt that top players are not going to class in the 2nd semester. There's no way that they can participate in the NCAA tournament and then go to NBA try out camps and still complete a semester of work. I remember when Andrew Gaze left the seton Hall team and went back to Australia immediately after the basketball season. Following seton Hall's run to the championship game.

To make matters worse, athletes are far too often treated differently for criminal activity. Aaron Hernandez's character was first futile at Florida. Jameis Winston wasn't even investigated initially for rape allegations and was likely guilty even when he was cleared. These two are just the tip of the iceberg. Oh, yeah, Penn State.

When the head football coach is more powerful at an academic institution than the university president, there's a proble, the Ivies knew that, which is why they walked away for big time sports 60 years ago. If they had wanted to compromise their integrity, they could have been a a big as anyone in the country, which they once were. As much as we all enjoy it, there's no doubt that big time college sports is a blight on academic institutions and a corrupting influence at any college or university. It is the exceptional kids and the exceptional schools who handle it well. Of course, all of the Big east schools are exceptional.

[DC Denizen]

Imagine what's going on right now with one-and-done. As I understand it, players are eligible for a year at a time. Although there are situations where players are declared academically ineligible during the season like smith at Georgetown last year, that's the university's policy and not an NCAA rule.

So, once a player is accepted into the university as a freshman, he is eligible for the season and basically can fail every course that year but still play. He doesn't even have to go to class. The incentive not to do this is that he's screwed if he has a bad year on the court and is not NBA material bynseason's end. It's also a problem for the coach to get other players to go to class if there's a double standard.

Its semester by semester. If a basketball player flunks the fall semester, they are ineligible during the spring semester (which includes the majority of basketball season).