Comments on: UNC Scandal: Fake Classes For Athletes

By: tyrob

tyrob — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 08:12:38 +0000

This sort of thing has been going on for years in the area of sports and academics. I can say from once being a college athlete, it is really challenging balancing both sports and academics. If one becomes the leader of the sport, it's even more challenging. I think there needs to be a serious study about the productivity of athletics in our society in terms of its overall contribution to our social fabric. One must admit there is something to be said about learning team effort and sportsmanship. Since college isn't for everyone, there should be alternative routes to becoming one who contributes positively to our society. Just as there use to be a plethora of trade schools that produced great artisans within our social structure, maybe there can be an educational alternative if one does not exist already to sports. A type of educational program that prepares athletes for the basic tasks of life but primary focuses on the art of sports. Then if an athlete reaches a point at which they desire more learning there is a place they can seek it. With the way things are going, we are going to have a bunch of athletes who will never be college material but great at athletics placed in a situation where they fall prey to the froth of collegiate politics.

By: Mr. BD

Mr. BD — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 20:09:16 +0000

Like Truth said this is happening in a lot of places. UNC just got caught. I'm expecting some arrests and a big fallout to their sports program, but there's no way their going to be able to take back degrees from anybody.

By: Truthizz

Truthizz — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 12:32:27 +0000

Call me snarky but watching sports media PRETEND to be shocked by all this is like watching them claim to be "shocked there's gambling going on in Las Vegas"..!?!

For years now, I have felt that this kind of fraud has been pervasive, not to mention an Open-secret, among many (if not most) Universities/colleges with HUGE sports programs (particularly football and basketball).

Schools opted to Cheat because that's the only way they could get…and retain..many (if not most) of the athletes they pursued in order to be competitive at the highest levels of college sports. Sadly, I think that's especially true in the cases of many (if not most) Black male college athletes.

You've got what appears to me to be more than a few functionally illiterate Black athletes playing in professional sports today. And for those who don't make it into the pros, I suspect many (if not most) of them simply return home when their talents are used up and their college days over. Empty-handed.

No degree. No pro-contract. Nothing.