Wait, so the issue of NCAA jurisdiction over academics should be settled with the UNC case but we didn’t self impose this?
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Why not sniff this shit out before it gets to compliance. If I?m in the admin and 11 players or more in multiple sports are taking a specific elective I?m paying special attention to said elective. This could easily have been sniffed out before stupid ass cheating took place. This is embarrassing that it happened period and more then the tutor should have been kicked out of school for this. The person who hired and vetted said tutor should be fired imo.
Todd so we have an undecided major, an interdisciplinary study major and a psychology major all taking a Chemistry class....seems like a weird elective to me to take that doesn’t have anything to do with your major. Seems like some red flags in our admin should have gone up. We were asleep at the wheel on this until it came to the enforcement part. I just wish we could have done something before the stupidity ensued...
Right because 20 year old college kids tutoring athletes have a long storied history that's easily vetted. Come on, I get the frustration/anger, but costing someone their livelihood cause a student tutor crosses the line "helping" athletes that couldn't have been predicted? Now obviously if there's more to the story where the tutor was directed to "help" athletes, then keep moving up the chain, but this idea that someone doing some dumb shit without a history of it should result in a father, husband, contributing member of society being fired and having to carry that with them their entire careers is ludicrous. Society has gotten way to overzealous with who should be fired and held responsible for another's bad actions committed on their own directive. Everyone has to be more outraged and angry than everyone else to prove they are adequately pissed off and that means calling for heads even if that someone had no reason to be concerned until the information at issue comes to light.
Someone who is more of an "insider" than me will probably point out this was organic chemistry 2 or some shit, but I remember way back in my day ~20 years ago, there was a low level chemistry elective for non-STEM majors. So something like that seems like a course like that wouldn't be all that out of place for a bunch of athletes.
Wait is this really over a Survey of Chem 1 test (an online class) being taken by a tutor? ****in lol. I took that class and got an A and then went on to tutor for it myself. It's all online and has up to 350 people taking it. All I'll say is how they could catch someone else taking an exam for you is if you couldn't possibly be taking it at the time it shows (ie during practice) AND someone rats that they took it. Just wow.
or they could take the test while said player was in Arkansas warming up for the game. Then said tutor gets called in and squeals like a pig about his money-making scheme off the players. Admin doesnt cover up- they investigate and make sure all is found and then sings like a bird to the NCAA and begs forgiveness. 10 players 8 games each says the NCAA. It's a killer to the DT position and hurts depth every Sat. Holy Lord dont let us get a DT hurt