Missouri hit with sanctions after academic fraud

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Kelly Bryant right now:

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UNC got away with it because they went big. Sounds crazy but is true. The fake classes were open to all students, not just athletes. Athletes were pushed into/encouraged to take them, but the academic fraud wasn't limited to athletes. It was actually more of a threat to their SACS accreditation than any NCAA trouble. That might have even part of the calculation on their part. Create the joke classes for the athletes to take and keep them eligible, but not necessarily cheat on behalf of anyone specific by letting anyone take them.

What Mizzou did was centered around athletes - this tutor completed work/cheated for specific athletes.
 
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05_never_again said:
UNC got away with it because they went big. Sounds crazy but is true. The fake classes were open to all students, not just athletes. Athletes were pushed into/encouraged to take them, but the academic fraud wasn't limited to athletes. It was actually more of a threat to their SACS accreditation than any NCAA trouble. That might have even part of the calculation on their part. Create the joke classes for the athletes to take and keep them eligible, but not necessarily cheat on behalf of anyone specific by letting anyone take them.

What Mizzou did was centered around athletes - this tutor completed work/cheated for specific athletes.
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While what you said is true, the part no one talks about much is that the athletic department placed the athletes in those classes and either knew they were bogus or should have. UNC athletics used the excuse we didn't know and for some reason that worked. That does not usually work, how many times have schools gotten busted for a booster giving a recruit money and the school states, "we didn't know he was doing that". That excuse does not work in that situation and I'm not sure why it worked for UNC.
 
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05_never_again said:
UNC got away with it because they went big. Sounds crazy but is true. The fake classes were open to all students, not just athletes. Athletes were pushed into/encouraged to take them, but the academic fraud wasn't limited to athletes. It was actually more of a threat to their SACS accreditation than any NCAA trouble. That might have even part of the calculation on their part. Create the joke classes for the athletes to take and keep them eligible, but not necessarily cheat on behalf of anyone specific by letting anyone take them.

What Mizzou did was centered around athletes - this tutor completed work/cheated for specific athletes.
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I think UNC got away with it because they went BIG LEGALLY against the NCAA. Told the NCAA we will keep you entangled in legal cases forever and the NCAA blinked because of that and because UNC is a big money program for them in basketball.

The fake classes were open to other students but if you look carefully, most of the others who took the classes were friends of athletes. The scheme went like: create these classes with the cooperation of the department, make the description of them obscure in course offerings, then tell your athletes to get in them and recruit their friends into them so they fill up quickly.

Roy Williams goes around telling everyone UNC did nothing wrong. If that is so, why aren't those classes still around?
 
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OrangeVolMan said:
While what you said is true, the part no one talks about much is that the athletic department placed the athletes in those classes and either knew they were bogus or should have. UNC athletics used the excuse we didn't know and for some reason that worked. That does not usually work, how many times have schools gotten busted for a booster giving a recruit money and the school states, "we didn't know he was doing that". That excuse does not work in that situation and I'm not sure why it worked for UNC.
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The excuse worked because the NCAA, which appears incapable of running a competent investigation, was unable to prove that the sham classes were created for the express purpose of putting athletes into them.

A booster giving cash to a player/recruit or a tutor taking tests for an athlete is cheating for the express purpose of athletics. When the cheating is done specifically for the benefit of athletes, that's where the NCAA has jurisdiction. If you create an entire sham department open to anybody, you put your accreditation at risk, but the NCAA has limited power there because technically no specific NCAA rule was violated. UNC got off on a technicality, not because they did nothing wrong.

Like I said above, UNC having sham classes open to anybody (instead of, say, a tutor cheating for specific athletes) was probably part of their calculation to ultimately get away with it. They knew that if the classes were open to anyone, the NCAA would have limited jurisdiction.
 
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OldandStillaVol said:
I think UNC got away with it because they went BIG LEGALLY against the NCAA. Told the NCAA we will keep you entangled in legal cases forever and the NCAA blinked because of that and because UNC is a big money program for them in basketball.

The fake classes were open to other students but if you look carefully, most of the others who took the classes were friends of athletes. The scheme went like: create these classes with the cooperation of the department, make the description of them obscure in course offerings, then tell your athletes to get in them and recruit their friends into them so they fill up quickly.

Roy Williams goes around telling everyone UNC did nothing wrong. If that is so, why aren't those classes still around?
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Roy is full of s**t. He knows damn well they did wrong but got off on a technicality.

The athletes were pushed into those classes, no question. However, since they were open to any student, it was difficult for the NCAA to prove that those classes were created for the express purpose of helping athletes cheat. UNC athletics' defense was actually pretty easy, just say "No no no, we weren't cheating, anybody could take those classes, and we didn't know they were a sham."

When a tutor takes a test for an athlete or a booster pays a player, even if the admin or a coach didn't know it was going on, it falls under NCAA jurisdiction because the cheating was done specifically for athletics.

The "moral" of the story is that if you're going to cheat, do it big, and do it in a way where it appears that not just the athletes were cheating. Mizzou and other schools got busted because they cheated in a way that made it very obvious it was being done to benefit athletes.
 
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I don’t think Bryant has to get a waiver to transfer. If memory serves, a rule change was put in recently that allows any player whose school is bowl banned for the remainder of their eligibility to freely transfer.
 
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05_never_again said:
Roy is full of s**t. He knows damn well they did wrong but got off on a technicality.

The athletes were pushed into those classes, no question. However, since they were open to any student, it was difficult for the NCAA to prove that those classes were created for the express purpose of helping athletes cheat. UNC athletics' defense was actually pretty easy, just say "No no no, we weren't cheating, anybody could take those classes, and we didn't know they were a sham."

When a tutor takes a test for an athlete or a booster pays a player, even if the admin or a coach didn't know it was going on, it falls under NCAA jurisdiction because the cheating was done specifically for athletics.

The "moral" of the story is that if you're going to cheat, do it big, and do it in a way where it appears that not just the athletes were cheating. Mizzou and other schools got busted because they cheated in a way that made it very obvious it was being done to benefit athletes.
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With the exception of Miami.
 
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05_never_again said:
The excuse worked because the NCAA, which appears incapable of running a competent investigation, was unable to prove that the sham classes were created for the express purpose of putting athletes into them.

A booster giving cash to a player/recruit or a tutor taking tests for an athlete is cheating for the express purpose of athletics. When the cheating is done specifically for the benefit of athletes, that's where the NCAA has jurisdiction. If you create an entire sham department open to anybody, you put your accreditation at risk, but the NCAA has limited power there because technically no specific NCAA rule was violated. UNC got off on a technicality, not because they did nothing wrong.

Like I said above, UNC having sham classes open to anybody (instead of, say, a tutor cheating for specific athletes) was probably part of their calculation to ultimately get away with it. They knew that if the classes were open to anyone, the NCAA would have limited jurisdiction.
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I understand what you are saying, but the athletes were allowed to compete and remained eligible based upon their work in the sham classes. I still don't see how UNC was able to get out of that one. I would like to see MO push back on the punishment based upon the precedent set by UNC investigation.
 
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