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[QUOTE="reedny, post: 1722967, member: 1423"]
The main point is ... we uncovered the "cheating". That's the irony here ... that in Fab Melo's case, the system worked. The student athlete was suspended by the institution. It's disappointing, but that's what's SUPPOSED to happen when a program is being properly administered. They can fine us for the YMCA payments ... although that seems about as close to work-study as you can get. But sure, sanction us for that. But imposing Draconian penalties on an institution that finds an academic problem and punishes the proper parties? I don't get the logic there.

Nor do I understand, as you point out more broadly, why the NCAA chooses to ignore the mass-scale academic fraud going on at the P5 programs. This is, IMO, much more sinister than the Louisville-type scenarios with whores and recruiting. Academic fraud is the 800 pound elephant in the room here. UNC's a recent example, but probably not the worst. This goes FAR past one assignment. We're talking about entire fake classes or even undergraduate MAJORS. There are surrogates taking tests, teachers handing out automatic "A's", correspondence courses ... we all know this is going on. To pick on one ESL kid and make an example of a school that found a problem and suspended the student ... it just seems penny-wise and pound foolish. I mean ... look around the landscape of D-1 athletics. UNC, alone, had 1,800 athletes defrauding the system. No doubt there are thousands more. SU's the least of our problems.
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