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[QUOTE="Madbiker, post: 2346484, member: 312"]
With the UNC ruling, the NCAA has now basically approved running sham academic classes -- primarily for athletes as long as you allow (but unofficially control) the general student population to also have access to the classes. I' have been saying for many months that UNC would skate. The driving force behind this isn't that UNC is special. It's because many other large "athletic factory" schools are doing the same thing. Have been doing it and continue to do it. The Commissioner of the SEC who chaired this committee knows that. Probably several SEC schools (we all know which ones) have made a science of doing this. So if they came down hard on UNC, all these other big name money makers for the NCAA would be in jeopardy. Now they can all breathe easy.

The lesson is simple. If you cheat to keep athletes eligible -- like writing papers for them or giving them answers to exams -- you are going to be punished severely in the name of academic integrity. But it's perfectly OK to have your academic staff set up sham courses that require no papers or any work and because the NCAA has now officially proclaimed it is not their purview to judge the "quality" of academic classes. So if any university with big time athletics doesn't already offer sham classes for athletes -- they will very shortly.
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