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[QUOTE="73CAV, post: 2346936, member: 3916"]
This is how it has always been.  It is just that the UNC case has had a very high profile.  Years ago, Andy Katzenmoyer, an All American linebacker at Ohio State, had to take three summer school classes in order to maintain his eligibility in the fall.  I am not convinced that his classes required more effort than the sham classes at UNC demanded.  When Dexter Manley was at Oklahoma State, he completed four years of coursework, did not receive a degree, and left the school functionally illiterate.  Thankfully, the NCAA now requires progress towards a degree.  Nonetheless, it has never tried to dictate what sort of courses an institution might offer.  Hopefully, given the PR nightmare created by the UNC scandal and the FBI investigations, the NCAA can create some mechanisms to address these issues.  The simplest, and probably easiest to enforce, would be to set standards on the percentage of scholarship athletes found in any given course, and to require reporting of such to the NCAA.  (If 75% to 80% of the enrollees in any given class are players, that ought to raise a very red flag.)  Also, there needs to be oversight, by someone outside the AD's office, for on-line classes being taken by athletes.
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