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Message: [QUOTE="reedny, post: 2347791, member: 1423"] And that's all interesting. But the fact remains that 10 kids on UNC's 2005 NC team were AF-AM majors. That means that, in all probability, they were kept eligible (like many other UNC athletes over a 15+ year stretch) by virtue of an academic sham ... no-show, automatic A classes. That's worse by an order of magnitude than writing a single paper for a SA - or adding footnotes. The fact that it was someone in the philosophy department instead of someone in the AD is meaningless. The UNC professor clearly performed special grade advocacy for athletes and steered them to the fake classes to allow them to meet NCAA course requirements. It's a sham, pure and simple. And why low-level academic assistance (at SU) was deemed an "impermissible benefit" and mass-scale academic assistance at UNC was overlooked remains a existential-level contradiction for the NCAA. [/QUOTE]