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[QUOTE="reedny, post: 1386841, member: 1423"]
Agreed. Obviously some athletes attending legitimate programs pose as students with no intention of doing actual coursework ... a strategy that is trickier (but not impossible) to get away with at the undergraduate level in FB but much easier in BB because of the one-and-done rule. What frosts my cookie is the 800 lb.gorilla -- the schools, principally in the mid-atlantic and Southern regions where sports reign supreme (SEC). They dumb-down their coursework -- or falsify it entirely with fake courses/automatic A's, etc...-- so that athletes can maintain eligibility. This is systemic academic fraud, plain and simple.

Unfortunately, these schools are frequently revenue-machines: Ky with it's platooned, semi-professional athletes that slide en-masse to the NBA; -State/'Bama in FB, etc... They have huge television contracts and are lavished with media-exposure. The gutless NCAA just looks the other way -- hiding behind the excuse that it doesn't want to judge the "quality" of institution's academic coursework. This is, of course, BS, because the NCAA turns around and cherry-picks much smaller-scale academic issues whenever it wants to punish certain schools or coaches (SU). So consistency, and credibility, are out the window.
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