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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 3080579, member: 40"]
This perspective echos what the NCAA's "aw shucks, nothing we can do" logic while missing the broader point that SHOULD have been squarely in the NCAA's wheelhouse.

I don't think that anybody disagrees that the NCAA should not be reviewing every college course, and weighing in on whether course content is legitimate vs. illegitimate.

Where the NCAA dropped the ball - IMO - is that they focused only on whether the courses were accessible to the entire student body, and therefore was out of their jurisdiction, INSTEAD of taking into account that these courses were used to artificially inflate the GPAs of student-athletes, manipulating their eligibility for nearly two decades.

It really was an ingenious defense on UNCs part.

In the mid-90s, when handing down sanctions to the University of Minnesota, the NCAA levied a scathing indictment, claiming that it was the most egregious institutionally sanctioned academic fraud in college athletics history.  Which is comical, because it didn't hold a candle to what UNC walked away from unpenalized.
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