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Message: [QUOTE="garnermick, post: 2148526, member: 6315"] From UNC's own Warstein report. The heart of the issue. Grades positively affecting athlete eligibility. Damning stuff, no matter what UNC fans may say nor how the NCAA (which hates having its iconic BB programs sullied) may rule. "Between 1999 ...and 2009, a total of 186 lecture paper classes were offered with a total of 3,906 undergraduate enrollments in those classes. 1,852 (47.4%) of those enrollments were student-athletes, including 944 football players, 226 men’s basketball players, 114 women’s basketball players, and 568 student-athletes in other sports." "The average grade issued across the AFAM paper classes over time was 3.62,74 which is significantly higher than the average grade of 3.243 across all undergraduate programs at Chapel Hill during that same period.75 Tellingly, it is also significantly higher than the 3.28 average grade for students in the regular AFAM classes during that time, which highlights the disparate treatment of the regular and irregular students and therefore suggests a manipulative purpose behind the irregular classes.76 74 Student-athletes earned an average grade of 3.55 in the paper classes. Football players earned an average 3.50, men’s basketball players earned an average 3.58, women’s basketball players earned an average 3.51, other sport athletes earned an average 3.71, and non-athletes earned an average 3.69." "Men’s Basketball: There were 226 enrollments of men’s basketball players in the paper classes between 1999 and 2009. We spoke with 12 men’s basketball players who had knowledge of or took the classes. As with the football players, it was common knowledge among their teammates that these classes required little work for high grades. Unlike the football players, however, the basketball players seemed to find their way to these classes through a variety of routes. While the ASPSA basketball counselor –McSwain and then Walden – would occasionally suggest these classes, they did not routinely steer players into the classes without the players’ knowledge. More often than not, the basketball players found these classes either through r"eferrals from their teammates – “locker room advising” – or via their direct relationship with Crowder, who always maintained close ties among the basketball team. Moreover, unlike the football players who largely conceded that these classes held little educational value, several of the basketball players insisted that they read extensively and worked hard to produce their papers for these classes.87" [/QUOTE]

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