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Message: [QUOTE="reedny, post: 1621163, member: 1423"] The NCAA tried to avoid academic validity by casting the problem as an accreditation issue (outside its jurisdiction). Unfortunately, that simply transferred the problem to a different department, since validity often triggers the prohibition against impermissible benefits. UNC is about to learn this lesson the hard way. Either way, you can't punish one school for providing too much help with homework, and let another school give away A's for entire courses. Labeling this as an "accreditation" problem doesn't transform bogus A's into permissible benefits. If you can't give an athlete excessive help, then obviously you can't give him an A for doing nothing. [/QUOTE]