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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 2345308, member: 780"]
Just what exactly is your problem with what UNC did and what the NCAA did about it (which was essentially nothing)

I hear different things on here.

1. What bothers me (they say) is not that UNC escaped any real NCAA sanctions, but rather, by comparison, SU was grossly over-punished.

That's kind of like saying, "I got a ticket for 50mph in a 35mph zone and I had to pay it. While someone else got a ticket for going 100mph in a the same zone and beat the rap on technicality and/or having a smart lawyer. So I think I ought to have my fine returned to me."

2. What bothers me (they say) is that this further exposes big time college sports as a sham. These schools will do just about anything to keep this money-making machine humming. These were fake classes. That no one in the Athletic Department knew about them isn't even remotely possible. This makes a joke of the NCAA and it exposes them as worse than a toothless tiger.

This moral outrage is fine. Except that no one stops watching, rooting, and buying and wearing sporting gear. We are all complicit in this scam.
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