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[QUOTE="BillSU, post: 2270689"]
UNC has severely reduced many people’s opportunity to make a decent living over a thirty year period. This is not something they controlled that deserves a slap on the wrist. Some were football players who could not read. UNC thought only of itself and used a non-course among other things to keep the players/victims really, eligible. No mentoring, no tutoring whatsoever to help the athletes. I wish this was going before a jury who held the penalty(ies), in their hands and there was a true, idealist lawyer representing the NCAA who lead this investigation, if there was this is the summation I think he could give:

[B][I]“You know, so much of the time we’re just lost. We say, please God, tell us what is right. Tell us what is true. When there is no justice – the rich win, the poor are powerless. We become tired of hearing people lie. And after a time we become dead, a little dead. We think of ourselves as victims. And we become victims. We become weak. We doubt ourselves, we doubt our beliefs. We doubt our institutions. And we doubt the law. Well, today you are the law. You are the law. Not some book. Not the lawyers. Not the marble statue or the trappings of the court. See, those are just symbols of our desire to be just. They are, they are, in fact, a prayer, a fervent and a frightened prayer. In my religion, they say act as if ye had faith. Faith will be given to you. If, if we are to have faith in justice we need only to believe in ourselves. And act with justice. See, I believe there is justice in our hearts.”  [/I][/B]

[B][I]Paul Newman – The Verdict[/I][/B]
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