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Message: [QUOTE="RF2044, post: 2346696, member: 40"] That’s what the NCAA did with the North Carolina case, after seven years of investigation, millions of dollars in legal fees (well spent, as it turns out) and three very different bills of indictment. The NCAA punted. And not just on the North Carolina case, either. It punted its entire mandate. [B]If the NCAA can’t punish North Carolina for decades of what was clearly, to any outsider, academic fraud designed to keep athletes eligible, what’s the point? Already exposed as feeble and inept by the FBI, which shed more light on the seedy side of basketball recruiting in one pun-laden press conference than the NCAA ever has, Friday’s admission that it has no way to punish North Carolina for decades of self-described scandal opens the door to fake classes everywhere.[/B] As of Friday, there’s no reason for any athlete to be called a “student-athlete” anymore. They’re just athletes, [B]because the NCAA is powerless to enforce the other half of its beloved phrase.[/B] And as if it just couldn’t resist applying a coda to highlight this, the NCAA ruled N.C. State freshman Braxton Beverly ineligible for having the temerity to attend a summer school class at Ohio State, the [B]kind of capricious nonsense at which the NCAA excels.[/B] The NCAA can knock around a kid who transferred before his freshman year even really began and had the blessing of the school he left, [B]but years of academic fraud to benefit athletes remain outside its purview. ... So there will be no punishment for anyone else who decides their athletes don’t necessarily need to go to class, after all. The door is now open for universities to create entire Potemkin departments for their athletes. [/B]Who’s going to stop them? [B] Certainly not the NCAA, a prisoner of the narrow vision of its own leaders, unable to enforce its core mission, thoroughly exposed as weak, powerless, ineffective and obsolete. [/B] Read more here: [URL='http://www.newsobserver.com/article178659666.html#storylink=cpy']After punting UNC case, NCAA exposed as powerless, obsolete[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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