CBS: Newton rewrote rules but here's how cheating is still rampant in college

[BleedGopher]

per Dodd:

After recent interviews with NCAA officials and other sources close to the process, the following is meant as a signing-day primer on modern-day cheating:

The missing assistants: It would be worth your while to check the sidelines next season. Do a simple head count of the coaching staff. An increasing number of assistant coaches have been suspended without public knowledge.

Metadata: Athletes should think twice about plagiarizing a paper. When you send it to a professor, the document itself leaves a digital fingerprint. The NCAA has the ability to track what computer it came from and where it was when the piece was written -- among other revelations. That's metadata.

Wrongdoers have been known to travel to another state and logging onto to a different IP address so that it appears a player wrote a paper. The NCAA can track that too. One NCAA official told me all those fingerprints help piece together a story very quickly and very accurately.

Lack of academic integrity remains the NCAA's No. 1 no-no. In their eyes, the primary idea for attending school still is to get an education. (Don't laugh.) That leads us to perhaps biggest moment in enforcement history coming later this year with North Carolina. It also reminds us the NCAA still cares about its core mission.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...eres-how-cheating-is-still-rampant-in-college

Go Gophers!!

 

[GopherinFlorida]

per Dodd:

After recent interviews with NCAA officials and other sources close to the process, the following is meant as a signing-day primer on modern-day cheating:

The missing assistants: It would be worth your while to check the sidelines next season. Do a simple head count of the coaching staff. An increasing number of assistant coaches have been suspended without public knowledge.

Metadata: Athletes should think twice about plagiarizing a paper. When you send it to a professor, the document itself leaves a digital fingerprint. The NCAA has the ability to track what computer it came from and where it was when the piece was written -- among other revelations. That's metadata.

Wrongdoers have been known to travel to another state and logging onto to a different IP address so that it appears a player wrote a paper. The NCAA can track that too. One NCAA official told me all those fingerprints help piece together a story very quickly and very accurately.

Lack of academic integrity remains the NCAA's No. 1 no-no. In their eyes, the primary idea for attending school still is to get an education. (Don't laugh.) That leads us to perhaps biggest moment in enforcement history coming later this year with North Carolina. It also reminds us the NCAA still cares about its core mission.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...eres-how-cheating-is-still-rampant-in-college

Go Gophers!!

Unless you are UNC Basketball

 

[WindyCityGopher]

The NCAA has been "investigating" UNC for so long that it's in their cold case files. Nothing to see here boys, move along!

 

[vagopher]

Lets hope the NCAA deals with North Carolina meaningfully. I'm not optimistic. My recollection is that they ruled out at the outset considering whether North Carolina's sham courses constituted academic fraud, as I suspect they were, because they were open to non-athletes.

 

[MNGoldenGophers1]

Some take aways from the article and my immediate thoughts:


“Cecil supposedly joined the NCAA's list of rogues it termed “runners, financial advisors, marketing representatives … street agents who seek to broker elite athletes for financial gain.””

Like the NCAA and its’ member institutions are not doing the same thing.


“Ah, football recruiting. The seedy underside of player procurement always seems to find a new way around the rules.”

And how is this any worse than the seedy underside of NCAA enforcement of rules?


The NCAA and membership decided against the public shaming.

Translation: We’ve got a better deal going than MLB so let’s not ruin it.


“Lack of academic integrity remains the NCAA's No. 1 no-no. In their eyes, the primary idea for attending school still is to get an education. (Don't laugh.)”

LMAO!!!


“That leads us to perhaps biggest moment in enforcement history coming later this year with North Carolina. It also reminds us the NCAA still cares about its core mission.”

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