Interesting / disturbing article about exploitation of athletes

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diefirma

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All people involved should be banned from higher education forever. They prostituted these kids for their own gain and fame. If some of these kids had received appropriate interventions in grade school, high school and college they might have had a chance in life but if you read at a 4th grade level and don't have a college degree you are going to have a tough life. Shame, shame on North Carolina and other schools like them.

Dark Days in Chapel Hill
If you ran a college and knew there was substantial money to be had from sports but no requirement to educate athletes, you might cut corners—that’s exactly what the University of North Carolina did for nearly two decades.​

http://www.wsj.com/articles/book-review-cheated-by-jay-m-smith-and-mary-willingham-1425077434
 

diefirma said:
All people involved should be banned from higher education forever. They prostituted these kids for their own gain and fame. If some of these kids had received appropriate interventions in grade school, high school and college they might have had a chance in life but if you read at a 4th grade level and don't have a college degree you are going to have a tough life. Shame, shame on North Carolina and other schools like them.
Dark Days in Chapel Hill
If you ran a college and knew there was substantial money to be had from sports but no requirement to educate athletes, you might cut corners—that’s exactly what the University of North Carolina did for nearly two decades.​

http://www.wsj.com/articles/book-review-cheated-by-jay-m-smith-and-mary-willingham-1425077434
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Iceland12 said:
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Sorry about that - I thought it bypassed the Journal's pay wall. If you just google "Dark Days in Chapel Hill" you will get the entire article outside the pay wall.
 

The exploitation of kids by schools has been a open secret for a while. It's so bad in areas of the South that some knowledgeable people encourage kids to go away to school.
 


The absolute worst offender was not in Chapel Hill, no the on going unabashed champion is John Calipari. He of the one and done. What a mockery, not only of the concept of academic progress, eligibility, and student athlete. He has said several times 2 or 3 of his freshman will be playing in the NBA next year. That is the student athlete he recruits. For those old enough to remember Ron Meyer, this is the same guy. He isn't recruiting kids to Kentucky for the degree, no merely to audition for the next level. And golly, he seems to get it done and there is no inquiry, no questions, no problem.
 

husker70 said:
The absolute worst offender was not in Chapel Hill, no the on going unabashed champion is John Calipari. He of the one and done. What a mockery, not only of the concept of academic progress, eligibility, and student athlete. He has said several times 2 or 3 of his freshman will be playing in the NBA next year. That is the student athlete he recruits. For those old enough to remember Ron Meyer, this is the same guy. He isn't recruiting kids to Kentucky for the degree, no merely to audition for the next level. And golly, he seems to get it done and there is no inquiry, no questions, no problem.
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Is he supposed to not go after the highest profile kids with NBA talent?
 

Gold Vision said:
Is he supposed to not go after the highest profile kids with NBA talent?
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No, but if he has no intention of having them graduate he should take his act to Europe or The D League
 

Former UNC official says pressure led to improper graduate admission of athletes

Michael Waddell had a low grade point average, no entrance exam score and was months past the deadline when an athletic official sought to have the football player admitted to UNC’s graduate school in fall 2003.

John Blanchard, then a senior associate athletic director, made the request after classes began, on Sept. 5, just as Waddell was about to be declared ineligible to play against Syracuse the following day, according to records obtained by The News & Observer.

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2015/02...official-pressure-led.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy
 



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