Man.... 
What is this nikka McCants doing on OTL right now
What is this nikka McCants doing on OTL right now
A UNC athlete wrote this final paper and received an A- :pachaha:
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by NCAA standards they shouldn't be allowed to play NCAA ball.. there is really no excuse, these athletes have personal tutors, if I had a fukking personal tutor I'd have a 4.0 GPA. Highschools are also partly to blame because kids don't fukkin learn anything
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Wearing Lions gear when it wasn't cool
Sad as fukk.
I didn't see a thread on this...
By James Nye
PUBLISHED: 01:08 EST, 28 March 2014 | UPDATED: 10:01 EST, 28 March 2014
An awful 146-word term paper littered with grammatical errors that is barely even readable has become a potent visual symbol of the University of North Carolina's fake classes scandal.
The one-paragraph essay on civil rights icon Rosa Parks earned an A- and was exposed by former UNC professor Mary Willingham, who spent 10 years teaching UNC's athletes before she turned whistleblower on alleged classroom corruption.
The shocking essay came to light during an ESPN documentary timed to coincide with the March Madness basketball competition. It contains allegations that UNC athletes in danger of failing were encouraged to sign up for fake tutor groups designed to let students pass.
The so-called 'paper classes' were essentially no-show study groups that allowed semi-literate and in some cases, illiterate athletes to pass, thereby boosting their Grade Point Average to meet the NCAA's eligibility requirements.
The anonymous essay, titled, 'Rosa Parks: My Story' attempts to recount the important moment on December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, when Parks refused to give her seat up for a white man.
However, it fails to even place the event in the past or give any gravitas to the momentous moment in American history.
'Some of these college students could read at a second or third grade level,' Willingham, a UNC academic adviser since 2003 told ESPN.
'Students were taking classes that really didn't exist. They were called independent studies at that time and they just had to write a paper... There was no attendance.'
During the course of her ESPN interview, Williams confirmed the existence of 'easy paper classes' and alleged that students were guided to these classes by their academic advisors.
'Their job isn't necessarily to make Deunta Williams a better person, a smarter person,' Williams told ESPN.
'Their job is to make sure I'm eligible to play.'
Deunta Williams, played football at UNC from 2007 to 2010 and has admitted to the scam, now says he is ashamed to have been involved with it.
Willingham's whistleblowing began in 2011 after she became appalled that UNC, rather than educating its athletes was keeping them from needing to study at all.
She began to release information to journalists about basketball and football stars who read at a grade school level.
She confessed herself to steering many young men into lecture classes that simply did not exist.
And most galling for her, given UNC's proud history pushing for desegregation, that the courses were in African-American history.....
We've discussed the lack of academic rigor for athletes at major schools before, but holy shyt
Very insightful essay. I see no problems with it.
there used to be an artform to cheating. u at least had to put some effort into it. crib from different sources. re-write everything into your voice. or at least put down some scrilla to get someone to do the lifting for u.
this dude just wrote a zappos review. and called it an essay.
this dude just wrote a zappos review. and called it an essay.
breh you know some of these athletes go to these schools because they see them as a stepping stool to the next level. whether that is right is up to the individual.
they've been passed along for their athletic abilities and they figure why should they do the work in college taking advantage of the education they can get when they can take the easy route and maybe get a shot at the big leagues.
I don't even have a problem with that mindset, but you have to atleast take legitimate classes and not hurt your teams GPA. Our team GPA was fine during the John Wall year, the only thing that hurt us was Daniel Orton's bytch ass not finishing his second semester (BBN doesn't forget and we don't claim him as our own for that reason) Brandon Knight was taking calculus courses his first semester, we don't coach vegetables. Bledsoe was living out of a fukking car he was so poor during highschool, I wonder if that would've affected his grades
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He's not dumb at all. He got what he wanted. Money. He's gone.
BREH...WE JUST GONNA IGNORE BAYLORS BASKETBALL TEAM IS ALL MAJORING IN "LIBERIAL STUDIES" 
All the schools have this. They funnel athletes to one easy ass major.BREH...WE JUST GONNA IGNORE BAYLORS BASKETBALL TEAM IS ALL MAJORING IN "LIBERIAL STUDIES"
My older cousin played football for a powerhouse FBS school, was all conference, was Army HS All American in the mid 2000s. Majority of cat's on his team had the same major, Residential Property Management. nikka had an internship and they gave him an apartment. nikka had it nice, while I'm sitting here with 30K+ debt
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still rockin the peppers jersey though
muzikfrk75
#4080
All the schools have this. They funnel athletes to one easy ass major.
My older cousin played football for a powerhouse FBS school, was all conference, was Army HS All American in the mid 2000s. Majority of cat's on his team had the same major, Residential Property Management. nikka had an internship and they gave him an apartment. nikka had it nice, while I'm sitting here with 30K+ debt
What