Owen Good's discussions
I get your frustration but I think it’s a little glib to suggest that the left’s hair-pulling argument over its political/campaign messages means including such obvious, hardcore racist, wouldn’t-vote-for-a-Democrat-for-dogcatcher people like this vile couple.
Speaking for myself I have laid on a lot of hate and… Read more
This is an excellent reply. Florida State, Memphis State, Syracuse, Connecticut, all have been swiftly prosecuted for academic shortcomings. None of those schools have the protection of a US News & World Report Top 25 ranking, or the pro bono campus brochure bullshit peddled by national sporting publications over 40… Read more
I agree with everything you’ve said. I also think there is no realistic scenario where the SACS would pull, weaken or threaten UNC’s accreditation. SACS sanctions are therefore, by nature, meaningless. That status was conferred more than a century ago, and it’s not meaningfully reviewed or renewed.
And it’s not just… Read more
Further, the NCAA absolutely encroaches on academics, with its graduation-rate standards (which took Connecticut out of the NCAA tournament in the year before they won it). I understand your disagreement — the NCAA is not a competent authority to investigate academic integrity, but it does so anyway, just for specific… Read more
That’s where the UNC Board of Governors should come in. A state flagship like UNC is clearly too big to fail. That large and that old, it would have to, literally, open a diploma mill for thousands of students to have its accreditation threatened. SACS could pass on the athletics question, the NCAA could pass on the… Read more
Just want to point out, again, that the NCAA rendered its decision on Beverly on the same day it simpered to North Carolina’s horseshit reversal, and threats to sue, over the legitimacy of the no-show classes propping up the eligibility of its revenue-sport athletes.
A player ineligible because he went to class, and… Read more