The Goat Pen

eCat wrote:from what I'm reading McCants released his transcripts to prove he wasn't lying.

He was about to become academically ineligible to play and then 4 A's centering around AFAM.

The fact that McCants was on the Dean's list tells you about all you need to know here.

The next absurdity is the players who came out against McCants saying they attended class - while also admitting they took the AFAM classes.

UNC is a complete joke - seriously , this is past surreal.

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Rashad McCants was not the only UNC men’s basketball player from the 2005 national championship team who relied heavily on African studies classes that didn’t meet, according to whistleblower Mary Willingham, who tutored athletes during that period.

Data she provided to The News & Observer show that five members of that team, including at least four key players, accounted for a combined 39 enrollments in classes that have been identified as confirmed or suspected lecture classes that never met. The data also show that the five athletes accounted for 13 enrollments that were accurately identified as independent studies.

Those classes are also suspect because for much of the last decade, the department offered far more independent studies than it could properly supervise, previous reviews have shown.

The revelation of the classes, plus McCants’ interview broadcast Friday by ESPN, are the strongest links between the basketball program and the academic scandal that has stretched into its third year.

here’s a breakdown of the classes that five members of the 2005 UNC men’s basketball team took that have been found to be suspect:

Independent studies
Course Title Grades
AFAM 71 Field Research 4 A-minuses, 1 B
AFRI 90 Independent Study 1 A-minus
AFRI 190 Independent Study 2 A-minuses
AFAM 190 Independent Study 2 A-minuses
AFRI 396 Independent Study 2 A-minuses, 1 B-plus

No-show classes
AFRI 60 Topics in African Studies 2 Bs, 1 B-plus
AFAM 65 Topics in AFAM Studies 3 A-minuses, 1 A
AFAM 69 Black Nationalism 2 A-minuses, 1 B-plus
AFAM 70 AFAM Seminar 1 A
AFAM 94A AFAM Arts/Aestheti 1 A-minus
AFRI 120 Southern Africa 4 B-pluses
AFRI 121 East Africa Society 1 A-minus
AFAM 128 AFAM Bioethics 2 A-minuses, 2 As

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/06/06/ ... rylink=cpy

Saint wrote:The thing that I don't believe in what McCants said is the part about Williams telling him he could swap out a class. I doubt that any coach of any major sport at any college has the slightest notion of how the academic eligibility system works. There are entire departments set up within athletic departments of people whose only job is to help athletes do their schoolwork. I can't imagine that a coach would know anything more than a player is eligible or not. I could be wrong but that seems like a lot to expect a coach at the level or mentality of Williams to have any knowledge of.

However, I would imagine that McCants, or as Julius Hodge calls him "special buddy," probably was able to cut corners here and there.

AlabamAlum wrote:I enjoy seeing Carolina's rivals make hay with this, but I do not like hearing about someone who skated around doing what's right wag his finger and tattle.

DooKSucks wrote:He did what a lot of regular students did as well. So what?