I get it but we're not defending bunny classes here.hedge wrote:"here is the difference though. Paying a player doesn't change his status as a student athlete."
It's rich hearing a UK fan talk about "student" athletes...
a college kid is a student athlete - the assumption is that no matter where he goes, he's going to attend classes and meet the same requirements of all other students.
yes, you entice him with great facilities or promises of glory or millions in the NBA, and you may even go beyond that which is permitted
But at the end of the day, no matter where he goes, he's still a student athlete - regardless of whether he was given a new lexus or a his momma got a new job doing nothing
except at UNC - where he was just an athlete - and to make it worse - in order to say he met the same requirements of all other students, you just didn't commit academic fraud with athletes, you did it for the entire student body - just to keep the athletes off the radar and keep the money rolling in.
regardless of how rich it is that any program is talking about it - we paid a very heavy price for what is in comparison a very small transgression in regards to UNC. And so has many other programs.
UNC needs to be burned to the ground.