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Business Week provides more national exposure for UNC-CHeats today (1/2/14)…
• Implicit racism colors this entire episode. One of the most horrifying aspects of the exploitation of high-level college athletes, especially football and basketball players, is the vastly disproportionate impact on African American “students.” Too many black athletes with unrealistic dreams of NBA or NFL stardom arrive on campus unprepared academically and are allowed to depart with little meaningful classroom education. Walter Byers, the first executive director of the NCAA and now a critic of its practices, has described the “plantation mentality resurrected and blessed by today’s campus executives”—painful words, carefully chosen. Would UNC have tolerated the thorough undermining of an entire academic department other than Afro-American studies? Hard to picture. Could Nyang’oro and those who presumably aided and abetted him have come up with course titles any more likely to please skeptics of black-oriented scholarship?
This is the part no one in the mainstream media will touch. It’s toxic to even suggest it. The Carolina Way has effectively promoted a system of fraud that keeps dozens of young (mostly black) athletes — moneymakers — eligible while effectively ensuring they lack the basic education skills to ever be employable if they don’t succeed as professional athletes.
“This scandal, unfolding since 2011, has the potential to destroy a vaunted football program at a prestigious public university.”
^There are multiple falsities in this one statement. Care to guess? Hints: ‘destroy’, ‘vaunted’, and ‘prestigious’. Even ‘university’ is a stretch at this point (ok, that was a low blow). As for ‘destroy’ – nope, never gonna happen. You’re dealing with the ‘Teflon Don’ of NCAA competition.
“The professor’s academic career appears to be over, and justifiably so. But he cannot possibly have executed this massive lie on his own.”
^True. It will never be ‘proven’ though.
“Now that he’s been indicted, Nyang’oro has an incentive to tell prosecutors who knew what he was doing and who encouraged him to do it.”
^We’ll believe it when we hear it / see it.
No comment on the racism, but the article makes the ‘Crack Baby Athletic Association” episode of South Park to come to mind.
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