at UNC. Their local paper has the details. Some of the issues described in the story – e.g. a special committee to admit athletes that don’t meet regular academic standards or have criminal backgrounds – are also going on at UO.
Bob Berdahl and Rob Mullens have hired Mike Glazier of the BSK law firm to do an NCAA compliance review for Oregon, but it’s all secret. UO has been ignoring one reporter’s public records request for 7 weeks now – shades of Melinda Grier and Mike Bellotti. (Update: they’ve now revised to log to show the request as withdrawn – I wonder why? There are a plethora of other athletic info requests stalled because of the fees Hubin and Berdahl have imposed.)
Jim O’Fallon and Randy Geller won’t even share the contract with the Senate Intercollegiate Athletic Committee they sit on. Because that’s the lesson they took from Penn State – hide shit from the public? 7/27/2012.
Here is what the IAC should do — occupy academics. That is, investigate whether our scholar-athletes are in fact being held to the same academic standards as everyone else, and being given the education they deserve. Forget arena financing, NCAA compliance, coaches’ hot tubs, Jock Box parking, whatever and focus on the ONE area where no one can credibly deny that the IAC has an oversight role. I would be shocked SHOCKED to learn, for example, of a 400-level experimental course to teach watered-down life skills to freshman athletes. Start with the small abuses and save admissions standards — the third rail — for later.
Please, tell us more!
Dog says
I posted on this before
I have taught hundreds of student athletes –
I would say the abuse rate is about 20% and
is dominated by 3 sports (1 women’s, 2 male).
There may be a lot of “dirt” to find and examples
of pro-athletes that never officially graduated UO
despite claims otherwise – but this is universal
(in my experience) so why bother? If there is significant
dirt to be found – ESPN will find it!
They use adjuncts to teach these courses, not regular faculty. Because adjuncts need the money and are easily cowed — keep digging, you will find plenty.