Student-athletes at the University of North Carolina were enrolled in classes that awarded excellent grades without requiring any work. That is academic fraud. Because of fancy lawyering by those representing the school, the NCAA will likely look the other way, and that’s too bad for the athletes who are promised an education in exchange for […]
by Kent Sterling Mary Willingham, the former academic advisor for the University of North Carolina’s athletic department, saw a wrong and tried to right it. For that she was dispatched, and now she will get paid. Sometimes life actually is fair. Student-athletes were admitted to UNC minus the basic classroom skills needed to survive the […]
by Kent Sterling In the midst of an academic scandal, fans of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are borrowing liberally from the disgraceful and unprincipled playbook of the Richard Nixon presidency. Last night, I was watching the excellent “Nixon by Nixon – In His Own Words” documentary on HBO as my iPhone […]
by Kent Sterling College football and men’s basketball players who toil for programs belonging to the Big Five conferences (SEC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12, and ACC) are being exploited to the tune of billions, and many are being forced into sham classes and majors that serve as worthless compensation for the money their athletic […]
by Kent Sterling I’m moving to do afternoons on CBS Sports 1430 on June 23, but that doesn’t mean the final two “Ahead of the Curve” shows are going to be mailed in. Disrespecting listeners’ time is not what 1070 the Fan was built on, and I would never insult it by not presenting the […]
by Kent Sterling It takes guts to tell an unpopular truth, and the unpleasantness former University of North Carolina academic advisor Mary Willingham has experienced speaks to why. Willingham is seen as a whistle blower – a boat rocker – whose unveiling of a paper class system at UNC where athletes unprepared for typical academic […]
by Kent Sterling Mary Willingham is a polarizing person in the college athletics world. Her research shows 60% of the University of North Carolina football and men’s basketball players with whom she worked as an academic advisor read and write at anywhere from a 4th to 8th grade level, and 10% don’t fare quite that well. […]
by Kent Sterling To compensate student-athletes for their participation in a revenue sport through a scholarship that provides an education he is not ready or able to use is immoral. That’s Mary Willingham’s position as she tells the truth about the reading level of North Carolina football and basketball players. She says that as a […]
by Kent Sterling You have to hand it to those who work at the University of North Carolina. They are a moralistic bunch, even if the coaches hired to lead the student athletes there are lacking in that area. Click here to follow Kent on Twitter Jack Halperin has tutored student-athletes at UNC for 23 […]