OK. So, in today's lesson in denial, we're told
1. Fball and bball players made up less than 1% of the student body and fully 50% of the AFAM students were fball and bball players. This was an accident. No one steered the players to AFAM classes.
2. No one on the basketball coaching staff knew AFAM classes were irregular.
So what? UNC knowingly offered bogus classes to student athletes. I don't care what the coaches knew or should have known. The athletes were ineligible, period. However, expecting me to believe that the coaching staffs knew and should have known nothing is laughable. I'm not that stupid.
(Here's the main quote I'm relying upon from the article, with emphasis. "Walden's role[/B] in what Wainstein called a "paper-class scheme" created in part to keep athletes eligible could be important to the NCAA[/B], which would be interested if academic advisors steered players to classes they knew to be fraudulent[/B]. However,[/B] former assistant coach Joe Holladay said that like everyone else in the basketball office, Walden never encouraged players to take AFAM classes and was shocked to find out the extent of Crowder's involvement.")[/B]