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Illegal Procedure Move Along Now, Nothing To See Here
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For years, the University of North Carolina ran phony classes to help athletes maintain academic eligibility.
The NCAA has decided that it is incapable of enforcing any penalities against the UNC because argle-bargle. Mostly it has looked for reasons to not see what was right in front of it.
Dan Kane comments on the argle:
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Stuart Brown, an Atlanta lawyer who specializes in NCAA matters, said the committee followed its rules in making its decision. But he said the public is right to be concerned about the NCAA’s inability to act.
“If the NCAA can’t adjudicate this kind of issue, what is its real purpose?” he said. “Carolina institutionally used these sham courses for years and years to assist and maintain the eligibility of student athletes who then competed on behalf of the university and [UNC] gained advantage over schools where this course work, so to speak, was not available.”
UNC-Chapel Hill escaped NCAA sanctions, in what was one of the longest-running academic scandals in college sports history, in large part by refusing to identify as fraudulent 18 years of classes that had no instruction and were graded by a secretary.Follow the link for the bargle.
Afterthought.
I think the answer to Mr. Brown’s question is quite clear. The NCAA’s deeds betray it.
The NCAA’s purpose is marketing broadcast rights to media outfits.
And Now for a Musical Interlude 0
Aside:
I may have posted this before, but, darnit, I wanted to listen to it again.
PolitiHack 0
Coin Hive is a legit outfit that offers free JavaScript to web admins . . . .
However, the code hidden on Politifact.com at this moment appears to be malicious: it is completely non-throttled, and kicks off eight instances of the miner, which means it hammers the visiting machine’s processor, taking up 100 per cent of spare processor capacity.
The story goes on to say the malware was removed within hours after discovery.
(Link fixed.)
Willful Ignorance 0
What happens when willful ignorance becomes legal doctrine?
Geeking Out 0
Listening to Old Time Radio with Real Player in a Virtual Machine of Windows 7 in VirtualBox on Slackware –Current.
