Confessions of a Fixer: Former Coach Shows How Easy (and Often) Faking College Credits and Entrance Scores Happen I thought surely everyone knows about THIS!  Its been going on for so long, it is the sub topic of many, many old black and white films!  When I was in college, it was common to see athletes carrying kiddies books around campus, cuz they were taking Kiddie Lit (Children's Literature) courses, for super easy 4 hour credits. University Coach gave test answers to some of the most well known college athletes around. Some of them went on to become mega million dollar pro's. All so they could cheat their way into college. Confessions of a Fixer: Former Coach Shows How Easy (and Often) Faking College Credits and Entrance Scores Happen .....The handwritten notes, by a onetime academic adviser and college-basketball coach, are part of an elaborate scheme. Over the past 14 years, he says, he has used test keys to cheat for hundreds of athletes, helping them meet the eligibility requirements of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. For some players, he says, he did their work outright. For others, he provided homework answers and papers that the students would submit themselves. At exam time, he lined up proctors and conspired with them to lie on behalf of students. Many times, he says, the players’ coaches directed athletes his way. Sometimes, players’ parents or handlers arranged the details. He did most of his work in college basketball, but he has also helped football players, baseball players, and golfers, among others. The vast majority of his clients never made it big. But, according to records he shared with The Chronicle, his fraud reached the highest levels. A handful of the players listed in his notes were drafted to play in the NBA. At least two are the children of former professional athletes. One is a back-up catcher in Major League Baseball..... https://www.si.com/college-basketball/2014/12/29/college-athletes-fixer-cheating-scheme "The university makes money off us athletes," McCants told Costello, "and they give us this FAKE education as a distraction." How college sports cheat student athletes snip Most kids, and parents, think of college as the place you go to get a "higher education." It didn't turn out that way for at least 3,100 students at the University of North Carolina. CNN reporter Sara Ganim has been reporting the story out of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, that university staff and athletic coaches encouraged student athletes to take "fake classes" in order to get fake grades that would allow them to keep playing sports and spend their extra time practicing instead of studying. University staff saw so-called paper classes and the artificially inflated grades they handed out "as key to helping some student-athletes remain eligible," a former prosecutor wrote in an independent report documenting 18 years of such cheating. CNN reports at least four UNC employees have been fired and five have been disciplined in the scandal. "As an athlete, we weren't really there for an education," Rashad McCants, the second-leading scorer on the championship University of North Carolina basketball team 10 years ago, told CNN's Carol Costello. "You get a scholarship to the university to play basketball," he said. In other words, the point wasn't for him to actually learn. That's just sad. "The university makes money off us athletes," McCants told Costello, "and they give us this fake education as a distraction." When McCants first made these remarks, university representatives tried to shoot the messenger, attacking him and his credibility. Now, an official report suggests that not only was McCants telling the truth but that at least 3,100 other students share his story. And I think it's safe to assume that while the degree of inventing classes from thin air in order to pass athletes may have reached extreme levels of immorality, if not criminality, at UNC, thousands and thousands of other student athletes have been robbed of a quality education at universities all across America because their bodies are treated as far more important than their minds. .... http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/27/opinion/kohn-college-sports-cheat-student-athletes/index.html Reader Tells us Of His Rockies College Experience Attended University in the 70s at a college in the Rockies that shall not be named. Made friends with a black running back from Alabama who was a football star b4 knee surgery of the primitive kind on both knees.[Both U knee docs were coke heads doing all the knees they could.] The athlete told me that standard procedure was for an athlete to come in the fall being of good academic standing-then academic probation in the spring for bad grades. Then they would "attend" jr college in CA in the summer in absentia-they were never there but their records showed they were. Next fall good academic standing-spring probation-jr college in absentia all 4 years. I happened to be doing work study in the records office that summer. The records were still largely on paper then and I checked. Sure enough-all true...as my Granny used to say "seen it with my own eyes." Needless to say things went much further south in to complete degenerate corruption since. Nice day to all and keep the faith.