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#827
#827
On a related note, Mary Willingham announced today that she is suing the university. For what I have no clue, but I imagine we will soon know.

It's kind of funny and sad, for about half a decade I got to sweat it out with all the rumors of wrongdoing of and potential sanctions against UT athletics. Now, once this is over, I will have gotten to spend at least another half decade worrying about the future of UNC athletics. Been a fun sporting decade for me.
 
#829
#829
volprof said:
On a related note, Mary Willingham announced today that she is suing the university. For what I have no clue, but I imagine we will soon know.

It's kind of funny and sad, for about half a decade I got to sweat it out with all the rumors of wrongdoing of and potential sanctions against UT athletics. Now, once this is over, I will have gotten to spend at least another half decade worrying about the future of UNC athletics. Been a fun sporting decade for me.
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You enjoy your tacos, and I'll make sure our envelopes with cash stay sealed...
 
#830
#830
Regulator said:
The only part about the coverage of this that pisses me off is that the basketball program is the one always referenced in the "UNC academic scandal" and I understand that to an extent because of the recent allegations by former basketball player Rashad McCants. But this all started with the football program under Butch Davis.
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Correct. This all stems from another idiot, Marvin Austin who tweeted about going to a party in Miami.
 
#831
#831
I'm not completely sure if true (although I certainly wouldn't doubt it is), but Rashad McCants is apparently either intending to sue UNC for $10 million or is claiming UNC is already paying him $10 million due to "his exploitation and the lack of education" he received while there.

I can't begin to tell you all what a whackjob this guy is. I always knew he was a nut, even when at UNC, but I didn't think it was this bad. Dude has issues.
 
#832
#832
Okay, so, from what I understand, both Willingham and McCants did an interview for a station on Sirius/XM. McCants is asking UNC for $10 million and the NCAA for $300 million due to their respective negligence on his behalf.

When this is all over, McCants should write a joke book or do stand-up.
 
#835
#835
volprof said:
The more I learn about Rashad McCants, I'll say this: if he's the NCAA's primary "witness," then I wouldn't recommend you holding your breath.
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I knew he was dumb as a sack of bricks right around the time he took off his jersey following the 2005 national title game against Illinois.
 
#836
#836
Good to see your old friend PJ in the news again. Punching a high school kid in the face during a pickup game at the Durham YMCA, charges filed. Josh Gordon getting his DUI in Raleigh driving PJ's car and getting bailed out by Fats. Never dull.
 
#837
#837
RDU VOL#14 said:
Good to see your old friend PJ in the news again. Punching a high school kid in the face during a pickup game at the Durham YMCA, charges filed. Josh Gordon getting his DUI in Raleigh driving PJ's car and getting bailed out by Fats. Never dull.
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Wouldn't surprise me if PJ becomes McCants 2.0 at some point within the next few years. He strikes me as that kind of person.
 
#842
#842
If Kennedy Meeks can lose some weight and improve his athleticism (so that he can elevate more), he'll be a hell of a post player. Already the best passing bigman I can recall as a freshman.
 
#843
#843
volprof said:
If Kennedy Meeks can lose some weight and improve his athleticism (so that he can elevate more), he'll be a hell of a post player. Already the best passing bigman I can recall as a freshman.
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Big man getting ripped.
 
#845
#845
It needs some time to sort itself out, so I'm not going to unabashedly buy into it just yet, but apparently Mary Willingham (the UNC educator who brought to light the illiteracy of UNC student athletes and the academic scandal) is currently being charged with plagiarizing some of her Master's thesis (she doesn't have a doctorate, from what I understand).

Like I said, I don't want to run with this yet, although I am just pointing this out because it's currently "out there." We'll see what develops. But I will say that, as a fellow educator and researcher, I've never been too impressed by her methods. Let's just say that they seem a bit unorthodox and a bit unkosher. A lot of "hearsay" taken from subjects who may or may not have even been made aware that they were the current subjects of a study conducted on her behalf. Her findings may very well be right (and probably are), but you don't conduct research of this sensitive a nature in such a way.

Which is all also to say that it would therefore not surprise me if she did indeed plagiarize some of her thesis. She's already established a shoddy history of methodology. But we'll let the facts come out.
 
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#846
#846
I have only loosely followed the UNC academic issues and my sources are members of the Charlotte media. That said, wasn't she the educator accused of writing papers for student athletes while she was on staff?

If that is the case, UNC hired a known plagiarizer and put her in a position where she could help keep student athletes eligible.

Is it possible UNC used the fact that she was a known plagiarizer as leverage to force her to ensure eligibility and keep her quiet about the academic issues she was involved with?

I an mot trying to bash UNC. However, I have many friends who earned degrees from that institution who are embarrassed by this situation.

I would value input with respect to the questions I posed.

Thanks in advance.
 
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#847
#847
brian.kluever said:
I have only loosely followed the UNC academic issues and my sources are members of the Charlotte media. That said, wasn't she the educator accused of writing papers for student athletes while she was on staff?

If that is the case, UNC hired a known plagiarizer and put her in a position where she could help keep student athletes eligible.

Is it possible UNC used the fact that she was a known plagiarizer as leverage to force her to ensure eligibility and keep her quiet about the academic issues she was involved with?

I an mot trying to bash UNC. However, I have many friends who earned degrees from that institution who are embarrassed by this situation.

I would value input with respect to the questions I posed.

Thanks in advance.
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No matter how you spin it, it's an embarrassing situation for UNC, as it should be. And it deserves the majority of the media attention it's garnered.

I have to be honest, given that I'm also an academic and that I grew up a Tar Heel, I should be more well-read on this issue than what I am, so I'm probably not the best person to be asking about this. I do, however, know enough about her research approach to call it into question, if for no other reason than the ethics of it not to mention FERPA.

Regarding your initial question, I think you may have her confused with the undergraduate tutor who was writing papers for members of Butch Davis's football team. I don't think Willingham ever wrote any papers for players, although she was a tutor. Such doing would seem to directly contradict her "findings" in that she is portraying herself as a whistleblower yet would have been an accomplice.
 
#848
#848
Also, hiring someone who is a plagiarist doesn't necessarily mean that the university or company would be aware. Plagiarism cases are sometimes not brought to light until decades later. More notable ones I can think of recently are those of Fareed Zakaria (for CNN), who was accused of plagiarizing another person's article from a couple years prior or so (although it seems to have been an honest mistake), and the current US politician who is now being accused of plagiarizing from years and years ago.
 
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