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End of the innocence...

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Thorp: UNC's standards for athletes will rise - UNC scandal - NewsObserver.com

 

This is dumb as hell and Thorp's parting shot going out the door. God I hate him so much and I hope whoever replaces him strikes this order. I have no problem with tougher requirements on keeping up your GPA while in college, but how in the world does that dumb fuck make it harder to get in for athletes. How in the hell does that help? Fucking idiot.

 

Is this more of the same, or something different. It's getting confusing.

Requirements questioned for naval class taken by UNC basketball players - UNC scandal - NewsObserver.com

 

Help wanted: Head of UNC's boring non-sports operations


By Mark Washburn

Search for new leadership begins at UNC
Are you a visionary who knows how to lead a university to ever greater heights while laying off gobs of dedicated employees and fending off ever-spreading scandals?
If so, you may be the one we’re searching for to lead our subsidiary operation, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
We’re the UNC Athletic Department and we’re looking to hire that special someone to run the scholarly end of our operation. We take pride in what we like to call the “esteemed auxiliary unit,” which apparently teaches people stuff in big old buildings near our fabled state-of-the-art athletic arenas.
You’ll enjoy choice seats at our inspiring venues and be seen cheering on national broadcasts as we present the finest in NCAA athletic competition to adoring fans.
In exchange, you simply need to keep the lid on the classroom operations, which you’ll be glad to know we acknowledge as a fundamental necessity in our “respected heritage institution” marketing campaign.
Imagine how your spirits will soar when, after being told the legislature is whacking $100 million from your budget, you realize that in only a few short hours you’ll be surrounded by frenzied friends and family in front-row, mid-court seats, cheering wildly as the Tar Heels tipoff against Duke.
And that’s only the beginning of our benefits package.
Our outgoing chancellor enjoyed our “surprise party” program in which random administrators would visit with engaging monologues like, “Remember the cute couple on that plane that we borrowed from the med school to go out fundraising? Turns out they’re an item, and a newspaper reporter is holding on line 3.”
At your present institution, do you have a class in Swahili? No problem. It turns out we didn’t either!
And this is dandy because it means that athletes who enrolled in and then passed the nonexistent class had more time to focus on their weight training and other important collegiate improvements.
Our athletic department, packed with coaches making more money than you ever will, has attracted national attention for its innovative tutoring methods. Even the NCAA will agree we stand alone in the standards we apply to developing our athletes’ minds.
A successful candidate for this position will be one who understands that “academic fraud” is merely a synonym for “petty jealousy.” And one who knows that the disappointment of alumni over a minor setback to the auxiliary’s national reputation will vanish if we win the ACC crown.
So get your resume in. We’re the UNC Athletic Department and, as we said, we’re looking for a visionary. A couple seniors on the starting line agree they’re pretty sure that means someone who knows how to look the other way.

 

Jaded much?