Tar Heels- Fraud Deals?

New Evidence of Academic Fraud at UNC - Businessweek: "Huge college sports business news out of Chapel Hill: A star player on the University of North Carolina men’s basketball team that won the 2005 national championship has stepped forward to confess that he stayed academically eligible only because he took fake classes and had others write his term papers.

The admission by Rashad McCants, the second-leading scorer on the UNC team during the 2004-05 season, reinforces other findings over the past couple of years that from the 1990s through 2011, members of the Carolina football and basketball programs disproportionately enrolled in bogus courses. As discussed in this Feb. 27, 2014, Bloomberg Businessweek cover story, titled “No Class,” the long-running scandal in Chapel Hill has raised questions about whether the $16 billion-a-year college sports business is based on phony promises that top football and basketball recruits receive a legitimate education in exchange for their labor on the field and court."



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