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RE: Former UNC chancellor: 'I would dismantle the NCAA'

^ "Marvin Austin was given a scholarship for his academic enhancement"

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RE: Former UNC chancellor: 'I would dismantle the NCAA'

I used to think the NCAA was just, fair and necessary for the good of college sports, but I never looked at the issue closely. If nothing else changes your mind, the idea that they can permanently ban a young kid from sports is ridiculous. Punish him for a time, but there should be some road to redemption. Even SMU had a limit to their death sentence.
Look at the lack of consistency across the board. UNC players banned for life. Five players from Ohio State, who are known to be tainted for the previous 2 years, are allowed to play in the bowl game, and receive punishment the next year, if they stay in school. Ohio State wins the Sugar Bowl, gets the 17 mil payout, and then forfeits the game because of the same 5 players. Why play a game if it is must be forfeited afterwards? Where is the logic in that, other than the 17 mil paid to the Big Ten? The NCAA is about the integrity of the game or about the money? The Big Ten also keeps the 17+ million from the payout of the 2010 Fiesta Bowl (Pryor was taking Tatoo money then too).
Then look at the NCAA's treatment of injured players. Their lawyers coined the phrase, "student athlete" to avoid any liability. The average fan thinks that football scholarships are given to kids to play football at the school. Wrong! If so, this would create a liability to the school for injuries. So the NCAA claims that schools are ONLY about education, and thus the scholarship is ONLY for the kid's education. The kid volunteers to play the sport, and thus no liability is created. Did you know that Marvin Austin was given a scholarship for his academic enhancement, and just happened to play football?
Regardless of what you think of UNC, the NCAA needs to be dismantled and a less hypocritical approach found.

RE: Former UNC chancellor: 'I would dismantle the NCAA'

The more I think about this, the more frustrated and angry I become. At this time,Moeser should be saying nothing more than "No comment. Inappropriate to discuss further at this time.". Remember that he was in charge as chancellor in Chapel Hill for the great majority of the period under investigation, including the hiring of Davis, Blake, etc.

While I initially had hopes of his commitment to academics and intellectual freedom based on his liberal arts education and degrees in music, I was concerned even then of the risks to Carolina and to the greater UNC system by having neither President Broad nor either of the chancellors at State and Carolina having had any prior connections with any of the UNC campuses or even with NC in any other way.

I appreciate the need for new perspectives, new ideas, and leadership drawn from new groups. But suddenly having new leadership unfamiliar with the UNC system or with NC more generally, taking the three most important positions in NC higher education (UNC President, chancellors at Carolina and at State), was ill advised if not downright stupid.

Neither Moeser not Butch Davis had any context for the Carolina Way or even Carolina and Chapel Hill, barely having visited before taking leadership positions. Most of the problems in Chapel Hill happened on Moeser's watch, under those he hired including Davis and Blake.

One way to stray from the Carolina Way is to be lead by those unfamiliar with the path and where it leads.

Neither Moeser nor Dav 

- Posted by unc70

Oh right unc 70. You have been the only one to even mention the esteemed Moeser on here. He did indeed hire Davis and Blake under his watch. Why they hired him is a huge question. But, to come out and state what he stated if he was God...If... He shouldn't have been allowed to even voice this mess. Just another way to blow up another story for WRAL. It's getting kinda cheap in way too many these days.

RE: Former UNC chancellor: 'I would dismantle the NCAA'

Personally, I would dismantle unc and replace it with a distinguished academic institution with some measure of honor, integrity, and scholarship. 

- Posted by junkmail7276

That's already been done. It's been in Raleigh for over 100 years. 

- Posted by TruthBKnown Left The Building

I understand your obsession with and hatred of all things UNC, but it's hard to claim the high ground when it comes to academics when State ranks at the very bottom of the ACC in that category.

How about addressing the subject of the story - do you think the BCS schools should consider replacing the NCAA with a different model? 

- Posted by Ken D.

Ken D. You hit the nail on the head in your first paragraph. That's all I needed to read. State can't say much about that stat.

RE: Former UNC chancellor: 'I would dismantle the NCAA'

Again, I just find it very interesting that no one with a direct connection to UNC has ever gone public with a complaint against the NCAA until this investigation into UNC's football program. I realize James Moeser is no longer the Chancellor at UNC-Chapel Hill, but he's the immediate past one, isn't he? I realize he wasn't going all loose cannon on us, that a question was posed to him, but unless he was an immediate past Chancellor of a school currently under investigation and facing a hearing in about three weeks, he wouldn't have been asked the question in the first place, would he?

What has changed about the NCAA from the SMU days, or the USC days, or the Ohio State days up until this statement? How has the NCAA suddenly deteriorated to the point that they need to be dismantled now? We sure as hell didn't hear any of this in 1990. What has changed with the NCAA in the last 20 or so years?