re: My Dad played craps with former UNC coach Roy Williams in Biloxi yesterday

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the classes weren’t actually fake, which is why they didn’t get in trouble. There was one or two that were paper classes where they had to write a 20-30 page paper or something like that. Classes like that exist at every university. Tons of students took it

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Technically true. They got away with it because the "rocks for jocks" level classes were open to any student who wished to enroll.

But if the functional result was what happened - the students were steered into a specifically created major where they learned absolutely nothing material of value in the real world?

That's pretty shameful behavior that makes a joke of the concept of a student athlete and the legitimacy of a college degree from the institution offering that degree program. If it were UNLV or Western Kentucky guilty of similar behavior the NCAA likely buries them with penalties.