Re: So...the NCAA doesn't really enforce the academic eligibility status of the athle
It's ridiculous how backward the South still is.
I will concede the point that there is a higher % of 'yokel factor' down here.
I would counter, unfortunately though, the driving mantra of win at all costs in major college sports exists across the country. Do you not think there are 'rocks for jocks' courses available at most schools. Are there not tutors helping these kids pass these classes, and to what level of help we don't know? Aren't there still jokes on the ISU campus about athletes that have never been seen in a classroom? There certainly was in my time there.
Bottom line, the UNC case was an extreme example, but there have been too many instances of top athletes making it through a few yrs of college academically that came out functionally illiterate.
I don't like it, but I don't know how you fix it.