NCAA Finds Fraud at TCU

[flowomo]

http://insidehighered.com/news/2005/09/23/tcu

The National Collegiate Athletic Association punished Texas Christian University’s men’s track program on Thursday for a set of rules violations that included some of the most egregious and unusual examples of academic fraud in recent history.
They included an instance in which a former assistant coach took a final examination alongside a track athlete — with the consent of the faculty member in the course — and then swapped his version of the test with the athlete’s, allowing him to pass....

[MGKrebs]

1. Didn't SMU get the "death penalty" a few years ago?

Texas CHRISTIAN University.
Southern METHODIST University.

Makes one wonder.

[flowomo]

2. yep.... and these are VERY.... um.... conservative schools....

major family and ethical values! Must be a mistake.

[tcfrogs]

9. What leads you to believe that TCU and SMU are conservative schools?

They are certainly not liberal, but just because they have a religion in their name does not make them conservative.

[PunkPop]

7. Minor correction

It was about 20 years ago.

[YDogg]

11. Heh! Very good point!

This is the kind of behavior I'd have expected from Liberty.

[DrDan]

3. there are major connections between the bush family and TCU

[GregW]

4. Damn ... why couldn't it have been USC instead!

Nothing like a last minute reprieve before the game against my Ducks tomorrow.

Oh well .... :eyes:

[davidinalameda]

5. the Ducks are pretty much fucked tomorrow

I picked USC by 20 over them

[BamaLefty]

12. Geez, You Were 10 Off

It was 30. :rofl:

[DrDan]

6. easy now

Trojan alumni here

[democracyindanger]

8. Autzen's going to be rockin' tomorrow

So we got that goin' for us, which is nice.

Too bad we don't have a secondary. That would help.

[Awsi Dooger]

10. Incredible win for TCU today

Down big at one point at BYU. But they rallied to take the lead late and won 51-50 in OT. Kind of a break in OT because the RB looked like he might have fumbled the ball just before the goal line, but there wasn't a good TV angle and the call was not overturned. BYU had missed the extra point after scoring first in OT.

[jakefrep]

13. I didn't know...

..that enough people/boosters cared about collegiate track to commit NCAA violations on behalf of track athletes. Or that the NCAA cared enough to bust athletes/programs in those sports.