Mizzou Ded

[andrew]

You guys have to understand that the NCAA has a pretty narrow mission, and it can't penalize schools for things not covered by its rules. They've been pretty consistent on that.

The NCAA doesn't exist to tell schools how to run their classes or how to support their students.

It exists to investigate allegations of child abuse and arbitrarily decide punishment for it in a secretive process.

 

[GoJackets89]

They tried, but it wasn’t any of the NCAA’s business.

I’m surprised this hasn’t opened up more loop holes: have an on campus competition to see who can throw a football more than 50 yards in the air. The competition is open to anyone on campus and the successful students each win a new truck.

Campus-wide 3 on 3 basketball tournament with a $100,000 prize.

Have a “create your own major” to “help” students interested in cross functional research, then offer the basic health class in 60 combinations, e.g. Upper body weightlifting, Advanced upperbody weightlifting, Leg Day, Cardio.

To your last point some schools offer an "Interdisciplinary Studies" degree which you could essentially do what you laid out in your example.

 

[TampaBayJacket]

"In support of that position, UNC asserted that although courses were created and graded by an office secretary, student-athletes completed their own work. Here, by contrast, Missouri acknowledged that the tutor completed student-athletes' work and, in most instances, this conduct violated its honor code."

LOL okay so UNC was okay because SA's actually did their own work in a completely fraudulent college class?