runandshoot

June 26th, 2019 at 4:20 PM ^

That's kind of an extreme reaction. Just wanted to provide context to the comments that other posters were posting. UNC was caught providing fake classes to athletes for almost two decades.

No need to get hostile - it happened, and really had nothing to do with your daughter or her educational pursuits. Nice humblebrag, by the way ;), and congrats on her success!

lostwages

June 26th, 2019 at 4:35 PM ^

Liberal arts school... do they even have any engineering programs?

At least M is known for it's Nuclear, and Civil engineering...

one of the reasons I always cheer for NCSU in football (Nuke program)

BroadneckBlue21

June 26th, 2019 at 5:16 PM ^

Mom, mom, I created a database today that allows me to index people by last name using C++. That’s nice, honey, now go do something fun and useful like writing a novel about the dangers of our Soviet communism and try not to let Stalin, Jr. catch on, in the mean time.

Although, I’m sure all the dead comrades will be thrilled by your otherwise useless technology being used to index the dead online.

NashvilleBLUE

June 26th, 2019 at 4:53 PM ^

I feel confident that your smart daughter who is making the school zero point zero dollars a year, other than her tuition, isn’t treated identical to an athlete (that may change their athletic program and single handedly generate thousands, sometimes millions, of dollars) in the classroom. At least not at a school that has been well documented as providing such improprieties to athletes.

Your post is the equivalent of me commenting on someone’s post about how Instagram models probably get paid to promote bogus products by saying, “are you also accusing my daughter with 86 followers that she’s getting paid to lie about weight loss products”? 

NashvilleBLUE

June 26th, 2019 at 5:17 PM ^

Feel free to google “biggest college athletic scandals of all time”.

Here are 2 in the top 10:

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill football scandal – over ten football players received improper benefits and committed academic fraud by turning in coursework prepared by tutors.
  • University of North Carolina academic-athletic scandal – in a follow-up to the UNC football scandal, new accusations of academic fraud arose in relation to the university's African and Afro-American Studies department and men's basketball program, men's football team, women's soccer and other sports as well. The Wainstein Report, an independent report commissioned by UNC, revealed academic fraud that occurred over at least 18 years involving thousands of students and student athletes. Allegedly, thousands of student athletes were directed by the UNC administration to take "sham" classes in order to maintain eligibility. UNC avoided major NCAA penalties, mainly because said sham classes had been offered to the entire student body.

NashvilleBLUE

June 26th, 2019 at 5:49 PM ^

I’ll help you out:

You trying to compare your daughter’s academic experience to that of a top tier athlete at an institute that has been shown to provide improper benefits to top tier athletes is like me trying to compare the monetary exploits of Instagram models to that of my 14 year old daughter and her 86 followers.

Sandy Lyles Revenge

June 26th, 2019 at 9:39 PM ^

I’m not impressed with your daughter, it’s weird to brag about a scholarship to an ACC school not named duke. I am impressed that you somehow equate people bringing up athletes committing academic fraud as an accusation on the general student body. I am even more impressed by your insistence on embarrassing yourself.