OT cheating to get players eligible - inside story
story from a "fixer" of grades and transcripts to get players into college, or otherwise make them eligible
smarmy stuff
http://chronicle.com/article/Confessions-of-a-Fixer/150891/#
January 8th, 2015 at 12:41 PM ^
Best quote ever by a "student athelete". Wonder what Harbaugh would say if he ever were to recruit another kid with this point of view.
January 8th, 2015 at 1:15 PM ^
January 8th, 2015 at 5:48 PM ^
While I have no doubt OSU football has a few serious students, they like to stretch the definition beyond recognition down there.
January 8th, 2015 at 12:43 PM ^
He's QB'd OSU in its two biggest games this season and has done decently well. He went to OSU and did what he went there to do.
January 8th, 2015 at 9:35 PM ^
January 8th, 2015 at 12:43 PM ^
Very interesting tho!
January 8th, 2015 at 12:46 PM ^
January 8th, 2015 at 12:47 PM ^
This is exactly why I love two things about Michigan...
- Rarely do they take JuCo transfers in football or basketball.
- Beilein openly can't stand the AAU system and all of its shady characters.
People think Michigan fans overblow the "holier than thou" academic rhetoric, but I love that we don't stoop to the levels of other programs.
January 8th, 2015 at 12:53 PM ^
January 8th, 2015 at 1:24 PM ^
He was in class exactly two times (he was huge, so he couldnt be missed) - the first day and the final exam.
I am not saying that means anything, but it is interesting nonetheless.
January 8th, 2015 at 2:59 PM ^
That sounds like my first two years at Michigan. And I really like how my story continues to turn out.
January 8th, 2015 at 8:04 PM ^
January 8th, 2015 at 1:25 PM ^
...to suggest that the attitudes of Beilein and Frieder and Fisher towards such matters are not quite the same. We know the program wasn't anywhere close to clean in the 80s and 90s, and as long as you're going back that far for your examples I'm pretty happy.
January 8th, 2015 at 7:39 PM ^
The program was clean in the 80s. The 90s were a different story. As for jucos, I don't know what's wrong with them. The university takes regular students from community colleges all the time.
January 9th, 2015 at 11:49 AM ^
Do you honestly think the program was clean under Frieder and the problems suddenly appeared when Fisher took over as HC? We may just have a different definition of "clean".
There was a lot of foul-smelling smoke around the program in the 80s--it's a big reason Bo "didn't fully support basketball", in Frieder's words. I think it's very likely Bo would have cleaned house if the surprise NC hadn't forced his hand.
January 8th, 2015 at 1:09 PM ^
He took Carleton Brundage, who played for the Family in Detroit, which has some pretty shady connections, including Worldwide Wes. (Look up Wes' alleged role in helping Derrick Rose qualify at Memphis).
To be fair, Brundage did not work out and Beilein lately seems to be focusing on Indiana kids from a few select AAU programs that seem less shady than run-of-the-mill AAU programs.
I agree that Beilein is an ethical guy. But I don't think he would abstain from taking a kid associated with shady characters from AAU, if the kid was good enough and really wanted to come to Michigan. I don't think any college coach could afford to be quite that "holier than thou."
It's also pretty ironic that you're touting the how Michigan won't "stoop to the level of other programs" while you have a picture of the Fab Five as your avatar.
January 8th, 2015 at 1:42 PM ^
that JB knows that no matter what he is going to have to go through the AAU ranks in order to scout players but he might not love the fact that he has to do that... all of these kids play AAU now and its very seldom that you find a kid that can play D1 that didn't play on an AAU team...