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per Tanick:
The announcement last week by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), which polices big-time college sports, that Notre Dame must forfeit its 21 football wins in 2012-13, including its stellar season in 2012 as runner-up for the national championship, because of academic misconduct, recalled a similar, but much more pervasive episode here at the 'U' some two decades ago, whose reverberations are still being felt in Dinkytown and surrounding environs.
The iconic Irish football program, which is appealing the sanctions, faces other penalties as well based upon a student trainer in its athletics department improperly doing course work for a pair of players. The violation of NCAA protocols is hardly the first — and, regrettably, probably not the last — of its type. Other schools have been accused, or found culpable, of much greater offenses for surreptitiously giving inappropriate academic aid to their athletes, such as one massive matter still in progress at North Carolina.
But the imbroglio at Notre Dame pales in comparison to the one that unraveled here with the championship U of M men's basketball team in the late 1990s. It began when Jan Gangelhoff, a nondescript adviser in the school's academic counseling unit, revealed that she had authored some 400 pieces of school work for about 20 players on that squad over a five-year period, including the 1996-97 team that cruised to the Big Ten championship and participated in the Final Four national title tournament.
https://www.minnpost.com/community-...ame-football-cheating-echoes-past-u-m-scandal
Go Gophers!!
The announcement last week by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), which polices big-time college sports, that Notre Dame must forfeit its 21 football wins in 2012-13, including its stellar season in 2012 as runner-up for the national championship, because of academic misconduct, recalled a similar, but much more pervasive episode here at the 'U' some two decades ago, whose reverberations are still being felt in Dinkytown and surrounding environs.
The iconic Irish football program, which is appealing the sanctions, faces other penalties as well based upon a student trainer in its athletics department improperly doing course work for a pair of players. The violation of NCAA protocols is hardly the first — and, regrettably, probably not the last — of its type. Other schools have been accused, or found culpable, of much greater offenses for surreptitiously giving inappropriate academic aid to their athletes, such as one massive matter still in progress at North Carolina.
But the imbroglio at Notre Dame pales in comparison to the one that unraveled here with the championship U of M men's basketball team in the late 1990s. It began when Jan Gangelhoff, a nondescript adviser in the school's academic counseling unit, revealed that she had authored some 400 pieces of school work for about 20 players on that squad over a five-year period, including the 1996-97 team that cruised to the Big Ten championship and participated in the Final Four national title tournament.
https://www.minnpost.com/community-...ame-football-cheating-echoes-past-u-m-scandal
Go Gophers!!
