HBO Real Sports

HBO Real Sports just did an "expose" on the academic scandal that has been on going for about 4 years now at UNC. They interviewed two disgruntled ex-football players, Byron Bishop and Michael McAdoo, as well as academic advisor Mary Willingham (who is also trying to make money off a book she is writing about the scandal. I would have to say she got some free press out of the HBO interview). The Raleigh News & Observer has also jumped on the anti-UNC bandwagon and I would have to ask if they remember a program ran by Jim Valvano and and a book Personal Fouls written by Peter Golenbock? Michael McAdoo got expelled for cheating and ended up on the roster of the Baltimore Ravens for a short while while Bishop is reportedly in a "low-skill job". The business landscape is littered with college graduates with great GPA's that are in low-skill jobs. That is today's economic climate. Sometimes you have to take what you can get. I know a lady who double majored in Chemistry and Biology at NC State who ended being an exotic dancer just to make ends meet. You are given a scholarship as an athlete and an opportunity to get a college degree. There is such a small percentage of the college student population that is afforded that opportunity. What you do with that opportunity is up to the individual. The individual has to assume some responsibility in the outcome.