Someone trying to get Auburn in trouble again. My guess is Bama fans but nothing of this sort will do any harm to the program if it is only one incident. The New York Times are the same ones who started the other rumors about them over the summer and it looks like they are at it again. Auburn does not plan to forward information from an internal audit to the NCAA, a university spokesman said. The audit showed that a grade for a scholarship athlete was changed without the knowledge of the student's professor. A New York Times article published Sunday showed that the grade was changed from an incomplete to an A in the final semester, allowing the athlete to graduate. -- New York Times http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/scorecard/12/12/truth.rumors.college/index.html
same info as before .... the NYT author is simply rehashing the story on a slow news day. I thought the article was extremely biased in a couple of areas, not so much for what it states, but for what it omits.
I'm guessing topics like this are resurfacing after the graduation rate report came out recently. There is a large gap in graduation rates by race, particularly in the SEC, and I think the NYT did some article on this.
It is a rehash of an old story, stuff that actions have already been taken on. What is most interesting to me is that the story was written on Dec 7, yet not published til Dec 10. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/s...1165706309-Lx9ltpkMLBzhOdBzyocafw&oref=slogin Some would suggest that given the time frame, CRR was expected to be announced as the new bama coach on the 8th, that this was an attempt to hurt AU recruiting. I don't recall all (more like hardly any) of the details, but I have seen some info tying the NYTimes back to bama grads or papers around t-town. Of course, I believe there was more than 1 gunman in Dallas.
The first time I read this thread, I knew Dececks would come around and say this was old news.:yelwink2: Sorry D, I haven't been able to take a shot at any Aubies yet today.
Three possible responses: 1) "This is horribly wrong and just goes to show just how corrupt the Aubies are." 2) "Of course, this happens pretty much everywhere." 3) "It's no big deal, because the NCAA doesn't patrol academic fraud cases." All three have some grain of truth to them. Definitely a case where the sausage principle ("Those who respect the law and love sausage should not watch either being made.") applies. Nobody really wants to know what really goes on in Div 1 football at any school. GEAUX TIGERS
