Documents released by Florida State University reveal new details about an academic-cheating scandal involving 61 athletes at the university and the institution’s dispute with the NCAA over the sanctions it imposed in the case, The New York Times reports. The university has appealed a requirement that it forfeit all wins in which those athletes competed in 2006 and 2007. It released today a 695-page transcript of an NCAA hearing last October in which the university’s president, T.K. Wetherell, said the athletes did not intentionally cheat but had received “inappropriate help” from a “rogue tutor” and an instructor.
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5 Responses to ‘Rogue Tutor’ Led Athletes Astray, Florida State Argued in Dispute Over NCAA Penalties
22080644 - October 15, 2009 at 9:14 am
another example of refusal to accept responsibility. “He/she made me do it!” Wah, wah, wah, it’s not my/their fault!!!
jselwell - October 15, 2009 at 11:11 am
Brenda Monk, a learning specialist hired to work with athletes who had learning and physical disabilities, was accused of improperly helping students type, edit and write their papers. Monk, who testified that some of those athletes had a second-grade reading level, was accused of committing academic fraud.Second-grade reading level? What are they doing in College?
willynilly - October 15, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Who supervised this “Rogue Tutor”? Said supervision must have been so weak or so non-existent that this tutor was apparently allowed to act and influence others at a level equal to a Dean or V-P. FSU must really think that the folks at the NCAA are all imbeciles and will swallow this lame story.
princeton67 - October 15, 2009 at 9:20 pm
I taught high school English in southern Gerogia for thirty years.During that time, I saw several dozens of unqualified athletes recruited and admitted to the University of Georgia, Georgia Tech, Florida, Miami, Alabama, etc.By “unqualified”, I mean SAT’s several hundred points below their college freshman class average and/or GAP’s more than 1 point less.I never knew of a non-athlete with similar low academic criteria admitted.So, to answer #2 above, in one word: playing.I visited UGA and Tech several times: for atheletes, separate dorms, cafeterias, facilities, tutors, and courses.In short, the average SEC athlete – especially football or basketball player – is to the average SEC student as the Roman gladiators were to the ordinary citizens. Ditto for the coaches, who teach no classes but whose salaries are multiples of the college presidents’ wages.
rickinchina09 - October 16, 2009 at 10:35 am
There is nothing “rogue,” unfortunately, about this tutor’s conduct. It repeats itself daily in a myriad institutions which long ago set aside academic standards in pursuit of athletic success. So let’s get real here.As for the athletes involved, their acquiescence has its own consequences, the fallout from this revelation being only one of them.