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This is *way* worse than point shaving. Chapel Hill’s cheating potentially robbed competing institutions of millions of $ in alumni donations and sale of athletic merchandise, particularly in the NCAA basketball tournament and championship games. More subtly, when schools excel in sports, and especially win titles, applications for admissions go up and typically GPA and SAT scores. *That* improves your schools ranking in US News and elsewhere, giving an additional boost. How much of that helped UNC-Sham keep their vaunted “best public in the country.”
The NCAA needs to set an example and:
Take away *all* the wins from anyone in a sham course. (Just the people who the course kept GPA eligible is not enough. If someone is carrying a bogus course with a guarantied grade, that’s one less *real* course they had to take that would have sunk their GPA and let them take a lighter academic load. Simply taking the course made their other courses easier.)Take the titles and banners. Men’s basketball, women’s basketball, football, women’s soccer…any sport.
Pay restitution to all the teams for the vacated wins, especially Illinois and Michigan State in basketball, who they cheated out of significant cash.
