Eighteen years is "a long time" for coaches at the University of North Carolina to have "no idea" that grades for their athletes were being systematically inflated, says a Miami sports talk radio host.
"Yeah, I'm not buying that at all," Joy Taylor of "Zaslow and Joy" told
Newsmax TV's Ed Berliner on "MidPoint" Friday.
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Taylor suggested that the exoneration of coaches at the UNC's legendary sports program is an incomplete conclusion, at best, to an internal probe of grade-fixing and phantom classes for academically subpar athletes.
She also said UNC is likely not the only sports-obsessed campus to prop up otherwise ineligible student-athletes.
"It really is a bad reflection on the school, but you have to remember that money makes the world go around, and … athletics brings in a lot of money," she said. "And you've got to have your star players on the field or on the court. And if it means you've got to put them in a class that may not necessarily be a class at all, that's what you've got to do."
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