The NCAA announced Friday it “could not conclude that the University of North Carolina violated NCAA academic rules” when it allowed its pupils, a group that included myriad student-athletes, to take Afro and African-American Studies “paper classes” that were deemed, for a lack of a better term, extremely easy.
As the NCAA reasoned, players did reap the benefits of cupcake courses, but so did the general student body. So, the student-athletes, who may have taken the classes to remain eligible, didn’t receive special benefits due to their status, and thus ended a more than three-year investigation into academic fraud, the findings of which set college basketball Twitter on fire.
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Let’s look at some of the hottest takes offered after the ruling — or lack thereof.
