Which was some of his outline adjunct assistance had been doing funny things with both players. And he said, you know, said bill friday, i was talking to a young woman here at the university for seems same snow some things with are very disturbing. I told her, well i cannot do too much to help bartlett you go talk to the folks in the South Building the administration building. I did not think a great deal about that the time except that i figured the bill friday was selling me a musthave substantive some substance, but but i was already worried khmer so many of us were but the indications about that proof about all this wealth and also as a sort of a sort of member of the faculty would your dr. Time with the meaning of the Faculty Council because among other things, it is a way to find out how things should be about what part of the academic a ministration is thinking. If you name is jeff swift the elements of prophetic things about sports they i can tell you but when jeff spoke was the people turner had his were not partners at this particular moment. Except they were aiming for the same final and. And that is and that is the kids should be educated the matter what they were called in the university the intense interest in creating a certain kind of Sports Program i have to tell you i have you i have been in public life in one way or another in most of my wife and was shocked to discover just how credible in fact disgustingly incapable the leadership was in the University System of doing what had to be done. Step up to the plate saying we messed up and will clean it up. Well, a reporter or two in here who discovered how little the university what is talk about that which was obvious. A lot of people in the business of the soon discovered, like him make up a name Richard Nixon you would rather want to pretend that the press is the enemy as opposed to what had been done to the enemy. It took a long time for us to undo itself. The process of it was, i have a great good fortune. I believe so much. I get the opportunity. Ive never actually been involved in something in which a truly bad situation was not only confronted go over those who were persecuted out of existence by a man who best could be described well, i wont do it. [laughter] and academic guys were just being essentially that their day came with its stunning and that that was they have been warning over claiming was now validated by the universitys own money not because that one report the state as well as university. Three, it is a reminder that edmund burke was corrupt and the old cliches true, the triumph of evil is always the book. Faculty at unc was largely within the category of the silence of the lambs to end the administration was largely in the category of commits if i just close my eyes command will go away this book this book will tell you how it was at the top and also some ideas they have about how it might be kept from that way again i cannot tell you how proud i am of both of them. [applause] thank you for coming in fighting the rain. Sometimes we change our name. We like to do that. I still have married. I have only known him as j. Maybe you have changed your name recently. This book is, of course, is, of course, about the particulars of the unc scandal, what happened at chapel hill and how and why our Administration Faculty leadership failed to provide the proper leadership for so long train 2010 at 2014. You will find all the details in this book. But. But really, we think of the book is about something greater, larger than the unc scandal itself is the unc scandal, we believe is emblematic of all is wrong with sports at the moment. Moment. This is about how the prestigious Academic Institution can be coopted by the bigtime athletic machine in the educational consequences for the athletes themselves when that happens, happens, how that coopting happens, how pervasive the moral coopted becomes criminal everyone gets affected by it and learns to stay silent going to look the other way to watch actively facilitate the maintenance of the system. You know the particulars command least i am assuming that most of you know a lot of the particulars of the actual scam which was at the center of this particular manifestation of action for an independent study courses on the one hand and bogus lecture courses on the other hand and use those courses as come as far as we are concerned, vehicles of eligibility from eligibility for athletes who needed a break from who were not particularly strong students or when a client a client to do University Work or for whatever reason. They were concussed, injured telling you the time. They were concussed, injured telling you the time. That apartment. That department was not the only the form of those involved. Bending or lowering or ignoring academic standards. There are plenty of other faculty and other departments also bens to the pressures that are invariably exerted by athletic enterprise. Its athletic enterprise. Courses and faculty can particular faculty in philosophy and geography and french and a few other places offer courses that essentially functioned as rewrites rafts they used that fleet of courses to keep these athletes on track academically and on the field where the coaches could use the physical laborers. We had hoped actually to show you a couple of graphics that would illustrate how this works for individual athletes. As it turns out, they are indecipherable only put them on screen, screen, but we will talk briefly before turning things over about a couple of individuals who experienced the system really hitting on all cylinders cylinders and how to work, function, how work, functions, how counselors in the Academic Support Program exploited loopholes for the purposes that we ever imagined. The 1st of these individuals is one of the most famous athletes in ufc historys transcript are likely for, likely for us is already public and so we can talk about that. Are there any are there any nc state fans in the audience . [laughter] thank you. In addition to acknowledging dan kane we should have said something about pet pride. The fan forum. These were the people who discovered that this phantom transcript was actually a published transcript. We were going to show you that, but it is indecipherable on the screen. At screen. At the end of his 3rd semester in resident that usc his gpa was 1. 57. Not doing too well its. You need to have a 1. 75 in order to be eligible for athletic participation for the upcoming season. With the academic with the academic counselors did was without him to 11 classes out of his next 17 courses and 17 courses, and at least eight of those 11 courses were paper. Guess. Guess what, you really well. He did really well. Its been when this happened several times over the course of his checkered career. In the course of the summer. After after his 1st tooth masters 1. 5 gpa had done fantastic. He was facing a pokemon academic counselors got creative and fun found an easy method classroom to get through this. Headed retroactively removed to a a fountain of paper class that was offered and most brilliantly they persuaded Debbie Crowder to schedule a two credit hour independent study. This is highly this is highly irregular. Independent studies and threehour courses are like any other. But the problem was that he needed lots of hours and hargraves but cannot register for nine hours because if you done that he would need the approval of the dean and they did not want deans looking. So this schedule a two hour independent study courses that are three and, and guess what he rocked it with an a. And then he too, was boosted up over the eligibility bar, on the field in the fall, fall never graduated, however and never played in the nfl and the reds case is much more egregious as far as we are concerned because he made his money, made money, made it to the nfl got something out of the experience representative of so many Athletes Committee get nothing no education you did not he did not get his name track day, you get nothing. And his experience its typified the experience of the revenue sport athlete basketball and Football Players at unc and across the country. What happened was egregious, cingular, awful, but things like that happen everywhere because all of these athletes are working in the same pressures working their 50 hour weeks and trying to make their way in the classroom often at universities where they are not prepared to do the work. They find ways to keep them alive, to keep them afloat. All the while they learn their Academic Experience intellectual experience are subordinated to the athletic demands of the athletic machine something that mary witnessed firsthand. We call it schedule engineering. Who play a masked game and join the conversation this week saying that were cingular going to have to talk about, you know, really these private athletes. Mandated by the ncaa and the number of institutions to be enrolled in fulltime classes for 12 hours. 12 hours. You have to ask yourselves, could we do that . Today due to a large academic is grueling. Eighteen to 22 yearolds. Im looking around the room and thinking maybe some of you have or have had children that fit in this age, but we bring them into carolina before the 1st year and put them right away into this type of boot camp where they are to take classes and to start their athletic training. So they are dealing with the nutrition of folks, some of them have learned, couple of weeks ago being awoken at two in the morning to eat Peanut Butter and jelly sandwiches because they are supposed to be gaining weight. I heard the same stories that carolina. Are doing a lot of work with this will particularly Football Players to get them ready to play immediately in the 1st season in the fall theyre not really getting a College Experience because you are supposed to go to college to do what your 1st semester, gets in on the campus, get to know where the parties are get to know who the good professors are, get to know who your friends are going to be were not to be going from five in the morning where you might be running stadium stairs to lifting to a few classes to grab something to eat to watch film come to go practice, to go study hall. On another. Long days. For many years them until they are the guy. For the most part we talk about athletes will talk about basketball and Football Players, the book touches on many of the olympic sports as well. The 26 other. And now we hear him at notre dame separating some of this out. Its all different and yet they loved it into one category of College Sports. We are going to read an interesting page from a book i wonder if we should show them a few figures. Absolutely. Interesting to show. I dont know how well you can see the silent. But it is interesting about this particular line of 18 athletes 18 athletes who took multiple paper classes in the early 1990s. You probably you probably cannot see them, but if you study carefully the gpas they earned in regular courses which you we will find here other courses 194, 194 152 175 2. 01 171, 169, etc. A lot of these guys had gpas and. But if you look at how they were helped by the multiple courses which are available there on the high twos and low threes, circuiting bees, b is, the pluses is, the pluses and especially in the early 90s to stay away from as an a. But what happens, of happens, of course, when you combine a bunch of low performing courses with those higher performing courses, courses, it evens out okay in the end. Even i can see this very well is gpa and other courses outside of that. And you can see how the courses function. Whats a a striking is that these are the 1st 18 players were sent to julius on more than one occasion he was handing out gifts time and time again to get those gifts elevated to the places they needed to be. The actual paper class. Again, i realize a case is very well, but the number of people classes taken. One lucky so lets take 18. Is gpa and all other, 1. 56. For all the paper classes a sampling of what we came across. A lot of the problems start to the front door. For cheating. Reading at grade level. A little bit better. We have letters crisis. Not dealing with that. Its a Public School problem. A post secondary institution is bringing in athletes who do not meet the efficient standards are universities, carolina were about 30000 and 30,000 take 4,000 students, so we are competitive. Recommendations were. Bring them run off the realization the contrast with a scholarship in the real provide you with a worldclass education and academic benefits that i can benefits in an agony real education, so many are getting nothing yet we all enjoy watching them on game day. So we can talk about all the good carolina people in administration and staffs who are complicit but we are all little bit complicit. So we complicit. So we need to get into the conversation and have it changed. There is a great example in the book of what it is like for an athlete this idea of how controlled they are, especially in a profit profit sport, and this is an example and football. There is a paragraph from going to read. Actually having you read to me and me not read to you. Just quickly. Command their loyalty to the machine, found that the locker room. Revealed in the documentary film school the price of College Sports you really need to look it up. The Coaching Staff of a carolina uses player in nfl aspiration as leverage against them when neededs. Posted on the door and locker rooms this is the word man. The type of sign that it is that identifies misbehaving individuals and realize the road reminds the road to their master is, attention nfl scouts, i we will not help the following players. They cannot help you win football games. Can you believe that . The very existence of that sign makes a mockery of the often repeated claim that college Football Players are students 1st not only offensive that they would allow the intimidation of inspiring professionals. Coaches brand players as egotists in the eyes of nfl scouts and prospective employees. Does that seem right to anybody . That is not what college is supposed to be about. We would not make a list on the board of the students who are failing the test should not get into law school or medical school. We would never do that. If these guys, hopes and dreams are shattered each and every day. Such a controlled environment, and it it is an issue, civil rights issue a social justice issue, and we help that she did part of the National Conversation. The education of athletes and the future bigtime College Sports. So it is a privilege for me to write this book with j smith and it was a privilege to take this journey with all of you and for the support that i have gotten. And we could not have done it without you, and there are so many in this room who made this happen. In the long run it will make a difference and we will be on the right side of history. Happy to answer any questions. We love q a because we love to be stopped. These border fellows really the mba the only route they have seen by the scouts. Another route to those two bodies some future involved in that. Very complicated they should be able to come up with a solution for this. Its a great example of that. The football on the basketball. A lot of people are making money off this. Really good by thanking you. Did you speak to that . The board of governors and trustees are in charge. I believe that to be material. I dont know how much control she had the face of the university at this. The 1st the 1st female chancellor we have had in 220 years. She was at the mediation made an appearance its we just lost tom ross. I dont think we can blame it on her. Being forced out. Just decided. As a faculty member is easy for me to say, yes i wish they would have behaved differently but i no darn well the faculty should have. Putting the heat on the administration all along. And this is no excuse. All the scandals across the country additions, directors had been held accountable how many athletic administrators of faculty members have been held accountable. Its totally backwards. If they are not admitted i worked at a university were many of these same kids were not admitted because the transfer. The main university. The faculty representatives still not on the radar. They fly right under the radar and are never held accountable for anything. He graduated from seminary. First success story, this woman over here. I have a question. I agree with everything that has been said. I am at duke graduate. I want to disclose that. They spend about a month to six weeks before School Starts in boot camp. The private sector, private school that not nearly as qualified as the rest of the pulled off his big event. There are solutions. But there are solutions that can help. I dont think theres anything radically different than what has already been done a gap in academic preparedness without athletes for us is much water. We noticed was with the transcript look like because we had behind for but the law that says we need to protect that because we do. We can identify it and talk about the transcripts. And even better, and even better, we have a pile of them i hope its true. Show me the transcripts. As the only way well see if its true or not. Clustered together in the same age or bunch of independent studies. As the only way we will prove young people are getting the education we promise. But if we are going to admit them and they are that far behind we half. However long it takes. Yes, we are to. Yes very low back. Yes. You mentioned before both coaches took the fall or both talked for both coaches knew. Why has the basketball coach not taken the fall hear . I think hes playing a game at the moment. We moment. We cannot call them out and asking. I think eventually there going to see when the ncaa comes back in. There is more coming in happening behind the scenes. I do believe that changes are coming. Certainly it seems that the ncaa has some role that might be effective and one of them is he should have known if you did not know. Time will tell the story. Coaches have given us so plausible deniability they made the technical decisions. The coach can always say it was not me. Quite a scandal. Im curious whether his transcripts of ever been public information. Vocal about his experience, and there have been a now. They have are seen as