The mockery of the academics and “Honor” of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is now nearly complete. WRAL:
University of North Carolina senior cornerback Kendric Burney, a preseason All-ACC first-team pick, has been cleared to play and will make his 2010 debut Saturday against William & Mary.
Burney was suspended by the NCAA for six games for accepting $1,333 in agent benefits that included trips to California, Atlanta and Las Vegas.
He served out that suspension and missed an additional game while the university honor court considered his case. …
All Burney needed to do, remember, was add a class in late October — apparently to replace the one in which his alleged academic fraud took place.
To reiterate: we have a student athlete who accepted all kinds of gifts and who apparently committed academic fraud, and the entire focus of North Carolina’s flagship institution of higher education has been restoring academic integrity and addressing the profound embarrassment an athletics system run amok has caused the university finding some way, any way to get him back on the football field.
