paper writing, test taking sweat shop? Ha. You've got a player, who really has nothing to gain, unless he's just got an axe to grind, who says he had papers written for him in an independent study course, the faculty member who hepled run the program admit that she believed the Admin knew and supported what they were doing and she was told what grades athletes needed to obtain to keep eligible and then a learning specialist/tutor who blew the whistle and said the athletes weren't actually qualified. There's way more smoke than you are allowing for, and their accrediting agencies found enough wrongdoing to place them on probation. The NCAA found what they wanted to find, or not find.
This Wiki page might be BS posted by a Dukie for all I know, but it summarizes and hits the high marks of what I recall. I don't understand the slippery slope of the NCAA saying it's wrong and punishable if SA's don't do their own work, and are given grades they didn't earn to keep them eligible. This was never about a U having "easy" classes.
en.wikipedia.org
From June 1014: Former North Carolina star Rashad McCants told Steve Delsohn of "Outside the Lines" that he could have been academically ineligible to play during the '04-05 national title season had he not been provided fraudulent academic assistance.
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...and UNC's internal investigation of the program only went back to 2007.... Whole thing stinks to high hevaen and only UNC could have gotten away with this... and they did!