Sunday, March 2, 2014

Rabalais: It’s clear — Southern has failed its athletes

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana  -- Southern’s winter sports programs have been banned from NCAA championship competition because of missing and unusable academic data pertaining to its student-athletes.

In other words, the NCAA has no way to properly verify their grades and academic progress.
There is an easy way to grade Southern University on this subject, though.

A big, fat “F.” Underlined. Inside a red circle.

One is tempted to label Southern’s academic compliance grade incomplete, given the Swiss-cheese state of the academic records of its student-athletes.

But that would be being kind when kindness is not deserved.

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