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Williams, Holladay and Walden brought the same oversight process they had used in Kansas.
Walden focused on keeping up with the players’ classes and monitoring their eligibility. He provided
regular reports about academic progress to Holladay, who would counsel and/or discipline players
with academic issues. Holladay, in turn, reported to Williams on the general status of player
academics. On occasion, Williams would question a player about his studies or talk to the team
about the importance of academics. Beyond that, he largely delegated academic responsibilities to
Holladay and Walden.
As Williams, Holladay and Walden told us in their interviews, a large number of the team
that they inherited were majoring in AFAM. Five of the 15 members of the 2003–2004 team were
AFAM majors, and 10 of the 15 players on the 2005 team were AFAM majors. The three men were
uneasy about this situation. Coach Williams was uncomfortable with that clustering in AFAM
because it looked like the players were being steered into that major, and after a year or two on the
job he asked Holladay to make sure that basketball and ASPSA personnel were not steering players
to the AFAM Department.
Walden acknowledged knowing about irregular aspects of the paper classes, including that
Crowder was doing at least some of the paper grading. When asked whether he shared this
information with Coaches Holladay or Williams, he could not recall doing so. Both of the coaches
claim that they never learned from Walden or anyone else that there was a question about faculty
involvement in the classes or that Debby Crowder was doing the grading.
SeanMayTriedToEatMe said:Just summarize all this for me. I don't even have the patience to read the lengthy string of 140-character max tweets about it on my feed.
Is it
Roy - fine
UNC - fine
Duke - fucked
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