Dean’s List College Basketball Star: I NEVER Attended Class

Rashad McCants was of his 2005 North Carolina championship team, but now he is coming clean about his experience at UNC.. McCants claims he skipped classes, had his papers written for him, and that Roy Williams and the athletic department “100 percent” knew what the school was doing to keep athletes eligible.

Among the allegations:

• McCants made the Dean’s List in that championship semester of spring ’05, despite never attending four of his classes. He received As in all of them.
• A copy of McCants’s transcript shows that in his classes outside Afro-American Studies, he received six Cs, one D and three Fs. In his Afro-American Studies courses, he received 10 As, six Bs, one C, and one D.
• McCants says he was steered by academic advisors to so-called “paper classes,” where attendance wasn’t necessary and his entire grade would be based on a single term paper at the end of the semester. He says tutors provided by the basketball program would simply write his papers for him. source

In 2005, basketball players accounted for 15 enrollments in Afro-American Studies.

“I thought it was a part of the college experience, just like He Got Game orBlue Chips,” McCants said. “When you get to college, you don’t go to class, you don’t do nothing, you just show up and play. That’s exactly how it was.

“I think that was the tradition of college basketball, or college, period, any sport. You’re not there to get an education, though they tell you that. You’re there to make revenue for the college. You’re there to put fans in the seats. You’re there to bring prestige to the university by winning games.”