"The people who defend the status quo in college sports have always maintained that the student-athletes do get something in return for their on-the-field labors: a free education. Opponents of the status quo, like myself, have often countered that a lot of those student-athletes realistically aren't able to take advantage of that educational opportunity, because, in playing their sports, they're essentially working full-time jobs. But I don't think many of us imagined that the system was as corrupt as it was at UNC—where student-athletes, by being steered into these courses, were basically being defrauded."
Jason Zengerle in The New Republic reacts to the scandal at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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