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UNC academic advisor-turned-agent defends client Peppers' grades
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08:22 AM ET 08.18 | When a transcript bearing Julius Peppers' name came into public view earlier this week, some wondered how an athlete with such poor grades could have remained eligible to play football and basketball at the University of North Carolina. Peppers, though, did enough to pass through a system that didn't require even academic mediocrity. The transcript, once publicly accessible on UNC's website, showed that Peppers received D's or F's in 11 classes, began his college career with a 1.08 GPA in his first semester, never raised it above 1.95 and yet was never academically ineligible. He came close, though. Peppers ended his spring semester in 2001 with a 1.82 GPA, according to the transcript. According to UNC's minimum academic eligibility standards for athletes then, Peppers would have needed a GPA of at least a 1.9 to play football in the fall of 2001. According to the test transcript, Peppers in the spring of 2001 appears to have received a B-plus in one course -- Black Nationalism -- in which he originally received an incomplete. He also appears to have received an A in the summer of 2001 in an African and Afro-American Studies seminar. Peppers remained eligible thanks to courses from the AFAM department, which has recently come under scrutiny after an internal UNC investigation uncovered 54 suspect AFAM courses between 2007 and 2011. The problems in those courses ranged from no-show professors to unauthorized grade changes. Carl Carey Jr., who is Peppers' agent and former academic counselor at UNC, declined Friday to discuss specifics of Peppers' transcript. But Carey said it wasn't uncommon during his years at UNC for athletes to find themselves tip-toeing a line -- eligibility on one side and ineligibility on the other. Carey, who worked as a UNC athletic department academic counselor from 1998 to 2002, also said it was "irresponsible" to suggest that Peppers was given fraudulent grades so he could remain eligible.
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John Blutarsky was an offensive lineman on that UNC squad with a GPA of 0.0. And, as we all know, he is a U.S. Senator today.
Hatrunner
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Wow, this thread has the potential to get a bit ugly.
VanByTheRiver
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It takes a lot of work. But none of it is school work.
Deep Creek
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Que quieres pendejo?
Deep Creek
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This would be accurate from my recollection.
Deep Creek
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Sure beats any of yours.
GR=O-6fan
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You've already been through it?????
I figure I'll be raptured and won't have to go thru that.... :)
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Ya'll be careful about what you post here about Peppers....if he could read he might get angry....
BackRoads
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Put the fork down, step away from the table and quit feeding the troll....
Can you guys name the other trolls we had on here last year.
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