Durrell Arthur causing Kansas to forfeit games!

To everyone who thinks its a non-issue, its hard to play for a college that you can't get into, so if his grades were changed to keep him eligable for entrance into KU, that is kind of a big deal.

This, if it is true, means he enrolled fraudulently. 

Legally fraudulent, or merely short of your impeccable standard of honesty?  With a diploma awarded, satisfactory test scores, clearinghouse approval, that's a hard case to make.

And your reply is.....?

mksmith17,

I love it when people run their mouth without having a clue as to what they are talking about.

His grades were changed to keep him eligible in HIGH SCHOOL.  Not to keep him eligible for entrance into KU.  it was to keep him eligible to play in HIGH SCHOOL.

Exactly how does changing his grades when he was a sophmore, not being recruited by Kansas, have anything to do with getting him entrance into KU?

Dumb.

I could see this being a 100% non-factor. Yes, Colleges have academic standards and whatnot, but I wonder if GPA is just a starting point? Wouldn't surprise me if they place a lot more emphasis on:

• Who your parents are
• What school you attended
• Standardized tests - SAT & ACT
• Their enrollment tests
• AP tests
• Extra-curricular activities (basketball in this case)

Case in point, when I transferred from St. Andrew's College (Toronto) to Edina (Minnesota), as a Junior, they fubared my GPA. They don't grade on the same scales, at all. An A in Edina is 90%, at St. Andrew's is 80%, but they don't curve stuff the same way, to get 80% at SAC is a heck of a lot harder.

I got the two schools to try figure out how to translate all of this nonsense but it was still balderdash, in the end. Despite being on the Dean's List at Indiana and testing into a bunch of free credits, I had one of the lowest class rankings at Edina (and my GPA was over 3.5 for two years there).

Indiana didn't care about the translation problem, they don't trust yankees anyways. I explained the situation to them and they said "Come on down."

KU62,

Erm... Yes, it is. Who else would it be related to?

In any case, big deal or not, can you do us a favour and stop holding back on us? I want to know how you really feel and your posts to this thread are far too subtle to demonstrate just how insane this issue has really made you.

Let's have it man, full-on name calling and extreme vitriol. I mean, how dare anyone say anything about a news story about KU, whether it holds water or not? 

I don't see how KU is going to be in any trouble for this. High school grades are notoriously subject, my freshman and sophmore years grades were the result of an international negotiation of sorts, and they still didn't get it right.

Even students from the NCAA's recently published Prep School blacklist:

http://www2.ncaa.org/portal/media_and_events/press_room/2006/july/20060705_list_of_high_schools.html

Were allowed to remain with their University, they were grandfathered in, no punishment was dealt to any of the Universities with students from those schools. These are schools that were deemed ineligible due to notorius bs grade-inflation. This is a much bigger problem than what we're talking about:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/
05/AR2006070501902.html

Indiana, unlike KU, is still in some serious hot water. While I've bounced back from Rock Bottom, the NCAA is going punish IU, I just can't figure out how much. And whatever they do, probably won't shock me too much. The distraction's not quite over yet, while the shock value of it all has come and gone.