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In 2009, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was on top
of the world. Consistently named one of the top universities in the
country, it had welcomed a new phenom of a chancellor who promised
to lead the public Ivy into the future. In the all-important
athletic realm, the Tar Heels were the Coca-Cola of athletic
brands. Resting upon the legacy of legendary basketball coach Dean
Smith, UNC had carved out a reputation of excellence paired with
squeaky-clean adherence to the rules. Supporters had a name for
that irresistible ethos: the Carolina Way. The Tar Heels were
climbing even higher. That year, they won their fifth national
championship in men's basketball and looked poised to climb the
ranks in football under a new, high-powered coach. But within just
a few years, it all came crashing down. The Tar Heels' success, it
turned out, was based on a foundation of deceit. Athletes were
flocking to a slate of fake classes that advisers deftly used to
keep them eligible to play. That revelation and others metastasized
into one of the most damaging scandals ever to visit an American
college. In Discredited, journalist Andy Thomason provides a
gripping and authoritative retelling of the scandal through the
eyes of four of its key participants: the secretary who presided
over the fake classes, the professor who directed players toward
them, the literacy specialist turned whistleblower who sought to
expose the system, and the chancellor who found his career suddenly
on the line. The heart-stopping narrative reveals the toll of a
college's investment in major sports, and the amateurism myth upon
which it is based. Based on dozens of original interviews and
thousands of pages of documents, Discredited demonstrates just how
far a university will go to preserve the athletic status quo:
tolerating tarnished careers, ruined reputations, and years of
scathing media criticism—all for a shot at competitive glory.
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