Apparently the NCAA thinks that colleges should not make educating scholarship athletes their highest priority. Nebraska has been fined $38,000 and given 2 years probation for giving scholarship athletes texts on course recommended lists rather than only the minimum required. The value of the texts over a 5 year period was $28,000 which is not a lot of books considering the number of athletes.
Personally I think NCAA has reached way too far.
Paul in PA
It is one of those pesky rules to level the field.
For example, when they supply cheat notes for the athletes, they must furnish them for the whole student body...........
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Yeah, that's where Bobby Bowden went wrong.
The issue may be that the school was supplying the extra books knowing the football player was just going to sell them back to the book store, hence the extra monetary benefit. Alabama broke new ground on that scam a few years ago. They were supplying their football players with multiple copies of the same required text books, knowing they'd just sell back the "extras".
