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03627aam a2200397 i 4500 001 729682CC08BA11EDA6CAF5435DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220721010039 008 210726t20212021miu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021020070 020 $a 0472132814 020 $a 9780472132812 035 $a (OCoLC)1267402534 040 $a MiU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCF $d UIU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a GV885.43.U54 $b T48 2021 082 00 $a 796.323/6309756565 $2 23 100 1 $a Thomason, Andy, $d 1991- $e author. 245 10 $a Discredited : $b the UNC scandal and college athletics' amateur ideal / $c Andy Thomason. 264 1 $a Ann Arbor : $b University of Michigan Press, $c 2021. 300 $a x, 194 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "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"---Provided by publisher. 610 20 $a North Carolina Tar Heels (Basketball team) 610 20 $a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill $x Basketball. 610 27 $a North Carolina Tar Heels (Basketball team) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00689142 610 27 $a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00567135 650 0 $a College sports $x Corrupt practices. 650 7 $a EDUCATION / Higher. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Basketball $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00828203 650 7 $a College sports $x Corrupt practices. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00867928 776 08 $i Online version: $a Thomason, Andy, 1991- $t Discredited $d Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2021 $z 9780472129591 $w (DLC) 2021020071 941 $a 1 952 $l GAAX314 $d 20220721010100.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=729682CC08BA11EDA6CAF5435DECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b HL6Initiate Another SILO Locator Search