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Right, where do you think he got that from?
Posted on: June 8, 2020 at 11:06:32 CT
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The only difference between UNC and ku is that UNC got caught, and ku is still doing it.
Wayne Walden, the academic advisor for Roy Williams’ program at Kansas for 15 years where he oversees scheduling, registration, structured study halls, tutorial services and progress toward degrees for the student-athletes in those programs. He graduated from KU in 1984 with a degree in business administration and earned his master's in counseling psychology from Kansas in 1990.
http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/07/13/criticism-of-mccants-ripped-by-unc-professor-wayne-waldens-name-mentioned-again/
“When Roy Williams came here from Kansas, he brought with him the team academic counselor who had served him so well at Kansas: Wayne Walden,” Smith wrote. “He regarded Walden as such a vital contributor to the good fortunes of his teams that he was practically moved to tears when Walden departed in 2009. Walden knew every detail about the academic lives of those players; he had to. He registered them for their courses, for crying out loud. [And that means he got on the phone with the Department of African and Afro-American Studies and he put them in paper classes.] Walden also spoke with Williams every day; he had to. Williams’ claim that he had no earthly idea that his players were floating along on paper classes – and that he never would have guessed that one of his stars was enrolled in four no-show classes in the spring of 2005 – is nothing more than a confidence trick. He’s counting on the customary journalistic favoritism, and journalists’ amazing lack of curiosity, to enable him to tell this whopper and walk away with his aura intact. We’ll see if that works.”
In the book, Going Home, by Adam Lucas, published after Williams’ first season back at UNC:
“I’ve jokingly said – and my staff doesn’t know if I am joking or not, and I want to keep it that way– that I would rather lose every one of my assistant coaches than lose Wayne Walden,” Williams said.
http://www.indystar.com/article/20100402/SPORTS0609/4020331/They-got-game-do-NCAA-players-graduate-
"Among North Carolina's graduates, communications and Afro-American and African studies stand out as the majors of choice. From the 2005 team, all seven Tar Heels who graduated had the same major -- Afro-American and African studies.
Afro-American and African studies, Sean May said, offered "more independent electives, independent study. I could take a lot of classes during the season. Communications, I had to be there in the actual classroom. We just made sure all the classes I had to take, I could take during the summer."
http://afs.ku.edu/about-our-department-0
"Ours is the only department of its kind at a public or private University in Kansas and among the Big XII institutions."
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2012/jun/15/athletes-tendencies-cluster-certain-academic-field/
In the last season, student athletes’ majors appear fairly distributed at KU. But a closer look at the KU men’s basketball team through the years tells a different story. Think of the best players to come through Lawrence over the past few years, and there’s a good chance they majored in Communications or African American Studies.
Of all KU athletes, excluding men's basketball, 3.4% are communications majors. Of the 43 players who came through men's basketball program since 2004 and indicated a major in the media guide 61% studied Communications or African American Studies. Of the 17 KU players drafted or signed by an NBA team, 76% studied Communications or African American Studies.
Edited by FIJItiger at 11:17:51 on 06/08/20
Wayne Walden, the academic advisor for Roy Williams’ program at Kansas for 15 years where he oversees scheduling, registration, structured study halls, tutorial services and progress toward degrees for the student-athletes in those programs. He graduated from KU in 1984 with a degree in business administration and earned his master's in counseling psychology from Kansas in 1990.
http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/07/13/criticism-of-mccants-ripped-by-unc-professor-wayne-waldens-name-mentioned-again/
“When Roy Williams came here from Kansas, he brought with him the team academic counselor who had served him so well at Kansas: Wayne Walden,” Smith wrote. “He regarded Walden as such a vital contributor to the good fortunes of his teams that he was practically moved to tears when Walden departed in 2009. Walden knew every detail about the academic lives of those players; he had to. He registered them for their courses, for crying out loud. [And that means he got on the phone with the Department of African and Afro-American Studies and he put them in paper classes.] Walden also spoke with Williams every day; he had to. Williams’ claim that he had no earthly idea that his players were floating along on paper classes – and that he never would have guessed that one of his stars was enrolled in four no-show classes in the spring of 2005 – is nothing more than a confidence trick. He’s counting on the customary journalistic favoritism, and journalists’ amazing lack of curiosity, to enable him to tell this whopper and walk away with his aura intact. We’ll see if that works.”
In the book, Going Home, by Adam Lucas, published after Williams’ first season back at UNC:
“I’ve jokingly said – and my staff doesn’t know if I am joking or not, and I want to keep it that way– that I would rather lose every one of my assistant coaches than lose Wayne Walden,” Williams said.
http://www.indystar.com/article/20100402/SPORTS0609/4020331/They-got-game-do-NCAA-players-graduate-
"Among North Carolina's graduates, communications and Afro-American and African studies stand out as the majors of choice. From the 2005 team, all seven Tar Heels who graduated had the same major -- Afro-American and African studies.
Afro-American and African studies, Sean May said, offered "more independent electives, independent study. I could take a lot of classes during the season. Communications, I had to be there in the actual classroom. We just made sure all the classes I had to take, I could take during the summer."
http://afs.ku.edu/about-our-department-0
"Ours is the only department of its kind at a public or private University in Kansas and among the Big XII institutions."
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2012/jun/15/athletes-tendencies-cluster-certain-academic-field/
In the last season, student athletes’ majors appear fairly distributed at KU. But a closer look at the KU men’s basketball team through the years tells a different story. Think of the best players to come through Lawrence over the past few years, and there’s a good chance they majored in Communications or African American Studies.
Of all KU athletes, excluding men's basketball, 3.4% are communications majors. Of the 43 players who came through men's basketball program since 2004 and indicated a major in the media guide 61% studied Communications or African American Studies. Of the 17 KU players drafted or signed by an NBA team, 76% studied Communications or African American Studies.
Edited by FIJItiger at 11:17:51 on 06/08/20
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