Poor FSU.  A red-faced adminstration turned in by their own student-athletes!  Unsupervised online testing resulting in an academic scandal involving 23 Florida State student-athletes.  In addition, two former university employees provided answers to online tests and typed papers for some student-athletes. 

     Why should we be surprised.  I'm not.  We're not singling out FSU here.  This practice is going on all across America's institutions, except for those that don't put such a great emphasis on sports revenue. 

       Cheating has been going on for decades!  I personally remember a student-athlete never going to a class we took together, and he graduated! 

        Furthermore, I would be willing to go out on a limb here and say that certain people within the FSU athletic adminstration knew of this well before the whistleblowers blew it open.  I can only believe that the two former employees that gave athletes answers to unmonitored online tests and typed papers were doing this in a clandestine fashion under the direction of someone in the athletic adminstration.  

         Online classes and online testing is a joke!  It is a perfect avenue for the lame student to "get by".   I commend the FSU student-athletes that brought this to the adminstrations's attention. 

         How severe the penaltiies will be from the NCAA, I can't say.  But I will say this.  FSU's athletic adminstration better get on the ball.  If I was a higher-up in the school's adminstration, HEAD'S WOULD ROLL!

Tom Korun