Recovering from a fractured foot Hakeem Nicks, the Giants star wide receiver, is being further discredited by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. UNC has acknowledged Thursday that Nicks was ineligible during his 2008 junior year for academic fraud. According to CBSSports.com Jennifer Wiley, who went above her call of duty as the athletic department tutor, assisted players in their assignments, one of those being Nicks. Nicks, identified as “Student Athlete 1” in the official infractions report, the NCAA earlier this year states:
“The investigation confirmed that the former tutor had committed academic fraud with an on behalf of student-athletes 1, 2 and 3 during the 2008-09 academic year and the summer of 2009. Regarding student-athlete 1, a review of email communications revealed that on April 21, 2008, the former tutor wrote conclusion paragraphs for five of student-athlete 1’s writing assignments in an education course,” the NCAA infractions report says. “By the time the violations were discovered, student-athlete 1 was no longer enrolled at the institution, so no further action was taken.”
“four years after the fact his clients eligibility is “low on the totem pole of relevant issues”