Comment -- Yes, it is interesting, but as someone who works with the media,
I think this is kind of a thin story and does not deserve to be front page
news.
Example: "Ron Mason, athletic director at Michigan State, declined to be
interviewed. MSU spokesman Terry Denbow, however, confirmed that Montgomery
has no degree. "He was three hours short of a degree," Denbow said. "He
thought he had it. He went through the graduation ceremony and everything.
It's clear there was no attempt to deceive or misrepresent his credentials."
Officials sent Montgomery a letter telling him he hadn't graduated, but
Montgomery was playing basketball in Europe at the time, and, "There's no
evidence he ever got it," Denbow said. Montgomery, an Inkster native who was
a four-year starter for the Spartans, will complete his academic
requirements in the spring semester, Denbow said."
The other examples were similar -- paperwork errors and so on. It doesn't
look like intentional efforts to deceive. It's not like these folks claimed
they were doctors or engineers, when in fact they had never even attended
school. Obviously, they are all successful coaches, even though they may
have been three credits short of a formal degree.
Maybe that means that, for a coaching career, having a formal degree is not
really that useful.
The unfair part is that if you are a college football/basketball player, and
someone goofs up your transcripts or tells you the wrong information about a
class you thought you had passed...you are toast, out of there, ineligible.
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