{"id":6923,"date":"2014-10-29T03:27:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T03:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6923"},"modified":"2014-10-29T03:27:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T03:27:07","slug":"how-much-cheating-is-going-on-at-wt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6923","title":{"rendered":"How much cheating is going on at WT?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Well now. This is an interesting development that smells like it needs to be probed much more deeply.<\/p>\n<p>West Texas A&amp;M University is looking into a serious allegation of studies fraud involving a former football player and a star for the current for the team.<\/p>\n<p>Jose Azarte Jr. used to kick field goals and points-after-touchdown for the Buffaloes, until Oct. 13. He told WT athletic department officials that he completed homework and other Spanish class assignments for starting wide receiver Anthony Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, boy. This could get <em>real<\/em> nasty.<\/p>\n<p>WT officials have announced that\u00a0an assistant coach, Joel Hinton, is no longer on the staff after being implicated in what could become a significant academic scandal. Hinton allegedly played a part in the former player doing the classwork for the current player.<\/p>\n<p>WT is planning to investigate this matter fully.<\/p>\n<p>Boy, howdy! Do you think the school needs to examine the entire system from top to bottom?<\/p>\n<p>I am hoping the school gets to the bottom of this and determines how much of this kind of cheating is going on.<\/p>\n<p>Was this an isolated case? Is it part of a more pervasive practice?<\/p>\n<p>The National Collegiate Athletic Association, which governs athletics for schools such as WT, needs to enter the picture. The NCAA has a staff of competent lawyers who likely are eager to look intently into whether there&#8217;s more fire and smoke at West Texas A&amp;M.<\/p>\n<p>Turn them loose and let&#8217;s get to the bottom of this.<\/p>\n<p>In a hurry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well now. This is an interesting development that smells like it needs to be probed much more deeply. West Texas A&amp;M University is looking into a serious allegation of studies fraud involving a former football player and a star for the current for the team. Jose Azarte Jr. used to kick field goals and points-after-touchdown &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6923\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How much cheating is going on at WT?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[134,937,5227,5312],"class_list":["post-6923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-sports-news","tag-academic-fraud","tag-cheating","tag-west-texas-am-buffaloes","tag-wtamu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}