I believe that the education system in a lot of colleges are greatly biased to athletes and I feel that a greater responsibility should be placed on the coaches, teachers, and athletes.  It seems that athletes in general receive special treatment when it comes to academics, however I believe that special tutors should be assigned to athletes who are struggling to help them maintain eligibility.  But those tutors do not have a right to do the work for the athletes and teachers and administrators along with coaches do not have the right to fake grades or assign bogus classes just so that their star players can continue playing for the team.  College is meant for higher education, and athletes should be held to the same standards as every other student.I recently read an article that talks about how a former North Carolina basketball player Rashad McCants has gone public with his experience regarding the colleges educational requirements or lack thereof when it comes to their athletes.  This isn't the first time North Carolina has face scrutiny over its academic practices, in 2011 the Raleigh News & Observer reported about academic fraud at the university.Rashad McCants who was the second-leading scorer on the North Carolina basketball team that ended up winning the 2004-05 national title told reporters that tutors would write his term papers and that he rarely went to his classes but continued to remain able to play mainly because he took bogus classes that were designed to keep athletes academically eligible.  McCants went on to say that under any other circumstance he would have been ineligible to play during the championship season but was provided assistance from the college.  The assistance McCants is referring to is the "paper-class" system at UNC which doesn't require students to go to class, and students are only required to submit one term paper to receive a grade.  The school's basketball head coach, Roy Williams was very familiar with this system.McCants even commented that he made the Dean's list in the Spring of 2005 even though he never attending any of his four classes in which he received straight A grades in.  He was advised by tutors and advisers who worked with the basketball program to take the paper classes within the African-American Studies program.  This program has been at the center of the school's investigation from the years 2007 to 2011.  The fifty four classes that are in the department of African and Afro-American Studies were either "aberrant" or "irregularly" taught.   McCants, who played for North Carolina for three years before turning pro told reporters that the athletic department knew "100 percent" what was going on and even encouraged it.  He even said that William arranged to have his fall 2004 failing grades replaced by the summer semesters grades that proceeded it on his official transcript.I just feel disappointed that our college educational system has turned to this and that athletes aren't held to the same standard as other students.  Politics and money seem to take precedence over education and academic honesty.   I am glad that investigations have started and that more and more college sports programs are having to answer for their dishonesty.  Getting a college education is important and everyone should be given the right to earn one, athlete or not.