If you've missed out on the controversy surrounding the College of Faith, here's a pretty good summary of the issue at hand:
What College of Faith Charlotte has is about 60 students, mostly athletes. It's an online school that offers two bachelor's and two associate's degrees, either in ministry or sports ministry. No one has received a degree yet. (The school is only in its second year.)
The closest thing College of Faith has to a campus is a small room in a run-down church in northwest Charlotte. Students plop their football pads in a corner when they come here to go over bible lessons and game tape.
There are multiple "branch campuses" around the country, and they all appear to be less of an academic institution and more of an easy way for teams to schedule a non-entity and get a win.
Anyway, right now on Reddit a lineman is doing an AMA about his mighty contest against the College of Faith, and it's... interesting.
That's pretty ridiculous, but when you put it in context with this quote:
The players say their online classes aren't very difficult.
"It's not too much work," Boling says. "Me personally, since I know the bible, I can finish it up within a day, maybe within an hour." And he says that's for the whole week.
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College of Faith also gets money from playing football games. Other schools are willing to pay for what’s expected to be an easy win.
Tusculum College wrote College of Faith a $7,500 check for their record-setting blowout this season. Dom Donnelly is Tusculum’s assistant athletic director.
"We provided a guarantee, which a lot of schools our size will do for schools their size," Donnelly says.
Things look pretty dire on the margins of college football.
