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Birmingham, Ala. - Six SEC teams highlight the field of 64 that will be competing for the 35th NCAA Division I Womens Soccer Championship.South Carolina and Florida each earned a No. 1 national seeds while Auburn was a No. 4 seed. Joining the Gamecocks, Gators and Tigers in the field are Arkansas, Missouri and Texas A&M.This marks the ninth time in the last 10 seasons that the SEC has had at least six teams advance to postseason play.Four of the six teams earned the right to host their opening round match on their home pitch. South Carolina will host Alabama State while FGCU will visit Florida, South Alabama travels to Auburn and Memphis goes to Arkansas. Missouri will travel down I-70 to play Kansas while Texas A&M visits TCU.Arkansas is competing in the NCAA Tournament for the third time in the last four years. Arkansas 17 wins overall are the most in the programs 30-year history.Auburn earned its 14th NCAA Tournament bid and its second consecutive national seed (No. 4). The Tigers posted a 9-2-0 record in SEC play this season, winning nine league games for just the second time ever (2004).Florida claimed the SECs automatic berth after winning the SEC Tournament for the second consecutive year. The Gators are a No. 1 national seed and are making their 20th overall NCAA Championships appearance and 14th consecutive. Senior forward Savannah Jordan scored her 80th career goal in the SEC Tournament championship game, becoming just the seventh player in the nation to reach the 80 career goal mark since 2000.Missouri is appearing in the NCAA Tournament for the third time in the last five seasons. Freshman forward Sarah Luebbert became only the second Tiger to ever earn conference freshman or newcomer of the year honors when she was named the SEC Freshman of the Year by the leagues head coaches.South Carolina is making its ninth trip to the NCAA Tournament in the last 10 years. 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But, the school counters, the NCAA shouldnt be able to charge the school with lack of institutional control or failure to monitor for two reasons:Its not the NCAAs businessSitting next to the scores of mens and womens basketball players and football players were everyday students.To the casual reader it is downright laughable. What else does the NCAA have to do other than to maintain academic integrity among its athletes? And since when is the retort, well everyone else was doing it, too a good defense?As ridiculous as the argument sounds, theyve got a point.In what is arguably the biggest case, in both scope and the brand name of the school being investigated, to fall on its enforcement staffs desk in decades, the NCAA may very well have a difficult time landing its two most serious charges. For that, it has no one to blame but itself and a thick rulebook that intentionally glosses over academic integrity.The NCAA membership worked long and hard studying and trying to decide what should and shouldnt be a bylaw, what is and is not within the manual, athletic director Bubba Cunningham said. The quality of the class, we understand and have said for some time didnt meet our normal standards, but that doesnt mean its a violation of a bylaw.There are two issues at play here.First up: What exactly is the NCAAs job? From the organizations own mission statement:Our purpose is to govern competition in a fair, safe, equitable and sportsmanlike manner, and to integrate intercollegiate athletics into higher education so that the educational experience of the student-athlete is paramount.The key words are to govern competition. Nowhere does it say that the NCAA has a say so in the governance of or determining the merits of an institutions academic courses. In fact, the same organization that somehow has deemed itself worthy to determine if thousands of high schools meet their standards for initial eligibility is purposefully standoffish when it comes to telling colleges and universities what is and is not up to snuff.Once an athlete is enrolled in school, the NCAA monitors whether he or she is making the proper progress toward graduation -- i.e., taking enough, and passing enough, courses; makingg sure that student athletes are graduating at a proper rate.dddddddddddd If not, the NCAA penalizes schools.But it does not -- nor does it want -- to police whether the courses athletes are taking are worth a fig. Its the NCAAs version of a separation of church and state.Weve got sports; you get class.The organization, in fact, hasnt created a by-law regarding academic integrity since 1983.For many, many years we have had presidents on the council and faculty athletic representatives on the council and each and every time when theyve looked at what the role of the NCAA is relative to academics they stay out of it, Cunningham said. They dont want the NCAA in the classroom. ... We work with our accrediting agency for academic issues. The NCAA Is our athletic agency. They each have different jurisdictional responsibilities.The second problem for the NCAA? The number of regular Joes and Janes who took the same courses as the athletes did. The NCAA tried to point to the paper classes as an impermissible benefit, a gift given to athletes to help them along because of their stature as big men and women on campus. Critics naturally and logically argue that if the academic support staff steered athletes to these courses they were, in fact, receiving an extra benefit.But UNC is asking, if everyone on campus was given the same chance to take the courses, no matter how fraudulent they were, how can it be construed as a benefit given only to athletes?The simple answer: It cant.The NCAA knows it cant, which is why in April the organization announced new rules regarding academic misconduct. Schools now must adhere to strict academic integrity policies. A violation of those policies now will equate to an NCAA violation. Heres the kicker from the NCAAs own press release:Additionally the proposal recognizes schools cant predict every type of academic integrity issue that could occur. Therefore, some misconduct committed by staff members or boosters that doesnt violate a schools academic misconduct policies may still violate NCAA rules.In other words, well know it when we see it.Surely under those rules, North Carolina wouldnt have passed the smell test.In adjudicating UNCs case, the rules are too little too late, enacted after the NCAA began its investigation.Instead the school is allowed to make what, by all accounts, is a nervy, illogical and downright laughable defense.And it just might work. ' ' '