But as cases
of academic fraud and
evidence of steering continue, it's becoming easier for those attacking the NCAA to point to substantive
evidence that the NCAA does promote education enough to allow it to blatantly violate antitrust laws.
After staunchly defending his book, «Arming America: The Origins
of a National Gun Culture,» against criticism
of his research and findings, Bellesiles offered his resignation when an
academic investigative committee «researched the allegations
of scholarly
fraud and concluded that Bellesiles was guilty
of both substandard research methodology and
of willfully misrepresenting specific
evidence in» the book.