COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The former teaching assistant who has made allegations of possible academic fraud among Ohio State football players says she did so in hopes the program would be investigated.

Norma McGill says that she, in her words, "just knew there's something that's not quite right" with the Ohio State program.

McGill told The Columbus Dispatch in a story the newspaper published today that she was an unnamed source referred to in a New York Times last Sunday.

The story reported that running back Maurice Clarett received assistance from a professor who allowed him to take two oral exams to pass a class.

In a phone interview from her hometown of Lexington, Ky., she said she regrets that Clarett has become the focus of controversy over the Times story.

She told The Dispatch, again in her words: "I didn't want this to be about him."