The NCAA infractions report on systematic academic fraud at the University of North Carolina will be released tomorrow after being delayed for one week.
Here are some details:
UNC is facing five Level I allegations – the most serious the NCAA can levy. Among those allegations are a lack of institutional control, and that the university’s athletic department conspired to provide athletes impermissible benefits in the form of access to the courses the heart of the investigation.
The university, through its legal team, has argued that the problems central to the case aren’t under the NCAA’s jurisdiction. The NCAA Enforcement Staff, which is the NCAA’s investigative arm, vehemently disagreed with that assertion.
“The issues at the heart of this case are clearly the NCAA’s business,” John Duncan, the vice president of enforcement, wrote in a July 17 letter to UNC, in what was the NCAA’s final correspondence with UNC before it appeared before the infractions committee.
“When a member institution allows an academic department to provide benefits to student-athletes that are materially different from the general student body, it is the NCAA’s business,” Duncan’s letter continued. “When athletics academic counselors exploit ‘special arrangement’ classes for student-athletes in ways unintended by and contrary to the bylaws, it is the NCAA’s business.
“When a member institution provides student-athletes an inside track to enroll in unpublicized courses where grades of As and Bs are the norm, it is the NCAA’s business.”
Cameron Mills has a source who believes the “hammer” will be dropped on Carolina:
Good source in Carolina tells me hammer getting dropped on UNC tomorrow. So expect an announcement in 7 months. #ncaa
— CAMERON MILLS (@CameronMillz) October 12, 2017
It has been ONLY since the early 90’s that the UNC academic probs started & yet @NCAA still has not announced its decision /A JOKE!
— Dick Vitale (@DickieV) October 10, 2017
