BleedGopher
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HANG THE BANNERS!!!
Per CBS:
21. UNC faces no punishment after infamous widespread academic fraud case (2010-17).
Here's how I described the end of one of the most anticipated NCAA rulings in history: "A seven-year saga, more than four of which included formal NCAA investigations, with three separate elongated stages, and untold amounts of dollars and billable legal hours put toward it, completes with no sanctions. No sanctions or probation or punishments for a school that had internal and independent reports verify hundreds of students — many of them athletes — benefitting from hundreds of phony courses dating back to 1997."
A story that went public with a probe into improper academic benefits to football players in 2010 led to exposure of phony classes in the African and Afro-American Studies department at UNC, looping in the basketball program and ... it led to nothing. UNC was handed three different notices of allegations and eventually charged with five Level I violations. But the school was never punished because, ultimately, it was determined that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill had a widespread academic fraud issue that wasn't solely aiding college players.
It was an institutional issue, not an athletics one.
It can be argued that a lack of punishment made the story even bigger and made the NCAA look even worse than usual — particularly because the verdict came six months after UNC won a national championship that year in men's basketball.
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Go Gophers!!
Per CBS:
21. UNC faces no punishment after infamous widespread academic fraud case (2010-17).
Here's how I described the end of one of the most anticipated NCAA rulings in history: "A seven-year saga, more than four of which included formal NCAA investigations, with three separate elongated stages, and untold amounts of dollars and billable legal hours put toward it, completes with no sanctions. No sanctions or probation or punishments for a school that had internal and independent reports verify hundreds of students — many of them athletes — benefitting from hundreds of phony courses dating back to 1997."
A story that went public with a probe into improper academic benefits to football players in 2010 led to exposure of phony classes in the African and Afro-American Studies department at UNC, looping in the basketball program and ... it led to nothing. UNC was handed three different notices of allegations and eventually charged with five Level I violations. But the school was never punished because, ultimately, it was determined that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill had a widespread academic fraud issue that wasn't solely aiding college players.
It was an institutional issue, not an athletics one.
It can be argued that a lack of punishment made the story even bigger and made the NCAA look even worse than usual — particularly because the verdict came six months after UNC won a national championship that year in men's basketball.
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Go Gophers!!
