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Message: [QUOTE="BillSU, post: 2254726"] [B]If you have time, this is a very great read:[/B] I find this amazing. Student athletes on a Sixty Minutes report I viewed almost a year ago about the information detailed below had Dr. Seuss books under their beds to try and learn how to read. Finally, I hope, UNC will be brought to justice for using and ruining athlete’s lives. What once was a proud, yet very naïve UNC FB player, is now a janitor eeking out a living for he and his family – amazing how they got away with it for so long yet not UNC specific IMO. I wonder how many chancellors are on the phone to all athletic departments making sure their school does not get caught! [URL='http://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/acc/unc/unc-now/'][U]UNC Now[/U][/URL] Your place for the latest news and observations on Tar Heel sports [B][URL='http://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/acc/unc/unc-now/'][U]UNC Now[/U][/URL] At last, UNC has its date with the NCAA Committee on Infractions By Andrew Carter [EMAIL]acarter@newsobserver.com[/EMAIL][/B] [B]July 25, 2017 2:53 PM [/B] [B]University Chancellor Carol Folt will attend the hearing, as will Bubba Cunningham, the athletic director. The NCAA has requested that men’s basketball coach Roy Williams, football coach Larry Fedora and women’s basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell also attend. [/B] [B]At its crux, the debate between UNC and the NCAA is over how much authority, if any, the NCAA has over the kind of malfeasance that played out at the university for nearly 20 years. Between 1993 and 2011, UNC athletes enrolled in disproportionate numbers in the bogus African Studies classes, ones that UNC’s accrediting agency concluded lacked integrity.[/B] [B]The accrediting agency, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, also found that the classes violated six of its other principles, including ones related to academic support and control over intercollegiate athletics. While UNC accepted SACS’ findings, the university has bristled at the NCAA’s involvement in the case.[/B] Several university-commissioned investigations found that the classes, many of which were lecture courses that instead became independent studies, featured little to no instruction and required only an end-of-semester paper that generally received a high grade regardless of its quality. [B]Men’s basketball and football players, especially, filled the classes in large numbers, leading to the suspicion that they relied on the classes, and their substandard requirements, to maintain their eligibility. According to evidence used by Kenneth Wainstein in his 2014 report, one former academic counselor for UNC’s football team described athletes’ participation in the classes like this:[/B] [B]“They didn’t go to class … they didn’t have to take notes, have to stay awake … they didn’t have to meet with professors … they didn’t have to pay attention or necessarily engage with the material.”[/B] [B]That, according to Wainstein, a former federal prosecutor, was part of a presentation that the counselor gave to the football coaching staff in 2009, just before Deborah Crowder’s retirement. Crowder, the longtime administrative assistant in the Department of African and Afro-American Studies, played a central role in scheduling and grading the classes. [/B] [B]The NCAA charged her and Julius Nyang’oro, the former department chairman, with unethical conduct. Crowder in an April interview with NCAA officials denied wrongdoing, while Nyang’oro has refused to speak with the NCAA.[/B] In the three NOAs it delivered to UNC, meanwhile, the NCAA Enforcement Staff has attempted to target the bogus classes in different ways. Complicating the matter is the fact that the classes do not fit the NCAA’s standard definition of academic fraud. [B]The NCAA, then, has been left to attempt to apply other rules to the case. In the third NOA, which UNC received in December, the NCAA alleged that Nyang’oro and Crowder violated “principles of extra-benefit legislation” in relation to the classes. The NCAA alleged that Nyang’oro and Crowder “worked closely and directly with athletics” to create a scheme in which athletes benefited from lax coursework and grading standards.[/B] [/QUOTE]

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