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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 1840863, member: 40"]
And that's where things get messy--which is just what the NCAA is desperate to avoid.  Because if they evaluate the UNC situation with any intellectual honesty, it will quickly become apparent that UNC basketball used numerous players over a nearly two decade span who shouldn't have been eligible.  What will that mean for wins, game outcomes, etc.?

Its a horrendous mess that dwarfs any previous academic fraud.  In the mid-90s, the NCAA dropped the hammer on the University of Minnesota for widespread academic fraud.  At the time, one of the people presiding over that case issued a scathing indictment of the U of M, criticizing that NCAA athletics had never seen cheating on such a grandiose scale.

Compared to UNC, what happened at Minnesota was small potatoes.  So based upon THAT precedent, what happened at UNC should garner unbelievably harsh penalties the likes of which we may have never seen.

Instead, they're bending over backwards to sweep this under the rug.  It's farcical.
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