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Found this an interesting read by Patrick O’Neall of the N&O, formerly a writer for the Chapel Hill News. If only they had taken this approach a couple of years ago, they’d probably be past and sanctions that would have been levied.
More important than whatever action the NCAA takes against the University of North Carolina for what is perhaps the worst athletics-academic scandal in collegiate history is what the UNC administration will do to reel in its corrupt athletic department and its aiders and abettors.
I’m glad people are starting to refer to this as an athletics scandal and rank it where it should be – at the top of the list.
UNC should also take down Williams’ now-tainted 2005 and 2009 NCAA Championship banners from the Smith Center rafters. These titles were won by cheating, plain and simple. Carolina must own up to its ill-gotten titles and voluntarily disown them. Additionally, all UNC victories for any years in which ineligible players were used should be vacated. Williams – and UNC basketball – should have those wins wiped from records. The Carolina football program, and any other nonrevenue teams that used ineligible players, should face the same fate.
This seems like such a no brainer to me. If you cheat and get caught, you have to vacate the win/trophy to maintain the integrity of whatever sport it is (see Lance Armstrong.)
It’s time for honest leadership to prevail in Chapel Hill. The time of reckoning has come for UNC athletics, and the NCAA may not be the agency to provide the incentive that leads Carolina back on the road to integrity. The university must take steps to steady the ship and steer it back to the “Carolina Way.”
Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article22823382.html#storylink=cpy
I’m hearing the NOA will be released tomorrow. I have zero expectations either way. They could get hammered or a small slap on the wrist. Hopefully we will know soon.
While some, such as CowDog, are hearing the holes are getting hit pretty hard, various people from UNC-Ch including — ‘Ole Dadgum Roy and the Hat — are saying that basketball and football will skate.
I doubt Williams and Fedora would say such on the eve of a spanking.
I guess the key is to make sure regular students are in on the cheating and you are A-OK with the NCAA…
loic coming at ya!
They even go back to 1961 as an aggrevating factor.
If the old coaches find out what turned the NCAA around, I’ll pass it on.
Of course, penalty phase is a long way off…
Allegations not program specific. LOIC is not program specific. I seriously doubt any major sanctions are levied against FB and MBB.
I read each of the allegations, and they stated TONS of evidence through emails and such. 5 counts of LOIC could be really nasty in the long run. I hope they take away all of their birthdays. One thing is for sure, to answer the BOG person’s question, yes this will affect recruiting.
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LOIC I would think implies it’s the entirety of the athletics… so no program specific, but encompassing all athletics programs. I’d be surprised if they received a slap on the wrist for LOIC. But who the hell really knows.
It does encompass the entire program, but how do you penalize one program over another when the programs (and their personnel) are not specificially implicated? No wrong doing of any football or basketball coach/staffer is mentioned. That’s why I don’t think your going to see the proverbial hammer drop.
Link to the text of the NOA:
From pp 53-54, regarding the LOIC:
Specifically, individuals in the academic administration on campus, particularly in
the college of arts and sciences, did not sufficiently monitor the AFRI/AFAM and
ASPSA departments or provide appropriate supervision for these academic units
and their staffs. The AFRI/AFAM department created anomalous courses that
went unchecked for 18 years. This allowed individuals within ASPSA to use these
courses through special arrangements to maintain the eligibility of academically
at-risk student-athletes, particularly in the sports of football, men’s basketball and
women’s basketball.Seems to specify football and M’s & W’s basketball. Fails to directly link Walden, Robinson, or Ole Roy, though they are mentioned in the mountain of email evidence supporting the LOIC charge.
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