Wonder how much the women's soccer team there is impacted? Given that this is an overarching infraction, there could be penalties that go across their spectrum of teams, with the teams that were the most at fault receiving even harsher penalties. Must be wonderful news to the 2015 class of players of the various sports. Coming into a program and then getting hit with this before you even set foot on the campus. The 2016s can still decommitt if it looks bleak.
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Primary focus is MW Basketball and Football. My experience has been soccer players are usually pretty good students.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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But the NCAA could impose sanctions which indirectly impact the other sports. They could pose sanctions that result in lost revenue for the athletic department. Lower revenue means less money for the athletic department to reimburse the university for athletic scholarships. Plus, it's going to make the entire department not a fun place to be. When you become the poster child for academic fraud, I can't imagine it makes the place a really happy place to be.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Can someone provide background? ThanksComment
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Here's on article: http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootbal ... ic-scandalOriginally posted by Unregistered View Post
Basically, UNC has been giving certain athletes independent study classes which were phantom classes, thus ensuring that the meet acadmic requirements. It's been happening in many sports. There is talk that the punishment could be just short of the death penalty in some sports. This is not good for UNC, not at all. Lack of institutional control is a major major infraction.Comment
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The five charges listed in the NCAA's notice are:Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
—There was a lack of institutional control in failing to "sufficiently monitor" the interactions between the AFAM and the academic support departments, noting athletes received "preferential access" to AFAM's irregular courses.
—Academic counselors "leveraged" relationships from fall 2002 to summer 2011 with AFAM faculty and staff to provide athletes with benefits such as suggesting assignments, turning in papers for them and recommending grades. In addition, 10 athletes exceeded UNC's 12-hour limit of independent study credits countable toward graduation between fall 2006 and summer 2011 due to misidentified "paper classes."
—Women's basketball counselor Jan Boxill provided improper assistance by sometimes adding content to athletes' papers and recommended a grade for submitted work in at least one case.
—Crowder, one of two AFAM staffers most directly linked to the irregularities, didn't cooperate with NCAA investigators.
—Former AFAM department chairman Julius Nyang'oro, the other staffer most directly linked to the irregular courses, also declined to cooperate.Comment
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Ouch. This will hurt. Sad really since there are so many athletes that perform very well both athletically and academically. I feel bad for those deserving athletes who will be harmed by whatever sanctions are about to occur not to mention the blemish on any academic accomplishments they may have.Comment
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This is really unfortunate.
The thought of it wiping out the athletic programs at NC is tough to swallow. So much history.
College sports ultimately aren't that important, in the big picture. Sure is a lot of money in in them, but really how they became so big and valuable doesn't make much sense to me. Why even have college athletics? It's fun, but it doesn't really have much to go with college.Comment
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