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OT: UNC Receives NOA from NCAA

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but the school is "mum" so far, electing to publicly address the subject at a later date, as reported in "Inside Carolina." See below for article or online at: http://northcarolina.scout.com/stor...e&hootpostid=3fa806953bc180e40f7c86488926aadb


UNC Receives NOA

by Greg Barnes, Inside Carolina

North Carolina has received its Notice of Allegations from the NCAA, multiple sources have confirmed to Inside Carolina.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The University of North Carolina has received its Notice of Allegations from the NCAA, but will not release the details of the report until a later date, according to sources familiar with the investigation.

The NCAA does not publicly announce delivery of a Notice of Allegations and member institutions are not required to release the full report. UNC is expected to announce the receipt of its NOA on Friday afternoon.

UNC announced in June 2014 that the NCAA had reopened its 2011 examination of academic irregularities after the enforcement staff determined that additional people with information and others who were previously uncooperative might be willing to talk with investigators.

That announcement coincided with new information that Kenneth Wainstein uncovered during his investigation into irregular classes in UNC’s AFAM department. His report, released in October, detailed how department secretary Deborah Crowder coordinated the classes for nearly two decades without detection. More than 3,100 students were involved and student-athletes accounted for 47.4 percent of the course enrollments.

For details on the NCAA process, read InsideCarolina.com’s two-part feature this week on the enforcement basics and the NCAA’s challenge in determining allegations in a unique case.

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12:35pm Update: UNC has now issued the following press release ...

(Chapel Hill, N.C.—May 22, 2015) – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill today announced the campus had received a notice of allegations from the NCAA as the next phase in its investigation of academic irregularities and possible bylaw infractions.

In a joint statement, Chancellor Carol L. Folt and Director of Athletics Bubba Cunningham said the University had begun reviewing the NCAA’s notice.

“We take these allegations very seriously, and we will carefully evaluate them to respond within the NCAA’s 90-day deadline,” the statement said. “The University will publicly release the NCAA’s notice as soon as possible. The notice is lengthy and must be prepared for public dissemination to ensure we protect privacy rights as required by federal and state law. When that review for redactions is complete, the University will post the notice on the Carolina Commitment website and notify the news media. When we respond to the NCAA’s allegations, we will follow this same release process.

“Consistent with NCAA protocols, the University cannot comment on details of the investigation until it is completed.”
 
Rumors flying that the NOA involves LOIC at UNC across five sports: men's BB, women's BB, Football, Baseball, and women's soccer.
 
UNC has 90 days to respond to the NOA. Right now the administration is going over the NOA and "redacting" info from that doc that, in some fashion, threatens to violate the privacy of individuals involved in the "case." Interesting to note that coverage so far of the NCAA's handling of the matter seems to focus on the Wainstein Report, which was a UNC-sponsored and directed "review" of the scandal, as far as the AFAM department's involvement. The report did not look beyond AFAM, although the hundreds of emails that Wainstein purposefully included as reference material to his report clearly show other departments involved and other staff.

Wainstein offered to "review" those other departments at no additional cost to UNC. UNC declined his offer. Wainstein by including all those referenced emails put the true scope of the scandal out there, for all to see and process, and deal with. In so doing, he did not compromise his integrity.

The Wainstein Report looked at the scandal beginning in 1993, as directed by the sponsors of the UNC report. However, the accreditation agency in the southeast (SACS) had initiated its own inquiry into the academic side of the scandal and had requested a response from UNC. According to UNC's admission to SACS (page 91), the number of fake class enrollments is more significant and began in 1989, not 1993, and included 6806 total enrollments and 2645 athletes enrolled over that 23 year period of review. Further, more departments are identified as being involved, and this reaches into Dean Smith's tenure. 22 of the first 25 "student-athletes" involved in this scandal were Smith's BB players.

We are in for an interesting time. UNC, a marquee program and a BIG moneymaker for the NCAA, threatens to bring down the NCAA should the NCAA not fully address and fully punish UNC. National media will keep the NCAA honest on this. UNC, in turn, is posturing itself to fully challenge any potential sanctions/punishment, especially those threading on the Smith era, which is sacrosanct to the Heels.

Many member institutions will be pressuring the NCAA to be complete and just in the outcome of the UNC scandal. This will all undoubtedly lead to a "new" and, hopefully, "improved" NCAA, with effective reforms to level the playing field and refocus on "educating" the athletes, er... make that the "student-athletes."
 
Any comment yet from ex UNC/ current ACC commish John Swofford ?? And if I'm the other ACC member schools, I'd demand the fraud of a commisioner , deal his own conference penalties on UNC as well. Where is the conference investigation anyway?
 
Figured you would be all over this...

99.9 fan just said they expect a version on the redacted version mid to late next week.

Nothing like burying it the Friday before a long holiday weekend
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"Local" news in the state is severely compromised when it comes to this subject, the UNC scandal. WRAL (TV) is horrible. WTVD (TV) slightly better. Sports radio as represented by 99.9 is completely awash with UNC homers. That's all tied to ownership, management, and advertsing $.

The national media is what will drive this resolution, perhaps off a cliff. ????
 
Any comment yet from ex UNC/ current ACC commish John Swofford ?? And if I'm the other ACC member schools, I'd demand the fraud of a commisioner , deal his own conference penalties on UNC as well. Where is the conference investigation anyway?
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Swoffy was the UNC AD when this scandal began. The ACC is a curious conference, to say the least. You might guess (correctly) that Duke, NCSU, and Wake Forest have been working the issue behind the scene; but don't expect much to come from the likes of FSU, Clemson, and Miami---if you know what I mean.
 
Predicition: 2 years probation, 5 scholarships lost in FB, 2 in bball, and UNC doesn't suffer in the least.

Prediction: UNC gets 1 year probation, UNC-Charlotte gets 2 year ban from NCAA basketball tournament and Elon gets 2 year ban from FCS playoffs.
 
Predicition: 2 years probation, 5 scholarships lost in FB, 2 in bball, and UNC doesn't suffer in the least.

No doubt UNC will allow their football program to "fall on the sword" to keep their more valuable hoop program almost untouched.

I could see UNC offer up what looks like severe hoop penalties in advance like loss of recruiting days on the road, loss of official visits, etc...which won't have much effect since UNC basically has to turn kids away as kids come to them...and UNC doesn't have to "sell" much to get the ones they want.

UNC did recently lose out on a 5 star recruit who was afraid UNC might be hampered with a post-season ban...but sadly, this 20 plus year scandal also shows how Grad Rates/APR scores, etc...can be so easily manipulated with suppose "elite" Univ allow academic fraud to cover-up and move along their student athletes without requiring them to do much, if any, scholastic work during their time in school.

Here's the story on the 5 star player who went to same HS and played for former UNC Great's Stackhouse AAU team that turned his back on UNC and signed with Duke instead.

http://www.kinston.com/news/local/ingram-chooses-blue-devils-over-unc-ncsu-others-1.470524?tc=cr

From article:

North Carolina basketball coach Roy Williams, his staff and his team’s fans were understandably disappointed Monday when five-star basketball recruit Brandon Ingram chose rival Duke instead of the Tar Heels.

But they shouldn’t have been surprised.

The young star has been telling them all along that, for as much as he would like to have played in Chapel Hill wearing Carolina blue, he wasn’t going to commit to UNC as long as the dark cloud of NCAA sanctions continued to hang ominously over the program’s head.

It’s a reality that has Williams as bitter as if someone had slipped a Pepsi into his beloved Co-Cola cup before a postgame interview session. Because as much as Ingram fits the profile of a classic Tar Heel — having gone to the same high school as former stars Jerry Stackhouse and Reggie Bullock, and playing for Stackhouse’s AAU team — he’s hardly the first to turn his back on UNC since the current trouble came to light.
 
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My prediction is that they will self impose their own penalty. They will willingly vacate last year's bowl loss and satisfy the NCAA
 
Prediction: UNC gets 1 year probation, UNC-Charlotte gets 2 year ban from NCAA basketball tournament and Elon gets 2 year ban from FCS playoffs.
And Rutgers will be stripped of its Quick Lane bowl victory.
 
My prediction is that they will self impose their own penalty. They will willingly vacate last year's bowl loss and satisfy the NCAA
I just saw your response--brilliant minds clearly think alike!! Wanna go out and get into a fight?
 
I cant wait to see how UNC or the NCAA will completely fvck this up. Its going to be hilarious.
 
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