HUGE HIT FOR NORTH CAOLINA

[raf46]

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/s...ls-1-year-probation-accreditation-agency-says

They beat the NCAA in finding UNC GUILTY !

 

[CTBasketball]

That's not an NCAA handed punishment.

 

[Uconn77Duke74]

i thought for a minute the NCAA took away their "R"? Imagine us as UONN .

 

[Rocklander]

Let's see...The NCAA kept UConn out of post season competition for players leaving the program with rules made up after the fact. North Carolina is guilty of ACADEMIC FRAUD, rooted in a major conspiracy involving athletic and academic personnel. How many scholarships should be taken away, and how many years should the NCAA ban UNC from participation in championship events? How long will it take them to act?

 

[boba]

That's not an NCAA handed punishment.

Actually it's worse. If the accreditation agency had went the distance, UNC stood to lose 100's of millions of dollars. Mind you this is only a one year punishment, and it's fairly easy to keep clean for the duration, but if new allegations surface and are proven, then no federal funding, no federal loan guarantees, and all sorts of hell for the administration. Universities depend on federal funding (it's called soft money positions in academia) for the bulk of their research and staffing. Students depend on Sally Mae for loans. If you don't get those, you don't operate a University.

 

[Danzz]

Actually it's worse. If the accreditation agency had went the distance, UNC stood to lose 100's of millions of dollars. Mind you this is only a one year punishment, and it's fairly easy to keep clean for the duration, but if new allegations surface and are proven, then no federal funding, no federal loan guarantees, and all sorts of hell for the administration. Universities depend on federal funding (it's called soft money positions in academia) for the bulk of their research and staffing. Students depend on Sally Mae for loans. If you don't get those, you don't operate a University.

It would have been devastating to innocent students if the accreditation board went the distance. This is a problem with the athletic department along with complicit employees and that is where severe punishment belongs. UNC athletics deserves a very stiff punishment maybe at the level SMU received about 20 years ago. Because of the numbers involved , there probably a lot more violations involving the football team.

 

[boba]

It would have been devastating to innocent students if the accreditation board went the distance. This is a problem with the athletic department along with complicit employees and that is where severe punishment belongs. UNC athletics deserves a very stiff punishment maybe at the level SMU received about 20 years ago. Because of the numbers involved , there probably a lot more violations involving the football team.

Not just students would go down. Our postdocs are paid through funding from the lab's R01 grant, our grad student's F32 fellowship is federal, more than half the damn med school relies on some sort of federal funding. If that went away, there would be a large number of people with letters after their name walking into the local unemployment office.

I wonder what penalty the NCAA has in store for Directional State Carolina University, because they probably won't punish the real miscreants in this episode.

 

[SubbaBub]

Actually it's worse. If the accreditation agency had went the distance, UNC stood to lose 100's of millions of dollars. Mind you this is only a one year punishment, and it's fairly easy to keep clean for the duration, but if new allegations surface and are proven, then no federal funding, no federal loan guarantees, and all sorts of hell for the administration. Universities depend on federal funding (it's called soft money positions in academia) for the bulk of their research and staffing. Students depend on Sally Mae for loans. If you don't get those, you don't operate a University.

I'm waiting for upstaters take on the probability of a major state university losing its accreditation across the board. My guess is the odds are next to zero.

 

[Scot-e]

Thank G-d we won the NC the following year. Bazz's speech is still one of my favorite NC moments ( I love that kid). Unfortunately for UNC - if the past is any indication- they will not be dong the same at the end of this season.