Will UNC receive any punishment?

[Rico444]

They'll lose some scholarships and Emmert will put out a stern statement saying they should never do this again.

 

[Rocktheworld]

You'd think, since the NCAA is clearly so open to retroactively enforcing rules, that they'd go back and retroactively make players taking said classes academically ineligible, thus forcing the games in which they played to be vacated.

Former players are suing for not being able to get the education they wanted. Basically saying they were pressured in to taking certain classes. You know more should be coming out from those trials (unless they're paid off...). You've also had the governor and a former DoJ official involved.

It may not be soon, but I still somehow have enough faith in humanity left to believe that UNC will get hit hard for this. NCAA and ESPN might fight it to the bitter end, but eventually, things will pile up too high. I dunno how many academic scandals get their own wikipedia page. This is a big deal, and Emmert is under investigation.

 

[CL82]

It has to be worse than actual APR infractions you would think. UNC basically sanctioned fake classes resulting in fake grades resulting in the fake meeting of APR requirements for years.

E) 3 years probation
2 years post-season tourney ban
loss of 3 BB scholarships year 1, 2 BB scholarships year 2, 1 BB scholarship year 3 (higher numbers for FB)

Something like this wouldn't surprise me. It's light for the offense, but it can be argued that it is a sever punishment. UNC needs to be vacating titles, NCAA tourny money and wins for the past decade, minimally. Then they ought to lose accreditation. Otherwise any future enforcment is bullshit.

 

[tentoes4rings]

Your post reminded me of something that's pissing me off. Anyone notice how ESPN is calling non-conference games "ACC Basketball" if one of the teams is an ACC team? They did that with UConn-Duke and then again with Louisville-Kentucky. WTF. I want to punch ESPN in the throat

With ACC plastered on the baseline and a big Duke D on the basketball no less.

 

[UConn990411]

I'm all for making fun of the NCAA, but I think you guys are off base here.

Emmert basically painted himself in a corner, to the point where the NCAA has to hand down at least a reasonably tough punishment.

 

[White Dwarf]

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/20...identifies-employees-facing.html#.VKRmRlozJ0M

CHAPEL HILL -- UNC officials Wednesday disclosed in a settlement over a public records lawsuit that four employees were either fired, resigned or are in the process of being fired in the wake of a detailed investigation into the longstanding academic fraud that primarily benefited athletes.

Among those the university is seeking to fire is Jan Boxill, the former faculty leader who was found to have steered athletes to classes that she knew had no instruction. Boxill is a philosophy professor and former head of a UNC center for ethics. UNC officials said Boxill is appealing “the University’s intention to discharge her.” Her case is now before the University Faculty Hearings Committee.