North Carolina is trying to dispute charges of academic fraud when it goes before the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions.
“The fundamental issue in our case is that the NCAA by-laws cover athletics matters, not how academics are managed,” North Carolina athletic director Bubba Cunningham said Thursday.
So the NCAA has no jurisdiction? Remember when USC was accused of being uncooperative and it hurt their case? Will the NCAA back down against North Carolina? It doesn’t really seem interested anymore in giving stiff penalties since the USC case? And maybe North Carolina believes that too.
Winning the NCAA basketball championship now makes Carolina a target.
Don’t think so, the NCAA HATES USC and a few others, but most get away with just about anything these days
The Dookies are going to pressure the NCAA to level the Tar Heels.
Let’s see if doing away with the country club member strategy gives way to the aggressive defense strategy. Sure didn’t work for SC. Maybe NC knows who to pay off!
Bozo u knew who was receiving $$$$$: Reggie Bush and O.J. Mayo.
Hey dumbass- explain to me how they knew about Bush(I am not disputing Mayo), how we had anything to do with it, and how we benefited???
You sorry, sorry little sPUTZ, what info could you have that the ncaa fools couldn’t find. Why not share with us. You foolish imp, a coaches career was ruined without evidence and he’s about to get paid. All this because of jealous, little creeps like you who live in their own fantasy world, unable to accept success of others because of your own shortcomings. Ruination, what a mess.
Easy , Owns needs some deflection from the real clown college that is Ball university.
Yea, you’re right, how do they talk this kind of crud, when those ball kids are driving the cars they are? But what it comes down to, they like the ncaa, just can’t understand success.
Bsall University LOL!
Hey bel-air tech is still getting the 4th estate to shill for wooden – today’s Daily News has this huge article about how wonderful Woodrow was to Jabbar in Kareem’s own latest book – always a pass for the peckerhead.
I can’t wait until football starts Owns. After USC beats Ucla and Jim Mora again making it three straight are you gonna continue to point out that Mora won three straight like it’s a current event?
Bye-bye, Mora.
#whereischaz?
Not so much ‘paying off’ as it is willing to fight back and see just how much the ncaa really wants to punish i.e. if PA St. gets a literal slap on the wrist for endemic child molestation with a full condoned cover-up by both their administration plus their sports legend and prevails why can’t NC?
I thought the majority of NCAA violations were exactly what North Carolina was doing where tutors or professors were making sure the athletes stayed eligible? How can they claim the NCAA doesn’t have jurisdiction over that after all these decades?
Man it pisses me off when other schools show some stones. USC definitely looked like they walked away with their tail between their legs. What a shame.
Board of Trustees didn’t have the stomach for it. Plus, McNair is in a much better place legally to sue the NCAA for slander. Much better. He’s not constrained by what USC signed up for as an institution. Schools give up a lot of power that a citizen wouldn’t.
And I have very strong info that Haden did not want to bend over for the NCAA, but the BOTs simply said no go. Behind the scenes, Haden was very upset about the BOTs posture, probably in part because it made him look bad and weak.
Well that’s at least good to hear.
the NCAA sucks
Here’s what will happen to NC…….nothing
Need to look behind the curtain as to who the “NCAA” really is. Nothing more than Mafia Muscle for the TV networks and certain conferences in the Eastern United States (and one Catholic School in the Midwest). Pure Business, nothing to do about Athletic Competitive Fairness. One of several examples: The LA Times described USC’s Spring 2006 Pro Day as “the mother of all Pro Days”. Shortly thereafter, the NCAA banned Recruits and the General Public from Attending said Pro Days due to a “perceived unfair recruiting advantage”. Anyone want to guess who pushed for that rule change and why?
North Carolina isn’t a threat to Florida St. Maimi, Notre Dame, Ohio St., Alabama or Texas. They will get they’re hands slapped and nothing more. USC on the other hand is the scourge of jealousy in college football. They will get a stacked sanctions committee hitting them at every opportunity!
Solid points.
But they dominate in basketball and need to be made an example so other schools don’t copy their creative academic program.
If this works, USC should have argued that Reggie was in an Intern in an Entrepreneurship Program
Precedent from 1999:
NCAA gives Minnesota four years probation; no postseason ban
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The University of Minnesota escaped the
harshest sanctions possible for widespread academic fraud in its men’s basketball program because of its vigorous response to the scandal, the NCAA said.Minnesota was slapped with four years probation and other penalties, but escaped the punishment it had feared most, a ban on postseason play.Members of the NCAA’s infractions committee said that even though the Minnesota
scandal was among the most serious cases of academic fraud in 20 years, theywere convinced the school was “deeply ashamed.” “You have to determine whether you caught the attention of the university and whether it caught the attention of others,” said committee chairman Jack Friedenthal,a law professor at George Washington University. “The University of Minnesota is and should be deeply ashamed of what happened.”No one is going to go out and think they can violate these rules and think the penalties will not be severe.” The committee added slightly to several of Minnesota’s self-imposed punishments, adding to recruiting limits
imposed by the school and ordering that all records of postseason tournaments during the misconduct from 1993-98 be erased.
I actually think North Carolina might be able to punk the NCAA on this one. The point that UNC is making is that the classes were open to and taken by all students and not just athletes. There is no “extra benefit” for athletes if only 29% of the students taking the classes in question are athletes and the other 71% are regular students. Under that light, I think enough of a case can be made that this is strictly an academic issue and outside of the NCAA’s purview.
I am not trying to make the case for UNC, but there seems to be enough in their defense and their confrontational stance to back the NCAA down. If I’m the NCAA, I want to keep this inside my kingdom and not have any 3rd party (court) involved given UNC’s affirmative defense and apparent willingness to fight. I think UNC will end up working out a deal that will include some cosmetic sanctions that don’t materially hurt the BB program. The NCAA got out over their skis in the PSU matter and I think they’ll be reticent to do it again anytime soon. Believe it or not, I’d rather be playing UNC’s hand than the NCAA’s in this situation.
The NCAA wants to be a bully, but it seems more like a toothless tiger when schools stand up to it. Alas, some schools have whatever it takes to fight back while others meekly hand their milk money over. Fight On?
The SEC Commissioner is heading up the Infractions Committee now….that alone will be worth watching
It’s embarrassing that we grabbed our ankles for these guys.
USC was punished for having a Speech class that football players took that was also open to other students back in 1980. Why should Carolina get special treatment?
I wouldn’t compare the NCAA of 1980 to what exists now and I wouldn’t compare a school that is willing to go to court and fight and one that won’t. Context matters.