• Follow us on Twitter @buckeyeplanet and @bp_recruiting, like us on Facebook! Enjoy a post or article, recommend it to others! BP is only as strong as its community, and we only promote by word of mouth, so share away!
  • Consider registering! Fewer and higher quality ads, no emails you don't want, access to all the forums, download game torrents, private messages, polls, Sportsbook, etc. Even if you just want to lurk, there are a lot of good reasons to register!

North Carolina Tar Heels (official thread)

Jump to latest Follow Reply
Sort by date Sort by votes
ScriptOhio said:
051713-CFB-Vince-Young-TV-Pi_20130517233539871_660_320.JPG


9ce4fa46f74cd6c52649ceecd8c75482_bigger.jpeg
Gil Brandt ✔ @Gil_Brandt
Congrats to @VinceYoung, who graduated today from Texas with degree in education, one day before turning 30. Very proud of you.

2:26 PM - 17 May 2013

Supposedly he has a degree in education. He probably even graduated "magna cum wonderlic" too.

:biggrin:
Click to expand...

UT didn't have much motive to have him finish up several years later, so despite his Wonderlic, I'll assume that he actually muddled through at lest some of the work somehow.
 
Upvote 0
I'm kind of split on it. I think it's more of an "Honor Among Thieves" thing than a "I was cheated out of an education!" thing.
Before UNC got caught, they had legit degrees in the job market ... both sides agreed to basically lie and deceive for the other.
Now that UNC has been caught, and presumably(?) the names of those who received fraudulent degrees are known... their employment prospects will be drastically different.

UNC still benefited from the arrangement (all the publicity and cash from those NCs isn't going away even if they're vacated), but now the players don't and want a piece of the pie.

Either way, popcorn.
More lawsuits = more dirty laundry, always entertaining.
 
Upvote 0
Report says UNC took advantage of grad school to extend eligibility of players

Academic issues at the University of North Carolina continue to be dug up. This time it revolves around allegedly cutting corners to enroll players as graduate players in order to get them on the football field.

In the latest report compiled by The News & Observer, UNC kept several players eligible to play by placing them in graduate school by retroactively admitting some players and getting around other regulations for others between 2002 and 2010. The exact number of players supposedly kept eligible by this method is unconfirmed, although the report details the story of one football player and another basketball player at UNC. The information was shared to the North Carolina newspaper by a former graduate school admissions director,Cheryl Thomas, who also handed the documentation to support the claims over to the NCAA for review.

In one reported case, former UNC cornerback Michael Waddell allegedly was placed in graduate school despite a low GPA, a lack of entrance exam score and being months past the deadline to be enrolled. Senior associate athletic director John Blanchard made a request to have Waddell admitted in the fall of 2003 before he was set to be ruled ineligible for a game against Syracuse. The request was made one day before UNC was scheduled to play Syracuse. Wadell had played in the 2003 season opener against Florida State the previous week. Blanchard’s request was reportedly submitted by UNC provost Robert Shelton, who passed on the request to graduate school dean Linda Dykstra.

Waddell went on to play his fourth year of eligibility at UNC before entering the NFL Draft. The News & Observer reports Waddell skipped classes and exams and failed out of UNC’s graduate school. But he was heading to the NFL anyway.

Thomas reportedly came forward with this information following the release of an investigative report on UNC’s affairs by Kenneth Wainstein last fall. Thomas claims to have submitted documentation to Wainstein, the NCAA and the commission that provides accreditation to UNC but three months have now passed and there has been no follow-up despite acknowledgment the documents have been received.

Entire article: http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsport...grad-school-to-extend-eligibility-of-players/
 
Upvote 0
Scout (Free): http://northcarolina.scout.com/story/1548538-unc-receives-noa

UNC RECEIVES NOA
Greg Barnes
Inside Carolina

North Carolina has received the 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.


Cont'd ...
 
Upvote 0
Dryden said:
Scout (Free): http://northcarolina.scout.com/story/1548538-unc-receives-noa

UNC RECEIVES NOA
Greg Barnes
Inside Carolina

North Carolina has received the 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.


Cont'd ...
Click to expand...
dun-dun-dun-o.gif
 
Upvote 0
Here it is ...

http://3qh929iorux3fdpl532k03kg.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/NCAA-NOA.pdf

Pg 48:

It is alleged that the scope and nature of the violations set forth in Allegation Nos. 1 and 2 demonstrate that the institution violated the NCAA principles of institutional control and rules compliance when it failed to monitor the activities of Jan Boxill (Boxill), then philosophy instructor, director of the Parr Center for Ethics, women's basketball athletics academic counselor in the Academic Support Program for Student-Athletes (ASPSA) and chair of the faculty. Further, the institution exhibited a lack of institutional control in regard to the special arrangements constituting impermissible benefits athletics academic counselors and staff within African and Afro-American Studies (AFRI/AFAM) department provided to student-athletes.

Specifically, individuals in the academic administration on campus, particularly in the college of arts and sciences, did not sufficiently monitor the AFRI/AFAM and ASPSA departments or provide appropriate supervision for these academic units and their staffs. The AFRI/AFAM department created anomalous courses that went unchecked for 18 years. This allowed individuals within ASPSA to use these courses through special arrangements to maintain the eligibility of academically at-risk student-athletes, particularly in the sports of football, men's basketball and women's basketball. Although the general student body also had access to the anomalous AFRI/AFAM courses, student-athletes received preferential access to these anomalous courses, enrolled in these anomalous courses at a disproportionate rate to that of the general student body and received other impermissible benefits not available to the general student body in connection with these courses.

Additionally, the institution did not monitor Boxill's activities. Although employed by ASPSA, Boxill conducted her athletics academic advising activities largely within the philosophy department. Despite concerns by some at the institution that Boxill's relationship with the women's basketball student-athletes may have been too close, the institution did not monitor Boxill or determine whether her conduct violated institutional rules or NCAA bylaws.
Click to expand...

Pg 50:

Pursuant to NCAA Bylaw 19.7.1, the NCAA enforcement staff has identified the following potential aggravating and mitigating factors a hearing panel of the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions may consider.

1. Institution:
a. Aggravating factors. [NCAA Bylaw 19.9.3]
(1) Multiple Level I violations. [Bylaw 19.9.3-(a)]
x The notice of allegations includes multiple Level I violations involving unethical conduct, extra benefits and a lack of institutional control.

(2) A history of Level I, Level II or major violations by the institution, sport program(s) or involved individual. [Bylaw 19.9.3-(b)] They include:
x March 12, 2012 – Violations of NCAA legislation regarding academic fraud, impermissible benefits, impermissible participation, unethical conduct, failure to monitor, preferential treatment, failure to cooperate and failure to report outside income.
x January 10, 1961 – Violations of NCAA legislation involving improper entertainment and lodging and improper recruiting entertainment.

(3) Lack of institutional control. [Bylaw 19.9.3-(c)]
x As described in Allegation No. 5, the institution demonstrated a lack of institutional control by providing impermissible academic extra benefits to student-athletes, exploiting the anomalous courses provided by the African and Afro-American Studies (AFRI/AFAM) department and failing to adequately monitor the activities of Jan Boxill (Boxill), then philosophy instructor, director of the Parr Center for Ethics, women's basketball athletics academic counselor in the Academic Support Program for StudentAthletes and chair of the faculty.
Click to expand...
 
Last edited:
Upvote 0
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top