Lots of UNC-CHeat news this week

The Final Four obviously is this weekend. The ACC has two of the four teams in Syracuse and North Carolina. This week has also brought out lots of discussions from a national perspective on the academic scandals at Syracuse and specifically in Chapel Hill. There are too many stories this week to have separate entries so here is a sampling of what has been written and said about UNC this week:

Pat FordeOn Probation vs. Under Investigation

The Final Four matchups are now set. In one national semifinal, we have Villanova vs. Oklahoma. In the other, we have On Probation vs. Under Investigation.

Also known as the Outside Counsel Billable Hours Invitational, underwritten by Bond, Schoeneck & King. Also known as Questions 1 through 30 for NCAA president Mark Emmert, should he have his annual meeting with the media in Houston. Also known as Syracuse vs. North Carolina.

Matt Jones

After that Interview, he was on Twitter as a follow-up:

Andy Katz

ESPN’s Katz interviewed Mark Emmert, president of the NCAA, about several items earlier this week. One of the topics was the UNC scandal.

NCAA president Mark Emmert said the final notice of allegations for the North Carolina investigation into academic fraud “will be done in the coming weeks or a month or so.”

In an interview with ESPN after his news conference Thursday, Emmert said the enforcement staff wants to get it done but also wants to make sure the facts are straight.

“The next step is the delivery of allegations,” Emmert said.

“It’s a great, big, complicated case, and it’s taking a long time to get all the information in place,” Emmert said. “We’re not putting a timetable on it.”

Dan Kane

Kane, who has been investigating this UNC scandal in an excellent way for the past few years with the News and Observer, wrote two articles this week regarding the scandal.

First, he wrote an article in which a 2003 UNC report contradicts what UNC says regarding the number of independent studies classes.

UNC-Chapel Hill, which is under investigation for fraudulent classes involving athletes, has maintained that students were not subjected to a limit on independent studies until the 2006-07 academic year.

That stance appears to have narrowed one key part of the NCAA’s investigation.

But a new document released by the university in March shows that the limit on independent studies started before 2003. Other evidence suggests that the limit was in place since the early 1990s.

In response to a long-standing public records request from The News & Observer, UNC provided a 2003 faculty report that proposed numerous curriculum changes.

Deep within the report, the authors cited a 12-hour independent studies limit. Noting that curriculum changes can’t happen if they run counter to General College and Arts and Sciences guidelines, the report said: “That might mean, for example, considering whether to reaffirm the current rule that an Arts and Sciences student can count toward graduation only twelve hours of independent study.”

The start date of that 12-credit-hour limit is critical because the NCAA considers that athletes who exceeded it received an impermissible benefit.

Going back further than 2006 would add well more than 100 athletes to the list of 10 that the NCAA said exceeded the independent study limit through classes that had no professor, never met and yielded a high grade for an end-of-class paper.

For example, records show many athletes on the 2005 men’s basketball championship team took multiple fake classes, which were directed and graded by a clerical employee in the African studies department – including a star player who took 12 hours’ worth in the spring semester when the team won the title.

His second article was an updated primer on the status of the scandal. Here is one of the questions (and answers):

Q: Men’s basketball coach Roy Williams says there are no NCAA allegations involving men’s basketball. Is that true?

A: No. The NCAA’s case against UNC alleges men’s basketball players received impermissible benefits by receiving special access to the fake classes, largely through the efforts of academic counselors in the athlete support program. Men’s basketball is among the three programs that primarily benefited from the special access. The exhibits along with the notice cite examples of that access, including men’s basketball counselor Wayne Walden working with Crowder to put athletes in the classes. Williams brought Walden to UNC from Kansas.

The notice does not accuse Williams or the coaches of wrongdoing, but the fake classes aided his players, particularly those on the 2005 championship team.

So, before UNC plays Syracuse in the Final Four on Saturday, go through the above links as these topics won’t be addressed much during the game.

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  • #102830
    Tau837
    Participant

    ^^Paragraphs are your friend.

    #102833
    highstick
    Participant

    When you get a look at the new NOA, you will see that the NCAA was doing everything BUT dragging feet.

    UNX is now on the clock.

    Proceeding cautiously, but deliberately…the way a wolf stalks a prey..

    "Whomp 'em, Up, Side the Head"!

    #102836
    Pack78
    Participant

    Truly, unx is nothing more than a thoroughly corrupt semi-professional athletic program very loosely attached to a third-rate diploma mill…Smith and Willingham launch another broadside at the ‘Flagship’:

    http://paperclassinc.com/sacs-lies-and-audiotapes/

    #102837
    Gowolves
    Participant

    ^^Paragraphs are your friend.

    THanks for the advice. I crunch numbers for a living not literary work 🙂

    #102840
    Texpack
    Participant

    When you get a look at the new NOA, you will see that the NCAA was doing everything BUT dragging feet.

    UNX is now on the clock.

    Proceeding cautiously, but deliberately…the way a wolf stalks a prey..

    As for the “foot dragging,” remember that the NCAA doesn’t really investigate situations like this. They appoint a project manager and then rely on the institution in question to cooperate fully. In this case the CHeats did a half blast investigation to limit the scope of the damage to FB the first time around and then did the Martin white wash investigation to direct attention away from the athletic department. Both times, TOS folks followed the bread crumbs left exposed to force another look.

    The difference with this situation is UNCCHeat lying to the NCAA and covering up. Almost every other institution that started an investigation after Marvin’s tweet, would have already self-imposed by now and would have also been embarrassed. The CHeats number one objective from tweet day forward was protecting MBB and Dean. Their shameless behavior is the reason this has dragged on. By all accounts, the NCAA is ticked off and ready to bring the hamma.

    #102842
    MrPlywood
    Participant

    http://paperclassinc.com/sacs-lies-and-audiotapes/

    Love the riff on Sex, Lies and Videotape. Ha.

    Read the article, obviously it’s just the rantings of a disgruntled former employee. 😛

    Quote from another article by Willingham: “Whistleblowing is not for the meek. Just last week, Buck Sanders of Inside Carolina said that I, along with Jay Smith and the N&O, should be drenched in gasoline and lit on fire in a parking lot.”

    Stay classy Kerlina. “Buck Sanders” is named as the president of INside Carolina, has a Twitter and LinkedIn account, but the photo is a caricature so I have no idea it’s a real name or nom de plume.

    #102843
    Gowolves
    Participant

    When you get a look at the new NOA, you will see that the NCAA was doing everything BUT dragging feet.

    UNX is now on the clock.

    I disagree foot dragging has been there the whole time.

    #102847
    Wolfpackjack76
    Participant

    It’s official…Amended NOA received in chapel hell according to multiple news sources.

    Still gonna be dragging but the popcorn sure is tasting a lot better.

    #102849
    pakfanistan
    Participant

    It’s official…Amended NOA received in chapel hell according to multiple news sources.

    Still gonna be dragging but the popcorn sure is tasting a lot better.

    It tastes quite salty.

    #102850
    Texpack
    Participant

    ANOA looks to be much weaker than the original. Nobody but WBB getting serious time if I’m reading this correctly

    #102851
    Rick
    Keymaster

    Click to access NOA_Amended_042516_NorthCarolina.pdf

    PP says no men’s basketball or football mentioned.

    #102852
    Rick
    Keymaster

    I don’t recommend clicking the link just because N&O sucks but here is their analysis.

    UNC accused of no new major violations in NCAA’s amended Notice of Allegations
    Amended NOA has five Level I violations listed

    Football, men’s basketball not named in amended NOA

    Arrival of new NOA represents next step amid a long-running NCAA investigatio

    Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/acc/unc/article73736122.html#storylink=cpy

    #102853
    Rick
    Keymaster

    Andrew Carter @_andrewcarter
    “This is a replacement of” the original allegations, Cunningham says. So original football, men’s basketball references are wiped away.

    #102854
    BJD95
    Keymaster

    God, I hate being a part of the human race sometimes.

    #102855
    Wulfpack
    Participant

    Hate to say it, but told ya so.

    #102856
    ncsu1987
    Participant

    I hope there’s something I’m missing, but this is utterly unbelievable to me.

    #102857
    TheCOWDOG
    Moderator

    Not quite what expected to say the least. However, the 5 Level 1st remain AND no supplemental docs have been released.

    We shall see.

    #102858
    StateRed44
    Participant

    Wouldn’t LOIC and failure to monitor AA studies cover the mens football and basketball programs considering they were enrolled in these classes, received credit, and had eligibility because of these classes?

    #102859
    MrPlywood
    Participant

    Bullsh*t does in fact walk. Or skates.

    #102860
    Wulfpack
    Participant

    Your dreamin’, Dog.

    #102861
    StateRed44
    Participant

    If they skate with respect to their revenue sports this is extremely corrupt and rotten. I’d like to see the justification of this if true. Is there some loophole, is it really pure corruption, are the holes too smart for everybody. Boggles the mind.

    #102862
    freshmanin83
    Participant

    Looks like their self reporting ploy worked. It bought them enough time to get too the right people. Or possibly it was part of a deal that went something like give us a lamb to sacrifice if not we will go after MBB and FB so they gave them the Ladies BB team to be slaughtered.

    #102863
    TheAliasTroll
    Participant

    I mean, the NCAA obviously is not out to hammer UNC.. they were essentially complicit in giving them a shot at the title game this year. The timing of this a few weeks after the title game can’t be coincidental.

    Am I missing something? Is there some kind of rule that the NCAA imposes on itself that it has to wait until after a championship caliber team’s season is over before starting this process? What a joke.

    #102864
    Rick
    Keymaster

    Hate to say it, but told ya so.

    And I believe we were called names for our justifiable skepticism. I won’t be holding my breath for any apologies.
    I think we can disregard some claims to have ‘sources’.

    #102865
    Rick
    Keymaster

    I mean, the NCAA obviously is not out to hammer UNC.. they were essentially complicit in giving them a shot at the title game this year

    Which, combined with the NCAA foot dressing, is why i didn’t expect any punishment at all.

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