The NCAA could have wrapped this up long ago and dropped the hammer on UNC. They haven’t because they don’t want to. They’ve let UNC extend this multiple times because they don’t really want to deal with it. It’s classic “kicking the can down the road” behavior.
I’ve long since accepted that nothing will happen to UNC beyond a wrist slap. It’s part of my drastically reduced interest in NCAA sports. By doing nothing to UNC (yet hammering little schools), the NCAA is slowly killing the goose that laid the golden egg. I don’t personally know any 35+ year old (prime giving and advertising targets) that are more interested in college sports than they were 10-15 years ago. Maybe that’s the natural cycle, but I tend to doubt it.
Having said that, Bilas has been an insufferable goon for a long time. This behavior hasn’t changed that, or my opinion of him, at all.
