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North Carolina says it has received an NCAA Notice of Allegations

(Photo: Jeremy Brevard-USA TODAY Sports)
(Photo: Jeremy Brevard-USA TODAY Sports)

North Carolina announced Friday that it has received the NCAA’s notice of allegations. The NOA stems from an NCAA re-investigation into the widespread academic fraud allegations at the university.

“We take these allegations very seriously, and we will carefully evaluate them to respond within the NCAA’s 90-day deadline,” a joint statement from chancellor Carol Folt and athletic director Bubba Cunningham said. “The University will publicly release the NCAA’s notice as soon as possible. The notice is lengthy and must be prepared for public dissemination to ensure we protect privacy rights as required by federal and state law. When that review for redactions is complete, the University will post the notice on the Carolina Commitment website and notify the news media. When we respond to the NCAA’s allegations, we will follow this same release process.

The NCAA re-opened its investigation into North Carolina in June. The previous investigation was closed in 2012 and resulted in sanctions for the football team. The team was banned from playing in a bowl in 2012. Coach Butch Davis was fired in 2011 and athletic director Dick Baddour resigned around the same time.

The team was also forced to vacate wins from the 2008 and 2009 seasons.

The basketball team could be penalized as part of the new investigation. 10 of the 15 players on North Carolina's NCAA title-winning 2005 team majored in African and Afro-American Studies, the department which much of the academic fraud allegations has centered around.

According to an independent report published in October, academic counselors pushed over 3,000 students — approximately half of them athletes — into sham classes that were designed to keep athletes eligible over a period of 18 years.

The report said 81 students got a grade from the so-called “paper classes” in the African and Afro-American Studies department high enough to push their GPA to above 2.0.

Last January, a former UNC football player said the academic environment at the school was “a scam.” Michael McAdoo said he was enrolled in four of the no-show classes.

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Nick Bromberg
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