re: 18 years of fraud at Chapel Hill...

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... and that's where you're wrong. The three power players in the ACC are UNC, UVA, and Duke. That's where the money and influence is. Take away one, and the draw for the other two to hold it together is impacted significantly.

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I would actually say it's UNC, NC STATE, Wake Forrest and Duke. The North Carolina schools run that conference. But the power UNC wields is that of decision making and internal political power. The Tobacco Road Schools are four votes and the conference bends to them because of that.

The death penalty in NCAA terms isn't an actual death penalty either. UNC would be severely hampered for a while but they would come back - they're too large, wealthy and powerful not to. They aren't a small school like SMU was at the time the hammer fell on them. They quite literally run their state. The ACC is a rich and powerful conference - they would survive them being punished appropriately even if it was as harsh as a death penalty type judgment.