re: Mizzou has been banned from the 2019-2020 Postseason

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2. What UNC did is something that could potentially cost them accreditation. UNC is a prestige school but even if they weren't, that's just not a door the NCAA wants to be the one to open. (Remember the NCAA is a conglomeration of universities and all of them want to keep that status at all costs).

UNC absolutely deserved to be put on probation by SACS (I've seen no-name schools get probation for less) but had the NCAA opened that door wider they might've been forced to pull their accreditation. (A school can re-gain accreditation but that's not something the NCAA wants to be responsible for.).

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I think this is the real reason they got to slide as even on probation they lose government funding which is probably at least 10 x more valuable than sports. Still, that being said it does make a difference that it is UNC and not say IU which the NCAA has no problem dropping the hammer on.