re: UNC Admits Academic Fraud: Lack Of Institutional Controls, *NCAA Issues 3rd NOA

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PROBATION!?!?!?

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Yeah, at least it could have been double secret probation!

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Looks like the canary in the coal mine may be the UNC WBB team as another UNC player is leaving.

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They got the mens BBall team in there too a lot, but unc put a spin job using redactions in the documents they released.

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/unc-scandal/article24893245.html

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Redactions were to be expected when UNC-Chapel Hill made public the 730 pages of exhibits the NCAA’s enforcement division used to build its notice of allegations against the university. But some of them shield information that wouldn’t appear to run afoul of state and federal privacy laws.

Take, for instance, an email between Janet Huffstetler, the longtime men’s basketball tutor, and Jennifer Townsend, who became the academic counselor for the team in 2009. Huffstetler appears to be missing the days when Dean Smith was coach. She makes reference to changes that took place when Roy Williams took over in 2003, replacing academic counselor Burgess McSwain with Wayne Walden, who followed Williams from Kansas.

“Jenn, for many years, (redacted) was very separate from the Academic Center. Burgess McSwain whom I’m sure you have heard of, kept it that way because Coach Smith wanted it that way. He wanted the (redacted) boys to remain separate and not get lumped in the ‘athlete label’ that I’m sure you have witnessed, often works against them. After Burgess got sick, Coach Williams came, Wayne came, they put (redacted) in the middle of the Academic Center…”

It’s a pretty safe bet the redacted words here are “basketball” or “BB” or “MBB.” It’s difficult to see how their removal satisfies a privacy concern.

Smith and his successor, former longtime assistant coach Bill Guthridge, kept the academic support for his team separate from the Academic Support Program for Student-Athletes. That meant McSwain, a close friend of Deborah Crowder, the former African studies department manager and architect of the fake classes, had academic oversight for men’s basketball. Former Coach Matt Doherty, who ran the team from 2000 to 2003, told investigators last year that Smith and Guthridge wanted him to keep it that way.

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UNC has also redacted dates and course numbers from numerous emails the NCAA has cited in its case. One email, for example, shows that former football academic counselor Cynthia Reynolds asked Crowder if an athlete is running up against the limit of 12 credit hours of independent studies. It was not among the documents released in Wainstein’s investigation.
It would be important to know if that email was sent prior to the 2006-07 academic year, when UNC officials clarified that independent studies were not the correspondence courses being offered out of the Friday Center and were subject to a 12-credit-hour limit for special studies. The university, in a letter to the commission that accredits UNC, said earlier this year that 2006-07 academic year was when the limit was first established for independent studies, and the NCAA’s notice of allegations appears to be accepting UNC’s position.

Wainstein found that Crowder and others at UNC had interpreted the university’s longstanding policy on “special studies” pertained to independent studies. Crowder began disguising her paper classes as lecture courses in 1999 so students didn’t run into that limit, Wainstein said. Many of those who exceeded it were athletes.

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^ Dean Smith, Roy Williams and Crowder were all in on the academic fraud.

I'm waiting for the shoe to drop on the football and men's basketball teams.

Something must be coming the way there seems to be an abandonment of the ship beginning.

I have a UNC friend who served on their Board of Regents at one time and he feels the same way.

https://bobleesays.com/2015/07/16/earth-to-chansky-bonnie-clyde-answer-art/

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Earth to Art Chansky: It wasn’t about the women

In a recent commentary on WCHL, ardent UNC sports fan Art Chansky revealed his strategy for combating the NCAA’s Notice of Allegations [NOA] against the university’s athletic program: Blame it on the women! Complaining of women’s basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell’s (alleged) behind-the-scenes efforts to lobby for a contract extension comparable to the one recently offered men’s coach Roy Williams, Chansky griped that “an exit strategy should be [Hatchell’s’] play.” After all, Chansky claimed, “Hatchell’s program is in the most serious trouble from the NCAA’s Notice of Allegations,” given the high profile of women’s academic counselor Jan Boxill in the email documentation provided in the NCAA report. The whole NCAA investigation is a “witch hunt” with many victims, Chansky suggested, but the uncomfortable reality for women’s basketball is that “[Roy] Williams’ program was not cited in the NOA and Hatchell’s was.” Hatchell should therefore prepare herself to leave UNC “with grace.”

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The propaganda purposes of this particular commentary are obvious even by Chansky’s standards. No team is “cited” in the NOA if by cited one means singled out for likely punishment. As a team and as a program, women’s basketball is cited in the NCAA document no more and no less than any other team or program. (The NCAA’s NOA did note, however, that the “special arrangements” used for eligibility purposes at UNC had particularly benefited “the sports of football, men’s basketball, and women’s basketball.”) Chansky, in other words, is only continuing and amplifying the PR drumbeat that Roy Williams, Larry Fedora and others began some weeks ago, presumably at the urging of university lawyers. They have repeatedly announced that the big-time men’s revenue sports would seem to be in the clear and should expect no further punishment from the NCAA. They would have us believe that the NCAA is prepared to give football and men’s basketball a free pass even after the exposure of decades’ worth of fraud that clearly benefited the football and men’s basketball teams. And they are evidently all too happy to point the finger of blame in the direction of a women’s team in order to lower expectations about the sanctions likely to be imposed on the men’s teams.

Leaving aside the gender politics of this shameless PR strategy–will advocates for women’s sports stand by while….

…. male coaches, boosters, and UNC insiders labor to persuade the NCAA that the Crowder-Nyang’oro scheme was merely a big plot to help women?–Chansky and company face one very high hurdle in pursuit of their propaganda campaign. A mountain of direct and circumstantial evidence makes clear that UNC’s distinctive pattern of academic fraud was developed specifically to meet the needs of the men’s basketball team, and that the corruption reached its highest levels on Roy Williams’s watch.

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The first suspect independent study courses offered by Julius Nyang’oro in the late 1980s were offered to men’s basketball players, some of whom had abysmal SAT scores and perilously low GPA’s before they met professor Nyang’oro. Faculty friends in geography, French, and the school of education had been very helpful to the team throughout the 1980s. But when leadership of the AFRI/AFAM department fell into the laps of two allies of men’s basketball around 1990–Nyang’oro and his assistant Debby Crowder, whose close friend Burgess McSwain served as academic counselor for the men in her remote Smith center office–that department quickly became the go-to academic center for struggling (or academically uninterested) men’s basketball players.

The fraud would morph into a multi-team and three thousand-student debacle before all was said and done, but men’s basketball was always first in line for favors and fake classes. The needs of men’s basketball always came first in the eyes of Debby Crowder. And the 2005 men’s team, whose roster was stocked with players for whom both McSwain and Crowder felt great sympathy, benefited from unprecedented levels of favoritism. The team as a whole took well over one hundred paper classes; as one would expect, the starters on that team benefited disproportionately from the scam.

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https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/unsealed-documents-reveal-various-improper-benefits-received-by-unc-football-players-153142890.html

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Court documents unsealed in North Carolina show the various improper benefits given to Tar Heels football players that led to the program’s 2012 NCAA sanctions.
According to the Associated Press, the documents were unsealed in the case involving Christopher Hawkins, a former UNC and Marshall cornerback who was arrested in May and charged with violating North Carolina’s state sports agent law. Hawkins allegedly gave former UNC defensive end Robert Quinn $13,700 in cash and helped him sell game-used equipment for $1,700. Hawkins also allegedly improperly contacted another UNC player about potential representation.

According to the newly unsealed court documents, Hawkins acted as “an agent/runner” to provide illegal benefits to other athletes as well.

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Among the extra benefits revealed in the documents, defensive back Kendric Burney told investigators that he received “monthly payments” from Hawkins while an eligible athlete at UNC.

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Burney told investigators that Parker would invite athletes to the house he shared with Parker and there would be “envelopes with their names on them lined up on a table.”

Additionally, Quinn, now with the St. Louis Rams, and wide receiver Greg Little, an NFL free agent, said they received payments from Blazer.

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no real news, just making sure this does not fall off the 1st page

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She has officially now transferred to Ohio State. Looking at the Heels official site, looks like the 2015 - 2016 roster is now down to just 9 players from 13 or 14 last year. Looking like things will get worse before they get better.

Seems they are setting up the women's team to fall on the sword for football, and most importantly, mens basketball.

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I'm hoping the ncaa does the right thing and nails all the program with lack of institutional controls, but I won't be surprised when Commish Swofford (who was the unc AD when all the cheating started,) pulls his weight with the ncaa officials and they just blame everything on women's basketball (b/c that's why everyone cheats, they want great women's basketball teams.)

ESPN reports more potential violations (of course aimed at the women and soccer but not football and m basketball)

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- North Carolina uncovered possible additional NCAA violations in women's basketball and men's soccer while preparing the response to its long-running academic scandal, the school announced Friday.

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ESPN reports more potential violations (of course aimed at the women and soccer but not football and m basketball)

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- North Carolina uncovered possible additional NCAA violations in women's basketball and men's soccer while preparing the response to its long-running academic scandal, the school announced Friday.

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They are trying to push back the judgement until after basketball season.....go figure.

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Cunningham said he still hopes the investigation will be resolved by spring 2016.

Cunningham said he still hopes the investigation will be resolved by spring 2016.

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