By
D. C. McAllister
October 13, 2017
In what has been called one of
the worst academic scandals in history, the NCAA won’t be punishing the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for offering fake classes
that benefited student athletes, because it couldn’t find any NCAA rules
that were actually violated by the university.
The
ruling means no UNC athletes will be punished, and the university will
not lose any of its championship titles. UNC basketball coach Roy
Williams has always maintained that the sports program never did
anything wrong.
While the
NCAA admitted that there was academic fraud over 18 years in the African
Studies program, it determined that it did not have the power to punish
the university.
Greg Sankey, commissioner of the Southeastern Conference, said
the NCAA could not prove that the courses were “solely created, offered
and maintained as an orchestrated effort to benefit
student-athletes”—despite the fact that many student athletes did
benefit from the courses. The infractions committee, he said, was
powerless to punish the university for classes offered to all members of
the student body and not student athletes in particular.
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