DadGumRoy - You Cheated

[dex]

just like Boeheim and Calhoun...the 3 of you are a disgrace but not as big of a disgrace as the ncaa

Zag Reports

North Carolina Receives Notice of Allegations

May 22nd, 2015 12:52 pm

North Carolina head coach Roy Williams talks to his team during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Notre Dame in the championship of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament Saturday, March 14, 2015, in Greensboro, N.C.

North Carolina has received a Notice of Allegations from the NCAA

North Carolina has received a Notice of Allegations from the NCAA. The news was first reported by Scout.com. Here’s the University’s statement:

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill today announced the campus had received a notice of allegations from the NCAA as the next phase in its investigation of academic irregularities and possible bylaw infractions.

In a joint statement, Chancellor Carol L. Folt and Director of Athletics Bubba Cunningham said the University had begun reviewing the NCAA’s notice.

“We take these allegations very seriously, and we will carefully evaluate them to respond within the NCAA’s 90-day deadline,” the statement 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.

“Consistent with NCAA protocols, the University cannot comment on details of the investigation until it is completed.”

UNC coach Roy Williams also commented recently on the impact this will have on recruiting:

“It would help if the NCAA would just tell us what the allegations are. That would help because it would give us the information. It’s been a hard process, and I know that has been quite a lot of negative recruiting going on and other things that don’t make you very happy.

“But at the same time, we made some mistakes at our university, mistakes we are not proud of. And yet it has been so sensationalized, just off the charts about what has happened.

“We’ve lost over 30 people at the university – chancellor, athletic director, football coach, head of academic support. We’ve initiated over 75 new policies.

[wtm97]

The UNC AD's name is BUBBA?

OMG...

[johnnypc]

The entire athletic program should get nailed, but they will not. The good old boys will take care of each other.

[pc1971]

May 23, 2015 9:08:49 GMT -5 johnnypc said:

The entire athletic program should get nailed, but they will not. The good old boys will take care of each other.

The whole school, including the ENTIRE ATHLETIC PROGRAM ,should pay big time for this academic fraud.Athletes were not the only ones who participated.

[greyfriar]

"It would help if the NCAA told us what the allegations are."

Hey Roy, I am pretty sure the allegations are based on the extensive report compiled by your University that found a 15 year history of systemic academic fraud and cheating. This included players getting grades for classes they never attended; other people taking tests for athletes, etc. The amazing thing for me is that it has taken this long for the NCAA to do something about it. UNC deserves the death penalty based on its own report, but as JohnnyPC says they will get away with a minor slap on the wrist.

[dex]

Well said Grey....if DaGum Roy doesn't know what the allegations are perhaps he was a victim of academic fraud when he went to school. However I think he's just a liar.

Like Boeheim and Calhoun, two cheaters of prolific dimensions, DadGum Roy will come out with a statement A-F-T-E-R the slap on the wrist indicating

how wronged he and the university had been and how they were actually victimized by the ncaa.

[oaklawnbob]

I don't think the penalty will be just a slap on the wrist. After 'Cuse was banged pretty hard for allegations I think are far less serious than what NC has done, I have thought that the NCAA was just setting up UNC for an Atomic Leg Drop of penalties and sanctions.

[wtm97]

Thanks to pc71 for sending this link along...solid piece here on the impending UNC NCAA sanctions:
www.newsobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article22823382.html

What UNC must do: Fire Williams, remove banners, forfeit wins

By Patrick O’Neill
June1, 2015

More important than whatever action the NCAA takes against the University of North Carolina for what is perhaps the worst athletics-academic scandal in collegiate history is what the UNC administration will do to reel in its corrupt athletic department and its aiders and abettors.

The NCAA is between a rock and a hard place because it badly needs North Carolina athletics to be vibrant and healthy. A few years of severe sanctions against UNC means a potentially huge revenue loss for the NCAA, from both television rights and post-season play. Before these revelations of extreme cheating, Carolina had a squeaky-clean reputation, due in large part to the integrity of late basketball coach Dean Smith. That’s all over now. The UNC athletic department will likely never again enjoy such a lofty status in collegiate sports.

On the other hand, UNC, as the state’s flagship institution of higher learning, should see the reputation of its university and the integrity of its academics as pre-eminent and thus institute dramatic and historic reforms. Up until now, the UNC administration has maintained a laissez-faire attitude toward the athletic department. “Trust us,” was their cry. “We pay our own way, and we follow the rules.” This relationship provided the athletic department reckless freedom to self-destruct.

Once I told former UNC athletic director John Swofford I wanted to write a story that, in part, looked into athletic department finances. Swofford placed his hand on my shoulder and said: “Now, Patrick, why would you want to write about a thing like that?”

So went my journey at The Chapel Hill Newspaper as I reported on stories that looked into how the UNC athletics department spent its money. Despite North Carolina’s status as a state-funded public institution, getting financial information from the athletic department was never easy. Then-UNC attorney, Susan H. Ehringhaus, would usually help the AD’s office erect road blocks, and it often required the help of N.C. Press Association lawyers to get UNC to provide the information to which the newspaper and the public were entitled.

Now that UNC’s house of cards has crumbled, damage control has been carried out, but with all the wrong emphases. The messengers have been killed (Rashad McCants and Mary Willingham), the news media have been bashed, basketball coach Roy Williams has been “dumbfounded.” Swofford recalls nothing. Some sacrificial lambs have moved on (Dick Baddour and Jan Boxill). And Dean Smith and Bill Guthridge are gone.

Now what? As much as it will hurt in the short term, UNC has to give Williams his walking papers. Williams, who likes to flippantly refer to the scandal as all that “junk going on,” is a big part of the problem. Despite his status as the state’s highest-paid employee, Williams did not do his job. At best, he is an incompetent administrator who failed to maintain control over the handful of athletes he was supposed to monitor. At worst, he knew all about the cheating and took a see-no-evil-Joe-Paterno approach, hoping his immorality would go undiscovered.

UNC should also take down Williams’ now-tainted 2005 and 2009 NCAA Championship banners from the Smith Center rafters. These titles were won by cheating, plain and simple. Carolina must own up to its ill-gotten titles and voluntarily disown them. Additionally, all UNC victories for any years in which ineligible players were used should be vacated. Williams – and UNC basketball – should have those wins wiped from records. The Carolina football program, and any other nonrevenue teams that used ineligible players, should face the same fate.

The UNC administration must implement a two-tiered system of control over its athletic department, meaning its athletic director must answer to a dean whose job will be to maintain a hands-on, day-to-day connection between the “real” university and athletics. UNC should also implement a dual system of economic regulation in which the athletic department does not maintain unfettered control of its finances. It’s time to implement a system of checks and balances between the university and its wayward athletics department.

It’s time for honest leadership to prevail in Chapel Hill. The time of reckoning has come for UNC athletics, and the NCAA may not be the agency to provide the incentive that leads Carolina back on the road to integrity. The university must take steps to steady the ship and steer it back to the “Carolina Way.”

Patrick O’Neill of Garner is a former sports and news reporter with The Chapel Hill News, formerly known as The Chapel Hill Newspaper.

Read more here: www.newsobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article22823382.html#storylink=cpy

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The link has about 50+ very interesting reader comments to this op-ed piece...

[pc1971]

My pleasure wtm97.
My close friend and man who mentored me when I was a newbie attorney is a Dookie [undergrad and law school] and he shared this with me.
Note the Swofford name !!!!
This is serous business.

[dex]

It looks like Roy Williams should escape NCAA's case relatively well
June 4, 2015 4:28 pm ET

Gary Parrish CBS Sports


Roy Williams has, within the past month, described what he's been enduring, both personally and professionally, as "the most difficult time" of his life. And though a lot of that had to do with the deaths of two mentors (Dean Smith and Bill Guthridge) and one friend (Ted Seagroves), some of it was also related to a lengthy Final Four drought (relative to North Carolina standards) and the lingering cloud of an NCAA investigation.

"Coach Guthridge kept saying, 'It's going to get better, it's going to get better,'" Williams said last month, according to InsideCarolina.com. "I'm waiting. I want it to get there."

To be clear, it's not all the way there yet.

There's still a ways to go.

But it's difficult to deny things got better for Williams Thursday, if only because UNC released the notice of allegations the NCAA sent two weeks ago, and the Hall of Fame coach's name was mentioned just once in 59 pages. Just once. And that mention was merely to note that Williams had in fact been interviewed during the investigation.

The NCAA levied five Level I charges against North Carolina.

Roy Williams isn't named in any of them.

His program isn't directly targeted.

So while that doesn't necessarily mean the Tar Heels will avoid significant penalties -- more on that in a moment -- what it does ensure is that Williams will forever be able to truthfully state that despite a lengthy investigation he's never been directly tied to a major violation.

Will the general public accept that as proof of innocence?

Not entirely, I'm certain.

Similarly to how some insist Kentucky's John Calipari represents everything wrong with college basketball because of vacated Final Fours (at UMass and Memphis) even though he's never been directly tied to any major violations anywhere, there will always be some who think Williams simply distanced himself enough from these transgressions to create plausible deniability. That's an unavoidable reality. Regardless, the bottom line remains the bottom line, and the bottom line is this: The NCAA has completed its investigation into North Carolina's athletic department, and the NCAA couldn't tie Williams to anything. And that's a terrific development for this two-time Associated Press National Coach of the Year.

What does it mean going forward?

Honestly, who knows?

UNC athletic director Bubba Cunningham said Thursday the school will eventually agree with some allegations and disagree with others, and, either way, trying to predict what penalties the NCAA will deliver to anybody ever is a guessing-game at best. Theoretically, the Tar Heels could still receive a postseason ban. Or not. Still lose scholarships. Or not. And still have to vacate a national title. Or not. It's impossible to say.

No matter, nothing on that end will be determined until at least 2016.

And UNC doesn't plan to self-impose a 2016 NCAA Tournament ban, I'm told.

So you can expect the Tar Heels to operate under a cloud next season and perhaps into the Spring. But it'd be wise to assume they'll be in the 2016 NCAA Tournament, and it'd be unwise, knowing what we know now, to expect Williams to take a permanent stain.

Yes, this will always be part of his legacy.

Of course, some folks will forever doubt his innocence.

But Roy Williams can look in the mirror and see a man who has still never been directly tied to any major NCAA violations, and, all things considered, that's an obvious win

[johnnypc]

Is there a bigger phony than Roy Williams?

[dex]

day in the Mid-Day Rumble, North Carolina finally released their notice of allegations, Duke will face Utah at MSG, Sir'Dominic Pointer will work out for the Nuggets and Noah Dickerson commits to a west coast school.

North Carolina finally released the 59-page notice of allegations from the NCAA on Thursday afternoon and the charges consist of five serious Level I allegations that could doom the university's athletics.

The allegations focused more on the academic side of the university than the athletics but that certainly doesn't mean Roy Williams and his squad are in the clear. The NCAA has been known for overly-harsh penalties and long investigations, so the Tar Heels could still be looking at a possible NCAA Tournament ban in 2016 or 2017. They could also decide to self-sanction their program before the NCAA hits them hard, similar to the Syracuse approach from this past season.

There's no question UNC can overcome a loss of scholarships, but a postseason ban (especially this year) would be devastating for one of the greatest programs in college hoops and the legacy of Roy Williams.

While North Carolina deals with the fallout of these allegations, the Tar Heels are finalizing a new contract for Williams.

This could be a vote of confidence with everything else swirling around the program.

[dex]

DadGum it was all the fault of those Ladies


Allegations in UNC academic scandal detailed

NCAA cites ‘lack of institutional control’

By Joe Giglio The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)

The University of North Carolina released the redacted version of the Notice of Allegations from the NCAA on Thursday.

The 59-page document from the NCAA outlines the university’s wronWowoings during an academic scandal and includes five i t e m i z e d a l l e g a t i o n s . The most damaging of the specific allegations is providing impermissible academic benefits to athletes from 2002 until 2011 and for what the NCAA refers to as a “lack of institutional control.”

The NCAA described the lack of institutional control allegation as a “severe breach of conduct because the violations seriously undermine or threaten the integrity of the NCAA Collegiate Model.”

UNC has 90 days to respond to the notice, which it received May 20. The NOA effectively sets a timetable for the conclusion of the prolonged investigation into one of the most complex academic scandals in NCAA history. Under the normal timetable, UNC will meet with the NCAA in Indianapolis in three months and receive a ruling in nine months, likely by March 2016.

While the men’s basketball and football programs were the focus of Kenneth Wainstein’s investigative report released in October, it is the women’s basketball program, and the actions of former athletic academic counselor Jan Boxill that drew much of the NCAA’s attention in this probe.

Boxill, former student services manager Deborah Crowder and former chair of the African and Afro-American Studies department Julius Nyang’oro were specifically mentioned in the NOA. Their “violations of ethical conduct” consisted of three of the five specific allegations.

Crowder, Boxill and N y a n g ’ o r o n o l o n g e r work for UNC. Crowder retired in 2009. Nyang’oro resigned from his chair position in 2011 and was forced to retire in July 2012. Boxill resigned in February 2015, months after the university took action to fire her.

Boxill was a philosophy instructor and director of the Parr Center for Ethics at the school. The NCAA outlines her violations with adding content to incomplete papers for multiple athletes on the women’s basketball team. She also turned in one paper for an athlete and recommended a grade for the paper.

The notice of allegations came nearly a year after the NCAA decided to reinvestigate bogus “paper” classes at UNC and six months after Wainstein, a former federal prosecutor, linked what he described as a “shadow curriculum” created in an effort to keep athletes eligible.