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posted 10-28-2014 11:11 AM
Can you imagine what he would have said if it was UK that did the dirty deed?
The results of the report were "deeply troubling," according to NCAA president Mark Emmert. While the NCAA will not reach a decision regarding further action -- the football program was punished with scholarship reductions and a postseason ban for the 2012 season -- until its own investigation is complete, Emmert discussed the Wainstein report with the Associated Press on Monday.
"Just based on the (Kenneth) Wainstein report, this is a case that potentially strikes at the heart of what higher education is about," Emmert said. "Universities are supposed to take absolutely most seriously the education of their students, right? I mean that's why they exist, that's their function in life. If the Wainstein report is accurate, then there was severe, severe compromising of all those issues, so it's deeply troubling. ... It's absolutely disturbing that we find ourselves here right now."
It will be interesting to see how the NCAA treats UNC now, under a new penalty structure that was not in place for the football program's case in 2010-11. Colleague Jon Solomon notes that the report could give the NCAA enough to charge the school with a Level I violation that brings a variety of harsh penalties -- postseason bans, pricey fines, scholarship reductions and even a one-year suspension for a head coach are all on the table.
But Solomon also pointed out that the new penalty structure allows for "aggravating or mitigating factors can increase or decrease the punishment."
"North Carolina will likely argue there's a mitigating factor: The university went to great effort and expense to conduct a public investigation," Solomon wrote last week. "North Carolina could argue the NCAA would not have found out about the scope of the fraud if not for the university-funded Wainstein investigation."
Until the NCAA completes its own investigation, no one, not even North Carolina, can be sure how Emmert and the enforcement team will address the new information revealed in the Wainstein report, but it sounds like they definitely plan on addressing the academic fraud which spanned 18 years across multiple sports.
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posted 10-28-2014 11:40 AM
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