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Solomon: How UNC could avoid NCAA penalties
- Updated: April 25, 2016
What a day to be a Tar Heel. Unless you’re women’s basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell.
North Carolina’s women’s basketball program looks like Jerry Tarkanian’s old statement about Kentucky and Cleveland State.
“The NCAA is so mad at North Carolina’s across-the-board academic misconduct over 18 years that it will probably slap another two-year probation on the Tar Heels’ women’s basketball program.”
It’s hard to read the NCAA’s amended notice of allegations against North Carolina released Monday and not think the football and men’s basketball programs will avoid major penalties. There is no longer any specific mention of football or men’s basketball. They have been removed from the previous notice without an explanation.
In the first notice of allegations from May 2015, the NCAA wrote this: “The (African and Afro-American Studies) department created anomalous courses that went unchecked for 18 years. This allowed individuals within (Academic Support Program for Student-Athletes) to use these courses through special arrangements to maintain the eligibility of academically at-risk student athletes, particularly in the sports of football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball.”
Today? The only sport specifically mentioned in the five Level I violations is women’s basketball. Monday’s document is the notice of allegations that will be used moving forward, NCAA spokeswoman Emily James confirmed. James said the NCAA could not comment on specifics about the case due to confidentiality rules.
Now, it’s always possible that allegation Nos. 4 and 5 could still involve football and men’s basketball because they address the broader issue of failing to monitor. But it’s not the NCAA’s way lately to punish a team that’s not named in the notice of allegations.
Under the NCAA’s new enforcement guidelines, the association is supposed to be as detailed as it can when supporting allegations. The idea is don’t describe allegations in a macro way; do them with specifics so the details support the overriding lack of institutional control.
Since the NCAA doesn’t specifically mention football and men’s basketball, I would be surprised to see them get any type of significant punishment at this point. And if football and men’s basketball are off the hook, get ready for a firestorm throughout college sports about …
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