Only months after we saw Syracuse Men's basketball and football receive NCAA sanctions, the North Carolina Tar Heels are set to receive the worst NCAA Basketball sanctions ever.

The NCAA charged the Tar Heels with five violations connected to the school's long-running academic fraud scandal, including a lack of institutional control for poor oversight of an academic department in control of popular athletes.

The charges include providing improper benefits in the form of counselors making "special arrangements''  in the formerly-named African and Afro-American Studies (AFAM) department to offer courses for athletes, as well as a counselor working with the women's basketball program providing improper help on research papers, leading players to be eligible to play.

All five charges are considered Level I violations, described by the NCAA as a "serious

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In October former basketball star Rashad Mccants ESPN's "Outside the Lines" that he could have been academically ineligible to play during the championship season had he not been provided with assistance. he went on saying  head basketball coach Roy Williams knew about the "paper class" system at UNC. The so-called paper classes didn't require students to go to class; rather, students were required to submit only one term paper to receive a grade. receives

The five charges that the NCAA sanctioned are:

• There was a lack of institutional control in failing to "sufficiently monitor'' the AFAM department as well as the academic support department for athletes, noting athletes received "preferential access'' to the department's irregular courses.

• Former AFAM department chairman Julius Nyang'oro, the other staffer most directly linked to the department's irregular courses, also declined to cooperate with the NCAA probe.

• Academic counselor Jan Boxill, who worked with women's basketball, provided improper assistance by sometimes adding content to athletes' papers. Also, in at least one case, she recommended a grade for submitted work.

• Academic counselors leveraged relationships from the fall semester in 2002 to the summer session of 2011 with AFAM department faculty and staff to provide athletes with benefits "not generally available to the student body.'' Those benefits included suggesting assignments to the department, turning in papers for athletes and recommending grades.

• Former AFAM office administrator Deborah Crowder, one of two department staffers most directly linked to irregular courses in the department, didn't cooperate with NCAA investigators.

 

 

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