While the details are very scant right now, a report emanating from a website dedicated to covering North Carolina is reporting that the NCAA is investigating certain aspects of the school’s athletic programs.
Including a certain program that’s expected to challenge for an ACC title this fall.
UNC athletic director Dick Baddour confirmed to Inside Carolina.com that the governing body of collegiate athletics has been sniffing around the school but, again, refused to get into any of the specifics of a probe that’s apparently in its infancy.
“I can acknowledge that representatives from the NCAA have been to Chapel Hill to speak with some of our student-athletes,” Baddour said.
“One of the things that they instructed us in very clearly is that we are to maintain the confidence of their visit and their review. They’ve requested that we not discuss it publicly. Obviously, we’re going to fully cooperate with the NCAA in every way that we can by making things available to them and in particular by following their instruction on discussing it publicly.”
While Baddour would not confirm that the football program is part of the investigation, a source told the website that is indeed the case.
The only confirmation from the website as far as the scope of the NCAA’s look is that it’s not related to academics.
Arrests, shootings and scandals. It’s enough to make you give up on college football and start watching the pros. At least in pro football fans only have to deal with arrests and shootings.
AHHH, Brutus
How quickly you forget Bill Belicheat.
Gee, what a surprise. Davis leaves Miami (at that time, Thug U) with NCAA violations and now UNC facing NCAA investigation? Wow–it’s the John Calipari school of coaching. Cheat, Win–then leave town.
“NCMountaineer says:
July 16, 2010 8:31 AM ET
Gee, what a surprise. Davis leaves Miami (at that time, Thug U) with NCAA violations and now UNC facing NCAA investigation? Wow–it’s the John Calipari school of coaching. Cheat, Win–then leave town.”
…really? last time I checked he turned around a miami program that was under major NCAA sanctions with many forfitted scholarships. He did not leave miami under ncaa violations.
Stpeteheel33,
He not only turned it around he left Coker and All Pro NFL team. Those Canes teams were loaded!!
[...] was originally declared ineligible on Nov. 15 as part of the NCAA’s two-pronged investigation into claims that several members of the UNC football program had received impermissible benefits [...]