OT-former North Carolina football player's comments on academic scandal

Carolina and "academic integrity". 

I remember looking at UNC for grad school (back when it had an intact reputation)...that was a while back.

But I believe only half of those involved at UNC were atheltes.  In any case my impression is that the scandal pertained to one small area of study to which a select group of  students were directed as a means of helping their GPA and scholastic eligibility.

Followed by North Carolina A&T being given the death penalty.

for the qualifier in your last sentence. I think you're much more than likely right.as opposed to those who say the NCAA will do nothing..

The NCAA is guilty of malpractice and needs to be stripped of all of its power. As for UNC, the school should get the death penatly. 

Any human being of average intellectual capacity who was able to get into Michigan through his/her academic achievements who also happened to take a class that Mario Manningham was able to pass could reasonably be expected to get an A on said class with very little effort. 

charged by the Freep with overtraining its players and far exceeding the countable hours limit for football-related activities, UNC conducted its own investigation into the academic fraud that occurred over an an alleged 18 years at the school. 

The university report was recently released and turned over to the NCAA which will now use it to supplement its own investigative findings and subsequent hearings on the case, leading to whatever official punishment and sanctions are administered. 

If anything, I think the fraud case which was actually triggered by comments from a former Carolina player who claimed the school offered scholarship athletes, especially black athletes, were frequently steered into sham African American core courses that could be passed with faked papers and work performed by others. 

In its findings, the university noted that the program was created by a certain professor no longer at the school (gone for several years now) and that groups of players were clustered in the program, but that the basketball coaching staff, especially the head coach, had limited knowledge of what was taking place. Roy Williams claimed practically no knowledge except to admit that he was slightly aware through a colleague that many players in his program were apparently taking similar courses. He supposedly questioned whether there was intent involved in this, but he claimed to have never addressed it directly with anyone beyond that or directly intervened to find out. 

Williams  foggy knowledge of the program and its reach within his program that extends beyond his tenure at the school, might seem strange, given the fact that certain players have suggested he had to know more than he has admitted. But even in his public remarks of contrition about the scandal and  confession of  a limited hangout, indicating he once had a slight feeling something might be going on, but not wanting to find out, the university report basically supports this contention. The staff apparently didn't openly encourage enrollment in the black studies program. 

Nobody wants to smear the school's basketball history with knowledge that its players never attended class and were given sham grades for tests, papers and classroom work they didn't perform because it would ruin too many reputations. 

The media in NC has to my knowledge not wanted to stir the pot any more than absolutely necessary because basketball is king and you don't step on the cape of a superprogram with all that history. Still, NCAA officials have been rattling some cages with tough rhetoric and others have suggested the school's academic ranking could be severely compromised. 

The key for anything to happen is the uncovering of people willing to testify. Who knows whether there is a paper trail that leads to the kind of action that forced Jim Tressel out after it was determined he had repeatedly lied about Tattoogate. In any case, the full UNC report of the scandal is online..