NCAA Penalizes U. of North Carolina for Academic Fraud

The NCAA has placed the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on probation for three years after finding that members of its football team committed academic fraud and multiple athletes accepted $31,000 in impermissible benefits, the Division I Committee on Infractions said today. The Tar Heels’ football team may not play in a bowl game next year and must forfeit 15 scholarships over a three-year period. A former assistant football coach, who was paid by a sports agent for providing access to athletes but who refused to cooperate with the NCAA’s investigation, was given a three-year show-cause penalty, restricting his ability to be hired elsewhere.