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SMU and Larry Brown (graduate of UNC, former assistant coach at UNC) just got hit for academic fraud, resulting in postseason ineligibility, loss of scholarships and a suspension for Brown for lack of control.

A former assistant men's basketball coach encouraged an athlete to enroll in an online course to meet NCAA initial eligibility standards and be admitted to the university. The NCAA also said a former men's basketball administrative assistant hired by Brown then completed the coursework; she then provided false information to NCAA investigators and also attempted to influence the player to also provide false information. Brown failed to report the violation for a month and initially lied when asked about it by the NCAA.

So if an instance of academic fraud gets multiple years of probation and nine cut scholarships, what does 18 years get?

As an aside, this marks the third time a Brown-coached program has been sanctioned by the NCAA, with the others being Kansas and UCLA.

As an interesting twist, Sean Stout, the Director of Recruiting at SMU, graduated from North Carolina in 2010 and was a student manager for Roy Williams from 2006-2010.

[ArtBest23]

History indicates it's the lying to the NCAA, providing false information, and obstructing justice by trying to get others to lie, that draws the major penalties.

And, you might note, Larry Brown is not going to be fired and only received a nine game suspension, even after he admitted he lied to the NCAA. And the school misses ONE year of postseason play.

This is also SMU's TENTH major infractions case - the most of any school in the NCAA.

And they get to count the number they were already under the scholarship limit last year against the new scholarship reductions, so it's actually only 7.

What is more significant is that the NCAA also imposed sanctions on the SMU golf team for recruiting infractions and offering discounted equipment. They are banned from post season competition for one year. The reason it's far more significant is that SMU senior Bryson DeChambeau is not only the defending NCAA individual champion, but also won the US Amateur this summer. He chose not to turn pro, but instead to return to SMU. Now he will be unable to defend his NCAA title.

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[RavenDog]

These guys are as slippery as Hillary Clinton and all will continue to get away with slaps on the wrist. What's new?

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UNC representatives are scheduled to appear before the NCAA Committee on Infractions on Oct. 28 in Indianapolis.

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Whistleblower Mary Willingham and Jay M. Smith:

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Breakdown of enrollments in the paper classes by men's basketball coach (13 scholarships; often not fully allotted, but using that number for calculation):

Bill Guthridge - 17 in 3 years (5.7 per year)
Matt Doherty - 42 in 3 years (14 per year)
Roy Williams - 167 in 6 years (27.8 per year; more than 2.1 per scholarship athlete, assuming the full allotment of 13 scholarships)

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[NoDakSt]

Preseason Coaches Poll

1. Baylor
2. Texas
3. Oklahoma
4. Iowa State
5. Texas Christian
6. West Virginia
7. Kansas State
8. Oklahoma State
9. Texas Tech
10. Kansas

[Howee]

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UNC just released/dumped 20+ GB of scanned PDF

The following records come from a database of nearly 1.7 million unique electronic records compiled by Kenneth Wainstein’s firm, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, as part of the report released on Oct. 22, 2014. The database contained about 5 million total pages of documents.

http://carolinacommitment.unc.edu/records/

One TDD poster chose file 4D and noted that on page 3383 is a slide deck on the subject of "Remediation" by Beth Bridger and Mary Willingham. It is undated, but the content suggests a presentation around 2008.

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Interactive graphic: One year after the Wainstein report (The Daily Tar Heel)

Read more: http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2015/10/interactive-graphic-one-year-after-the-wainstein-report

Eunice Sahle
Current position: Chairperson of the African, African-American and Diaspora Studies department
What Wainstein said about her: Sahle’s knowledge of the classes was less than that of fellow professors Tim McMillan and Alphonse Mutima, but she still was aware of them. She allowed Crowder to sign up several students in her lectures to mask the true nature of the class.

"According to Crowder, Professor Sahle was aware that she was adding paper class students and 'agreed that a few students could get away with not showing up and doing a paper at the end [of the semester].'Crowder’s recollection is corroborated by an email in which she tells Wayne Waldenn that one of his players can take a Sahle lecture class without having to attend,” the report said.

Sylvia Hatchell
Current position: Head Women’s Basketball Coach
What Wainstein said about her: Hatchell told Wainstein’s team that she knew many of her players took paper classes, but did not know the classes were offered without normal class requirements like attendance. She entrusted her team’s academic counselor, Jan Boxill, with the handling of her players’ schedules and classes. Hatchell even believed Deborah Crowder was a faculty member, according to the report.

Roy Williams
Current position: Head Men’s Basketball Coach
What Wainstein said about him: Williams brought his two top academic personnel with him from Kansas University: Wayne Walden and Joe Holladay. The report stated that Williams would occasionally talk to players about their classes, but mostly left that to Holladay and Walden. When he arrived at UNC, Williams was troubled with the amount of African and Afro-American Studies majors on the team, according to the report. He claims he was never told anything about the format of the classes, including that a non-faculty member was grading them.

However, Wainstein also noted:



Breakdown of enrollments in the paper classes by men's basketball coach (13 scholarships; often not fully allotted, but using that number for calculation):

Bill Guthridge - 17 in 3 years (5.7 per year)
Matt Doherty - 42 in 3 years (14 per year)
Roy Williams - 167 in 6 years (27.8 per year; more than 2.1 per scholarship athlete, assuming the full allotment of 13 scholarships)

For comparison:
Sylvia Hatchell - 114 in 18 years (6.33 per year)
Note that the time period (eighteen years) is the total years of the scandal, during which Hatchell was the only WCBB coach. If the period of enrollments for WCBB players in paper classes did not actually start until much later (or a majority started much later), the per year average would go up).

Interesting that Roy Williams brought his own academic advisor from Kansas, was involved enough to express concern about the number of African and Afro-American Studies majors, but not involved enough to note that his teams averaged 27.8 paper classes per year (again, with his chosen academic advisor), an amount that was double that of his predecessor.

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The NCAA Investigation

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Additional notes/tidbits:

[ClayK]

Thanks for all this ... what is the reaction in North Carolina? Or do the boosters and administration not care that much?

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The drop in AFAM majors at UNC since the scandal broke....

http://s3.amazonaws.com/media.dth/30043_plummetf.jpg

[ArtBest23]

Nm

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Cumulative tuition collected by UNC for fraudulent classes:
$2.5 million

(6,806 enrollments)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SldFDqmoUtW7HP9QvVdlGp9S96b3WJ5MXE93i2ICD7M/edit?pli=1#gid=0