UNC-Chapel Hill Tells NCAA It Lacks Authority On Alleged Allegations PDF Print E-mail
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Tuesday, 02 August 2016 16:32
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has told the the NCAA that it lacks the authority to issue sanctions on five allegation of academic irregularities involving student-athletes saying those affairs were under the jurisdiction of its accreditation agency. 
 
UNC disagreed with a charge of "lack of institutional control" stating, "Issues related to UNC–Chapel Hill’s academic irregularities are the proper subject of review by SACSCOC, its accrediting agency – not the NCAA, its athletic association."
 
"We work with an accrediting agency; the NCAA is the athletic agency," UNC athletics director Bubba Cunningham said Tuesday in a conference call. "We think they have different jurisdictions."
 
UNC is also challenging all academic related charges, including "failure to monitor," on both the NCAA's statute of limitations (four years) and the NCAA's "jurisdiction over the academic affairs."
 
"UNC-Chapel Hill accepts full responsibility for its serious past academic problems, and it has addressed them directly without regard to cost or reputational harm," the response reads. "But ... The question is whether the matters raised by the ANOA meet the jurisdictional, procedural, and substantive requirements of the NCAA constitution and bylaws."
 
A public copy of the response was made available on the Carolina Commitment website one day after the university formally submitted the response to the NCAA. UNC requested, and was granted, a one-week extension by the NCAA to deliver the response. Their 90-day time to respond expired July 25.
 
UNC will now await the NCAA's response. They will then arrange a date to meet with the NCAA Committee on Infractions. It is at that meeting where they will learn whether the university will be subject to any punishment. The NCAA generally takes between eight and 12 weeks to deliver that after the hearing which could push the finality of the investigation into 2017.
 
No current coaches at UNC were named in the latest allegations.
 
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