Penalties related to college athletics scandals usually relate to, you know, athletics. Postseason bans, scholarship limits, reduction in recruiting days, etc. Makes sense, as much as NCAA sanctions can make sense.
UNC’s scandal isn’t just sports. The whole university’s officially in trouble
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The Tar Heels are the athletic program currently making their way through the digestive system of the NCAA, but the school itself is having to deal with the fallout.
That's right, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is in hot water with its accreditation board over sham classes that were exploited by coaches as a way to get players easy grades. The school will be on probation for the next 12 months, and if the board doesn't think UNC has progressed toward cleaning things up, it could lose its status as a degree-granting institution.
It's extremely unlikely, but the threat alone is kind of crazy. Not as crazy as this entire scandal somehow stemming from a defensive lineman tweeting Rick Ross lyrics in 2010, but still pretty crazy nonetheless. College football is so weird.
(Seriously. This thing has been going for five years now, and it just gets weirder and weirder.)
Speaking of the Heels, Bill Connelly’s preview series touched on them yesterday, which means we begin our yearly tradition of kinda-sorta talking ourselves into UNC being good.
Wow. Brian Kelly said some refreshingly honest or terrible things about players and academics, depending on your point of view.
How do you get people in Cleveland to boo? Just show Cavs fans the Michigan logo whenever the other team’s at the free throw line.
Realignment reunion. This week marks five years since realignment fever changed major college football. The Texas Longhorns very nearly changed conferences, which leads the folks over at Burnt Orange Nation to wonder: Was Texas a winner or loser in the realignment shuffle?
And if case you’d forgotten how crazy things were five years ago, read this huge 2010 Rock M Nation post worrying about what might happen to Missouri. (Good things happened to Missouri.)
Hey, USC’s got preseason hype. That hasn’t worked out well recently, as QB Cody Kessler is fully aware.
Tiny mansions! You can now tailgate Georgia Southern games in these tiny mansions.
Nope. No, 2015 is probably not Les Miles’ last year at LSU, says Team Speed Kills.
Spurrier’s been at Carolina for 10 years. Time flies! His top 10 wins, and his top 10 losses.
Crootin’!
- Three-star CB Kyle Meyers committed to Florida State.
- Three-star QB Joshua Jackson (not the one from Dawson’s Creek) to Virginia Tech.
- Three-star OG Mackenzie Nworah is Missouri’s sixth commit in seven days.
- Auburn had two commits, one from three-star JUCO CB Jamarcus King and another from the nation’s top rated FB, Malik Miller.
- Three-star DE Alton Robinson committed to Texas A&M.
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