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per ESPN:
In the coming months, the NCAA will attempt to reiterate -- and perhaps redefine -- its role as the punitive arm of collegiate athletics.
High-profile cases involving North Carolina (academic fraud) and Louisville (sex-for-pay scandal), both of which have been appealed, could act as deterrents for future rule-breakers or demonstrate the NCAA's limited power and reduced position in the era of the Power Five sports complex if their original penalties are adjusted through the appeals processes.
"We're kind of at a crossroads and trying to see what authority and jurisdiction the NCAA really has," said one former member of the NCAA's Committee on Infractions (COI) who requested anonymity due to relationships with current members handling the cases at Louisville and North Carolina.
Roy Williams' two national title banners could be lost in the NCAA's ongoing academic fraud investigation surrounding sham classes at UNC. Pitino is facing a five-game suspension and a vacated 2013 national championship after a sex-for-pay scandal.
They are unprecedented possibilities -- no team has ever vacated a national title -- for unprecedented events.
But North Carolina and Louisville have offered fervent rebuttals to claims made by the COI, the NCAA's judge and jury.
North Carolina has told the NCAA that it has no power to punish its athletics department because it's the governing body of collegiate athletics, not academics.
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...ing-rick-pitino-roy-williams-shape-power-ncaa
Go Gophers!!
In the coming months, the NCAA will attempt to reiterate -- and perhaps redefine -- its role as the punitive arm of collegiate athletics.
High-profile cases involving North Carolina (academic fraud) and Louisville (sex-for-pay scandal), both of which have been appealed, could act as deterrents for future rule-breakers or demonstrate the NCAA's limited power and reduced position in the era of the Power Five sports complex if their original penalties are adjusted through the appeals processes.
"We're kind of at a crossroads and trying to see what authority and jurisdiction the NCAA really has," said one former member of the NCAA's Committee on Infractions (COI) who requested anonymity due to relationships with current members handling the cases at Louisville and North Carolina.
Roy Williams' two national title banners could be lost in the NCAA's ongoing academic fraud investigation surrounding sham classes at UNC. Pitino is facing a five-game suspension and a vacated 2013 national championship after a sex-for-pay scandal.
They are unprecedented possibilities -- no team has ever vacated a national title -- for unprecedented events.
But North Carolina and Louisville have offered fervent rebuttals to claims made by the COI, the NCAA's judge and jury.
North Carolina has told the NCAA that it has no power to punish its athletics department because it's the governing body of collegiate athletics, not academics.
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...ing-rick-pitino-roy-williams-shape-power-ncaa
Go Gophers!!