An NCAA Committee on Infractions ruled Friday there wasn't enough evidence to support charging the University of North Carolina with academic violations after allegations the school ran "paper courses."
SEC commissioner Greg Sankey, who served as the chief hearing officer for the UNC case, released a statement about the panel's decision.
"While student-athletes likely benefited from the so-called 'paper courses' offered by North Carolina, the information available in the record did not establish that the courses were solely created, offered and maintained as an orchestrated effort to benefit student-athletes," he said. "The panel is troubled by the university's shifting positions about whether academic fraud occurred on its campus and the credibility of the Cadwalader report, which it distanced itself from after initially supporting the findings.