On Friday, North Carolina athletic director Bubba Cunningham invited the visitors from Champaign-Urbana into his office for a 20-minute talk about sports, NCAA troubles and the College Football Playoff (which he opposed):
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Bubba Cunningham knows Mike Thomas’ pain. Oh, too well.
The fourth-year North Carolina athletic director is in the middle of a seemingly endless NCAA investigation into his athletic program that involves the Big A’s: agents, amateurism and academics.
Don’t count on an announcement any time soon. Cunningham hopes to hear the verdict in “spring of ’16.