UNC-Chapel Hill on Thursday released a public version of its most recent response to the NCAA, which the university submitted on May 16. Here are the highlights of UNC's response:
-The university is arguing, as it has in the past, that the problems related to the African Studies courses at the heart of the NCAA investigation are not subject to NCAA bylaws. UNC's accrediting agency found those courses to be fraudulent, but the university maintains that the classes don't constitute a violation of NCAA rules.
-UNC summarizes its basic argument in the first paragraph of the response, which is 102 pages: “The public narrative for the last six years, popularized by media accounts, is that the Department of Athletics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (the “University”) took advantage of “fake classes” in the Department of African and African-American Studies (the “Department”) to keep student-athletes eligible.