Mary Willingham, the former UNC-Chapel Hill reading specialist who blew the whistle on years of academic fraud involving athletes, says she is willing to be interviewed by the NCAA, so long as it’s on “their dime.”
“The Cartel can interview me on their own dime – and with permission from my new employer,” Willingham said in an email message to The News & Observer on Wednesday. She made the offer after newly released correspondence in the NCAA infractions case showed the NCAA’s infractions committee chairman suggested she would be worth seeking out for an interview, which prompted UNC’s attorney to write that she had been “discredited.