CHAPEL HILL
A little more than three months after the NCAA charged UNC-Chapel Hill with five major violations stemming from its long-running academic scandal, the university lodged a strenuous argument against the most serious allegations and questioned the core of the NCAA’s case.
On Tuesday, the university released a public version of its response, the next step in an NCAA investigation into a scheme of classes advertised as lectures that never met and required only a paper that yielded an easy grade. Other bogus classes were independent studies that weren’t monitored by a professor.
The crux of UNC’s argument: The classes at the heart of the scandal, which some critics have described as the worst academic fraud case in college sports history, aren’t subject to NCAA jurisdiction, and neither are the problems those classes created.