UNC-Chapel Hill, continuing its fight to avoid serious sanctions against its athletic programs, on Thursday released documents that seek to counter NCAA allegations by challenging the organization’s jurisdiction and by disputing the number of athletes who enrolled in a system of bogus classes.
The university also cited assertions by a key figure in the scandal that she wasn’t specifically trying to help athletes.
“The University takes seriously its obligations to comply with NCAA bylaws, but fundamentally believes that the matters at issue here were of an academic nature that do not implicate the NCAA bylaws in the manner alleged,” UNC’s attorneys Rick Evrard and Bob Kirchner wrote in a 102-page response to the governing agency for collegiate athletics.