CHAPEL HILL NCAA infractions case No. 00231 began simply enough, with a letter, dated June, 30, 2014, from the NCAA to UNC-Chapel Hill. The letter was, in NCAA parlance, a “notice of inquiry” – the first official documentation in any major NCAA investigation.
The start of the case, and producing that letter expressing the NCAA’s intent to investigate how years of bogus African Studies courses benefited athletes, was the easy part. The more difficult part – building a case and applying NCAA bylaws to what transpired at UNC – has endured since.
UNC officials, including chancellor Carol Folt, athletic director Bubba Cunningham and coaches Larry Fedora, Sylvia Hatchell and Roy Williams, will convene on Wednesday in Nashville, Tenn.