UNC and its football program got word from the NCAA on Tuesday of exactly what the college athletics sanctioning body alleges it found during an inquiry into alleged improprieties in the program.
In a letter to Chancellor Holden Thorp, NCAA enforcement officials allege nine violations of the group’s rules.
Some of the infractions stem from the program’s tutoring program. An unnamed tutor is accused of providing inappropriate academic assistance to players, and tutor Jennifer Willey is named as having inappropriately provided an airplane ticket and money to pay for parking fines, as well as impermissible academic assistance.
Several student-athletes are accused of having received thousands of dollars in gifts and benefits from agents and former UNC players, but the benefits and names of the students are redacted from the public version of the report.
Additionally, former associate head coach John Blake, who resigned as a result of the investigation, is singled out for allegedly facilitating contact between the sports agents and players and for allegedly misleading investigators.
–Staff Reports