the most important part of the article:
“Nyang’Oro was chairman of the Department of African and Afro-American Studies. He resigned from that post in 2011 during a campus investigation that found certain classes in the department that instructors did not teach, undocumented grade changes and faked faculty signatures on some grade reports.
The scandal contributed to the departure of football coach Butch Davis and the resignation of a former chancellor, Holden Thorp.”
I wonder how the University is able to go after the $12k. He did what he was paid for. He kept players on the field. The University is a co-conspirator.