Lawyer for architect of UNC’s bogus classes seeks to short-circuit NCAA’s notice of allegations
By Dan Kane
dkane@newsobserver.com
April 12, 2017 9:33 AM
The attorney for the former UNC-Chapel Hill administrative secretary who created scores of bogus classes that disproportionately provided high grades for athletes is seeking to toss out the NCAA’s latest notice of allegations.
In two letters provided to The News & Observer on Tuesday evening, attorney Elliot Abrams contends the NCAA’s enforcement staff rushed its third and latest notice of allegations after being “pressured” by the infractions committee to come up with a tougher version.
Abrams also contends the chairman of the infractions committee, Greg Sankey, has a conflict of interest and should recuse himself from hearing the case. Sankey is commissioner of the SEC, a rival “Power 5” conference of the ACC.
Some background: The NCAA issued the third notice in early December after the infractions committee conducted a rare procedural hearing to consider UNC’s due process arguments that the long-running academic scandal should not be taken up by the NCAA...
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Amazing that it goes all the way back to the days of "Dean's Myth"...yet the Holes claim that "everybody does it" and actually believe that they did nothing wrong.