A 131-page report on the findings of the University of North Carolina's alleged academic fraud to benefit 3,100 students, 47 percent of whom were athletes, was released Wednesday.
Independent investigator Kenneth Wainstein led the effort to get to the bottom of what transpired in Chapel Hill over the course of nearly three decades.
Pat Forde of Yahoo Sports reported on the big news, noting that 10 players from UNC basketball's 2005 national title-winning squad were African-American studies majors.
From 1993 to 2011, the university's African and Afro-American classes aided students to the point of keeping them on course to graduate or to grant them academic eligibility for athletics. The activity was led by now-retired department secretary Deborah Crowder.
This is according to what The Washington Post's Chuck Culpepper discovered from Wednesday's investigation release.
The following snapshot from Yahoo Sports' Rand Getlin (h/t CBSSports.com's Jon Solomon) summarizes those details with further clarity:
Culpepper also documented what new UNC chancellor Carol Folt had to say about the "paper classes" that athletes and other benefiting students didn't even have to show up for.
"That this would have gone so far that an administrator (and not a faculty member) would be assigning a grade, it was such a shock," said Folt.
The Nation's Dave Zirin weighed in on the situation:
Bomani Jones of ESPN offered his take:
ESPN Outside the Lines host Bob Ley tweeted a couple other key details regarding the men's basketball and football programs:
Although paying high-profile student-athletes for the revenue they generate for the school and athletic department has been a hot-button issue, this academic calamity reportedly includes non-athletes too.
It remains to be seen whether the NCAA will step in and hand down sanctions to the university. For such a long-ranging and widespread purported scandal, UNC has the opportunity to exact its own disciplinary measures without interference from collegiate sports' top governing body.
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