The UNC athletic department’s compliance office kept few written records related to the NCAA investigation, said Amy Herman, associate athletic director for compliance, in a deposition made public Tuesday.
The deposition was conducted as part of the ongoing lawsuit by The Daily Tar Heel and a coalition of other media outlets against UNC in an effort to obtain public records related to the football investigation.
In the deposition, Herman said communication between her and athletic director Dick Baddour and Chancellor Holden Thorp was conducted almost exclusively face to face or on the phone.
Herman also said that, as the department interviewed football players involved in the investigation, no written record was kept of players’ eligibility statuses.
“It was pretty much in our heads which student athletes were involved,” Herman said.
Later in the transcript, Herman said she has in the past been advised to avoid creating documents, though it was not revealed who advised Herman to do so.
The University contracted Bond, Schoeneck & King, a New York-based law firm, which in some cases recorded student athlete interviews during the investigation.
Herman also said in the deposition that neither Baddour nor Thorp was ever interviewed as part of the investigation.
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