The NCAA's third Notice of Allegations for UNC-Chapel Hill was released Thursday, and Athletic Director Bubba Cunningham said he's never seen this many notices on one case. Assistant sports editor Blake Richardson compared the three NOAs and found that the latest notice differs from the first and second ones in a few key areas. Here are the six biggest differences.
Accusations span longer
The fifth allegation in the new NOA says the violations occurred from the 2002 fall semester to the 2011 summer semester — just like the first notice. But in the second NOA, these allegations don't start until the 2005 fall semester.
Football and men's basketball return
After being removed in the second notice, football and men's basketball are back.
The two sports are reintroduced in the first allegation of the most recent NOA after being omitted in the second notice. Women's basketball is mentioned in the Boxill allegation and was present in both prior NOAs.
Interestingly, the first NOA mentions all three sports together in the fifth allegation, and this is the only place where football and men's basketball are mentioned. Yet in the third NOA, football and men's basketball are named in the first allegation but not women's basketball (which is named in other places in the NOA, but not with men's and football). This is also the only place in the third NOA where football and men's basketball are mentioned.
Nyang'oro and Crowder and fake classes
The first allegation of the third NOA names Julius Nyang'oro and Deborah Crowder as the people who maintained and administered the fake classes for the African and Afro-American Studies Department, but the first and second NOAs do not directly implicate Nyang'oro or Crowder in facilitating these courses — only alleging they impeded the NCAA investigation.
All three NOAs mention wrongdoings by counselors in the Academic Support Program for Student Athletes (ASPSA). In the second NOA, this allegation is from 2005 to 2011 (and it's listed as the fifth allegation — not the first). But in the first and third NOA, it's from 2002 to 2011.
The first NOA alleges the University allowed 10 student-athletes to graduate with independent study credit hours exceeding the 12-hour limit. This is not explicitly mentioned in the second or third NOA.
