UNC to appear before committee
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina is scheduled to appear before an NCAA infractions committee panel next month in its multiyear and oft-delayed academic case.
Responding to records requests, UNC on Tuesday released a June 9 letter from the NCAA setting Aug. 16-17 for the hearing in Nashville, Tennessee. The letter requests that men’s basketball coach Roy Williams, football coach Larry Fedora and women’s basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell attend.
Williams and Fedora aren’t charged with a violation — Fedora wasn’t working at UNC during the time in question — but their programs are referenced in a broader improper benefits charge. Hatchell isn’t charged either, but a former professor and academic counselor for women’s basketball is cited for providing improper assistance on assignments.
“It is standard practice for the current head coaches of programs referenced in a Notice of Allegations to attend,” UNC spokesman Joel Curran said in a statement.
Southeastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey had targeted the August dates in an April letter that laid out a new case timeline while denying a request seeking his removal as head of the hearing panel due to a conflict of interest.
UNC faces five top-level charges, including lack of institutional control, in a case tied to irregular courses on the Chapel Hill campus. A ruling typically comes weeks to months after a hearing.
The school’s document release also included a 50-page filing by the NCAA enforcement staff, a procedural step that followed the school’s May response to the most recent version of charges.
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