They sure as shit weren't going to get NIL right either.

The main issue was with SACS.

There's no way North Carolina should have kept their accreditation.

...there wasn't a chance in hell SACS was going to disenfranchise a state's top-tier university. It simply wasn't going to happen.

The NCAA pussed out by not punishing the Tar Heel basketball team.

It probably involved every single sports team, because it involved thousands of non athletes as well, over decades.

I sympathize with the NCAA when a university tells them "no, these classes met our academic standards - you're not a judge of academic standards, we are."

The NCAA can't do anything at that point because they are not, in fact, equipped to judge the academic merits of purported classes and coursework.

Perhaps it's true that SACS was never going to do anything, but that just eliminates any credibility or worth they had.

North Carolina is a fraudulent institution. This isn't about athletics or cheating - its that at the core of their mission they have no integrity.

But this NIL thang, well, they just ain't quite got that one figured out yet.

and went straight to the money bit a while ago.

At least UNC tried to make it look somewhat above board.

The school was 100 percent complicit in this. Either they offered meaningless classes to students or they facilitated athletes' cheating. It has to be one or the other, it can't be neither.

Why do you continually defend North Carolina for their systemic, institutionally approved academic fraud?

I have no opinion about North Carolina.

weighing in on a subthread about North Carolina.

Doofus.

It’s entirely relevant and predictive of the NCAA stance on all of this. Just like the NCAA ruled that it’s not their place to crack down on academic standards, I expect they will (continue to) take a similar approach to NIL and employment issues. They will continue to reap any financial benefits of the sport while continuing to avoid any accountability re standards for student athletes.

that Notre Dame doesn't really have the high ground on these sorts of issues anymore. Although we all know that Brian "none, zero, zip, nada" (or whatever that asshole said) isn't to blame.