If you google "NCAA Mission", this is the quote you'll find: "Our purpose is to govern competition in a fair, safe, equitable and sportsmanlike manner, and to integrate intercollegiate athletics into higher education so that the educational experience of the student-athlete is paramount."

 

Here is a link to the NCAA's Core Values: NCAA Core Values | NCAA.org - The Official Site of the NCAA

 

I hate to bring Louisville into this discussion, but stating that North Carolina's issues are beyond the scope of the NCAA is comparable to saying that Louisville's indiscretions are in the hands of law enforcement & not an NCAA issue. Yes, there are major institutional issues in Chapel Hill, and potentially major accreditation issues in Chapel Hill, but there are also major NCAA issues as well. Again, these issues are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they're interrelated.

 

I hear everything you are saying. I understand the correlation between academics and athletics. UNC is/has been cheating, that much is obvious. But exactly HOW (meaning, what specific rules they have broken) is undetermined, which is why there has been no ruling.

If you google "NCAA Mission", this is the quote you'll find: "Our purpose is to govern competition in a fair, safe, equitable and sportsmanlike manner, and to integrate intercollegiate athletics into higher education so that the educational experience of the student-athlete is paramount."

 

Here is a link to the NCAA's Core Values: NCAA Core Values | NCAA.org - The Official Site of the NCAA

 

I hate to bring Louisville into this discussion, but stating that North Carolina's issues are beyond the scope of the NCAA is comparable to saying that Louisville's indiscretions are in the hands of law enforcement & not an NCAA issue. Yes, there are major institutional issues in Chapel Hill, and potentially major accreditation issues in Chapel Hill, but there are also major NCAA issues as well. Again, these issues are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they're interrelated.

 

I thought it was quit revealing that in his poet game remarks Mark Fews said he was "Proud of our student athletes. We do it right at Gonzaga". That about as thinly a veiled shot at UNC as he could make without flatly saying UNC cheats. Obviously other coaches are fed up with this whole situation. They just can't come right out and say it.

I hear everything you are saying. I understand the correlation between academics and athletics. UNC is/has been cheating, that much is obvious. But exactly HOW (meaning, what specific rules they have broken) is undetermined, which is why there has been no ruling.

 

If you're saying that the accreditation agency needs to finalize its investigation & impose its punishment (if necessary) against UNC first, then the NCAA follow suit, I wouldn't disagree. But you indicated that this is not an NCAA issue, at least not yet...and I vehemently disagree with that opinion.

I thought it was quit revealing that in his poet game remarks Mark Fews said he was "Proud of our student athletes. We do it right at Gonzaga". That about as thinly a veiled shot at UNC as he could make without flatly saying UNC cheats. Obviously other coaches are fed up with this whole situation. They just can't come right out and say it.

 

Few would never take a shot at UNC especially while Roy Williams was coaching there. You must have missed the article talking about Few's relationship with Roy.