UNC Receives Notice of Allegations from NCAA: Latest Details, Comments, Reaction

The University of North Carolina confirmed Wednesday it received its third notice of allegations from the NCAA stemming from its academic fraud case, per Dan Kane of the News & Observer.

Ben Sherman of Scout's Inside Carolina noted that "the case dates back to June 2014, when the NCAA announced it was reopening its 2011 examination of academic irregularities in UNC's African and Afro-American Studies (AFAM) department."

According to Sherman:

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Sources confirm this new version reinstates aspects of the original first notice that were then altered for the amended notice. That amended notice, which was released on April 25, replaced the impermissible benefits allegation with a failure to monitor academic support charge and removed all references to the men’s basketball and football programs.

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The third NOI will change the timeline of the case. Sherman wrote North Carolina has 90 days to respond, and the NCAA will then have 60 days to respond to the Committee on Infractions.

On Thursday, The David Glenn Show provided additional details:

Chip Patterson of CBS Sports reported the school met with the COI on Oct. 28 to review its response to the second NOI. Patterson called that hearing "unusual for NCAA cases of this nature, but so was North Carolina's aggressive response to the NCAA, challenging its authority."

In addition to the academic scandal involving the athletic department and classes in the African-American Studies department, the NCAA already gave the North Carolina football program a one-year postseason ban for an agent scandal, per Patterson.

Spokesman Rick White said the school will release Wednesday's NOI to the public at some point but didn't provide a timeline for doing so, per the Associated Press (h/t Boston Herald).

Despite the looming NCAA case, North Carolina's basketball team is off to a 10-2 start and ranked No. 8 in the Associated Press Top 25 this season. The football team finished 8-4 in the regular season and will face Stanford in the Sun Bowl on Dec. 30.