4:40 p.m., April 25: Director of Athletics Bubba Cunningham said he was unable to provide answers to several of the questions asked of him during a conference call on the amended Notice of Allegations because the "NCAA decided what broke a bylaw and what didn't."
The disappearance of men's basketball and football, the differing timeline of when the fake classes were offered compared to the Wainstein report and the inclusion of former faculty chairperson and tutor Jan Boxill but not other tutors were not explained, as Cunningham noted all decisions were ultimately made by the NCAA.
"My concern is the five allegations I have in front of me," Cunningham said multiple times on the half hour call.
The amended NOA focuses on Boxill and her role with the women's basketball team. Despite the original NOA mentioning the fraudulent classes disproportionately affected men's basketball and football, as well, the two sports do not appear in the 13-page amended NOA.
Men's soccer does not appear either; the team was one of the two that reported new potential violations in August when the response to the first NOA was due.
UNC's reporting of the new violations extended the timeline of the NCAA's investigation in August. Now that the University has received the amended NOA, it has 90 days to respond.
Cunningham indicated that it was likely the University would use the full 90 days to respond. He said 112 pieces of evidence were used in the investigation, which was conducted jointly by the NCAA and UNC.
He said those documents would be made public after they are redacted, but in the meantime, he did not disclose the individuals interviewed or documents used in the investigation.
