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Why Thursday was a good day for Roy Williams and his program

On Thursday, North Carolina officially released the Notice of Allegations that they had received from the NCAA on May 20th.

The damage? Five Level I violations, including a charge of lack of institutional control charge and broad and wide-ranging accusations of impermissible benefits.

(The NCAA essentially determined that the academic fraud happening at the university was a scholastic issue and that advisors guiding athletes into those so-called ‘paper classes’ — independent study courses that were turned into sham classes in order for students, both athletes and normal members of the student body, to receive easy grades — was a benefit that was not provided to regular students.