Among the exhibits supporting North Carolina’s amended Notice of Allegations from the NCAA is a July 2006 email from then-chancellor James Moeser to law professor Lissa Broome, who would later become the university’s faculty athletics representative.
The subject matter of the email was an independent-studies scandal at Auburn. Broome had forwarded Moeser an email from a national faculty group, the Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics, about potential NCAA responses.
“We have consistently said that the solution to these problems is internal vigilance, not NCAA regulation,” Moeser wrote in reply.
That statement is not merely ironic because what some have called the biggest academic scandal in college athletics was being perpetrated under North Carolina’s internal vigilance at the time.