Responding to a question about conflict of interest concerns in North Carolina's ongoing NCAA investigation, ACC Commissioner John Swofford said on Thursday that peer review has been part of the NCAA's investigative process for “a long, long time.”
“I think forever,” Swofford said, speaking at the conclusion of the ACC's annual spring meetings. “I've been around a long time, but not that long.”
Swofford acknowledged that the ACC is closely following the NCAA investigation at UNC, which responded on Tuesday to the NCAA's third Notice of Allegations in the case. UNC received that notice after Greg Sankey, the chairman of the NCAA Committee on Infractions, encouraged the NCAA Enforcement Staff to evaluate whether the second NOA properly addressed the case.