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NCAA Penalizes UNC Football Program

The UNC Football team has been banned from participating in the post-season this fall.

Jeff Tiberii: North Carolina’s football team will also lose five scholarships in each of the next three seasons, and be on probation until 2015. The NCAA announced the punishments Monday following a report by the Division 1 Committee on Infractions. Violations took between 2008 and 2010 and include academic fraud, payments to players. Britton Banowsky is chair of the Committee on Infractions.

Britton Banowsky: The committee found that a former tutor committed academic fraud with three student athletes and provided impermissible benefits valued at more than 4-thousand dollars. In addition a former assistant football coach was compensated by a sports agent for providing access to student-athletes and failed to disclose his income to the University.

Former assistant John Blake cannot coach for three years. The post-season ban includes the ACC Championship game and all Bowls. The school will still receive shared revenue from the other ACC teams playing in the post-season.

Jeff Tiberii is the co-host of WUNC's "Due South." Jeff joined WUNC in 2011. During his 20 years in public radio, he was Morning Edition Host at WFDD and WUNC’s Greensboro Bureau Chief and later, the Capitol Bureau Chief. Jeff has covered state and federal politics, produced the radio documentary “Right Turn,” launched a podcast, and was named North Carolina Radio Reporter of the Year four times.
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