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Marvin Austin found guilty, Russell Wilson will be suspended for the season, per NCAA.

 

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NCAA visits UNC again



BY KEN TYSIAC AND J.P. GIGLIO - Staff Writers

NCAA investigators were back on the North Carolina campus on Wednesday, athletic director Dick Baddour confirmed.

The NCAA has visited several schools in what appears to be a wide-ranging investigation of potential improprieties involving athletes and sports agents.

"We are all working as hard as we can to resolve this issue as quickly as we can," Baddour said.

Meanwhile, a UNC football team spokesman said defensive tackle Marvin Austin and wide receiver Greg Little will practice with the team Friday when the Tar Heels' training camp opens.

Shane Lyons, the ACC's associate commissioner for compliance, said there is no NCAA rule against players under NCAA investigation participating in practice.

On July 12 and 13, NCAA investigators Rachel Newman-Baker and Chance Martin interviewed an undisclosed number of athletes at UNC. Little's father later said that Little was interviewed, and The News & Observer confirmed that Austin also spoke to investigators.

Baddour declined to reveal who was interviewed during the NCAA's return to campus. Baddour did say Wednesday that the school is participating in the investigation in conjunction with the NCAA.

"We view this as a joint review, absolutely, that's ongoing," Baddour said. "Their initial call to us was that we will conduct this review together, and that's what we're doing."

The review won't affect who can practice with the team. Lyons said a player would be able to practice even if ruled ineligible.

"They would be ineligible for competition, not for practice," Lyons said.

Kevin Best, the team's spokesman, said Austin and Little will be at practice Friday.

South Carolina tight end Weslye Saunders, who was also interviewed by the NCAA, practiced with the Gamecocks on Tuesday.

UNC opens the season on Sept. 4 against Louisiana State in Atlanta. If it doesn't get a ruling from the NCAA, Lyons said, then the school would have to make a decision.

"The institution has to ask itself if they have violated any rules," Lyons said, without specifically commenting on the UNC probe. "Then they would have to make a determination if they are going to withhold the players in question."

Lyons said players ruled ineligible by the NCAA are still eligible to remain on scholarship and practice with the team, under NCAA rules.

It would be up to UNC, not the ACC or NCAA, to revoke an ineligible player's scholarship, Lyons said.

Since their initial visit to North Carolina, NCAA investigators are known to have met with athletes at South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia and Clemson.

NCAA rules prevent athletes from agreeing to allow agents to represent them and from accepting anything of value from agents. NCAA penalties for athletes can range from having to repay the benefit to permanent loss of eligibility, depending on the severity of the violation.

Schools also can be forced to expunge from their records any games in which ineligible athletes participated. North Carolina's Uniform Athlete Agent Act also requires agents to register with the state and prohibits them from making false promises or providing anything of value to student-athletes before they enter into a contract.

As a result of media reports about UNC, North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall has launched an investigation into possible violations of the law by agents.

 

The boy just don't know when to keep his mouth shut......



UNC's Yates: Am I allowed to accept this?


GREENSBORO -- UNC quarterback T.J. Yates took part in the annual golf outing at the ACC Football Kickoff on Monday morning -- and won the award for closest to the pin.

When his victory was announced at lunch, the senior quipped, "Am I allowed to accept this?" as he was handed his prize.

It was a wry one-liner in the face of the fact that the NCAA is investigating whether Tar Heels players received extra benefits from agent.