This was last paragraph in the NYT article. Am I completely forgetting something? I don't ever remember hearing anything about this.
"U.N.C. had contended that the case was fundamentally academic in nature, and that athletics staffers were at most tangential to it. They cited instances in which similar misconduct was alleged at Auburn and Michigan, and the N.C.A.A. did not act."
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/sports/unc-north-carolina-ncaa.html
"U.N.C. had contended that the case was fundamentally academic in nature, and that athletics staffers were at most tangential to it. They cited instances in which similar misconduct was alleged at Auburn and Michigan, and the N.C.A.A. did not act."
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/sports/unc-north-carolina-ncaa.html