If ever a school deserved to be slapped by the NCAA, Penn State aside, it's UNC. If our entire argument against paying these kids to play a sport is that they're receiving a valuable education in exchange for their services, then schools need to be heavily punished when they so flagrantly defraud these kids out of the education they're paying for with their athletic skills.
Outside of the schadenfreude of watching schools like Mississippi squirm when they're in the spotlight for giving players like Tunsil a few hundred bucks here and there, I could give two shits about illegal benefits a kid receives while in school. But this shit absolutely infuriates me. Sure, even if they don't "earn" the degree they receive from a school like UNC, the diploma itself has some inherent value. But even this nominal value is diminished when a school gets busted for academic fraud to this extent.
