North Carolina Tar Heels reports NCAA secondary violations in football

CHARLOTTE, NC – North Carolina reported secondary violations to the NCAA in the multi-player football program.

In a statement Wednesday evening, UN Sports Director Bubba Cunningham said the NCAA has ruled these violations secondary. severity and that the school has "taken appropriate disciplinary action". The statement did not specify the nature of this action or the violations.

Team spokesman Bobby Hundley said the violations involved several players, but he would not specify a number. Asked about possible suspensions, Hundley said that "the details were not finalized", and he did not elaborate further.

WRAL TV in Raleigh first reported that the school had self-reported violations to the NCAA, citing unnamed sources. 19659002] "We expect a lot from our students, our coaches and our staff, and we expect everyone to respect and embrace the rules of the team and the NCAA," said Cunningham in the communicated. "We are disappointed when we miss and we are always trying to improve ourselves."

This statement came after coach Larry Fedora, defensive tackle Aaron Crawford and receiver Anthony Ratliff-Williams appeared before the media days in Charlotte earlier in the afternoon. Fedora did not refer to the violations, although he caused a sensation when he said that he did not believe that it was proven that football causes disease degenerative cerebral CTE and offered a passionate defense of a sport that he believes to be "attacked". 19659002] Although this case involves secondary violations considered less severe, it occurs less than a year after the UNC finally emerged from a long series of serious NCAA problems after passing much of Cunningham's mandate to deal with NCAA charges