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North Carolina ruled ineligible for a bowl next season and must forfeit 15 scholarships
Charles Robinson

By Charles Robinson, Yahoo! Sports

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The NCAA’s Committee on Infractions announced Monday the University of North Carolina failed to monitor its football program and will not be bowl eligible following the 2012 college football season. UNC also will have to forfeit 15 scholarships over the next three seasons.
John Blake

Former assistant coach John Blake was also hit with a three-year “show cause” no-recruiting penalty as part of sanctions resulting from a 16-month NCAA investigation into the Tar Heels football program spanning 2010 and 2011. Blake’s censure means he will be banned from all recruiting activities in college football for three years unless a future employer argues successfully that he should be allowed to resume those duties. North Carolina also received three years probation, a $50,000 fine and must vacate all football victories from the 2008 and 2009 seasons. Multiple individuals also must be disassociated from the program for a varying period, including former tutor Jennifer Wiley and former Tar Heel wideout Hakeem Nicks.
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[ Y! Sports original report: Ex-UNC coach-agent ties probed ]

Yahoo! Sports investigative stories in August and September 2010 revealed that Blake had business and financial ties to sports agency Pro Tect Management, as well as now-deceased agent Gary Wichard. Former star defensive tackle Marvin Austin was implicated in the September report as having received improper benefits from Wichard, and Blake was forced to resign by North Carolina in September, less than one month after the first Yahoo! Sports report was published.

North Carolina ultimately held 14 players out of competition in 2010 as part of the investigation, and seven of those players were suspended for the entire season. Head coach Butch Davis, who was not implicated in the NCAA investigation, was fired by the school prior to the 2011 season.

[ Y! Sports investigation: Money trail ties agent, ex-UNC coach ]

The 15 scholarship losses over three seasons is a stiffer sanction than the nine scholarships docked from Ohio State in December, after the Buckeyes were embroiled in an extra-benefits scandal and concealment that ultimately cost coach Jim Tressel his job. However, Ohio State also received a harsher bowl ban – for a total of two years (2011 and 2012), as well as a five-year show cause penalty for Tressel.

The penalties are also more severe than those self-imposed by the Tar Heels in September, which included two years of probation, a reduction of three scholarships in each of the next three seasons, vacating all wins in 2008 and 2009, and a $50,000 fine. However, the school chose not to self-impose a bowl ban following the 2011 season, playing Missouri in the Independence Bowl and thus leaving any postseason sanctions to the NCAA. Rather than accept North Carolina’s penalties, the Committee on Infractions opted to increase them. But multiple sources told Yahoo! Sports the severity of the association’s response was mitigated by the school’s cooperation during the probe

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However, Ohio State also received a harsher bowl ban – for a total of two years (2011 and 2012), as well as a five-year show cause penalty for Tressel.

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Did I imagine it or did Ohio State lose to Florida in the Gator bowl this year???

Sorry Should of been UNC not NC State, I changed the title.