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Maryland president ‘would think’ UNC gets death penalty. One would think he is out to lunch.
By Chuck Culpepper April 11 at 5:00 PM

Some 678 days have passed since the dead of the fourth day of June 2015, when the University of North Carolina released the 730-page Notice of Allegations with which the NCAA had greeted it 15 days prior. That news took the usual American stew of resentment, rationalization and fan tribalism and gave it a good, fresh frothing.

It has boiled only on occasion since, again on Monday evening, when the Raleigh News & Observer reported that Wallace D. Loh, the president of the University of Maryland, responded to a question from a faculty member in a university senate meeting last Thursday by guessing — “I would think” — the North Carolina academic scandal “would lead to the implementation of the death penalty by the NCAA.”

Continued: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/sports/wp/2017/04/11/maryland-president-would-think-unc-gets-death-penalty-one-would-think-he-is-out-to-lunch/?utm_term=.6705c273cd16

UNC just won the basketball championship so this is a bit interesting. The charges probably go back a few years but still.