The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has admittedly committed infractions from 1993-2011 (See "The Wainstein Report") in most sports across their entire athletic department.  Specific data is detailed in a couple of books recently written, "Tarnished Heels" but most importantly "Cheated" in which two specific whistleblowers tie the beginning of the entire athletic/academic scandal back to 1988 during the "Dean Smith era" in Chapel Hill.  All timelines indicate the late Dean Smith began the scandal (1961-1997), while John Swofford (1980-1997), athletic director at UNC Chapel Hill during those years, was overseeing the UNC Chapel Hill athletic department.  John Swofford left UNC Chapel Hill to become the Commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference.  Currently, he still is the ACC Commissioner.

Not surprisingly, the 1993 NCAA Champion Men's basketball team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill included four of five starters (or 80%), all of which majored in African-American Studies (or AFAM), the fraudulent department in which fake, paper classes were created.  This is according to former FBI investigator, Dr. Kenneth Wainstein, who was only allowed by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to investigate the AFAM department.  When Wainstein asked the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill if he should investigate other departments, all faculty and board members replied "No."  This is public record.  The 2005 UNC-Chapel Hill NCAA Champion Men's basketball team set an all time record for fraudulent or "paper classes" taken in one semester.  All five starters majored in AFAM and 10 of 12 players on the team majored in AFAM.  The 2009 NCAA title team was much of the same. 

What has become quite apparent and abhorrent about this entire scandal is that the narrative seems to continuously change and unfairly point to women's basketball in particular and other sports as the main culprits of this scandal when in fact the majority of facts and data point directly at the UNC-Chapel Hill Men's basketball program.  How long have us coaches, players and fans competed against the University of North Carolina on an uneven playing field/court?  How long must we continue competing against them on an uneven playing field/court?

It is in the best interest of college sports for the 2015-2016 UNC Chapel Hill Men's basketball program to be BANNED from post-season play.  Obviously sanctions will occur sometime in the Spring of 2016 from the NCAA but currently UNC Chapel Hill would be allowed to participate and possibly win another NCAA men's basketball championship while still under investigation, nearly 6 years after the investigation began.  This does not seem fair to every Division 1 program who has competed against UNC Chapel Hill for the last three decades while competing with an unfair advantage nor does it seem fair for the rest of the Division 1 programs who run a clean program and will compete in the 2016 NCAA Men's basketball tournament.

Syracuse University "self imposed" a post season ban in 2015 for their men's basketball program two weeks prior to the 2015 NCAA tournament and it was accepted by the NCAA.  Many of us, hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions of us will sign this petition in hopes that the NCAA will ban UNC-Chapel Hill from competing in the 2016 NCAA men's basketball tournament while they continue to sort out the ongoing atrocities in which have occurred within their athletic department.  Thank you in advance for your help in this matter.