Hakeem Nicks ineligible during 2008 season, records show

Posted Jul 20, 2012
Hakeem Nicks, one of the all-time great football players at UNC-Chapel Hill, played his final season in 2008 while ineligible to be on the field, the university acknowledged Thursday. NCAA documents show that Nicks received improper academic help in the spring of 2008 from a tutor implicated in the NCAA scandal at UNC. The NCAA called what happened “academic fraud.” (Raleigh News & Observer)

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