UNC self-reports academic violations involving football team

North Carolina’s strange football preseason took another unexpected turn Thursday afternoon when InsideCarolina reported the school has self-reported academic infractions involving the team to the NCAA.

Carolina coach Butch Davis was scheduled to meet with reporters at around 3:20 p.m., after the afternoon practice, but that session was cancelled. The school will hold a news conference with Davis, athletics director Dick Baddour and chancellor Holden Thorp at 7:30 p.m. Thursday night.

NCAA investigators have been on the Chapel Hill campus twice to interview UNC players.