The NCAA accused the University of North Carolina football program of violating NCAA rules. This seems to be the common theme this summer, so let's take a look at UNC's football program over the last three years - in terms of their offense, defense and total productivity.
On the defensive side of the ball, North Carolina is a very good team. Their defensive rankings out of the 120 FBS teams are 40th in 2008, 10th in 2009 and 23rd in 2010, even with the number of suspensions that occurred on their team. North Carolina's problem is on offense. None of the three years did North Carolina finish in the top half of the rankings on offense. In 2008 the offense was 65th, 2009 they fell to 84th and bounced back in 2010 to be 64th overall. Hence, while North Carolina is an excellent defensive team - to be expected under Butch Davis, their overall performance suffers from the other side. To be clear, UNC finished - in my production model - as the 54th best team in 2008, 33rd best team in 2009 and 43rd best team in 2010.