I guess that's one way to look at it. AFAM wasn't following the rules prior to 2012 so you want to claim that they weren't required to follow the rules. Sounds convenient but if that's what UNC is hanging their hat on, that's incredible lame, and an extremely weak argument. If anything it's an admission that anything prior to 2012 can be considered ripe for investigation of fraud, since obviously no one at UNC was paying attention to what was going on, and if they did they obviously shirked their duty and were complicit in the fraud.
The rules were in the undergraduate bulletin, which presumably applies to undergraduates regardless of which school they are in (and especially if they haven't yet declared a major which generally doesn't happen at UNC until their junior year.)
FWIW, as I said I don't claim to know all the details of any of this (believe it or not, it's not me or PackPride who needs to prove anything, it's UNC that's being judged here.) I'm just asking the questions based on my limited perusing of the exhibits that were in the NOA supplements where it pretty clearly notes that there's a 12-hour limit for independent studies.
It's also pretty clear that IF UNC wanted to label this classes as 'correspondence classes' (which they clearly weren't since these players were on campus at the time), then that might provide relief from the 12-hour rule in theory but correspondence classes also includes additional requirements, which it's not clear that UNC can prove were upheld (for example getting the written approval of a Dean etc.) [And even if they could prove it, it's another can of worms because it suggests that the Deans were complicit in the fraud.]
But back to your response, you act like it's required of me to prosecute UNC. It's not. I've just asked some questions, which you have struggled to date to answer directly BTW.
BTW, I would have thought that after your week-long hiatus that when you returned you might be able to provide a more coherent response (maybe after consulting with someone who can actually present an intelligent argument) but we're back into the same tired old responses from you [1.) refer to some argument which you don't provide any details about (example above regarding UNC and SACS) 2.) focus on minor details without seeing or acknowledging the big picture 3.) purposely misread people's comments and ask inane questions (example: the above "what response did Crowder herself give) and on and on and on.]