On June 6, 2014, the ESPN program "Outside the Lines" broadcast an interview with McCants in which McCants claimed to have taken phony classes at North Carolina and had tutors write his classwork. The accusations by McCants followed reports by university administration and former governor Jim Martin finding academic and ethical issues with the university's Department of African and Afro-American Studies, including classes with little work assigned. However, all sixteen other members of the 2005 team released a statement that disputed McCants's account. Additionally, coach Roy Williams, separately interviewed by the same program, disputed McCants's claims.