As the fallout continues from the Wainstein report, former UNC football player Michael McAdoo has filed a class-action lawsuit against the university.

The lawsuit says UNC denied McAdoo a quality education by steering him into fraudulent classes in the African and Afro-American Studies Department.

McAdoo was one of the football players declared ineligible back in 2010 for receiving improper benefits, including improper assistance on papers. He filed suit against the school then as well, to restore his eligibility – and it was that suit that led to the discovery of the AFAM scandal, when bloggers on an NC State site noticed that McAdoo had plagiarized one of the school papers he’d submitted as evidence to the court.

The current lawsuit was filed in Charlotte last week.

More than 3,000 students – about half of them athletes – took those bogus “paper” classes in the AFAM department during the 1990s and 2000s. The N&O reports that the players on the NCAA-champion 2005 basketball team – which included many AFAM majors – took a combined total of 35 “paper” classes during the 2004-05 academic year alone.

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