The N&O’s Dan Kane is at it again this evening, this time highlighting the fact that athletes not only made up a disproportionate number of enrollments, but that there was a systematic and accepted practice of steering athletes to no-show classes. So important was this mission that it took 115 employees and a cushy multi-million [...]
August 26, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL COUNTDOWN TO KICKOFF: 8 DAYS!!! Chip Alexander (N&O) Pack’s Overgaard leads team in GPA N.C. State’s Mikel Overgaard doesn’t have the fastest 40-yard dash time on the Wolfpack football team. He doesn’t lead the Pack in the bench press or any other weight-room category. What Overgaard does have is [...]
If you missed it this weekend, the News & Observer/Charlotte Observer took a deeper dive into the type of ‘student’ athletes being admitted – and curiously remaining eligible – within the John Bunting & Butch Davis football programs at UNC-Chapel Hill. The article is available here and a discussion had already been launched here on [...]
Have you been wondering why the cheating scandal at FSU was handled so much differently than the one at UNC is being handled? Why was the NCAA involved in establishing penalties for one school and not the other? Well I have been wondering about this and nothing that I read made any sense. But the [...]
If you’ve read SFN for any length of time, you’ve noticed that we are sticklers for the real truth, the whole truth, and an accurate and educated view of the truth. With this said, I’m sure that you can recognize why the UNC athletics scandal and academic fraud cases are so fascinating to us. Today, [...]
“NC State’s incoming freshman class had a weighted high school grade point average of 4.23 and an average SAT score of 1,746. Nearly 75% of the 4,550 students were in the top 20% of their high school class, and the group has students from 97 North Carolina counties, 42 states and 23 countries.” – NC [...]
CHAPEL HILL — The NCAA has officially joined the academic portion of UNC’s investigation into possible misconduct. UNC spokesman Steve Kirschner said an NCAA enforcement representative has been on campus condiucting interviews on the academic matters with UNC for the last two days. Originally, UNC was conducting the academic portion of the investigation as part [...]
Here’s a statement that captures perfectly the academic attitude of some of Butch Davis’ UNC-CH football players: Isn’t that awesome! These guys are still posting this crap for the world to see! Seriously, do they not think they have done enough damage already? I don’t want them to stop of course, it is just amazing! Showtime20UNC is, of [...]
The Dagger has an interesting blog entry titled: “Kentucky flopped in the classroom in Calipari’s first season” According to records obtained by the Lexington Herald-Leader, Kentucky had a cumulative GPA of 2.025 for fall semester, lowest among all 20 teams at the school. That was also the worst semester GPA a Kentucky men’s basketball team [...]
I will be honest here – I am so inured to the culture of corruption, and Monty Python’s Black Knight caliber of willful and idiotic denial…I didn’t think anything UNC scandal related could shock me anymore. Then I read this, and you should as well: Prepare to be disgusted. Horrific doesn’t even begin to describe [...]
You have to hand it to UNC: those guys have unmitigated gall. Before their new chancellor has her first day on the job, and before lame-duck Chancellor Holden Thorp can announce whatever his “blue-ribbon” panel led by led by Hunter Rawlings, president of the Association of American Universities, has come up with, UNC athletic director [...]
This is truly abhorrent. Many folks call The Carolina Way a myth — but it’s not. Believing a myth can be innocent, borne of ignorance. In fact, The Carolina Way is a giant, perpetuated lie that has bred a culture that believes no ethical or moral sacrifice is too great to ensure athletic superiority. The [...]
