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 [...]
Yahoo! Sports criticizes Elaine Marshall
I have literally no time so I will have to rely on other members of the author team and/or the comments of alert readers for analysis of this piece posted today by Rand Getlin of Yahoo! Sports. Here is an excellent quote from the article: North Carolina’s Secretary of State, Elaine Marshall, claimed the expertise [...]
Butch’s redshirting dodge and a dubious poll (day 98)
This entry is nowhere near as good as last night’s. I’d like to thank the other members of the SFN author team for adding content and providing research for yesterday’s brilliant and monolithic Burney expose’. The first thing to cover tonight is the topic we left off with last night — UNC’s apparent plan to use redshirt years to [...]
Kendric Burney had prior knowledge of agents in Miami but Butch didn’t? (Day 75)
^ Marvin at the gun show this past spring. Tonight’s entry is based on a piece that went up last Thursday but (appropriately) got lost behind our excellent pregame entries Friday and Saturday. This point is too important to miss and represents a major theme that should be repeated — we are being asked to believe that Butch Davis knew almost nothing about what [...]
The NC State-UNC Rivalry and Why We Care About UNC’s Problems
This post was written before the UCF game but due to scheduling SFN decided it best to move the publish date to September 20. Enjoy. During the course of the UNC fiasco, it’s been asked by NC State fans and Carolina fans alike why Wolfpackers are concerning themselves with the Tar Heels’ problems. So far, [...]
SI connecting some dots re: UNC-CH’s agent scandal.
While the academic cheating scandal has curiously moved to the back burner, the agent prong of UNC-CH’s national nightmare is getting a lot of press lately. Most recently, Sports Illustrated has published this article explaining some of the various facets of the UNC-CH mess. Notice that the national press is all over this story while the local folks [...]
Thorp: Davis’ status “not a fair question,” and “plan right now” is for Davis to remain!
As you can read about here, today UNC-CH Chancellor Holden Thorp gave some very interesting answers to questions about Butch Davis’ job status. Asked, prior to a meeting with UNC’s faculty, if he could definitively say that Davis would remain as the football coach, Thorp began his response by saying it wasn’t a fair question. [...]
Curious phone records between Blake and agent surface
Tuesday evening the News and Observer posted this article. It details a strange pattern (and odd frequency) of communication that former UNC-CH Associate Head Coach/Recruiting Coordinator John Blake had with Gary Wichard, an agent who is a long-time friend of Blake. Folks, I honestly don’t know what to make of a lot of this, but I [...]
SchadenFriday! UNC Board of Governors member calls scandals ‘humiliating’
At StateFansNation we thought it would be fun this afternoon to provide a light piece that linked in various things regarding the ongoing public-relations pig orgy that is transpiring in Chapel Hill. The hilarity of “Bus Watch” this morning, with actual live coverage of who got on the UNC-CH football busses bound for the airport — and the aftermath, [...]
Timeline of Carolina Circling the Drain (Tuesday Update)
[UPDATE 08/31/2010, 10:55AM: Thanks to Clarksa for the following visual.] We’ve heard a lot in the past few days about Carolina’s agent-gate, their excuses, and their hintings at a loss of institutional control. At this juncture, I think it’s great for State fans to relish in the circling-of-the-drain that the Tar Heels are experiencing. At [...]