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 [...]
Agents give UNC Players Gifts & Grades?!?
The N&O has been trickling out some damning pieces the past few weeks aimed at UNC and their academics. This morning Dan Kane has new revelations surrounding the “Public Ivy”. Sports agent taught class at UNC-CH At a time when UNC-Chapel Hill officials were embarrassed to find that sports agents had infiltrated the football program, [...]
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 [...]
Yow on agents
Link to NBC Sports’ College Football Talk According to Luchs, "agents have been giving kids money for decades," but only recently has there been a price to pay. As you can imagine, there are a lot of questions on how to deal with this problem. Who gets the blame and the penalties? Who monitors the [...]
SI: How Gary Wichard Works (must read)
Gary used his contacts in the coaching community to help him get players. This has recently come into public view, as the NCAA and the state of North Carolina are investigating the Tar Heels football program and whether John Blake, a Carolina assistant coach since 2007, steered players to Gary and received money from [...]
Breaking: Major money trail ties agent to ex-UNC Associate Head Coach [12:30am]
Our author team was talking amongst ourselves today and everyone was charged with being on high alert for some major news breaking because (1) a little birdie had contacted us earlier in the week with some scoop and (2) Dick Baddour was on the radio today. If you have learned anything about the current [...]
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 [...]
UNC Press Conference: Common Sense and Institutional Control
Never have I heard a group of individuals sound so dejected and distant. Then again, I guess there is a lot of distance to be gained from the heights UNC has fallen since the beginnings of the agent-gate investigation. Chancellor Thorp, Athletic Director Baddour, and Head Football Coach Butch Davis gave a press conference today [...]
UNC’s Davis already signed with an agent?
Maybe we can talk about something not related to NC State? DraftExpress.com currently has Ed Davis as a lottery pick in the 2010 draft. More specifically, the site thinks that he will be the fifth player taken overall. As I said earlier, Davis is going to miss some time due to a broken wrist, but [...]
Brian Clifton Update
Brian Clifton swears he’ll never be John Wall’s agent or profit from his expected stardom.You can believe him if you want. But if I told you the No. 1 high school prospect in America (Wall) was being coached on the summer circuit and advised in the recruiting process by a man (Clifton) who was a [...]