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 [...]
Kane: Academic support director for UNC athletes quietly moved out of job
The N&O’s Dan Kane continues to keep the pressure on and keep the NEW Carolina Way in the public eye. This go ’round he seems to want us to be aware of some recent personnel changes within the UNC-CH academic support program for athletes (is that an oxymoron or what?). Pasted below are a few [...]
UNC Scandal: What’s the End Game?
It’s a surreal world we occupy when the N&O, Gregg Doyel and #WPN are all working together. For decades we’ve endured the arrogant elitism of The Carolina Way, knowing it never passed muster. And now, after their precious creed has failed them, the UNC faithful have responded mostly with passive indifference and refused to be [...]
“Clustering” at The Flagship?
Dan Kane isn’t letting up, referencing a report two years ago by the Indianapolis Star questioning “clustering” (or, as they say in Swahili, kuna tofauti za) at The Flagship (News & Observer): The report notes that seven of the players on UNC-Chapel Hill’s 2005 championship team who had graduated by the time the story was [...]
Dan Kane (N&O): Questions Linger
Of all folks, it’s the N&O keeping the heat on The Flagship. Many of us keep rightly pointing out that The Flagship Spin Machine is distancing the basketball program from this mess, making sure to always call it “football class.” Our new friend Dan Kane questions this and highlights several other key questions that remain [...]