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 [...]
SFN: The real stories of the David Amerson situation
Yesterday, a ‘story’ – and I use the description of ‘story’ very loosely – hit the interwebs regarding David Amerson and ‘contact’ with an agent, namely former NC State wide receiver – and I use the description of ‘wide receiver’ very loosely – Eric Leak. This link will take you to a thread discussing the [...]
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 [...]
Marshall’s absence from probe no surprise
One of the many agents involved in the UNC-Chapel Hill athletic impropriety and academic fraud case has been suspended by the NFL Player’s Association. Gary Wichard, the agent who paid UNC Associate Head Coach and Recruiting Coordinator John Blake thousands of still unaccounted for dollars will not be able represent potential clients for the 2011 [...]
Nightly Update Day 70
Wow! We started this new nightly update thing just at the right time. Tonight’s entry will not be as linear and organized as normal because I am pressed for time and the news is still developing and hard to analyze. Obviously tonight’s update deals with the NCAA issuing suspensions – Burney getting 6 games and Williams [...]
Helpful hints for Elaine Marshall [Update @ 2pm EST]
As it becomes more evident that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s athletics department is in a huge pile of stink, more and more agents are being blamed and scapegoated by UNC-CH partisans who truly believe that God created the sky after he created the color ‘Carolina Blue’. In today’s News and Observer, North Carolina [...]
Full-blown fiasco here we come! Elaine Marshall steps in to stir the cow-pie! Plus some bonus Miami pictures!
Get the popcorn ready! As you can read about it here: North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall is now involved in this developing Gong Show – in her capacity to regulate agents. From the story: “We’ll be investigating the agents,” Marshall said said. “We will not be investigating the school.” You know what? I think this [...]