Tag Archives: Holden Thorp

Bowles 9/30 email to Thorp: “There needs to be a sense of outrage expressed on our part,” and “Its [sic] not enough to just have not known””

Today brings more fun news from released emails! Yesterday we learned through a released email that Butch was supposedly so in-tune with his 16 suspended players that he knew they needed counseling.  He thought they might do all sorts of bad things, even including violence.  This is a coach who supposedly had no idea that these same players [...]

Thorp, Baddour, Davis appear before UNC-CH BOT — UPDATED 3:50 p.m.

Doing a great impression of three guys standing uncomfortably against the wall at an 8th-grade dance, UNC-CH’s Chancellor, Athletic Director, and Football coach appeared before UNC-CH’s Board of Trustees to talk about the massive ongoing scandals.  It is widely thought that UNC-CH BOT members were responsible for hiring Butch in the first place, so we [...]

Why “the Carolina Way” is now a punch line (nightly update day 71).

Let’s get right to it. We have a lot of ground to cover. The fallout from yesterday’s NCAA suspensions began with Kendric Burney’s dad giving some great quotes that really raise questions about institutional control.  You should read this article in full. I think this passage from that piece damages UNC-CH more than any other I have read since [...]

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. [...]