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 [...]
John Blake’s telephone records for the world to see
Who was John Blake calling all of the time? You can see for yourself in this link to 400 pages of John Blake’s telephone records. Have fun. Of course, it sure would be nice to see the actual text messages. Why wouldn’t UNC want to release the actual text messages of their former Associate Head [...]
Delvon Simmons wants out of UNC-CH LOI (Baker Prong update)
Today brought the big news that all-world, bazillion-star defensive lineman Delvon Simmons is asking out of his UNC-CH letter of intent. The circumstances of Simmons’ recruitment raised a lot of eyebrows on signing day – his late switch to UNC-CH was considered to be one of the biggest late surprises nationally. The role of former UNC-CH defensive line [...]
Recent UNC-CH Football scandal articles summarized in Bytes format
Here is a series of articles, presented in no particular order, from the past two weeks or so concerning one or more of the ongoing UNC-CH football scandals. Time constraints prevent me from full discussions and proper transitions, so please feel free to add well-developed and flawlessly-written commentary and analysis in the comments section. For example, a [...]
Should there be a Baker/Simmons prong?
The saga of the UNC-CH football scandals continues to unfold like a Dan Brown novel. This entry made today on frumpzilla takes a detailed look at the recruitment of Delvon Simmons and the employment of Brian Baker, who worked under Butch as UNC’s defensive line coach for about a month, leaving just after signing day. We wrote about the [...]
More Amazing Email!
Given that UNC has still not released all of the email and other records they are required to, it is surprising how much has been found so far. I’m sure more will come out as time goes by, but aside from the UNC professor’s email we talked about last night, there are some additional emails that I think are worthy of [...]
UNC hired PR firm to manage football scandals; Bowles: “You had a crisis” *3:00 update — Ramsay’s appeal postponed
Full story from the N & O. Today we learned that UNC hired a New York public relations firm last August to help them deal with the football scandals. There are so many good quotes to get to with the above-linked article — I will just roll them out without much commentary. Hill & Knowlton is a [...]
Cam Newton was recruited by UNC (whose Recruiting Coordinator was $John Blake$)
ESPN’s Sportscenter just tweeted “DEVELOPING STORY: FBI is involved in investigation into recruitment process of Auburn QB Cam Newton.” We can’t keep this off the front page any longer. Please participate in our poll below: We wanted to take a moment to share a few comments & thoughts: We’ve had a few conversations regarding [...]
Swofford breaks his silence, harshly sanctions FSU women’s soccer team (Day 113) — 6:45 update
Before I get started, let me say a few things about yesterday’s happenings. As everyone knows, Thorp came out with some awkwardly-worded statements about Butch Davis. Watch here starting at the 48 second-mark if you want to hear Thorp in his own words say things such as “I think what I said was that we don’t [...]
Did Butch Davis violate UNC player’s academic privacy!?
In the middle of the build-up and resulting excitement related to NC State’s huge win over Florida State on the gridiron last week, some of the ‘UNC-CHeats scandal’ got pushed to the side a bit. On Thursday afternoon, it was announced that a consortium of Triangle media outlets were suing UNC and some of its [...]