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 [...]
Many UNC-AAS questions remain, including: Are Roy Williams and Butch Davis being unfairly targeted?
The scope of the UNC academic scandal continues to widen as national outlets are finally catching onto the story. Many of these stories are linked in this entry from yesterday. If you missed it, please take a moment to catch up on the recent developments concerning the UNC faculty’s request for an independent investigation given [...]
N&O/Charlotte Observer Takes A Look At Marvin Austin’s UNC Transcript
The link to this story from the Charlotte Observer written by the N&O’s Dan Kane showed up late Saturday night on Twitter. You’ll never believe this, but there are some questions about Marvin Austin’s UNC transcript. Let’s start off with this bit of information: In a summer 2007 session just before his first full semester [...]
Marvin provides his analysis
Credit has to be given to an alert Joe Ovies for spotting this. At the risk of trivializing the trainwreck that UNC-CH is currently in the middle of, I could not resist showing everyone this hilarious tweet from our man Marvin, who, after all, started the whole thing by tweeting. It is also fitting that [...]
Marvin, UNC-CH football scandals featured on ESPN’s “Outside the Lines”
On Easter Sunday our man Marvin Austin (0-3 against NC State) was featured during the first 15 minutes of ESPN’s magazine program hosted by Bob Ley. I watched it at 10:00 a.m. but it is also scheduled for 9:00 p.m. tonight. You can also watch it online here, although Ley’s discussion with Shefter is not included. I found [...]
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 [...]
Marvin back in the news! Learned from money-buddy, Hakeem Nicks
The News and Observer today posted this article, which explains that Marvin will wear #99 and a UNC helmet in this Saturday’s East – West Shrine game. I can’t express how happy I am about the helmet situation. What a great representative of UNC-CH! Also, Marvin refused to take the Wonderlic intelligence test that is administered [...]
Marvin Austin “working his way back on the team”
Is this what you had in mind, Butch? How about you, Dickie, when you honored his scholarship so he wouldn’t spill the beans and keep UNC’s APR from dropping to avoid scholarship reductions could graduate? Speaking of which…how in the world is this guy on track to graduate? In addition to taking a full load [...]
Butch proactively bans Twitter after Coples’ anti-gay tweet! (day 92)
Late Thursday afternoon Butch leapt into action and banned his players from using Twitter. Talk about closing the barn door after the horse has left! Here you can read the WTVD story. The piece leads off: CHAPEL HILL (WTVD) — UNC Head Football Coach Butch Davis banned his players from using Twitter on Thursday. The move [...]
Things you may have missed today (Day 89)
A lot happened today, and this entry was updated several times by multiple members of the SFN author team. It covered all of the breaking news as it happened. Because of all the work put into our main entry today, my entry tonight does not have a lot of analysis — it just points out a [...]