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 [...]
N&O: UNC professor back home, still unavailable on McAdoo plagiarism
Chancellor Holden Thorp, in an interview last week, said he is not going to dig into Nyang’oro’s handling of the paper. “It’s very unfortunate what happened here, but I don’t get into grading for faculty members,” he said. Could you imagine if the NC State Administration had openly proclaimed they weren’t going to look into [...]
Plagiarism prong has arrove (McAdoo plagiarism uncovered by Pack Pride hooligans)
The recent news that former UNC-CH football player Michael McAdoo was suing the NCAA and UNC-CH (covered here by WRAL) led to one of McAdoo’s papers becoming public. It took less than one afternoon for McAdoo’s apparent plagiarism in this paper to be discovered by UNC-CH’s least favorite group of message board yahoos. The plagiarism story has now been picked up [...]
UNC Scandal Update
No one told the folks over at the Flagship that football news between the 4th and the All Star Break is rarely a good thing. We’ll run through this InfoPack style and let the regular SFN readers handle the commentary. First, Andy Staples says the NCAA should “hammer” the Heels in a short column titled [...]
Michael McAdoo and (UPDATE Robert Quinn) in D.C. party pictures with Coples?
About two weeks ago we ran this entry with the pictures of Coples at the now-famous post-draft party in D.C. At the time, we had no idea who the guys were who were in the pictures other than Coples (on the right). Art Chansky, for one, has stated that there were more UNC-CH players than just Coples at [...]
NCAA denies McAdoo appeal, Baddour calls decision “unfair”
In news nobody could possibly find surprising, former UNC-CH defensive end Michael McAdoo had his appeal denied today. The News and Observer has the best coverage of this development. McAdoo was previously declared permanently ineligible by the NCAA — apparently due to tutor issues (if I am reading this right): UNC has declined to disclose which [...]