We wanted to make sure that you good folks knew about the newest developments on PJ Hairston’s excellent adventure to Durham and had a place to voice your thoughts on the matter. You can refresh a little by reading this quick piece… UNC’s top scorer P.J. Hairston charged with possession of marijuana (USAToday.com) According to [...]
CBS’s Doyel crushes UNC-Cheat: “Maybe the ugliest academic scandal in NCAA history”
The hits just a keep on coming as the national media FINALLY wakes up to I didn’t think it could get much better than this. I was wrong. CBS’s Gregg Doyel tweeted today that he is mad at himself for ignoring the UNC academic fraud scandal and that he wouldn’t ignore it any longer. He [...]
Friday Arroves [Check back for updates]
We will have a lot more to come on the UNC-CHeats academic/football/agent/tutor/recruiting scandals as the afternoon progresses. For now, the NCAA’s findings are detailed here. The penalties in this case include the following: * Public reprimand and censure. * Three years of probation from March 12, 2012, through March 11, 2015. * Three-year show-cause penalty [...]
NCAA Ruling on UNC to be Released Today
According to Inside Carolina, and brought to the attention of many here by packplantpath, the NCAA said today that they would release their ruling on UNC’s football program sometime this afternoon. Just for review, let’s hit the highlights: – Review of UNC’s Self-Imposed Sanctions Part 1, Part 2 (by NCSU1987) – Why We Care/Write About [...]
Ohio State penalties don’t bode well for ACC’s Hurricanes & Heels
First…before you do anything, you really must read the following entries. NCAA Football Scandals Penalty Analysis NCAA Football Scandals Penalty Analysis, Part II Ohio State received a one year bowl ban yesterday that has a lot of college football analysts peering into their crystal balls and wondering aloud if a period of stringent NCAA penalties [...]
NCAA Football Scandals, Penalty Analysis – Part II
This is a follow up article to my original analysis of NCAA football penalties through the years. Although I had planned to get this out earlier, life has intervened. In the end, though, it’s perhaps instructive to look one more time just ahead of UNX’s pre-Halloween date with the NCAA. In this analysis, I will [...]
They’re back! NCAA officials back in Chapel Hill
They’re back! Chapelboro.com is reporting that the NCAA is back on campus. We’re going to take a wild guess that they’re not delivering helmet stickers to individuals for outstanding play in the Heels’ triumph over Rutgers. CHAPEL HILL – WCHL News has heard unconfirmed reports that NCAA investigators are back on campus this week, following [...]
Miami: “Willful violators?” (Updated 8:15pm)
There’s enough to this story for ESPN to make “The U: Part II” (with multiple episodes, as my buddy Shawn added). Yahoo!: The NCAA informed University of Miami administrators it will consider invoking its “willful violators” clause and make an exception to the traditional four-year statute of limitations in the Nevin Shapiro case, a university [...]
Yahoo! exposes The U, Administrative Hypocrisy
If the NCAA truly wants to enact change, then it should hire Yahoo! Sports reporter Charles Robinson. For those not keeping up, Yahoo! — and more precisely, Charles Robinson, and to some extent, Dan Wetzel — has become the lead on about every college football scandal since USC-Reggie Bush. Yahoo! has fully emerged as a [...]
The U Wednesday Webrun
Money, bounties, cars, yachts, jewelry, TVs, meals, nightclubs, sex parties, prostitutes and even an abortion. Yeah, Miami may be in some trouble. No suspensions by Al Golden…yet (ESPN). Of course, how else can he react right now? Heather Dinich says former Miami officials have questions to answer (ESPN): And yet the only person answering questions [...]