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 [...]
TOB Gives First Adult Perspective to UNC’s Problems
WRAL’s sports blog has condensed TOB’s latest radio show and his thoughts on UNC’s woes in a recent post which can be found here. “I pray that it’s not a systematic problem. I don’t buy that ‘everybody does it’ routine. You don’t have to be that way. I think it all comes down to the [...]
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 [...]
It’s Friday, but still not over
It’s Friday, and Butch Davis is gone and Dick Baddour on his way out, but unfortunately for the Flagship, this is far from over. Specifically, questions remain regarding those 216 phone records. Joe Ovies: The phone records now appear to be caught in a semantics game. North Carolina technically reviewed Davis’ personal phone records, but [...]
Continued Fallout: Baddour Resigns (Updated 3pm)
This chaos clearly still isn’t over for the Flagship. Today, AD Dick Baddour “resigned.” Dick Baddour announced his resignation on Thursday in order for chancellor Holden Thorp to find a new football coach. Thorp said he would interview interim candidates today but would not name a successor for football coach Butch Davis, who was fired [...]
Butch Fired: What folks are saying (Thursday 10AM update)
Apparently there are, after all this, a few adults left over at the Flagship. Holden Thorp isn’t one of them. In fairness to him, he very possibly belives this nonsense (ABC11.com): To restore confidence in the University of North Carolina and our football program, it’s time to make a change,” said Thorp in a statement [...]
The Don (Curtis) of UNC Football
This was originally written over Father’s Day weekend but due to everything that came out last Monday and Tuesday this would have been lost in all the noise. I want to say thanks to the other SFN writers who helped in creating this piece. Last Thursday (6/16) and Friday (6/17) there was a huge deluge of data related to the ongoing [...]
UNC Expects NCAA Notice Next Week
Per WRAL.com, InsideCarolina.com reports that the notice is expected on or around next…Friday (WRAL.com): The NCAA has told UNC officials to expect to receive a notice of allegations on or around June 10 stemming from its investigation into improper benefits and academic misconduct first reported by Inside Carolina last summer. Multiple sources indicate that North [...]
Charles Robinson: “There’s a problem there for Coples”
This afternoon Charles Robinson of Yahoo Sports was on 99.9 The Fan and said some interesting things. You can listen here. He reported that the NCAA was nearly complete with their letter of inquiry and notice of infractions for UNC-CH when the Coples stuff broke. Robinson added that things have gotten worse for UNC-CH as [...]
NCAA investigating Tyrelle Pryor
On the heels — certainly no pun intended there — of Jim Tressel’s resignation yesterday amid scandal, it is now being reported by The Columbus Dispatch that Tyrelle Pryor and others are being investigated by the NCAA to determine whether or not they received improper benefits from local car dealerships (link): The NCAA and the [...]