agent-gate

UNC releases more NCAA probe records

UNC-CH grudgingly turned loose their death grip on some more records produced during the 2010 NCAA investigation into allegations related to agents and academic improprieties earlier today.  While rather damning, let us not forget that at this point the NCAA considers this a dead issue. Nonetheless, Dan Kan and J. Andrew Curliss of the N&O […]

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Kendric Burney had prior knowledge of agents in Miami but Butch didn’t? (Day 75)

^ Marvin at the gun show this past spring. Tonight’s entry is based on a piece that went up last Thursday but (appropriately) got lost behind our excellent pregame entries Friday and Saturday.  This point is too important to miss and represents a major theme that should be repeated — we are being asked to believe that Butch Davis knew almost nothing about what […]

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Thorp: Davis’ status “not a fair question,” and “plan right now” is for Davis to remain!

As you can read about here, today UNC-CH Chancellor Holden Thorp gave some very interesting answers to questions about Butch Davis’ job status. Asked, prior to a meeting with UNC’s faculty, if he could definitively say that Davis would remain as the football coach, Thorp began his response by saying it wasn’t a fair question. […]

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SchadenFriday! UNC Board of Governors member calls scandals ‘humiliating’

At StateFansNation we thought it would be fun this afternoon to provide a light piece that linked in various things regarding the ongoing public-relations pig orgy that is transpiring in Chapel Hill. The hilarity of “Bus Watch” this morning, with actual live coverage of who got on the UNC-CH football busses bound for the airport — and the aftermath, […]

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Timeline of Carolina Circling the Drain (Tuesday Update)

[UPDATE 08/31/2010, 10:55AM: Thanks to Clarksa for the following visual.] We’ve heard a lot in the past few days about Carolina’s agent-gate, their excuses, and their hintings at a loss of institutional control.  At this juncture, I think it’s great for State fans to relish in the circling-of-the-drain that the Tar Heels are experiencing.  At […]

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