tutor-gate

UNC’s former football academic coordinator: “…if I had gone to Coach Davis, my job would have been on the line.”

  The News and Observer has two articles up this morning about the “tutor prong” of the huge ongoing UNC-CH football scandals.  One of these articles directly considers Cynthia Reynolds, who was UNC-CH’s football academic coordinator.  Regarding Reynolds’ history with UNC-CH, the N & O explains: Reynolds, now 56, was hired in 2002 as an associate director of the Academic […]

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Burney “still friends” with Hawkins, UNC liason’s sleepless nights, & the “Tutor Handbook” (Day 110)

  I am back!  Last week the other members of the SFN author team were knocking it out of the park covering the scandal here and here, so there was no need for me to clutter up the blog with redundant and/or inferior analysis.  Also, the FSU game appropriately occupied our attention and energy.  Speaking of the FSU […]

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Why “the Carolina Way” is now a punch line (nightly update day 71).

Let’s get right to it. We have a lot of ground to cover. The fallout from yesterday’s NCAA suspensions began with Kendric Burney’s dad giving some great quotes that really raise questions about institutional control.  You should read this article in full. I think this passage from that piece damages UNC-CH more than any other I have read since […]

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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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