Bowles proud of UNC leaders’ handling of cheating investigations [4:15 Update]

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“I don’t think there is anyone who’s more saddened by what has happened than the three of us,” said Bowles, standing with Baddour and Thorp. “They have dug into this tooth and nail,” said Bowles.

I 100% believe that NOBODY is more saddened than Bowles, Baddour, and Thorp. I genuinely believe this. And THIS, my friends, is EXACTLY why there MUST be an independent set of investigators engaged in Chapel Hill.

It is this admitted emotional attachment – and therefore obvious conflict of interest – that supports the significant need to shelter Holden Thorp and Dick Baddour (and others) from potentially career-ending conflicts of interest in this investigation. (Are we calling it an investigation yet?)

I would like to personally thank Mr. Bowles for publicly admitting the emotional investment and attachment that he and others around UNC share. I appreciate how saddened the leaders are. Unfortunately, all of these improprieties have taken place while Holden Thorp was Chancellor, while Dick Baddour was Athletics Director and even while Erskine Bowles was the President of the University system (and contributing huge dollars to support the University and even its athletics endeavors).

These very good men of character are also employees…stewards…fans…financial ‘investors’…and emotional supporters of the very University that they are ‘investigating’.

What is the rationale of allowing the people who were not originally controlling the environment to now investigate and police the environment? Isn’t that what they were previously supposed to be doing? What is the incentive for the current UNC investigative team to vigorously pursue nuggets of evidence that may lead them to places and revelations that could permanently damage the reputation of the University that they love and have invested careers in building? What incentive do they have to dig deeper into findings that could very well lead to their institutional embarrassment in addition to their own personal termination of employment, or even legal prosecution?

Will someone with some common sense please save these people from themselves!!!

I don’t know about you, but I would sleep a little better at night if the foxes weren’t vigilantly guarding the henhouse.

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ACC & Other UNC Scandal

34 Responses to Bowles proud of UNC leaders’ handling of cheating investigations [4:15 Update]

  1. highstick 09/09/2010 at 5:05 PM #

    My feeling is that Lee Fowler should be hired to clean up this mess!

  2. tractor57 09/09/2010 at 5:14 PM #

    Saddened because the mothership has encountered headwinds.

    I never liked Bowles or his wife who sent MANY jobs overseas.

  3. highstick 09/09/2010 at 6:20 PM #

    It’s always bothered me with Erskine on the UNC side and Derrick on the NC State side…too much family influence into the whole system..

    I can’t blame Crandall too much though, but my knowledge of the family comes from her brother…

  4. Pack78 09/09/2010 at 6:22 PM #

    Sounds like the three amigos are trying to keep things in daytight compartments…

  5. WSPack89 09/09/2010 at 7:05 PM #

    Hmmm…A former Clinton Staffer is proud of how an administration is handling a scandal involving lying, cheating and criminal activity. OK, I guess I’ll buy that!

  6. mwcric 09/09/2010 at 7:10 PM #

    Folks, c’mon. Really. This is UNC, one of the flagship institutions of the NCAA, one of the association’s biggest (and few) moneymakers, one of ESPN’s ratings darlings – and so far this is happening to one of their least successful programs.
    My prediction: The NCAA turns a blind eye while the kangaroo court progresses, led by the UNC good ol’ boy network. Nothing of note happens for several weeks, the football season plays out, and once basketball starts and attention is diverted or folks simply just get bored of the story, little details of the, um, “investigation” will trickle out here and there, and around next April or so we’ll hear of how these things were isolated incidents and blown out of proportion and a couple of the players will get booted or schollys will get revoked and that’ll be the end of it. No firings, no probation, no vacated victories. I appreciate the work SFN is doing on this, but I’m afraid the schadenfreude is all that will come of this. Dealing with UNC is like dealing with Chicago politics – you can’t enforce the law when they’re above the law, and sadly they are.

  7. old13 09/09/2010 at 10:35 PM #

    What a great example of what can result from inbreeding! Seems like the rules/laws governing BOG membership should be amended to provide a) a balance in representation of all campuses of the system, and b) some significant representation from outside of the system to provide objectivity.

  8. tjfoose1 09/09/2010 at 11:58 PM #

    Bowles has experience at this…

    Clinton Fundraiser, Clinton appointee, Clinton Staffer, Clinton White House Deputy Chief of Staff, and Clinton Chief of Staff.

    I bet Bowles is proud. He’s probably dripping w/ nostalgia.

    I wonder what the 2010 version of “I did not have sex with that woman” is? That is, of course, depending on what “is” is…

    Oh wait, from what I’ve heard, that phrase my be directly on point, as is, for one of the ‘prongs’, anyway…

    Erskine has already proved he has no problem muddying it up in the slime, obfuscating, lying, and engaging and conspiring in a fraud against the public. All while showing nothing but condescending arrogance to us little people. Sound familiar?

    Heck, his very appointment to his current position was via legally and ethically questionable means. Policies? Rules? Laws? Whatever… Such trivial things are only for the little people, not the elites with the entitlement to rule over joe public.

    Why should now be any different?

    Damn right he’s proud, he’s reliving his glory days.

    And as a more direct influence in all of our lives… what’s the over/under of the number of days before he comes out and brings us a national sales tax in his role as Obama’s good ol southern boy?

    He’s a crook, a liar, a corrupt piece of sh!t like the rest of them. Unless he’s directly threatened himself, he’s not gonna sacrifice his boy. Stink and sh!t stick together. Thorpe ain’t going anywhere, not if Irskine has anything to say about it.

    I realize I might be being a little too subtle. Maybe someday I’ll tell you how I really feel.

  9. McCallum 09/10/2010 at 12:13 AM #

    If I could find the piece by Cary oncologist Mark Graham about the shady dealing that put Bowles on the board to begin with I’d link it.

    His “selection” was good ol’ boys insider stuff. There was talk of an open process and no such thing took place. Candidates were to be selected and announced, no such thing took place.

    Then one shining day the board selection committee announces that Bowles is the choice. Good job or bad job, it matters not to me since his “selection” was tainted from the git go.

    Insider dealing just like his damn comments.

    McCallum

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