NCAA joins UNC academic probe

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CHAPEL HILL — The NCAA has officially joined the academic portion of UNC’s investigation into possible misconduct.
UNC spokesman Steve Kirschner said an NCAA enforcement representative has been on campus condiucting interviews on the academic matters with UNC for the last two days.
Originally, UNC was conducting the academic portion of the investigation as part of the joint review with the NCAA, but athletics director Dick Baddour had said the NCAA might be brought in more formally at a later date.

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No matter how you slice this latest bombshell cannot be good news for UNC. Does this mean that the NCAA is not satisfied with UNC’s own investigation into the academic prong of this scandal?

Is Baddour next after Butch? Can it get any worse in Chapel Hill?

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61 Responses to NCAA joins UNC academic probe

  1. MrPlywood 09/30/2010 at 4:31 PM #

    You beat me to it Bowlpack… 🙂

    And, Carolina might as well play all their guys in the ECU game. Nothing to lose now!

  2. coach13 09/30/2010 at 4:31 PM #

    I heard they cleared a safety to play this Saturday…wonder if they are re-thinking that now?

  3. Wufpacker 09/30/2010 at 4:34 PM #

    I have to agree with the sentiment that this exceeds the Dixie Classic point shaving scandal.

    Granted, in that scandal you had players with direct and indirect contact with organized crime figures, you had multiple schools involved, you had players receiving payoffs to alter point spreads.

    HOWEVER, as far as I can remember (someone please correct me if I’m wrong) you did NOT have any coaches or school administrators being complicit. It was only players.

    By complicit I mean looking the other way, at best (don’t tell me I don’t want to know), OR knowing about it and condoning it, at worst.

    And I don’t know if it will come out but I firmly believe that the trio of Davis, Baddour, and Thorp all knew pretty much what was going on. I think Thorp was probably late to the party, but I think he knew before the lid got blown off the powder keg.

    I personally believe that Davis had wink-wink nudge-nudge approval to do whatever was necessary to bring UNC football to prominence. I believe they thought they’d get away with it because no one, especially the local media, would ever come snooping around.

    What they didn’t count on was that the “superior athletes” they would recruit would be so stupid as to blow the whistle on themselves, via twitter.

    There’s more dirt here than will ever see the light of day. And Davis is about to be thrown under the bus in order to prevent as much of it as is possible from ever seeing the light of day.

    I hope Butch sings like a canary rather than going down quietly.

    And folks, this might not be over even when current investigations are completed. I suspect the IRS is watching this with interest regarding these payments that changed hands.

  4. UnclePen 09/30/2010 at 4:34 PM #

    Keep the misery alive. It’s great for recruiting!!!

    We should all support Butch getting a fair trial and insist that they should not “rush to judgement.” I can tell you the UNC people I am around are absolutely miserable and this whole affair is taking it’s toll on them. No more “everybody does it.” They now want Butch gone and to move on.

    We want the misery to continue through the whole football season.

  5. Wufpacker 09/30/2010 at 4:39 PM #

    But UnclePen, that makes no sense. Butch is the one who cleans up programs. [/sarcasm]

  6. Wufpacker 09/30/2010 at 4:39 PM #

    And I agree. We should all go and picket the UNC administration bldg. and demand due process for Butch.

  7. Sweet jumper 09/30/2010 at 4:42 PM #

    Wow! Maybe while the NCAA is there this time they will go ahead and start the recruiting violoations prong of the investigation. While they are at, they should stop by a have a chat with ol’ Roy. The pendulum is swinging back hard and fast and the holes are standing directly in its path. Butch is to us like HWSNBN was to hole fans. Keep him around so we can keep beating his teams like a drum.

  8. HPWolf 09/30/2010 at 4:43 PM #

    The real question is did Blake and Austin tell the truth during their sit down meeting with the SAG. If they did the real bomb has’nt fallen yet. That would be that Blake has been paying athletes to sign with UNC. This would be a major hit and UNC IS DONE!

  9. imawolf 09/30/2010 at 4:51 PM #

    Should not have appealed the game suspensions…… Should have just said OK……Oh the arrogance………

  10. Howler 09/30/2010 at 5:10 PM #

    This behavior at the country’s oldest state-supported University is less than ideal, and it possibly should be frowned upon, but let’s just hope none of the players have been selling their shoes, or it could blow up into a full-fledged scandal.

  11. graywolf 09/30/2010 at 5:13 PM #

    Please God let the investigation spill over into basketball and find the dirt!!!!!! We all know its there.

  12. ncsu_kappa 09/30/2010 at 5:29 PM #

    NCAA needs to interview the presbyterian kid. I’ve been wondering ever since it happened how he got his tickets. One of Roy Williams kids either gave it away, or more likely sold it to a fan. That ticket had to have gone for more than a pair of old adidas

  13. MrPlywood 09/30/2010 at 5:53 PM #

    Good thing they are a Public Ivy, because the only teams they’ll be able to beat are Yale and Harvard.

  14. old13 09/30/2010 at 6:16 PM #

    What an interesting weekend before us. NCSU and VaTech fans sit opposite each other to cheer on their respective teams for a gridiron victory against the other but join in the middle (during TOs, at halftime, after the game, etc.) to watch the burning of UNC-CHeat!! I love it. (Couldn’t say this about all opposing fans!!)

  15. highstick 09/30/2010 at 6:17 PM #

    Is this Custer’s revenge??

  16. highstick 09/30/2010 at 6:21 PM #

    This could make the Dixie Classics look like an elementary school school yard fight! But, keep in mind, Carolina rewrote/denied their association with the Dixie Classic issues except for Lou Brown..Doug Moe skated…A Carolina grad within the last 10-15 years doesn’t even have a clue about the Dixie Classics!

  17. I-Like-Tacos 09/30/2010 at 6:43 PM #

    “A Carolina grad within the last 10-15 years doesn’t even have a clue about the Dixie Classics!”

    Of course not, because then they would have to admit State dominated that tourney. Won 7 out of 12. UNX, only 3.

  18. Wufpacker 09/30/2010 at 6:55 PM #

    The other interesting thing is that despite the four “outsider” teams often being nationally ranked, none of them ever won it. As you mentioned, State had 7 titles and UNC 3. Duke and Wake each won it once to round out the total number of championships (12).

    Only just over half the years (7/12) did an outsider team even play in the championship game.

  19. TheCOWDOG 09/30/2010 at 6:58 PM #

    Why this persecution by the NCAA? Why oh why must they continue this…this torture? There’s only so many wings one can pull of a fly. When will it cease?

    ” Father. Why have you foresaken me? ”

    Searcy has been CLEARED, now this? Where is the trust? What right has the left hand of God goosing our academic superiority?

  20. old13 09/30/2010 at 7:22 PM #

    Third Yahoo Sports article:

    http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=dw-agents093010

  21. TheCOWDOG 09/30/2010 at 8:04 PM #

    ‘Stick. When you find yourself in the coach’s face, there is no WRY humor. ( Unless you wear one of those face shields. )

  22. Hungwolf 09/30/2010 at 8:22 PM #

    Daily Tar Hole reporting Thorpe and UNC Board of trustees still behind Davis as coach. Wow! The level of ignorance at the Hill never ceases to amaze me!

  23. bigdudenc 09/30/2010 at 8:29 PM #

    I don’t know if you guys have seen it, but there is an article on ESPN explaining all of John Blake and Gary Witchard’s co-mingled funds. According to their attorneys which includes Wade Smith (John Edward’s old law partner and scum bag in crime) it was all just one friend helping another. None of this happened in the recent past. The credit card had been closed for 3 years. Take from it what you will.

  24. OldWuf 09/30/2010 at 8:32 PM #

    “This behavior at the country’s oldest state-supported University is less than ideal, and it possibly should be frowned upon, but let’s just hope none of the players have been selling their shoes, or it could blow up into a full-fledged scandal.” Bwah Hah!!! Hilarious!!! Exactly, if this were NCSU they would be screaming for the NCAA to shut down our athletic department.

  25. MatSci94 09/30/2010 at 9:12 PM #

    “Searcy has been CLEARED”

    I took “cleared” to mean, he was declared ineligible for 3 games, which he has missed…but “cleared” sounds better.

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