SFN to James Moeser: At Long Last, Have You No Decency, Sir?

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 that. To use the brutal, tragic, and senseless murder of a young woman to hide behind and/or shirk responsibility for gross corruption, academic and athletic mismanagement, and the two-faced, rank hypocrisy of claiming to be holier than thou compared to EVERYBODY – wow. Just wow. There are some lines you just don’t cross, ever. I would expect an average seven year old to understand this particular boundary. I guess it shouldn’t surprise me that Moeser apparently lacks the intellect and/or conscience of same. But I am surprised, shocked, and disgusted.

Moeser “led” the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2000-2008 (definitely some overlap into the actual corruption). He knows better, without question. If he had his head buried in the sand since the moment he left Chapel Hill – he would still HAVE to know better. I thank Wikipedia for confirming that he wasn’t Chancellor in 1998, so I don’t have to burn my graduate school diploma in disgust. But that doesn’t take away the sick feeling in my stomach. Nothing ever will.

In my view, this is a seminal moment. A point of no return, if you will. Hence the title, appropriate both in spirit and historical context. Look it up if you have to.

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1995 NC State graduate, sufferer of Les and MOC during my entire student tenure. An equal-opportunity objective critic and analyst of Wolfpack sports.

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19 Responses to SFN to James Moeser: At Long Last, Have You No Decency, Sir?

  1. NCSU88 05/20/2013 at 10:18 AM #

    That’s just low.

  2. LRM 05/20/2013 at 10:26 AM #

    I think it’s more appropriate to say Eve Carson represented everything good about what The Carolina Way has always failed to be.

    After all the wrong they’ve done, they’re neither shamed nor contrite.

  3. tractor57 05/20/2013 at 10:32 AM #

    Read that article over the weekend and am still shaking my head at the arrogance.

  4. PackDave 05/20/2013 at 10:54 AM #

    Seriously, just… wow. The evidence is on the table, and you have nothing to rebut it with, so you pull out the memory of a murdered student to hide behind? The fact that a grown man who is held in high regard over in Chapel Hill pulled this card out at all says almost as much about the “Carolina Way” as the scandal itself does.

    I love the author’s response, too. “National media” has made UNC athletics the globally-recognized cash cow that it is, and the UN* response to the first negative press in lord-knows-how-long is, “By criticizing us, you’re defaming the memory of a murdered young woman.” What a complete and total piece of garbage.

  5. Semper_WolfPack 05/20/2013 at 11:00 AM #

    I’m at a loss. That’s just pathetic, even by UNX standards.

  6. moreforw 05/20/2013 at 11:21 AM #

    McCarthy was RIGHT!

  7. Lumpy 05/20/2013 at 11:23 AM #

    Yeah, that’s right. The MEDIA set up bull$#!+ classes to keep athletes eligible. The MEDIA looked the other way while it happened. The MEDIA payed the head of AFAM for tons of classes he taught while out of the country, and the MEDIA claimed that UNC had done nothing wrong that should warrant any further NCAA inquiries while blaming the entire debacle on rogue academic administrators, hiring cronies to conduct “investigations” and paying millions to a PR firm to whitewash the whole mess.
    I wish that for just ONE DAY that the media actually went after this story like this jackass thinks they have. That for just 24 hrs, writers forgot that this was UNC and instead treated them like OSU or Miami. Then you’d see what it really meant to have the media tarnish your image you sanctimonious jagoff .

  8. JohnGalt78 05/20/2013 at 12:01 PM #

    Nothing new or surprising here. SOS

  9. Pack Mentality 05/20/2013 at 1:18 PM #

    I don’t find this in the least bit surprising. This is the same character they have shown all along. Next Swofford will say something similar.

  10. 13OT 05/20/2013 at 2:46 PM #

    DD, SOS.

  11. wufpup76 05/20/2013 at 5:37 PM #

    Gall. Insolence.

    Call it whatever you like, Moeser and his ilk have it spades.

    He sounds exactly like someone who has willed themselves to believe something that they know is not true. ‘I can’t possibly have been a part of fraud, or even a fraud myself …’.

    Yeah buddy, you are.

  12. choppack1 05/20/2013 at 7:16 PM #

    I am just going to say this: when you structure the joy in your life around a little town and its college… and you come to believe it represents all that is good… it is impossible to convince you otherwise.

    They remind me of Hollywood types…sitting around admiring their own greatness.

  13. tjfoose1 05/21/2013 at 12:30 AM #

    Guess I’m more of a cynic than some of you. This doesn’t surprise me in the least. The parallels to the corruption in DC continue. The dead enjoy no reverence.

  14. PackerInRussia 05/21/2013 at 3:48 AM #

    Sounds like he’s just perpetuating the Carolina Way.

  15. tjfoose1 05/21/2013 at 11:33 AM #

    I wonder if u*nc is preparing an honorary degree for Steven Miller. He certainly deserves one.

  16. blpack 05/21/2013 at 12:13 PM #

    They still don’t get it. It is like they are incapable of wrongdoing so do not dare to accuse them of anything. Shameful comments from the former U*NC chancellor.

  17. tjfoose1 05/21/2013 at 1:21 PM #

    Oh, the irony.

    Quick Quiz:

    Who does Donte Paige-Moss more closely resemble…

    Eve Carlson or Atwater and Lovette?

    Moeser is a piece of shit.

  18. tjfoose1 05/21/2013 at 1:24 PM #

    Oops… I guess the expletive got my comment filtered out.

    I’ll self edit and go acronym and try again.
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    Oh, the irony.

    Quick Quiz:

    Who does Donte Paige-Moss more closely resemble…

    Eve Carlson or Atwater and Lovette?

    Moeser is a POS.

  19. groupthink 05/22/2013 at 10:51 AM #

    of all the unmitigated gall–unbelievable. i found out yesterday that they dont even lose the 15 scholarships in football. they in truth lose 5. they will have 80 available scholarships for the next 2 years and thats all folks. http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d108/phoenix030405/Creations/afamclass2.jpg

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