I know that most of us have been only concerned today with the football game vs. Georgia Tech, which did not turn out well, and the first exhibition basketball game against Queens University, which turned out better.
But over the last 24 hours two bits of information have come out regarding that school in Orange County.
1. Michael McAdoo has sued North Carolina.
he’s suing the university in federal court, saying UNC broke its promise to give him an education in return for playing sports. His lawsuit is a class-action suit that the other 3,100 students who enrolled in the fake classes — nearly half of whom are athletes — could easily join.
“From selection of a major to selection of courses, the UNC football program controlled football student-athletes’ academic track, with the sole purpose of ensuring that football student-athletes were eligible to participate in athletics, rather than actually educating them,” says his lawsuit, filed Thursday by the law firms of Ferguson, Chambers & Sumter in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Mehri and Skalet in Washington, D.C.
“UNC has reaped substantial profits from football student-athletes’ performance for the school, but it has not provided them a legitimate education in return. As such, UNC has breached its contract with Plaintiff and Class members, in violation of North Carolina common law,” wrote his attorney, Jeremi Duru, who is also a professor of law at the Washington College of Law.
This is an interesting twist.
2. Dan Kane has a new article regarding the fake classes, especially in regards to the 2005 UNC Men’s Basketball team, which by the way won the national championship.
During the season that the UNC men’s basketball team made its run to the 2005 NCAA championship, its players accounted for 35 enrollments in classes that didn’t meet and yielded easy, high grades awarded by the architect of the university’s academic scandal.
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Of the 35 bogus class enrollments, nine came during the fall semester of 2004, when eligibility for the spring was determined. Twenty-six were during the spring semester, when the season climaxed with a victory over Illinois in St. Louis.
One section that he discussed was concerning Roy Williams and his “changing story”.
Williams’ changing story
The N&O’s reporting revealed the scandal in 2011, but Williams, for a long time, provided little detail as to what he knew about the classes. Numerous times he said he was proud of the academic experience his players received.
“Our track record is pretty doggone good,” Williams told a Charlotte radio station on Aug. 15, 2012. “And our track record has been pretty doggone good for 15 years at Kansas, nine years at North Carolina. And we know how much we emphasize the academic side in the basketball office. We know what our guys are majoring in. We know – every day we’re in touch with those kids. So it’s something, again, that I’m very proud of.”
Four months later, at a press conference, an N&O reporter asked Williams why his players had stopped taking AFAM paper classes by the start of the fall 2009 semester. Was it because Crowder had retired, or did someone in the program notice something wrong?
Williams responded: “You say we either did something, or we didn’t do something. Maybe guys, girls, just decided not to take certain classes.”
Just remember, no matter what you think…this will all be over by Friday.
