A thought about some dots that have not yet been connected by any of these news agencies regarding the creation of the AFAM department:
We need to look back at the collegiate sports, specifically basketball, landscape in 1992-93. You are Dean Smith, and your cross-town rivals have been on a half-decade tear, and have just won back-to-back championships. You haven’t won a title since 1982. What’s a tenured coach, of questionable integrity, to do? Go out quietly, enjoy the twilight of your career and retirement? Or figure out a way to get a competitive advantage, like you have done so many times before? You choose the dirty way. And lo and behold, you win the championship the very next year, with half your team and three of your starting five moved to the new athlete-friendly AFAM department. It’s much easier to recruit good players when academics aren’t a concern. And it’s much easier for those players to concentrate on basketball when you remove the rigors of normal college academics.
This is story that I want written. The information is there for the taking. Some of it freely available, some if may have to be fought for tooth and nail against the considerable legal prowess of the UN* PR team. But the information is there. Connect the dots. Only when someone digs to the root of this corrupt tree will I truly be satisfied. Will that ever happen? I have my doubts. I believe they will do everything in their power to save the myth of Dean, even at the cost of their precious “Carolina Way”. The only hope I have is that their untold arrogance will actually lead to their demise. After all, it is only because of their arrogance that we have even arrived at this point. The only thing we can do is to continue to push the click button on these stories, drive web traffic, leave comments, send emails, and keep adding fuel to this fire.
