The short answer? He’s a Carolina homer trying to sound like he’s not.
He’s giving the standard mea culpas which are unavoidable at this point if he wants to be taken seriously (or at least what passes for “seriously” over there), but in the end it’s nothing more than a rephrasing of “Rogues” and “Nothing more to see here”.
He even went out of his way to paint Jay Smith as a psuedo-vigilante. I surprised he was able to write it without mention of Mary Willingham or Dan Kane. Though I’d bet money they were in the rough drafts at some point.
As far as his title, I think it’s pretty telling. Notice he called it an “athletics scandal”? Whoopsie.
