Butch Davis

Recent UNC-CH Football scandal articles summarized in Bytes format

  Here is a series of articles, presented in no particular order, from the past two weeks or so concerning one or more of the ongoing UNC-CH football scandals.  Time constraints prevent me from full discussions and proper transitions, so please feel free to add well-developed and flawlessly-written commentary and analysis in the comments section.  For example, a […]

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Baddour “researched” past cases: Butch tells recruits no scholarship reductions or bowl bans are coming, other odds and ends (Day 202)

Hey everybody!  I have been slammed at work and therefore unable to write as much as I would like.  My apologies.  Three recent developments warrant comment — so here we go, “Bytes” style. First, let’s go over some comments made by Sylvester Williams, a UNC-CH signee.  This Charlotte Observer article posted today explains that Coach Davis explained to Sylvester that UNC-CH would suffer […]

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Bowles 9/30 email to Thorp: “There needs to be a sense of outrage expressed on our part,” and “Its [sic] not enough to just have not known””

Today brings more fun news from released emails! Yesterday we learned through a released email that Butch was supposedly so in-tune with his 16 suspended players that he knew they needed counseling.  He thought they might do all sorts of bad things, even including violence.  This is a coach who supposedly had no idea that these same players […]

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Davis 9/22 email asks “Dickie” to provide “counseling” for suspended players

I am not sure what to make of all of this, but a lot of new information is currently being released.  Nearly 1,000 emails were released by UNC-CH this week and some media members have apparently been combing through them.  WTVD continues its excellent coverage of the scandals.  This afternoon Derek Rowles posted this article.  I would also […]

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UNC’s former football academic coordinator: “…if I had gone to Coach Davis, my job would have been on the line.”

  The News and Observer has two articles up this morning about the “tutor prong” of the huge ongoing UNC-CH football scandals.  One of these articles directly considers Cynthia Reynolds, who was UNC-CH’s football academic coordinator.  Regarding Reynolds’ history with UNC-CH, the N & O explains: Reynolds, now 56, was hired in 2002 as an associate director of the Academic […]

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