 Full story from the N & O. Today we learned that UNC hired a New York public relations firm last August to help them deal with the football scandals. There are so many good quotes to get to with the above-linked article — I will just roll them out without much commentary. Hill & Knowlton is a […]
Holden Thorp
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 […]
UNC-CH Board of Trustees chair critical of N & O’s “opinion” (day 134)
Today the News and Observer published this letter from Robert Winston, the chairman of UNC-CH’s Board of Trustees. The best part of the letter: As Chancellor Holden Thorp has said, we don’t feel good about being in this situation, but we do feel good about how we’ve responded to it. We pledged from the start that […]
Thorp, Baddour, Davis appear before UNC-CH BOT — UPDATED 3:50 p.m.
Doing a great impression of three guys standing uncomfortably against the wall at an 8th-grade dance, UNC-CH’s Chancellor, Athletic Director, and Football coach appeared before UNC-CH’s Board of Trustees to talk about the massive ongoing scandals. It is widely thought that UNC-CH BOT members were responsible for hiring Butch in the first place, so we […]
Composition analysis of UNC’s Board of Governors
Before we get going, I strongly suggest that you ‘set the table’ for today’s entry by reading this fantastic piece that should be mandatory of every taxpayer in the state of North Carolina. If there is one thing the current athletic cheating and academic fraud scandal at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill […]
Swofford breaks his silence, harshly sanctions FSU women’s soccer team (Day 113) — 6:45 update
Before I get started, let me say a few things about yesterday’s happenings. As everyone knows, Thorp came out with some awkwardly-worded statements about Butch Davis. Watch here starting at the 48 second-mark if you want to hear Thorp in his own words say things such as “I think what I said was that we don’t […]
Shocker!!!! Thorp says ‘no evidence’ Butch knew [2:40pm Update]
Full link. UNC Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp said this morning that while he still has questions about why Butch Davis didn’t know more about questionable behavior by his football players, the football coach didn’t play a role in anything under investigation by the NCAA. “We don’t have any evidence that Coach Davis knew about […]
UNC’s timeframe & 3 reasons why CMFD’s Sgt. Schultz defense isn’t plausible (Day 85)
I assume most of you have heard by now about the UNC comments following the BOG meeting today. You can watch a report and read about it here also. This stuff gets covered in real-time during the day on our message boards which is one of the reasons we are always trying to send your attention that […]
Baddour responds to Daily Tarheel calling for Butch’s job(9:02 am)
Updated 9:02 am: I am not sure how many times it has been said about the scandal in Chapel Hill, but you just can’t make this stuff up. You just can’t. TO THE EDITOR: As Director of Athletics, I hired Butch Davis to lead our football program because he was an outstanding coach who shared […]
Why “the Carolina Way” is now a punch line (nightly update day 71).
Let’s get right to it. We have a lot of ground to cover. The fallout from yesterday’s NCAA suspensions began with Kendric Burney’s dad giving some great quotes that really raise questions about institutional control. You should read this article in full. I think this passage from that piece damages UNC-CH more than any other I have read since […]
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