Dick Baddour and a Rams Club employee made back-to-back appearances on The Insiders’ Show on local station 620AM this morning. Considering the Heels have an open date this weekend, the timing of these appearances seemed rather strange. Baddour discussed the scandal in Chapel Hill while the representative from the Rams Club covered the expansion of Kenan stadium.
There were lots of interesting comments from the interview:
“Sure I have a sense of responsibility. I don’t have a sense of negligence. I don’t have a sense of us not having the measures in place. Certainly those haven’t worked in some situations, I can’t deny that,” Baddour told Mark and Mike on The Insiders on 620 The Buzz. “I have comfort in that we had the education and prevention programs in place. I also know that we must do better and it’s my responsibility to sort out how we are going to do that.”
Oh really? No sense of negligence? Not having measures in place?Maybe Baddour is simply incompetent.
Based on these comments, then one wonders how this whole scandal even occurred. With Baddour already having a “sense” that he wasn’t negligent and that all measures were in place, then that really calls into question Baddour being involved with the investigation in the first place. How can he already be making claims at this point when the investigation isn’t even complete? Not to mention, it is very difficult for someone leading an investigation that includes making a final judgement on whether they were to blame for the scandal being investigated. Is anyone really surprised by Baddour’s claims of lack of negligence and that they had all needed measures in place? Of course, this will be Baddour’s conclusion.
Maybe at some point, the local media will start calling out UNC for the conflicts of interest in the leaders at UNC involved and responsible for the scandal also leading the investigation.
Of course, we aren’t the only ones leading the local media in specific directions. Baddour apparently thinks he needs to tell our local journalists how to do their jobs:
“I’m for as much information to the media as possible. What I hope in return is that the media will not chase the Internet sites or the message boards and that they will use the professional approach that they’ve been taught.“
More of the spin that we have come to expect from UNC athletic department. The media needs to do the job the way they were taught(what university has the leading school of journalism in the UNC system?). Baddour should be worrying about doing his own job.
Does anyone else see the irony in Baddour telling the local media not to chase Internet sites and message boards considering it was Marvin Austin’s participation on Twitter and UNC’s lack of monitoring that led the NCAA to investigate UNC’s football program?
You can’t make this stuff up.
