UNC’s Marvin Austin Giving Testimony Before the Secretary of State

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North Carolina defensive tackle Marvin Austin is appearing before the Secretary of State’s office to give testimony about allegations into whether agents and financial advisors violated the Uniform Athletes Agents Act, a source with knowledge of the investigation into UNC’s football program said.

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29 Responses to UNC’s Marvin Austin Giving Testimony Before the Secretary of State

  1. Ismael 09/17/2010 at 10:48 AM #

    it’s seriously a shame that this isn’t even up yet on the local media websites. journo fail

  2. PackWolf82 09/17/2010 at 10:50 AM #

    Surprised? Is anything really going on according to them? I wonder sometimes.

  3. wolfman1959 09/17/2010 at 10:53 AM #

    Has Butch released his depth chart for the Tarholes game this weekend ? Do we know who is suspended/playing yet ?

  4. imawolf 09/17/2010 at 10:55 AM #

    I’m telling ya’ll…. AT UNC-Cheaters, anytime something bad happens there, IT NEVER HAPPENED……. The Carolina Way….. I still feel very little will happen to this program…

  5. Daily Update 09/17/2010 at 10:58 AM #

    12 players out for GT game according to Butch.

  6. coppertop 09/17/2010 at 11:03 AM #

    From the article:

    “A source told ESPN that Blake already has been subpoenaed by the Secretary of State’s office and may testify next week. Blake has not returned messages left on his cell phone.”

    Wonder what will come out from this development!

  7. GAWolf 09/17/2010 at 11:26 AM #

    That should read “… has not returned messages left on his cricket phone.”

  8. TAEdisonHokie 09/17/2010 at 11:30 AM #

    It’s now every man for himself.

    Austin is testifying to anything that will keep him out of jail because technically he is considered to be an agent under North Carolina law.

    Blake will also testify to anything that will keep him out of jail but I think he’s already reserved a spot. It will be interesting to see if he turns on Wichard and/or Davis.

    Pass the popcorn!

  9. WolftownVA81 09/17/2010 at 11:41 AM #

    You know nothings happening because no ones told Butch what it’s all about.

  10. Hungwolf 09/17/2010 at 11:49 AM #

    Ignorance of the law is not a defense unless you a Tar Hole.

  11. WolftownVA81 09/17/2010 at 11:59 AM #

    “South Carolina tight end Weslye Saunders, who also has been questioned by the NCAA for possible improper agent contact, was dismissed by the Gamecocks on Wednesday. Saunders allegedly accompanied Austin to a Miami party thrown by an agent or his representatives earlier this year.”

    Sort of begs the question, so what’s UNC doing about their guys? Sooner or later this boil is going to pop spewing puss over all those connected to these scandels and those willing to look the other way. And when it does, the local media is going to get lampooned in the national press. Wake up guys and smell the coffee, which side of this issue to you really want to be on? Choice A) Aid with the cover up by not reporting or B) Do you jobs as journalist and let the chips fall where they may.

    As painful as that may be for these UNC alumns in the media, I don’t see how they can’t chose B.

  12. Gowolves 09/17/2010 at 12:05 PM #

    Marvin was promised leniency..ummm I mean cupcakes for his testimony

  13. boxorice 09/17/2010 at 12:07 PM #

    I wish folks used the term “begs the question” properly.

  14. TAEdisonHokie 09/17/2010 at 12:09 PM #

    WolftownVA81 – There is more than one way to skin a cheating Tar Heel if you don’t want to burn your local bridges.

    There has been plenty of opportunity to date for the national media to “lampoon” the local press. You have to think why that hasn’t happened. My guess is the local media is “leaking” and/or “sharing” information with their contacts at the national media level. If true, then we’ll never see the local media flamed at the national level.

  15. JeremyH 09/17/2010 at 12:11 PM #

    I wish folks used expressions as such, without referencing them as terms.

  16. ppack3 09/17/2010 at 12:11 PM #

    “A source told ESPN that Blake already has been subpoenaed by the Secretary of State’s office and may testify next week. Blake has not returned messages left on his cell phone.”

    Somewhere in a Chapel Hill, a phone in a trash can is ringing off the hook.

  17. Gowolves 09/17/2010 at 12:13 PM #

    Please enlighten us Boxofrice or am I speaking to a troll?

  18. stejen 09/17/2010 at 12:18 PM #

    I think the biggest reason that UNC is being so “hush hush” about this investigation is this: It is now a fact that UNC has violated NCAA and academic rules. It is now known that Butch and Baddour knew about it before the investigation began. It is now known this has been going on for quite a while so you have to figure Swofford knew. If all these guys knew then Thorpe must have known and possibly even Bowles and the BOG. Do you not think Butch has told them “if I go down I am taking you down with me?”

  19. packplantpath 09/17/2010 at 12:22 PM #

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question

    However, the way the phrase was used has made it into the regular vocabulary of the populace and will eventually be accepted as proper use. I’d say 99.9% of people understand the phrase, and use it, the exact same way.

    Besides, only douchbags complain about proper usage of logical arguments (or grammar) in a thread like this on a blog. There is a time and place, this isn’t it.

  20. PackFanInLA 09/17/2010 at 12:27 PM #

    I am a little confused here, because there could be two things going on with this questioning — 1) Sec of State is investigating the agents as individuals, and participants in criminal misconduct or 2) Sec of State is investigating UNC as an institution. I could be wrong, and I don’t know the whole story, but it doesn’t seem like Marvin committed any actual crimes. Maybe the agents did commit some regulatory crimes by not filing their paperwork and following the red tape under this so-called uniformed agents act or whatever.

    Looks to me like UNC has learned from the Univ Southern California Reggie Bush situation, and has decided to make the agents into the boogeyman. It strikes me that the situations are very similar, but USC allowed the investigation to take place, while UNC is putting the spotlight on the agents early and often. You have to give them credit – it is a good strategy for saving their own hide. Make the agents the bad guys, and then publicize all they did wrong.. and maybe offer up one or two insiders (blake, et. al.) to complete the show. Then the university quietly sneaks away as “innocent” bystanders in this situation. “we didn’t do anything, we are just innocent little baby-blue intellectuals. we were preyed upon by these awful agents.” Yea right!

    Look, these agents are private businessmen, and they probably arranged inappropriate private relationships with these players, coaches, and administrators. The agents surely didn’t follow all the regulations that the state sets up (which could be different in every single state), but to me, the sec of state is barking up the wrong tree to go after the agents here. Let’s say you nab one or two over-eager, sleazy agents. Are there not going to be ten more ready to show up on campus the very next day ready to do “what it takes” to sign the next kid who will command a multi-million dollar contract?

    I am not condoning the behavior of the agents necessarily, but the fact is, there will ALWAYS be willing participants in that game if you have PUBLIC taxpayer-supported institutions with a culture of corruption who are willing to look the other way. UNC, just like NC State, has direct fiduciary and transparency obligations to the citizens of this state to act with integrity and within the guidelines set by the state, the UNC System, and the terms and conditions they agreed to as a voluntary member institution of the NCAA. We pour hundreds of millions of dollars into these dang schools, and they ought to function properly.

    The Sec. of State should be investigating UNC!

    Its our tax dollars at work: wasting time and money on the symptom rather than the problem. And if you are cynical like me: they are offering up the symptom as a sacrificial lamb so that the problem can emerge unscathed.

  21. JeremyH 09/17/2010 at 12:33 PM #

    ^ = touche with a baseball bat

  22. Pack05 09/17/2010 at 1:28 PM #

    “Somewhere in a Chapel Hill, a phone in a trash can is ringing off the hook.”

    I LOL’d

  23. highstick 09/17/2010 at 1:55 PM #

    Saunders dismissal is more related to his “other sins” rather than the Miami trip…Lying to Spurrier, Hotelgate, missing practices and team meetings and then lying to Spurrier again, telling Spurrier he would not move from the hotel unless the AD told him to, appearing on the radio to voice his side of the story….and being a genuine pain in the rump!

    I don’t think you can draw a parallel with how Spurrier dealt with Saunders versus Butch and Marvin…while there’s a connection between Saunders and Austin, Saunders has been a pain in the butt for almost 4 years with his antics.

  24. Hungwolf 09/17/2010 at 1:59 PM #

    Sources that choose to not be named in the Secretary of State’s office report that upon questioning Marvin Ausitn’s attorney suggested the fifth to his client, at which point Marvin pulled out a bottle of liquor, and said, You mean this one from Miami or the one from Hawkins?”

  25. bradleyb123 09/17/2010 at 2:59 PM #

    It’s now every man for himself.

    Austin is testifying to anything that will keep him out of jail because technically he is considered to be an agent under North Carolina law.

    Blake will also testify to anything that will keep him out of jail but I think he’s already reserved a spot. It will be interesting to see if he turns on Wichard and/or Davis.

    Pass the popcorn!

    Did someone say…… popcorn? 😉

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