Blake called Wichard within minutes of talking with Suh’s family

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On Monday, Nebraska’s Pelini told the World-Herald he remembered a concern over Blake contacting Suh.

Pelini said he asked Jeff Jamrog, Nebraska ’s assistant athletic director for football, to call North Carolina and handle the matter. Jamrog said he also recalled the instance but did not provide details of contact between the schools. It was unclear whether Nebraska contacted UNC.

“I remember something coming up, but I don’t know what the extent of it was,” Pelini said.

Suh’s mother, Bernadette Suh, said no one should infer that the phone calls with Blake were about agents.

“We sat down as a family and made our own decision on what agents we wanted to go to,” she said. “No one recommended anyone to us.”

Asked about the content of the calls, she said that Blake did not try to recommend Wichard to her son.

“It didn’t happen,” she said. “Even if he did, it’s none of your business – it’s nobody’s business.”

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36 Responses to Blake called Wichard within minutes of talking with Suh’s family

  1. NCSU88 10/06/2010 at 10:47 AM #

    But is there enough evidence for a conviction? If the glove doesn’t fit, you must acquit!

  2. choppack1 10/06/2010 at 10:55 AM #

    NCSU88 – it doesn’t work that way w/ the NCAA. It’s not a criminal trial here.

    I imaginge if they investigate this they’ll look at Nebraska’s records – and UNC’s records – and they’ll interview Nebraska’s Asst AD and UNC’s guy and base their decision on that.

    They use a “preponderence of evidence” format – meaning that it may not matter if Blake was totally on the up and up w/ his conversations w/ Suh and the agent – they can just say, “This has happened time and time again – we don’t think it’s a coincidence. In our minds, you were a runner.”

  3. Gowolves 10/06/2010 at 10:58 AM #

    If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck it is probably a duck

  4. MatSci94 10/06/2010 at 11:00 AM #

    “if Nebraska called…”

    it will not just be game over for Butch, but Badour as well. This is why I’m surprised that UNC is still so supportive of everyone. There are still several bombshell level things that are unanswered, and if any of those come out, then the whole thing is going to come down. If you were Badour, why would you risk your job (and likely future jobs) risking that this information doesn’t ever come out.

    If you haven’t yet, listen to the Bomani/Charles Robinson interview (it was in one of the twitter links), there were a couple of bits in there that I hadn’t heard before.

    Robinson was also on DG’s show yesterday, and when asked about the did/should Butch know question, he mentioned again that this was the Asst HC and recruiting coordinator, and that those two positions are as intimately involved with the running of a program as the HC is. DG of course spun that (later) into saying that ‘even Robinson with his 100’s of contacts said that there is no evidence that BD knew about Blake’

  5. choppack1 10/06/2010 at 11:36 AM #

    Yea MatSci94 – DG has been exposed for the total homer he is in all of this.

    If it all falls apart in Chapel Hill, he’ll point out that he was critical of the current regime – conveniently leaving out the fact that up until mid-September, he was towing the UNC line…and the scandal broke in July – and Blake’s reputation – which he recently admitted wasn’t a good one – had been a negative one for quite a while.

  6. packalum44 10/06/2010 at 11:39 AM #

    “This is why I’m surprised that UNC is still so supportive of everyone.”

    You just answered your own question: they are supportive because they’re all in the same sinking ship. This scandal goes up too high for anyone to survive. Butch sings this every morning in the shower no doubt:

  7. ryebread 10/06/2010 at 12:00 PM #

    +1 to packalum44: Baddour and the Chancellor are backing BD because they’re all in it together. Baddour at LEAST knew what was going on and based on the way the Chancellor has acted through this, he might have as well. If this stuff fully gets out, it appears that they’re all going down, so for now they’re in lock step.

    The conspiracy theorist in me also believes that this involves basketball as well. It’s hard for me to believe that the tutoring thing was just football only, even if the agents were. If this dips into football, then the chancellor has to be concerned. That will considerably hurt the marketability of the school in a way that football doesn’t.

    I think that BD is gone and that Baddour will be as well. My guess is that the Chancellor probably survives, but might get another post.

  8. wufpup76 10/06/2010 at 12:21 PM #

    “If it all falls apart in Chapel Hill, he’ll (DG) point out that he was critical of the current regime – conveniently leaving out the fact that up until mid-September, he was towing the UNC line…and the scandal broke in July – and Blake’s reputation – which he recently admitted wasn’t a good one – had been a negative one for quite a while.”

    ^DG just didn’t want to be racist … you know, like all of us.

    The things people say …

  9. packalum44 10/06/2010 at 1:01 PM #

    Rye: I assume Chancellor is tenured so being demoted to an academic position much like Oblinger is the equivalent of getting tarred and feathered in academia. Hope two Tire Bowls was worth it for these clowns. I just don’t see what incentives the Chancellor had to cheat…you are at a top 25 school, so what if your football program doesn’t win a championship you can still be top 25 at football and do it the right way.

    From a holistic perspective (academia and sports), there was little room to go up for UNC but ALOT of room to go down. Just really stupid from Thorpe’s perspective. He’s the biggest dumb ass of them all.

  10. tuckerdorm1983 10/06/2010 at 1:22 PM #

    to GOWOLVES “QUACK QUACK”

  11. GoldenChain 10/07/2010 at 8:34 AM #

    NCAA Bylaw 13.1.1.3
    “An athletics staff member or other representative of the institution’s athletics interests shall not make contact with the student-athlete of another NCAA or NAIA four-year collegiate institution, directly or indirectly, without first obtaining the written permission of the first institution’s athletics director (or an athletics administrator designated by the athletics director) to do so, regardless of who makes the initial contact.

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