The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s lawsuit against the NCAA’s treatment of Penn State University in the wake of the school’s Jerry Sandusky sex scandal has an extremely interesting local angle: it cites the  UNC athletics academic fraud scandal.  The litigation claims that the Penn State is being punished for matters outside of the scope and reach […]
N&O: Disgraced Former Trustee Provides Flights To Wolfpack Coaches (Which IS Legal)
No doubt, for months, the phones have been ringing off of the hook at the Raleigh News and Observer with UNC fans on the other end of the line frothing off at the mouth about the paper’s recent coverage of their favorite school. Â Those fans, after they get through bemoaning the paper’s coverage of the […]
NCAA hands Penn State $60 million fine & 4 year postseason ban
The NCAA has spoken, and while it did not give Penn State’s football program the Death Penalty, it may as well have: with the penalties handed down today, the Nittany Lions will not be able to field a Top 25 team for years. $60 Million fine Four year post-season ban Scholarship reduction from 25 to […]
The Latest News From FSU Only Underlines The Disaster That Is John Swofford
Seems that this time there really is fire beneath the smoke coming from blogs and message boards: Florida State is not happy with its current situation in the Atlantic Coast Conference, something that had been rumored for years. Even worse, there is some very real sentiment in Tallahassee to leave the ACC – possibly making […]
The ACC Gives UNC A Good Stern Talkin’ To. That’ll Teach ‘Em!
In their announcement that UNC would receive no conference sanctions as a result of their recent NCAA rules infractions investigation, the ACC Infractions and Penalties Committee made a stern statement: “The committee was particularly concerned with the actions of personnel who committed serious NCAA violations regarding impermissible benefits, academic fraud and impermissible assistance, and/or improper […]
A Lifetime ACC Fan’s Perspective on ACC Officiating
It’s a sad thing : the ACC apparently doesn’t even realize that it is killing its own brand. The ACC is a basketball conference first and foremost, and despite expansions designed to enhance football, the heart and the soul of the nearly seventy year old league is hoops. And the ACC is killing hoops, little […]
Et Tu, ECU?
The Chinese curse of “may you live in interesting times” could not possibly be any more applicable than it is today in Terry Holland’s offices in Greenville. That’s because with the ACC expanding — again — the ECU athletic director has an interesting set of possibilities, with some of them possibly meaning disaster for one […]
Butch Davis Is Only The Symptom, Not The Disease At UNC
Some may think that the never-ending problems at UNC would be solved by the termination of Butch Davis, and to a degree they would be right: the Tarheels would be rid of the man who worries more about the blue pinstripes on his players’ uniforms than whether his assistant coaches are wantonly violating NCAA rules. But […]
NCAA Stings GT With Probation
Recent news from Atlanta has surely caused the pucker factor in Chapel Hill to increase exponentially: Georgia Tech was fined $100,000 by the NCAA, stripped of its 2009 ACC championship in football and placed on four years of probation on Thursday for failure to cooperate with its investigation into the football and men’s basketball programs. […]
Cowdog: Where Were You When You First Shunned The Baby Blue?
Originally published early morning of November 19, 2010 Here’s a great recollection of what it’s like to be a player in the State-Carolina game by long-time Statefans Nation reader and raconteur, Cowdog. His tale takes us back to the 1972 State-Carolina game, one that older Wolfpack fans will probably never forget. Enjoy! — Alpha Everybody […]
