FINALLY! Some common sense and opinion from some guy named Scott Mooneyham. Welcome to the big time, Mr. Mooneyham. Please be prepared for private and public lynchings by the members of the secret society we have named, ‘The Flagship’. It is kind of like going up against ‘The Firm’. The last guy who spoke out […]
Kendric Burney had prior knowledge of agents in Miami but Butch didn’t? (Day 75)
^ Marvin at the gun show this past spring. Tonight’s entry is based on a piece that went up last Thursday but (appropriately) got lost behind our excellent pregame entries Friday and Saturday.  This point is too important to miss and represents a major theme that should be repeated — we are being asked to believe that Butch Davis knew almost nothing about what […]
Draughn in Atlanta with Hawkins? Or not? (nightly update day 72)
I have a two quick items tonight that are sort of leftovers but I wanted to clear them out this week to make way for all the great new stuff that is sure to come out next week. On Wednesday UNC player Shaun Draughn did an interview after being reinstated. It was pretty uninteresting until the last […]
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 […]
Nightly Update Day 70
Wow! We started this new nightly update thing just at the right time. Tonight’s entry will not be as linear and organized as normal because I am pressed for time and the news is still developing and hard to analyze. Obviously tonight’s update deals with the NCAA issuing suspensions – Burney getting 6 games and Williams […]
Nightly Scandal Update
Tonight kicks off a new StateFans Nation feature.  We hope to write an entry every night or nearly every night recapping that day’s scandal news. In the unlikely event of a day with no scandal news, there is plenty of past material to mine for interesting discussion points. Before I get started, I have to tell everyone that you must read this […]
Hawkins’ date discrepancy and other scandal odds and ends (now updated)
Folks, one sure sign that the mess in Chapel Hill has achieved full Gong Show status is that I have to write “odds and ends” columns like this one regularly to make sure we don’t miss anything. First I will mention Butch Davis’ recent remarks as reported by WRAL. When asked about the futures of the 12 UNC-CH players that […]
SI connecting some dots re: UNC-CH’s agent scandal.
While the academic cheating scandal has curiously moved to the back burner, the agent prong of UNC-CH’s national nightmare is getting a lot of press lately. Most recently, Sports Illustrated has published this article explaining some of the various facets of the UNC-CH mess. Notice that the national press is all over this story while the local folks […]
Thorp: Davis’ status “not a fair question,†and “plan right now†is for Davis to remain!
As you can read about here, today UNC-CH Chancellor Holden Thorp gave some very interesting answers to questions about Butch Davis’ job status. Asked, prior to a meeting with UNC’s faculty, if he could definitively say that Davis would remain as the football coach, Thorp began his response by saying it wasn’t a fair question. […]
Curious phone records between Blake and agent surface
Tuesday evening the News and Observer posted this article. It details a strange pattern (and odd  frequency) of communication that former UNC-CH Associate Head Coach/Recruiting Coordinator John Blake had with Gary Wichard, an agent who is a long-time friend of Blake. Folks, I honestly don’t know what to make of a lot of this, but I […]
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