If you have any Tar Heel friends, then you have noticed by now how delusional they are regarding the impending sanctions. You have most certainly heard their delusional talking points that “nothing is going to happen to us because we have been so co-operative with the NCAA.” Which is funny on many levels because they haven’t been remotely […]
UNC’s former football academic coordinator: “…if I had gone to Coach Davis, my job would have been on the line.”
 The News and Observer has two articles up this morning about the “tutor prong” of the huge ongoing UNC-CH football scandals.  One of these articles directly considers Cynthia Reynolds, who was UNC-CH’s football academic coordinator. Regarding Reynolds’ history with UNC-CH, the N & O explains: Reynolds, now 56, was hired in 2002 as an associate director of the Academic […]
Swofford breaks his silence, harshly sanctions FSU women’s soccer team (Day 113) — 6:45 update
Before I get started, let me say a few things about yesterday’s happenings. As everyone knows, Thorp came out with some awkwardly-worded statements about Butch Davis. Watch here starting at the 48 second-mark if you want to hear Thorp in his own words say things such as “I think what I said was that we don’t […]
Bling prong? — UNC-CH player’s jewelry supplier dissassociated (Day 111)
The Daily Tar Heel’s excellent coverage of the scandal continued today as they brought us some actual reporting! Imagine that — the local press actually printing new stuff about a huge scandal rocking the biggest athletic department in the region! Crazy concept, I realize. Anyway the Daily Tar Heel posted the above-linked piece explaining that UNC-CH Athletic Director Dick […]
Burney “still friends” with Hawkins, UNC liason’s sleepless nights, & the “Tutor Handbook” (Day 110)
 I am back! Last week the other members of the SFN author team were knocking it out of the park covering the scandal here and here, so there was no need for me to clutter up the blog with redundant and/or inferior analysis. Also, the FSU game appropriately occupied our attention and energy. Speaking of the FSU […]
Paige-Moss gets caught throwing another punch & Barry Saunders rewind (Day 102)
Alert readers will remember Donte Paige-Moss from my Day 90 update. That entry recounted and linked this interview in which Paige-Moss compares the dismissed former UNC players to “bank robbers” who “just got caught.” Paige-Moss reasoned that if ten people rob a bank, the only one who gets in trouble is the one guy who gets caught. I bring […]
Butch’s redshirting dodge and a dubious poll (day 98)
This entry is nowhere near as good as last night’s. I’d like to thank the other members of the SFN author team for adding content and providing research for yesterday’s brilliant and monolithic Burney expose’. The first thing to cover tonight is the topic we left off with last night — UNC’s apparent plan to use redshirt years to […]
[10:30pm] Brown out for year, Burney out for Miami, maybe more (Day 97)
UNC-CH announced late today that Kendric Burney will not play Saturday against Miami and that Charles Brown will not play at all this year. Here is the ACCNow report. I am totally blown away by UNC’s actions regarding Burney over the last few days. The folks in Chapel Hill are really outdoing even themselves on this […]
Butch proactively bans Twitter after Coples’ anti-gay tweet! (day 92)
Late Thursday afternoon Butch leapt into action and banned his players from using Twitter. Talk about closing the barn door after the horse has left! Here you can read the WTVD story. The piece leads off: CHAPEL HILL (WTVD) — UNC Head Football Coach Butch Davis banned his players from using Twitter on Thursday. The move […]
Kiper fallout related to the UNC scandals and increasing national scrutiny of Butch (Day 91)
I don’t have a lot of time tonight, but I am going to pass along a few things. First, some quick “dot connecting” that grew out of the big Sports Illustrated piece that hit yesterday. One interesting passage from that article dealt with “NFL draft guru” Mel Kiper. He is the annoying guy with the “Lego man” […]
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