The N&O is reporting this afternoon that A UNC system BOG panel met for more than five hours behind closed doors, citing confidentiality and privacy issues. The purpose of the meeting was reportedly to discuss UNC-CH’s current academic fraud issues… CHAPEL HILL — A UNC Board of Governors panel met for more than five hours […]
Program on the Rise?
For any dyed in the wool fan of NC State Football, or pretty much any Wolfpack athletic program for that matter, it is completely unnecessary to state the obvious…NC State has been the Rodney Dangerfield of the ACC more often than not in the past. That’s why the recent onslaught of positive press has some […]
Kane: Academic support director for UNC athletes quietly moved out of job
The N&O’s Dan Kane continues to keep the pressure on and keep the NEW Carolina Way in the public eye. This go ’round he seems to want us to be aware of some recent personnel changes within the UNC-CH academic support program for athletes (is that an oxymoron or what?). Pasted below are a few […]
[Update] Purvis cleared to attend class, Eligibility still pending
[Update 10:15am]: Joe Giglioâ€@jwgiglio – N.C. State freshman guard Rodney Purvis has been cleared by the NCAA to attend class, but his 2012-13 eligibility is still under review [Original Post]: Rodney Purvis is closing in on his first full week of the fall semester and has still yet to attend a class, courtesy of the […]
Burley Mitchell: Who’s Minding the Store?
If you live under a rock and missed Monday’s transcript-gate issues, be sure to catch up here and here before going on. – My new favorite drinking buddy (with whom I haven’t yet drank), the N&O’s Dan Kane, pens another piece – Peppers’ transcript might point to broader academic issues at UNC. Â No new […]
Football Bonus Material: Videos and Helmet Schedules
Just tying up some football video loose ends and throwing out a pre-emptive strike for the certain to be coming helmet schedule requests. – GoPack.com has a nice video in which TOB gives his 2nd week fall camp impressions -Â Inside Wolfpack Sports – Camp Update; as well as his impressions of the first scrimmage […]
Sights and Sounds of Fall Camp
For college football fans everywhere, anticipation and excitement always resurface right about now every year. Wolfpack fans are no different, and in 2012 some believe State might even have the potential for a “special” season if the cards fall correctly (those metaphorical cards, as usual, pretty much boil down to avoiding injuries and enough guys […]
Mike Glennon Learns From Big Brother
Found this great piece, N.C. State’s Mike Glennon learns from brother’s experience at Virginia Tech, by David Teel from the Daily Press in Hampton Roads, Va. which I thought deserved its own attention: No matter that Wilson was surrounded by superior weapons — State had no Montee Ball in the backfield — and threw for fewer […]
N&O: UNC-CH athletic advisers steered players to no-show classes
The N&O’s Dan Kane is at it again this evening, this time highlighting the fact that athletes not only made up a disproportionate number of enrollments, but that there was a systematic and accepted practice of steering athletes to no-show classes. So important was this mission that it took 115 employees and a cushy multi-million […]
Mid-Summer Checkpoint
As July turns to August, things usually start heating up. No time like the present to play a little catch up. – Wolfpack Basketball hopes to build on last season’s sweet sixteen appearance. Hopefully, the early season workouts and team togetherness provided by the upcoming tour of Spain will accelerate their ability to work […]
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