It’s a surreal world we occupy when the N&O, Gregg Doyel and #WPN are all working together. For decades we’ve endured the arrogant elitism of The Carolina Way, knowing it never passed muster. And now, after their precious creed has failed them, the UNC faithful have responded mostly with passive indifference and refused to be […]
UNC Scandal
Flashback: NCAA Report on the NC State “Scandal”
A member close to the Men’s Basketball team from the mid to late 1980s sent me an email this morning of snippets from the NCAA’s report involving the Shoes and Ticket “Scandal” of the late 80s. Unfortunately, all I was able to obtain were images of the report, and at that, they were truncated. After […]
CBS’s Doyel crushes UNC-Cheat: “Maybe the ugliest academic scandal in NCAA history”
The hits just a keep on coming as the national media FINALLY wakes up to I didn’t think it could get much better than this. I was wrong. CBS’s Gregg Doyel tweeted today that he is mad at himself for ignoring the UNC academic fraud scandal and that he wouldn’t ignore it any longer. He […]
“The Carolina Way” = “an academic scandal that could be the worst the NCAA has ever seen”
Matt Hayes of The Sporting News has always been one of my favorite national writers and I have historically ascribed more value to his views and commentary than to the average sports writer. Well, today, Hayes just catapulted himself into the stratosphere of the “Mount Rushmore” of the national media. In this MUST SEE 3 […]
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 […]
As North Carolina academic scandal deepens, all eyes on Mark Emmert
So while Mr. Big Stick thumped his chest about Penn State—before and after delivering the sanctions—we haven’t heard squat from him about what will become the worst infractions case in the history of college sports. And that was before the latest mind-numbing details released Monday by the News & Observer: the gross case of academic […]
Kane + ESPN article + manalishi spell ‘T-R-O-U-B-L-E’ for UNC [updated 9:00am]
The real key questions of life seem to be evolving in front of us this morning. Items like the following: What was the News & Observer’s Dan Kane doing up so early this morning? 🙂 Why do we bother having the NCAA if they have no problem with key member institutions contriving and executing systemic […]
ESPN arroves fashionably late…but still arroves
If you need help with the title of our entry please click here and do a little surfing. Dana O’Neil at ESPN.com comments on what we here in NC have known for many, many years…the NCAA and UNC are baloney The University of North Carolina has essentially admitted that dozens of courses taught by African-American […]
UNC internal review not thorough
WRAL News is reporting that the UNC internal review was not thorough. The UNC internal report, however, only covered lecture courses. WRAL News looked at data about independent study courses offered by the department and found additional red flags – lots of athletes with the potential for earning twice the credit offered by other departments […]
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 […]
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