This is an excellent article from the News and Observer. No-show professors, unauthorized grade changes, plagiarism, and forgery are all mentioned prominently. The whole thing is a must-read, but here are some highlights: One of the no-show classes is the Swahili course taken by former football player Michael McAdoo that prompted NCAA findings of impermissible […]
UNC Scandal
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 […]
Annual UNC-CH spring game “attendance” charade continues
Alert readers will remember our coverage last year of the ridiculous 2011 spring game crowd “estimates” UNC-CH shamelessly promoted. Nobody is surprised that they are at it again. According to the N&O’s coverage, UNC-CH announced a crowd of 17,000 for this past Saturday’s spring game. We will let you be the judge. Here are some pictures […]
Friday Arroves [Check back for updates]
We will have a lot more to come on the UNC-CHeats academic/football/agent/tutor/recruiting scandals as the afternoon progresses. For now, the NCAA’s findings are detailed here. The penalties in this case include the following: * Public reprimand and censure. * Three years of probation from March 12, 2012, through March 11, 2015. * Three-year show-cause penalty […]
NCAA Ruling on UNC to be Released Today
According to Inside Carolina, and brought to the attention of many here by packplantpath, the NCAA said today that they would release their ruling on UNC’s football program sometime this afternoon. Just for review, let’s hit the highlights: – Review of UNC’s Self-Imposed Sanctions Part 1, Part 2 (by NCSU1987) – Why We Care/Write About […]
Monday Musings
January 23, 2012 NC STATE BASKETBALL GoPack.com NC State Tops Miami, 78-73 Scott Wood scored 21 points to lead North Carolina State to a 78-73 victory over Miami on Sunday. The Wolfpack led 55-41 midway through the second half and withstood a late Miami rally. Kenny Kadji’s dunk with 1:44 remaining got the Hurricanes to […]
Friday Farrago
January 20, 2012 NC STATE BASKETBALL JP GIGLIO (N&O) Wolfpack outplays Eagles N.C. State already frittered away an ACC home game to one of the teams at the bottom of the conference standings. The Wolfpack wasn’t interested in any repeat performances against an outmanned Boston College team on Thursday night at the RBC Center. With […]
SFN Bids Everett Withers a Fond Adieu
It would be hard to write a more fitting denounement – a half-hearted effort leads to the Holes getting taken behind the woodshed for some sweet, sweet Shreveport schadenfreude. A garbage time TD cut the final margin to 41-24 – but it was never in doubt after the first quarter. Missouri is hardly a football […]
Ohio State penalties don’t bode well for ACC’s Hurricanes & Heels
First…before you do anything, you really must read the following entries. NCAA Football Scandals Penalty Analysis NCAA Football Scandals Penalty Analysis, Part II Ohio State received a one year bowl ban yesterday that has a lot of college football analysts peering into their crystal balls and wondering aloud if a period of stringent NCAA penalties […]
Monday Musings
December 12, 2011 NC STATE BASKETBALL EDWARD G. ROBINSON III (N&O) Eagles give Wolfpack a scare N.C. State never trailed N.C. Central, yet it took a greater-than-expected effort to defeat the visitors from Durham. Fighting off the Eagles over the final five minutes of Sunday’s game, the Wolfpack escaped Reynolds Coliseum with a 65-60 victory […]
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