Today brings more fun news from released emails! Yesterday we learned through a released email that Butch was supposedly so in-tune with his 16 suspended players that he knew they needed counseling. He thought they might do all sorts of bad things, even including violence. This is a coach who supposedly had no idea that these same players […]
UNC Scandal
Davis 9/22 email asks “Dickie†to provide “counseling†for suspended players
I am not sure what to make of all of this, but a lot of new information is currently being released. Nearly 1,000 emails were released by UNC-CH this week and some media members have apparently been combing through them. WTVD continues its excellent coverage of the scandals. This afternoon Derek Rowles posted this article. I would also […]
Rumblings from the Twitter-verse: NCAA preparing UNC’s letter of inquiry, "Scope of investigation has slowed down the process"
I am very new to the whole Twitter thing, so I am not entirely clear how you tell who is talking and who is asking questions of someone else, but there is some VERY interesting stuff on Charles Robinson’s Twitter page this afternoon. Alert readers will remember that Robinson is with Yahoo Sports and has […]
Marshall’s absence from probe no surprise
One of the many agents involved in the UNC-Chapel Hill athletic impropriety and academic fraud case has been suspended by the NFL Player’s Association. Gary Wichard, the agent who paid UNC Associate Head Coach and Recruiting Coordinator John Blake thousands of still unaccounted for dollars will not be able represent potential clients for the 2011 […]
Quinn thought jeweler was being friendly; UNC recruiting class continues to unravel
 The Sporting News has posted this article about the case of former UNC-CH player Robert Quinn. There is lots of amusing stuff in the piece, but the following passage regarding the thousands of dollars in free jewelry is laugh-out-loud funny Quinn said he did would not have accepted the jewelry if he knew it was […]
Observers drops damaging UNC academic info; where have we heard this before?
If you missed it this weekend, the News & Observer/Charlotte Observer took a deeper dive into the type of ‘student’ athletes being admitted – and curiously remaining eligible – within the John Bunting & Butch Davis football programs at UNC-Chapel Hill. The article is available here and a discussion had already been launched here on […]
UNC-CH Board of Trustees chair critical of N & O’s “opinion” (day 134)
Today the News and Observer published this letter from Robert Winston, the chairman of UNC-CH’s Board of Trustees. The best part of the letter: As Chancellor Holden Thorp has said, we don’t feel good about being in this situation, but we do feel good about how we’ve responded to it. We pledged from the start that […]
Post-game scandals update (Day 131)
In this entry I cover a couple of scandal items and I share some random game observations that I think are cool. This update is also in a nonlinear “Bytes” format familiar to those who enjoyed “Infopacks” back in the 90s. First, check out this scoreboard picture. Those of you who have experience going to State games in Chapel Hill know […]
Coples, Reddick, Davis Should Be Suspended
It has been announced that UNC LB/thug Kevin Reddick will inexplicably be eligible to play this Saturday. Sadly, there’s not even any mention of DE/bigger thug Quinton Coples – who should be done for the season, including bowl game. The best video of the catch and subsequent Reddick punch was shot by WTVD and can […]
SEC suspends UT basketball coach Bruce Pearl for 8 conference games
The Southeastern Conference announced Friday that Tennessee basketball coach Bruce Pearl has been suspended for the Volunteers’ first eight conference games this season due to NCAA rules violations that were discovered over the summer. It is really something to see a conference take such a proactive response to a situation like this. As opposed to…[you […]
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