Link to Bulldogs Blog here. Last Friday Chris Hawkins, who purchased A.J. Green’s jersey, leading to the receiver’s four-game suspension, said he never spoke to the NCAA about the case. Hawkins, who paid $1,000 for the jersey, said the NCAA “never really came to me.” Stacey Osburn, the NCAA’s associate director for public and media […]
UNC Scandal
UNC’s Draughn cleared for UNC/GT game; has he figured out his classes yet?
Football Faction – 1 Integrity – 0 Full story here. UNC cleared running back Shaun Draughn for Saturday’s game against Georgia Tech on Monday. Draughn, the team’s leading rusher in 2008, was one of 13 UNC players who missed the LSU loss because of the NCAA investigation into the program. Draughn was the only player […]
Thorp: Davis’ status “not a fair question,†and “plan right now†is for Davis to remain!
As you can read about here, today UNC-CH Chancellor Holden Thorp gave some very interesting answers to questions about Butch Davis’ job status. Asked, prior to a meeting with UNC’s faculty, if he could definitively say that Davis would remain as the football coach, Thorp began his response by saying it wasn’t a fair question. […]
Investigation not complete and Baddour is already claiming no negligence
Dick Baddour and a Rams Club employee made back-to-back appearances on The Insiders’ Show on local station 620AM this morning. Considering the Heels have an open date this weekend, the timing of these appearances seemed rather strange. Baddour discussed the scandal in Chapel Hill while the representative from the Rams Club covered the expansion of […]
Butch Davis and Worldwide Wes
William “Worldwide Wes” Wesley is best known of late by his uncanny ability to influence John Calipari’s recruiting classes at both Memphis and now at Kentucky. The New York Times has repeatedly reported interesting stories about “Worldwide Wes” or “Uncle Wes”…or, as he’s known on internet sports message boards, simply as “WWW”. In fact, GQ […]
Noted NC Politician (& UNC Alum) comments on the scandal
Joe Mavretic, the former Speaker of the NC House, recently had this blunt assessment of the problems in the Athletic Department at UNC, and his view is the polar opposite of what UNC System President Erskine Bowles stated earlier today: ” There is no need for internal investigations, or for assistant coaches to resign, to […]
Bowles proud of UNC leaders’ handling of cheating investigations [4:15 Update]
“I don’t think there is anyone who’s more saddened by what has happened than the three of us,†said Bowles, standing with Baddour and Thorp. “They have dug into this tooth and nail,†said Bowles. I 100% believe that NOBODY is more saddened than Bowles, Baddour, and Thorp. I genuinely believe this. And THIS, my […]
Dave Glenn goes on the record; Baddour admits cheating could have gone back more than a year
Our local expert on smoke and fire involving controversial ACC stories Dave Glenn of the ACC Sports Journal had some facts to share on his afternoon radio show regarding the investigation into UNC’s athletic program. This isn’t verbatim, but it should be a close explanation of the facts he laid out. 1. Marvin Auston won’t […]
“Spirit, not the letter of the law”
Here’s what the UNC System President had to say regarding accusations made against one of North Carolina’s flagship universities: Athletics and academics are in tension by the nature of their time demands, but athletics and academics cannot be allowed to be in conflict in a great university. The evidence is clear that the academic processes […]
UNC scandal blows up overnight; Board of Governors prepared to step in
 It should be a very busy morning in light of the story that broke last night detailing extensive communication via cell phone and text messages between former UNC coach John Blake and sports agent Gary Wichard. Since this story broke, ABCers have been waiting for the local media to make a break in this […]
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