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Did you or a family member play for or lose to Chapel Hill between 1993 – 2011? Then you may have been a victim of the “Carolina Way.”
The Carolina Way was a systematic and thorough system of cheating that diminished the value of scholarships to athletes, kept ineligible players in school, and allowed Chapel Hill to virtually steal athletics-related revenue from competing schools.
Started during the tenure of Presidential Medal of Freedom winner Dean Smith, the Carolina Way was used for 18 years to keep football, men’s and women’s basketball, women’s soccer and other sports eligible so Chapel Hill could financially benefit.
How do you know you were a victim of the Carolina Way and what can you do about it?
If you are a former athlete, call the NCAA and let them know Chapel Hill cheated you out of the value of all your work on the field. Let them know a school shouldn’t offer an easy way out and exploit their students. Let them know the scandal has eroded the value of your degree even if *you* didn’t take fake classes or get fake grades.
If you were an opposing player, call the NCAA and tell them it’s wrong that you and your team did things the right way and you lost to a bunch of cheaters. Tell them *your* team deserved those wins, not Chapel Hill.
If you were an opposing institution, tell the NCAA that the Carolina Way potentially robbed *your* institution of millions in increased donations and sports merchandising revenues. Tell them *your* team should have those wins, those banners, that athletic money. Tell them Chapel Hill shouldn’t keep those ill-gotten gains.
If you’re anyone with a sense of decency, tell the President to take back Dean Smith’s Presidential Medal of Freedom. No one that helps institutionalize the exploitation of young people should have that award.
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