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And the news just keeps getting better for UNx: SACS has hit them with a one-year probation. Although this doesn’t sound like much, it actually is very serious from a SACS perspective. They only thing worse would be loss of accreditation, but that would be absolutely disastrous for the entire state and was never really in the picture.
I’ve wondered many times about the faculty over on the hill, specifically “Where are they?” in all this. The faculty at NCSU in the early 90’s was crucial to the self-imposed Draconian measure that the University adopted. They were absolutely irate at the fact that sports had cast a shadow on the academic reputation of the University, and they were loud, vocal, and unrelenting in their activism.
Throughout the UNC scandal, with a few obvious exceptions, the UNx faculty has been strangely absent. Not just quiet, but absent. There are rumors that faculty members have been warned that any actions that run counter to the administration and PR message would potentially create funding issues/cuts, at a time when funding is a sore subject anyway. This, at least, is plausible, and fits my perception of the administration’s heavy hand well.
So now SACS comes along and puts the ENTIRE UNIVERSITY on probation, while publicly citing 7 serious offenses. One of the dangers of probation is that research grantors will consider it as negative input, potentially impacting funding. In addition, as the departments go out to attract the very best talent to recruit to the University, such recruits will absolutely view this as negative input.
Will SACS’ decision finally be the Black Swan event that incites the faculty? Will they see the now clear and present danger to their livelihood? Will they permit athletics to continue to drive the University toward the inevitable cliffs?
I hope they pick up their pitchforks and make a loud noise. But I won’t hold my breath.
How the hell did I miss this?!?!?! One of the 7 issues that SACS mentioned was the faculty’s role in “governance and handling of financial aid”.
Handling of financial aid? Is the often rumored Pell Grant fraud about to become part of the discussion? https://t.co/CzpxizGioU
— Professor Wolf (@ProfessrWolf) June 11, 2015
Feds do not play with Pell Grant fraud. If we can find an ambitious young attorney from outside the UNx family who wants to make his career, this could get very interesting, very fast.
What’s missing in the NCAA’s case against UNC
http://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/acc/unc/article23139921.html
Can one imagine the giddiness associated with being allowed to retain one’s accredidation?
I scoff at those peons.
Regarding the UNx faculty:
Bet alot of y’all have never seen “The Stepford Wives.”Meanwhile, Brian Kelly admits:
“I think we recognized that all of my football players are at-risk — all of them — really,” Kelly told Notre Dame Insider. “Honestly, I don’t know that any of our players would get into the school by themselves right now with the academic standards the way they are. Maybe one or two of our players that are on scholarship.”
Everyone knows that is an issue at all schools, but unx’s propaganda campaign, otherwise known as The Carolina Way, pulled the wool over their own sheep for years. Hell, I’d say a majority of their fan base still believes in the fairytale of across the board high-achieving athletes with incredible graduation rates.
Too big to fail was a term they learned from someone else. Holes are creative enough to coin such a term on their own..
"Whomp 'em, Up, Side the Head"!
What one absolutely must understand, and I’m tellin’ ya.
The cash that’s been invested into protecting whatever needs protecting is damned near infathomable to you and me.
The best you can do is question every PR move amongst friends and enemies alike…If…it floats yer boat.
Certainly, putting a mic in front of Roy is a hoot, but don’t get caughtup in that.
There are bigger fish to fry.
I repeat from The Elders:
“They’re gonna get walloped”
The cash that’s been invested into protecting whatever needs protecting is damned near infathomable to you and me.
That was the first thought through my little head. The new contract is obviously a smokescreen.
Peeps. I’m not holding cards.
I only pass on the cryptic stuff that came about in March-ish. My Dad’s old friends know I got a big mouth.
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