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Highstick is right,damage control. They made sure to keep the current football program out of the picture also. The report does not directly implicate Roy just states that he didn’t admit fault and they didn’t find it. Too many “I don’t recall” moments in the report that the N&O and others will be looking at also, multiple public records requests are pending that Kane and others I am sure will find more dirt! UNC doing all it can to pin point a small group of people and limit this to past football as much as possible. I don’t think it will work in the long run, people that have admitted fault were too high up and/or too connected to Roy and other coaches. No surprise lawsuits from maybe players like McCants and others may be forthcoming that will shed even more light on the issue. We can only hope the NCAA uses this report as a stepping stone to keep digging in their investigation!
Wayne Walden is to Roy same as Black Santa was to Butch Davis! Jon Boxell counselor to basketball admitted wrong doing. The players knew, tutors knew, administrators knew, ….. yea McCants was right….everyone knew. Given the headlines coming out, I don’t see how the NCAA can ignore this, I mean look at what they did to FSU! Here’s the kicker. This started in the early 1990, John Swofford was AD at UNC. Once a slime ball always a slime ball!
Sad to see you used the topic to bash Mike O’Cain. He does not bash our program? He did have some success with a difficult job at the time. Sheridan and our Ad Valvano both agreed the football facilities were in need of upgrades to enhance recruiting. Remember the flowers by Jimmy V to Sheridan when he agreed to stay and not take the Georgia job. Well V was forced to step down as AD and the upgrades never happened until Amato got the job. Remember the shooting incident, that wiped out a large portion of our defense? Since we were coming off the V problems, these players were not allowed to play, hurt us on the field, but O’Cain bounced back and put us in a bowl. Remember O’Cain being named as one of the up and coming coaches in America? O’Cain had about as much success as our last two head coaches and never went winless in conference play. He won at Texas, beat FSU, and won at Syracuse, was a man of integrity, and stood by his staff when he could have fired them and saved his own neck. I am one Pack alum this is proud to say Mike O’Cain was our football coach!
Never thought I would see the day that the editorial in the Charlotte Observer welcomed the NCAA investigation of UNC and said it needed to be broad and thorough!
The NCAA can takes it power and position back with the UNC case. It can define itself as the protector of college athletes as to making sure they are getting an education. Doing so aligns them with educators, alumni, students, politicians, and all the schools that are not in the super conferences. The UNC case may end up being a power struggle between the power conference and the NCAA, and to protect his ass we probably see Swofford play this card.
If the NCAA is smart it will make UNC the example, hammer them, and send a message to every school! If the NCAA wants to sustain itself, 50 years from now we will be saying UNC-CHeat is to college athletics the same as the Black Soxs where to professional baseball! The NCAA can clean up college sports and it starts with UNC-CHeat!
The UNC-CHeat scandal is a CONNECT THE DOTS history lesson. The time frame of the establishment of the Bogus African American studies classes starts with the aftermath of the Valvano and the UNC Board Meetings. Valvano pointed out the impossible job of maintaining big time basketball and really educating the recruits necessary to win big time. So while the UNC Board handcuffed our program making us mediocre and an after thought in the college basketball world; Bill Friday with the UNC Power players, John Swofford, and Dean Smith set up an entire system of bogus classes to keep UNC Bball at the top. Sold everyone on the concept of the “Carolina Way” as the program that did things the right way, while looking down on other programs.
UNC and the UNC Board could never apologize to NCSU, its fans, alumni, or the Valvano family enough along with Les Robinson who I still admire for trying to build something while the UNC Board killed our program and Les being the only decent coach that would even touch the NCSU job at the time. I hope the NCAA fries them to the wall. SMU was not near as dirty as UNC-CHeat. Other schools may have cheated, but UNC-CHeat set out to defraud the entire system while promoting itself as the model program!Lets hope they look into the cars also. P J Hairston’s mother recetnly commented P J only got caught for what everyone at UNC was doing!
To uncover the truth means to bring down UNC Basketball. That means bringing down the former UNC-CHeat AD John Swofford that was in charge when the bogus classed were established. LAST thing the NCAA wants is to give the ACC Commissioner another reason for a power conference to leave the NCAA. I don’t see why no one is connecting the dots on this. No doubt Dean Smith and Swofford the key players in the start of the bogus classes. No accident Swofford was at the NCAA investigation hearing for UNC-CHeat football, he was covering his ass!
I give Lewis credit for the self awareness that he realized as Cat improves he was being regulated to a second string ACC point guard given his lack of speed and liability as a defensive player, which most recruiting experts had him pegged as an at best second string ACC player anyway. I don’t feel we lost anything and clearly the coaching staff was straight up with him. Maybe he pissed that Gott and Staff just didn’t see in him what Sidney Lowe did, but Gott did the honorable thing and honor his scholarship offer made by Lowe. Lacking an outside shot and he couldn’t keep up with other ACC point guards, a mid major is where he belongs. Good Luck to him.
Well I think we can see more of the same tonight, just like the Pitt game. ND going to lay off Cat and dare him to shoot the three. Until he will shoot that three and hit it, we will be playing four on five on offense.
Seems I read no one had failed Swahili, if that is indeed the case then Graves would have been one of the ones that had their grades changed. This should warrant a sure fire self reported violation to the NCAA, anyone heard if they back on campus. I would think they would be furious that this so called investigation and report comes out after their sanctions were handed down. I would think they surely realize UNC was not forthcoming with the whole truth.
