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The real story has yet to be reported on, to my knowledge. It has been inferred, and hinted at, but not directly stated. The real story is not that UN* admits athletes that can barely read, it is that these very same individuals GRADUATE from UN*, most of them in FOUR YEARS!!! This is what the Heel fans can’t seem to understand. I saw it said by one of the PTB that UN* isn’t the only school recruiting these kids, and that is very true. BUT UN* is the ONLY school GRADUATING these kids!! NOT ONE SINGLE PLAYER HAS EVER BEEN DECLARED ACADEMICALLY INELIGIBLE PRIOR TO THIS SCANDAL BECOMING NEWS. Not one. That is the story here. That is the proof of the fraud that has been perpetuated on the public for the last four decades.
It was a hard hitting piece, but its impact is still questionable. I, for one, am not going to pat them on the back just yet. They are several years late to this story, and airing one ten minute segment on ESPNnews at 6PM is FAR from giving this story the attention it deserves. I understand why people are happy that this has come out, I’m just not willing to throw the party just yet.
This is from a meeting hosted by Provost James Dean. The same man that suggested that perhaps there was a campus wide problem with literacy, and not just with student athletes. I don’t know how the students there are not rioting in the streets right now. The Provost of your university, the one person that is supposed to put academics before every thing else, just threw the academic standing of the entire university under the bus to protect the athletic department. If you are a person that is graduating with a degree from Chapel Hill, and the PROVOST suggests aloud that the entire student body has a literacy problem, how do you refrain from punching him in the face?
How to put this delicately….having heard Mr. Winston speak, I am confident that none of the signals they use could be very complicated.
When this is all over, some Friday in the future, I would love to collect all of these articles and have them bound in a leather book. Any time I am unfortunate enough to encounter some mouth breathing Heel fan spouting nonsense, I could just hand them the book, and simply say that my response is contained within (operating under the assumption that they could read, of course).
CFB Player salary from the beginning of time:
-Four(or 5 or 6) years of higher education that they likely would not have had access to otherwise.
-Access to luxurious training facilities, trainers, etc.
-World class medical coverage and rehab if needed.
-Free room, board, and food.
-Free national exposure of their athletic abilities, without which they may not be able to ply their crafts professionally.I’m sure that there is someone out there that can assign reasonable monetary values to these things, but I will venture to say that it comes out to quite a bit of “money”. I will say that I feel that everyone, athlete or not, is entitled to compensation for the use of their likeness. But getting royalties from someone using your image is not the same thing as “paying” athletes.
This lady has a set of stones. Between her, the pulitzer prize winning CNN lady, the BusinessWeek guy, and Dan Kane, I really think the Holes are up against it. The fact that they continue to deny and stonewall this group of people is mystifying. I can’t believe they are paying a PR firm for this strategy.
I think everyone should start pestering their local sports writers. I know it won’t do much good, if any, but at least it will annoy them. I know that here locally, Brett Friedlander has just posted the company line that he is given from UNC without ever asking any hard questions. He deletes all of my comments on any of his articles, but I know he reads them, and I also know that he reads State message boards, at least PP. When are these local scribes going to step up and be real reporters and stop regurgitating the lies from the PR team? They are being scooped on this by reporters in New York for crying out loud. They are all too afraid that they will lose their little scraps from Roy’s dinner table.
I’m fine with a movie. Hell, thirty seconds on the four letter network would be progress at this point.
The autobiographies of Petrino and Pitino would make 50 Shades of Grey look like a children’s novel.
Again, their arrogance is their own worst enemy. It’s their fatal flaw, and the only reason why any of this has even come to light. All they had to do with this story was acknowledge the data, say they “working on it”, and move on. But what do they do? They stone-wall a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and unabashedly lie to her. Way to go you pompous d-bags, you are making this too easy.
Coaches are paid adult professionals, they are fair game. Kids are not. That’s the difference, you’re talking about a kid.
Keep clicking on, commenting on, and sharing these stories. It looks like this writer is not opposed to stirring the pot, so let’s help him with the spoon.
There are things that are better left unsaid, and this is one of them. You can think it, we are all thinking it, but why in the holy hell would you post it? There is nothing to be gained by talking about this right now. There is a long time left in this season, and we are one second away from needing Tyler 100%. These kinds of things can turn into self-fulfilling prophecies. I disagree with most of you regarding Tyler’s contributions to this point, as well as his demeanor. Tyler is a different player than Cat in every respect. If you expect him to do what Cat does, then you will be disappointed. He knows the offense, doesn’t turn the ball over, and is capable of incredible passes. And don’t be too quick to judge his demeanor. He had a tweet of a song lyric that a bunch of over the hill guys took way too seriously. Last game, when we were trying to chip our way back, Turner pulled up for an open three, and Tyler was the first person off the bench with his hands in the air. I believe that he is not pleased about his lost playing time, but that doesn’t mean he is any less of a team player because of it. Yes, it is dangerous with these kids and their parents/handlers when it comes to these issues, and many times these people have more control over these things than they should. But we, the Wolfpack faithful don’t need to fan the flames. There will be PLENTY of time to talk of these sorts of these things, but in the middle of the damn season is not one of them.
A thought about some dots that have not yet been connected by any of these news agencies regarding the creation of the AFAM department:
We need to look back at the collegiate sports, specifically basketball, landscape in 1992-93. You are Dean Smith, and your cross-town rivals have been on a half-decade tear, and have just won back-to-back championships. You haven’t won a title since 1982. What’s a tenured coach, of questionable integrity, to do? Go out quietly, enjoy the twilight of your career and retirement? Or figure out a way to get a competitive advantage, like you have done so many times before? You choose the dirty way. And lo and behold, you win the championship the very next year, with half your team and three of your starting five moved to the new athlete-friendly AFAM department. It’s much easier to recruit good players when academics aren’t a concern. And it’s much easier for those players to concentrate on basketball when you remove the rigors of normal college academics.
This is story that I want written. The information is there for the taking. Some of it freely available, some if may have to be fought for tooth and nail against the considerable legal prowess of the UN* PR team. But the information is there. Connect the dots. Only when someone digs to the root of this corrupt tree will I truly be satisfied. Will that ever happen? I have my doubts. I believe they will do everything in their power to save the myth of Dean, even at the cost of their precious “Carolina Way”. The only hope I have is that their untold arrogance will actually lead to their demise. After all, it is only because of their arrogance that we have even arrived at this point. The only thing we can do is to continue to push the click button on these stories, drive web traffic, leave comments, send emails, and keep adding fuel to this fire.
And now the scathing article from BusinessWeek. And still crickets locally. I know that I have questioned my local sportswriter as to his reluctance to ask Roy or anyone else any actual, hard-hitting questions. He refuses to answer me, even deleting my comments from the paper’s website. Those few journalists in the state without direct ties to UN* are scared to get on their black list, and refuse to do any digging. It’s shameful really. Outside of Dan Kane, none of them have the sack to at least try and find the answers. And I’m sure that Dan has caught hell for what he has done so far.
As much as I would love to see Thor’s hammer drop on that cesspool and blast it into oblivion, I’m not unhappy with them dying the samurai death of a hundred cuts. At this point, anything that puts the information out there on a national stage is good enough for me, even if there really isn’t anything new here. The one thing that I want to see happen, which may never happen, is the academia rising up and speaking out loudly. There are a thousand faculty members there, sure Prof. Smith isn’t the only one that feels the way he does.
All of these statistics are great. But I think it is unwise to only look at things from a statistical perspective. there are aspects to the job that are unmeasurable. I needn’t remind everyone that based solely on “measurables” the great majority of “experts” didn’t think that Russell would ever play a down at NFL QB.
Tampa Bay was a dumpster fire from the start of the season. Are there QBs out there that could have done better in Glennon’s shoes? Without a doubt. But we have to remember that he was thrown in to the fire, in a terrible situation, and was serviceable at worst, and decent at best. If any thing his statistics for the year should match up pretty close to his years here, because like the NC State teams he played for, the Bucs were woeful in several key areas that help a QBs success, namely pass blocking and rushing. As impressive a season as PeytonBot V2.0 has had this year, you can’t tell me that he would have been as successful with Tampa Bay’s O-line blocking for him. It’s hard to complete passes from your butt, and it’s hard to pass when the other team knows there is no threat of either a. a running game, or b. a mobile QB.
If I were in charge of the Bucs, and thankfully I’m not, I would not be drafting a QB. In fact, if I were in charge, I would be trading my high pick for multiple picks lower in the first and early second rounds to load up on skilled linemen. Is Mike going to have a great career? Who knows, certainly not any of us. Did he play well enough for to earn another year at the helm? I think so.
There is no reason, other than official incompetence, that TJ should not be shooting an and-1 on 75% of the shots he makes. I would wager that there is not a player in the country that scores as much as he does, who get less of their points from the line. TJ is very good at finding open areas, and getting uncontested put backs, but he also draws lots of contact that goes without a whistle.
Hopefully we are working non-stop in practice on our zone offense, because we won’t play many teams this year that don’t zone us. It’s an easy decision for the opposition, against man-to-man, I think our guys can hold their own against most any team in the country. Beating the zone seams so easy on paper, just get the ball to the high post, and break the zone down from there. In application, it seems as though our guys have a harder time with it. There is no reason we can’t run the UCLA offense against a zone, and our guys have to learn that. But they are young, and I’m sure they will keep getting better at it.
Lastly, Gott needs to work on his skill at working the refs, if there is such a thing. We don’t even get the normal home team favorable calls that you would expect against the scrub competition. How much of that we can control, outside of our “tendencies”, I honestly don’t know. All I know is that the best coaches out there are good at working the refs, and that doesn’t mean just complaining when they make a bad call.
I don’t root against the Panthers, but I do not consider myself a fan, as much as I would like to have a hometown team to root for. Charlotte, as a city, is so deeply engrossed in the Carolina Way, that I find myself having a hard time not lumping the Panthers in with that. I remember when the team was first announced, and they showed their uniforms with the light blue in them, even though it is a different blue, I couldn’t help but feel that they were trying to make that connection. Add in to that that they have not even given so much as a tryout (to my knowledge) to any high profile former Pack players in recent history, I just have a hard time supporting them. So my playoff support will go to the individual Wolfpackers, and not any specific team.
Roo, I wasn’t being “not” nice. You use a lot of “…” and CAPITALIZATIONS in your posts. I read “…” as a pause, and I read capitalized words with emphasis, thus making your posts hard to read. Again, I appreciate your contributions, just letting you know that to me, your posts are difficult to read and follow.
