NCAA denies McAdoo appeal, Baddour calls decision “unfair”

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In news nobody could possibly find surprising, former UNC-CH defensive end Michael McAdoo had his appeal denied today.  The News and Observer has the best coverage of this development.  McAdoo was previously declared permanently ineligible by the NCAA — apparently due to tutor issues (if I am reading this right):

UNC has declined to disclose which portion of the investigation McAdoo was involved in but in previous cases the NCAA has provided detailed reports about the players that received improper benefits. The NCAA has issued no report on McAdoo and declined to comment on the case on Wednesday.

I just love Baddour’s comment:

“We appealed this decision because we believed it was unfair and we continue to believe that,” UNC athletic director Dick Baddour said in a statement released by the school on Wednesday.

Thanks Dick!
The best excerpt of the whole piece might be this gem:

As a third-year player, McAdoo’s eligible to enter the NFL draft but the deadline for underclassmen to declare has passed. He has the option to enter the supplemental draft in July. He would have to enroll at an National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics school to continue his college career because the NCAA’s ruling extends to the FCS, Division II and III levels.

Wow.  Apparently he has the same advisors as Weslye Saunders, who also inexplicably missed the NFL filing deadline.  Nothing gets by these guys!  You can read details about Saunders’ most recent problems here.
Devon Ramsay’s case is still pending and has been actually funnier to follow.  Alert readers will remember that Ramsay actually played this year, only to be ruled permanently ineligible after four games.  Given information that can be gathered from some things his mom said to the N & O, Ramsay had academic cheating issues not deemed worthy of any action by the UNC-CH honor court, but found worthy of permanent ineligibility by the NCAA.  Read that sentence again — and then read the N & O piece on the subject  if you don’t believe me.  If you want to read more details about the history of the Ramsay and McAdoo cases, you can read our past articles here and here.

Mark Armstong’s Twitter feed is a good place to find breaking information on this topic.  From earlier today:

  • jjones9 UNC AD Dick Baddour said UNC continues to believe the decision is unfair. NCAA heard the appeal on Dec. 14 about 5 hours ago via web Retweeted by ArmstrongWTVD and 2 others

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  • DerekRowles #BreakingNews — NCAA Upholds Decision Of Permanent Ineligibility For UNC’s Michael McAdoo about 5 hours ago via TweetDeck Retweeted by ArmstrongWTVD and 2 others
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    20 Responses to NCAA denies McAdoo appeal, Baddour calls decision “unfair”

    1. turfpack 02/10/2011 at 12:47 AM #

      The NCAA to UNX……AHAHAHAH! that would be NO! We don’t give a Dickie…Dickie! It will not be the only disappointment Dickie will have this year…..Dick meet Mr. Hammer!!

    2. packalum44 02/10/2011 at 1:01 AM #

      2008 was what, 2 seasons ago…

      Wish I would have had tutors to send a crappy draft to for major corrections. I mean seriously, the draft didn’t have capitalization or verb tenses correct? It missed punctuation marks? For those who don’t think that sending in a draft that sloppy, which is basically enough to document whatever thoughts flowed from his head about a particular subject in 20 minutes – to have someone else correct all grammatical errors, add a conclusion and transform gibberish thoughts into context…that paper went from an F to a C at the least.

      Regardless I don’t fault the kids as much as I do the institution that encouraged this type of behavior. My institution taught me integrity and that there were major consequences if I didn’t uphold that integrity. His didn’t.

    3. bigwolfpacker 02/10/2011 at 1:21 AM #

      Personally, I think he got hosed. There have to be limits, but plenty of students get help from tutors. I dont see why athletes are any different if they pay and if he can repay the benefit I think missing 9 games is more than enough punishment.

    4. packalum08 02/10/2011 at 1:28 AM #

      ^I’ll withhold judgment until all the facts are out. That said, it would not surprise me if, in addition to the issues with the tutor, McAdoo originally lied to the NCAA when asked about whatever circumstances are involved. We’ve seen how the NCAA handles those who lie to them (Dez Bryant, the UNC 3, etc.).

    5. packalum08 02/10/2011 at 1:30 AM #

      …and as for the Ramsay case, any student worth their salt knows that what he did for his assignment was flat-out dishonest and against the honor code. Can’t be argued any other way.

    6. Old MacDonald 02/10/2011 at 7:27 AM #

      @bigwolfpacker: I think you seriously underestimate the seriousness of plagiarism.

      If you go back and read the piece I did linked in the article about the specifics of the Ramsay cheating, it is clear that the tutor did a huge amount of work — intro and conclusions plus many, many other rewrites/corrections. That kind of stuff can get you expelled.

    7. waxhaw 02/10/2011 at 7:48 AM #

      Anything short of total vindication would be viewed as unfair by Baddour.

      Cheaters and subsequent liers should face stiff penalties. If not, what is the incentive to do it right? If you can cheat, then lie about it and only face light consequences if it’s finally proven that you cheated, why in the hell would anyone ever self admit to cheating?

    8. Pack78 02/10/2011 at 7:49 AM #

      Seems that they just have trouble following the rules (any rules!) at unx…

      http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/02/10/979094/unc-ch-faces-penalty.html

    9. dashowstopper 02/10/2011 at 8:11 AM #

      ^”No other campus violated the policy this year”

    10. Hungwolf 02/10/2011 at 8:28 AM #

      Baddour continues to use language such as “unfair” and UNX did what it felt was the right thing, foreshadowing what is sure to be the response to future NCAA decisions. I still predict UNX will fight any NCAA sanctions or ignore them. Ground breaking law suits to the nature that UNX cannot be held accountable for the actions of a student or a previous “fired” employee may be their stance. Going to get interesting. Question is will the UNC Board of Govs and others sit by and let UNX spend tax payer dollars to fight the NCAA?

    11. Rochester 02/10/2011 at 8:37 AM #

      In other news, Baddour appealed the result of the Duke game last night. “It’s unfair to lose to Duke,” he whined. NCAA not expected to overturn that one either.

    12. VaWolf82 02/10/2011 at 9:38 AM #

      One of the interesting things about McAdoo (and Ramsay) is that the NCAA hasn’t released any information about either case. All of the other cases are easily found at ncaa.org…but not their’s.

    13. Sweet jumper 02/10/2011 at 9:51 AM #

      Good one Rochester! “We appeal the results of the game last night your honor. Smith and Curry made some unbelieveable baskets that should not have counted, and Duke played such tough defense in the second half that should not be allowed–It’s just too hard to run your offense against that…wawawawawawawa.” Of course Judge Swofford agrees and reprimands the refs for letting these events occur. “This will not be allowed to happen in Chapel Hill later this month.”

    14. Pack84 02/10/2011 at 10:12 AM #

      This is just rich. Once again UNC-CHeat gets bitch slapped by the NCAA.

      This is how the 3 blind mice continue to tell anyone who will listen that the upcoming sanctions aren’t going to be that bad. I think they truly believe that because they are carowhina that they are above everything and everyone else. Yet once again the NCAA has told them “no – you aren’t”.

      I continue to hold out hope that the eventual sanctions will be horrific. Because even moreso than the penalties themselves I want to watch the 3 blind mice and everyone associated with UNC-CHeat wail and thrash about.

    15. runwiththepack 02/10/2011 at 12:58 PM #

      It was many years ago, and maybe things have changed, but I lost an ENTIRE LETTER GRADE on a paper at NCSU because I somehow left the “e” off the end of the word “the”.

      Maybe the phone rang at that moment or i spilled my coffee. But it didn’t matter. Dropped to a “B” instantly.

      And a 3 page term paper? 3 pages? Are you kidding me? About any term paper i wrote was more like 13 pages. Some were about 25 pages or so.

      And I didn’t double space my lines!

      I think people would be shocked at what jocks are accepted at UNC, where they are constantly congratulating themselves on how elite they are. The media has dumped on NCSU forever on this topic, even though it is UNC, rather than NCSU, that claims “public Ivy” for themselves. Shouldn’t their standards be even higher (for scholarship athletes) if they make that claim? It’s obvious that the bottom of their athlete barrel isn’t any better than the bottom of any other school’s barrel.

      I am guessing that this has gone on in Chapel Hill far beyond just Ms. Wylie. She’s just one of those who got complacent, knowing that their squeaky clean reputation will prevent anyone from poking around.

      How are my grammar and spelling in this post?

    16. highstick 02/10/2011 at 1:03 PM #

      Dickie, “life isn’t fair”, but neither is cheating!!!!!!!!

    17. triadwolf 02/10/2011 at 1:45 PM #

      Dickie B., you no idea what unfair is. 20 years in self-imposed basketball purgatory is unfair.

    18. T-Pack 02/10/2011 at 1:54 PM #

      You can bet that anything coming out of Baddour’s, Thorp’s, and Davis’s mouth in the months to come will have a spin to it designed by the PR firm they hired. “Unfair” is spin-speak for “we’re the victims here … so keep making those contributions, signing those LOIs, and buying those shirts and caps at Walmart!”

    19. nocard 02/10/2011 at 3:27 PM #

      C’mon guys. What do you think Baddour is going to say?…..did you think his response to the media would be *Yep, we saw this coming..* ??

      He has to take up for his player and his program. I do not think they think they are getting away with anything. As far as hiring the PR firm, well at least they did SOMETHING right over there….I mean besides making sure that the UNC items continue to flow at Walmart.

    20. PackerInRussia 02/10/2011 at 4:35 PM #

      So, so far, in two different cases (Ramsay and McAdoo) UNC has expected the NCAA to act more lenient when, in fact, it has done the opposite. Why would any recruit believe them when they predict that nothing bad will happen? What’s it called when you work for a company and you tell everyone that everything’s going great when you know it’s about to go down so that they won’t panic and take their investments out? No, not incompetence. There’s a more specific term.

      By the way, I almost didn’t get to the article. I just kept watching that gif over and over. Yes, I’m easily distracted.

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