I was gladdened to read the unfortunately named Luke DeCock’s piece in this morning’s paper. Without question, the Hole faculty’s silence is cowardly and indefensible. As I have noted previously, the only true “rogue” in Chapel Hill is history professor Jay Smith. He’s the only person there who gives a damn, apparently. He’s certainly the […]
Bill Friday
Breaking News: William Friday passes [Updated 11am]
William Friday has passed away. It is UNC’s ‘University Day’. The Bill Friday Tag for SFN can be seen by clicking here. It should give you some perspective. The Bill Friday Tag on SFN Forums can be viewed by clicking here. If you are interested, this link will take you to more conversation on the […]
Bob Orr, Colossal Jackass
The UNC football program’s public, clownish implosion has provided us with so much sweet, sweet schadenfruede that it has its own SFN category. Neat, huh? It’s almost to the point that nothing can possibly surprise me anymore. And I only say “almost” because of the surreal idiocy and chutzpah spewed by former NC Supreme Court […]
Bill Friday Says the System Needs Reform
Defenders of the “Carolina Way” want to make it painfully clear that there is no lack of institutional control over at the Flagship. They want to make sure we all know the system is to blame, not the University or any of the administrators, coaches or players associated with it. Bill Friday wants to make […]
Hawkins’ date discrepancy and other scandal odds and ends (now updated)
Folks, one sure sign that the mess in Chapel Hill has achieved full Gong Show status is that I have to write “odds and ends” columns like this one regularly to make sure we don’t miss anything. First I will mention Butch Davis’ recent remarks as reported by WRAL. When asked about the futures of the 12 UNC-CH players that […]
Bill Friday: UNC Problems Part of a National Trend
Former UNC President Bill Friday, long a critic of the increasing monetization of college sports, argued that the root of UNC’s current problems are money in yesterday’s Winston-Salem Journal. That’s not money as in money paid by agents to players, or money as in money possibly paid to recruits by an associate head coach with […]
Bill Friday, “Fowler Fan”
Over the weekend, the News & Observer ran a fairly interesting piece about the rising costs of running athletic departments. As is usually the case in such analysis, there’s someone quoted for certain hand-wringing over the “big business” nature of modern college sports. And when a North Carolina media outlet runs such a piece, NC […]
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