Not too long ago I got sucked into a little verbal sparring with a Wal-Mart Tar heel fan who – to my astonishment – actually threw out the ‘insult’ of ‘Chris Washburn’. I kid you not. Almost THIRTY YEARS after the top rated high school basketball player in the country – who was heavily recruited […]
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UNC-CH academic scandal update & Tar Heel police blotter roundup
A WRAL story that went up this evening has some interesting details regarding the widening academic scandal in Chapel Hill. The most important thing to me is the revelation that, according to the article, ~58% of the students in the “suspect” classes were athletes: More than half of the students enrolled in the classes in question were […]
Burney “still friends” with Hawkins, UNC liason’s sleepless nights, & the “Tutor Handbook” (Day 110)
 I am back! Last week the other members of the SFN author team were knocking it out of the park covering the scandal here and here, so there was no need for me to clutter up the blog with redundant and/or inferior analysis. Also, the FSU game appropriately occupied our attention and energy. Speaking of the FSU […]
[10:30pm] Brown out for year, Burney out for Miami, maybe more (Day 97)
UNC-CH announced late today that Kendric Burney will not play Saturday against Miami and that Charles Brown will not play at all this year. Here is the ACCNow report. I am totally blown away by UNC’s actions regarding Burney over the last few days. The folks in Chapel Hill are really outdoing even themselves on this […]
Breaking Lies: Austin, Little & Quinn permanently ineligible [11:40 Update & Commentary]
According to reports, Greg Little and Robert Quinn will never see the field again for UNC-CH. According to the linked article: Little accepted diamond earrings, as well as travel accommodations for the Bahamas, Washington D.C. and two trips to Miami, among other benefits. Quinn accepted two black diamond watches, a pair of matching earrings and […]
Baddour asked Hawkins to “speak for them on behalf of the Carolina guys� (Day 76)
 ^Marvin enjoys the LSU game (Picture courtesy of News & Observer/Ethan Hyman  I have to admit that the Daily Tar Heel has done some good reporting on this scandal. There does not appear to be much new going on tonight, so I am going to go through a few things they have done […]
Kendric Burney had prior knowledge of agents in Miami but Butch didn’t? (Day 75)
^ Marvin at the gun show this past spring. Tonight’s entry is based on a piece that went up last Thursday but (appropriately) got lost behind our excellent pregame entries Friday and Saturday.  This point is too important to miss and represents a major theme that should be repeated — we are being asked to believe that Butch Davis knew almost nothing about what […]
Draughn in Atlanta with Hawkins? Or not? (nightly update day 72)
I have a two quick items tonight that are sort of leftovers but I wanted to clear them out this week to make way for all the great new stuff that is sure to come out next week. On Wednesday UNC player Shaun Draughn did an interview after being reinstated. It was pretty uninteresting until the last […]
Why “the Carolina Way” is now a punch line (nightly update day 71).
Let’s get right to it. We have a lot of ground to cover. The fallout from yesterday’s NCAA suspensions began with Kendric Burney’s dad giving some great quotes that really raise questions about institutional control. You should read this article in full. I think this passage from that piece damages UNC-CH more than any other I have read since […]
Nightly Scandal Update
Tonight kicks off a new StateFans Nation feature.  We hope to write an entry every night or nearly every night recapping that day’s scandal news. In the unlikely event of a day with no scandal news, there is plenty of past material to mine for interesting discussion points. Before I get started, I have to tell everyone that you must read this […]
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