Link More to come. Link Numerous sources have confirmed that Gary Wichard, the agent at the center of the UNC football scandal, has passed away. Wichard founded his professional agency, Pro Tect Management, in 1980; in the subsequent three decades he represented dozens of top-level NFL stars, including Dwight Freeney and Brian Bosworth. He fell […]
Gary Wichard
Marshall’s absence from probe no surprise
One of the many agents involved in the UNC-Chapel Hill athletic impropriety and academic fraud case has been suspended by the NFL Player’s Association. Gary Wichard, the agent who paid UNC Associate Head Coach and Recruiting Coordinator John Blake thousands of still unaccounted for dollars will not be able represent potential clients for the 2011 […]
Swofford breaks his silence, harshly sanctions FSU women’s soccer team (Day 113) — 6:45 update
Before I get started, let me say a few things about yesterday’s happenings. As everyone knows, Thorp came out with some awkwardly-worded statements about Butch Davis. Watch here starting at the 48 second-mark if you want to hear Thorp in his own words say things such as “I think what I said was that we don’t […]
Kiper fallout related to the UNC scandals and increasing national scrutiny of Butch (Day 91)
I don’t have a lot of time tonight, but I am going to pass along a few things. First, some quick “dot connecting” that grew out of the big Sports Illustrated piece that hit yesterday. One interesting passage from that article dealt with “NFL draft guru” Mel Kiper. He is the annoying guy with the “Lego man” […]
SI: How Gary Wichard Works (must read)
 Gary used his contacts in the coaching community to help him get players. This has recently come into public view, as the NCAA and the state of North Carolina are investigating the Tar Heels football program and whether John Blake, a Carolina assistant coach since 2007, steered players to Gary and received money from […]
Blake called Wichard within minutes of talking with Suh’s family
Full link(definite read). On Monday, Nebraska’s Pelini told the World-Herald he remembered a concern over Blake contacting Suh. Pelini said he asked Jeff Jamrog, Nebraska ’s assistant athletic director for football, to call North Carolina and handle the matter. Jamrog said he also recalled the instance but did not provide details of contact between the […]
Another Late Night Bombshell from Yahoo! Sports – Blake Recommended Wichard to Bama Player
Here is the link to the latest bombshell from Yahoo! Sports writers Charles Robinson & Dan Wetzel. It is also being reported on ESPN.com by Ivan Maisel. A couple of quotes from the Yahoo story: University of Alabama defensive end Marcell Dareus informed NCAA investigators that former University of North Carolina assistant coach John Blake […]
What did UNC know about the Wichard-Blake payments and when did they know it? (Day 78)
Well nothing much happened today so I don’t know what to write about. But seriously, given the unreal crush of information and news, starting today I will focus on one question per day. Otherwise I would go crazy.  Today we have: What did UNC-CH know about Blake’s financial connections to Wichard and when did they know it? When […]
Breaking: Major money trail ties agent to ex-UNC Associate Head Coach [12:30am]
Our author team was talking amongst ourselves today and everyone was charged with being on high alert for some major news breaking because (1) a little birdie had contacted us earlier in the week with some scoop and (2) Dick Baddour was on the radio today. If you have learned anything about the current […]
Nightly Update Day 70
Wow! We started this new nightly update thing just at the right time. Tonight’s entry will not be as linear and organized as normal because I am pressed for time and the news is still developing and hard to analyze. Obviously tonight’s update deals with the NCAA issuing suspensions – Burney getting 6 games and Williams […]
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