Joe Schad, ESPN’s senior college football writer, has been updating what he discovers about the NCAA’s visit to UNC via his Twitter feed. Here’s his feed, newest from the top: UNC DL Marvin Austin was asked why he was seen driving the vehicle of 49er Kentwan Balmer and if he stayed at Balmer’s apartment about […]
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FEB ’10: Black Santa accused by recruit of illegal payments in Chapel Hill
In the wake of major news that the NCAA is currently investigating the University of North Carolina’s football program, we thought it would be an appropriate time to highlight a major thread from our message boards from February of this year. (And, also promote this as a reason why we ask you to bookmark our […]
Crime Pays Best in College Athletics
The NCAA cites USC for a loss of institutional control, and once again you’re reminded that there’s no segment of American life in which crime pays quite as well as big-time amateur athletics. Video: Dee discusses USC violations No incentive not to cheat in college athletics Everything below this line is quoted from the previously […]
WRAL Is Really Dropping The Ball As The Internet Police
A couple of weeks ago we highlighted some apparent recruiting violations committed by UConn students in this post. In the entry we focused on the disconnect between WRAL’s omission of coverage of substantial recruiting issues at UConn when compared to their historical coverage of making monstrous mountains out of molehills when NC State fans “FaceBook’d” […]
Calling WRAL! UConn students commit recruiting violation for CJ Leslie
Over the last year, we have found two different ways to almost insure that a topic gets covered by WRAL’s blog: (1) First – create a thread on our message board. Often the topic of thread doesn’t even have to be NC State related; can just be something from Deadspin or somewhere else. If the […]
UNC’s Davis already signed with an agent?
Maybe we can talk about something not related to NC State? DraftExpress.com currently has Ed Davis as a lottery pick in the 2010 draft. More specifically, the site thinks that he will be the fifth player taken overall. As I said earlier, Davis is going to miss some time due to a broken wrist, but […]
Recruiting practices take spotlight
Just last week SFN highlighted the difference between local recruiting budgets in this well-received entry. Almost simultaneously, the University of Tennessee’s football program came under scrutiny for the use of its Hostess Program to ‘lure’ recruits to the University. We started talking about the news in real time in this thread on our message boards. […]
Results of 1972 NCAA Investigation of NC State
The 1973 NCSU men’s basketball team was the only one in NCAA history to go undefeated and not win the National Championship. The reason why is simple — they were on probation that year and were not allowed to enter into post-season play. As the years go by, fan’s memories get fuzzy as to the […]
NCAA strikes a much needed blow against injustice, SEMOST style
“The NCAA hasn’t busted a single big-time men’s basketball program in nearly two years. It hasn’t nailed a major football program in nearly 15 months. It’s the longest stretch of compliance for the once iron-fisted organization in 46 years and the second longest ever according to an analysis of the NCAA’s major infractions database.” […]
Some Wednesday Notes…
I’m sure that most all of us are ready to get back to talking about sports, considering the tumultuous events of the past week here at NC State. That in mind, here’s some stuff that’s been rattling around the college sports scene: Is BC Getting It’s Own “Chris Weinke?” Without doubt, the roster at BC […]
