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It’s awfully quiet out there…. We can only assume the folks at UNC are plugging away with the academic review and the NCAA does…well…whatever it is that they do. Late yesterday, UNC decided to announce some changes to their social media policy for student athletes. UNC has updated its 2010-11 Student Athlete Handbook to stipulate [...] Continue reading Tuesday Update At this point I know better than to ask if this could get any worse because I know full well it could if it comes out this tutor did something for a basketball player or two. Just in case you were wondering, vacation was good. Many thanks and much appreciation to Doc for covering this [...] Continue reading From The Frying Pan To The Fire And the wheels keep spinning… Local media types have been re-tweeting a post by Mark Armstrong of WTVD that Kendric Burney, Charles Brown, Quan Sturdivant, Robert Quinn, Da’Norris Searcy, and Michael McAdoo worked with the scout team at today’s scrimmage. Yesterday it was reported that Jared McAdoo was working with the scout team, but he [...] Continue reading Saturday Update Robbi Pickeral at ACC Now writes that UNC AD Dick Baddour offered a number of clarifications from the Thursday’s press conference regarding potential academic misconduct at UNC. The piece notes: The school started looking into the possible misconduct when a player being interviewed during the NCAA’s investigation into possible improprieties with sports agents brought up [...] Continue reading Clarifications From the Press Conference And so it begins in Chapel Hill… Greg Barnes of Inside Carolina, who was out front on the academic misconduct story and originally said 6-12 players could be involved, amended that report on 620 the Buzz this morning, now claiming that the number is on the higher end of that estimate, and that six was [...] Continue reading Friday Fallout The world surrounding UNC football is still stunned after Thursday night’s press conference confirmed the bombshell that dropped earlier in the day – that there was a discovery of academic misconduct within the football program. Those hoping for answers or at least guidance into where the program can expect to go from here were sorely [...] Continue reading The Day After… More analysis to come, but here quickly are the salient points from the press conference with Chancellor Thorp, AD Baddour, and Coach Davis: An investigation into academic impropriety has been opened. There are now two prongs to the investigation into the UNC. UNC is taking the lead (and inferred sole discretion) on the academic investigation [...] Continue reading Salient Points From the Press Conference[UPDATED] Yeah, Tutor-gate. Figured I would get it out there before someone else did. The crazy train is running full-speed ahead leading up to Thursday evening’s news conference. Inside Carolina’s Greg Barnes, appearing on 99.9 The Fan this afternoon, backed up Joe Schad’s original notion that somewhere between 6-12 players are involved in an academic situation [...] Continue reading The Birth of Tutor-gate Oh boy, here we go. Ken Tysiac at ACC Now is reporting that UNC has scheduled a press conference tonight at 7:30 “to update the media on the status of the NCAA investigation.” Coach Butch Davis, athletic director Dick Baddour, and Chancellor Holden Thorp will all speak at that time.[UPDATE]: Tysiac reports that Davis’ “scheduled [...] Continue reading UNC Schedules NCAA Press Conference; New Report About Academic Issues [UPDATEDX2] When and Where: Sept. 25, at Piscataway, New Jersey Ah, Rutgers, the place where it all began… September 11, 2008. Thursday night ESPN game. UNC hadn’t won a game outside the state in six years. The dark blue pants. Carolina lays a 30-point whipping on Rutgers and announces the Butch Davis rebuilding project in Chapel [...] Continue reading 2010 Schedule Preview: Rutgers When and Where: September 18th, Chapel Hill There should be no doubting Paul Johnson any more. When Johnson brought his triple-option spread offense that won two Division I-AA titles at Georgia Southern to Navy, critics said it just wouldn’t work at a Division I-A school. Johnson promptly led Navy – Navy! – to five straight [...] Continue reading 2010 Schedule Preview: Georgia Tech |
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