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 that “each team must identify at least one coach or administrator who is responsible for having access to and regularly monitor the content of team members’ social networking sites and postings.” The athletics department also reserves the right to have other staff members monitor athletes’ posts; and if any of an athlete’s online content violates the law or NCAA, University or athletic department policies, sanctions could range from removal of the posting to dismissal from the team.
Now social media has moved from being something UNC sort of glanced at when necessary to UNC actually tasking employees with actively monitoring when Dexter Strickland feeds his snake. Here is hoping the coaches know how to look up the latest slang being used by these young kids today.
As far as the academic scandal goes, DE and Breaker of QBs Robert Quinn told The Daily Tar Heel he was not involved in the academic scandal. Quinn stated he did work with the tutor in question but did not receive illicit assistance from her. Do we read anything into this? Could Quinn have been told he is in the clear and felt free to tell the campus newspaper? It is interesting that UNC being in charge of the academics probe means more information coming from all sorts of places vs the mode of operation on the NCAA issue. It should be noted that many players were named and held off the first team probably because they had contact with the tutor. That contact may have been perfectly innocent or a part of her duties when she was employed in the academic support center. However, since no one knew for certain what this was when it broke, UNC erred on the side of caution and put a question mark by anyone who was known to have worked with the tutor. At this point we are probably at the stage where UNC is beginning to figure out who is in hot water and who isn’t on the academics issue while still waiting for the NCAA to get their collective rear end off the proverbial pot. Hopefully we are only talking about a few players and the list can be narrowed down to those by the time Saturday rolls around.
At the other targets of the NCAA’s curiosity, The Charleston Post is reporting SCAR expects a ruling later this week on the hotel issue. In Tuscaloosa, Alabama has DE Marcell Dareus listed on the depth chart but has not commented on his status for what is sure to be a dramatic game on Saturday vs San Jose St.
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Dexter tweeter last week that he was getting rid of his snake because it was not allowed in his dorm
Henson said today he is going to stop tweeting until he leaves unc
I really don’t mind all the various forms of communication, I just hate seeing kids put self-incriminating monologues out there for the public to see. ALL of this could have been avoided by not doing just that.
John gets a standing ovation. *gives standing ovation*
i do feel for these kids in one aspect, they just want to be like everyone else, and not live in a glass box. However, they are getting a free ride at a great university, and all the perks that come with that gig. So if this is something they have to sacrifice, I would take that anytime.
Question? is UNC not releasing any names before kickoff, and who ever sits is “under review”
JBowling, my man. Good to see you.
I know probably a P.I. could figure out who most of us are, here on THF, so there are degrees of privacy that each of us is comfortable with, but I cannot help but be amazed by the lack of good judgment, if not outright narcissism that many of these young people and athletes have. Gilbert Arenas certainly did himself no favors during his recent problems. Lindsay Lohan didn’t either.
How far away are we from people beginning to tweet about the very most intimate functions of life?
“How far away are we from people beginning to tweet about the very most intimate functions of life?”
Oh we are already there. More so on Facebook. My Twitter feed is an extension of this blog so it is generally related and who I follow is also related to the topics I blog on.
makeitWayne22,
It could very well be that way. Remember UNC has not officially named any one player as being involved with the investigations. The only reason we know names is on the basis of who was held off the first team in practice. There is a chance UNC will release a depth chart which will tell us something but it could come on game day with the starting lineups.
I do know that the rumors seem to be moving into a consensus that this will encompass just a few players and some of the players named as being involved will end up being okay by Saturday.
Surprised no one knows who the unnamed, anonymous tutor is yet. Usually stuff like that leaks instantly.
William, good to hear from you too! I really just don’t get why some people feel the necessity to hang themselves. I tell ya, sports is a crazy thing.
Remember just a few years ago, the Chicago Cubs were 1 out away from going to the World Series. Chicago Cub outfielder was getting ready to catch a pop-fly foul ball to seal the deal, then a idiotic Cub fan reaches out and snatches it. The outfielder, disgusted that one of his own fans would do that and jeapordize their chances, reacts angrily towards the fan. NOW, if I happened to be beside that fan at that point, I would have said, “Hey pal, you just cost my team an opportunity at a World Series! Why did you just do that?”
BUT NO, the fans get mad at the outfielder! This is so moronic in nature to me. The outfielder represents my team, and my shot at seeing my team in the WS. The fan base should have been upset at the fan, not the outfielder representing them and giving them a chance at a WS, lifting the city out of a WS drought that has plagued them so long.
Point is, sports is a crazy thing, you never know how people will react, and you never know how willing people will be to do unbelievable things.
So, we go from a Marvin Austin tweet to a tutor. I’m like, WTH? What about Marvin Austin’s tweet compells a tutor to make a tell-all statement? They are not even related incidences for goodness sakes. What’s next, Dean Smith comes out and says he paid Floyd Brown to pass the ball to Worthy?
Just because someone else decides to spill beans doesn’t mean you have to. So, a Marvin Austin tweet makes a scandalous tutor decide to give a tell-all, slate cleaning confession.
This world is CRAZY!
Heck, I tell you, it wouldn’t surprise me at all if an NCAA official is revealed to have done some game rigging, that Karl Hess, without any outside forces compelling him to do so, will confess to aiding Duke in some of their games.
I just don’t know why folks want to hang themselves. It makes no sense to me. None whatsoever. Its like your best friend who is married telling you he is starting to have feelings for someone else, and then you yourself go on facebook and give an account for all the lustful circumstances you’ve found yourself in while cheating on your high school girlfriend.
“What’s next, Dean Smith comes out and says he paid Floyd Brown to pass the ball to Worthy?”
There will be a thread on Pack Pride in the next 5 minutes stating they’ve heard the NCAA is looking at UNC’s 1982 team….;-)
I am interested that the administration is allowing guys like Quinn and Burney to be interviewed by Inside Carolina. Stategic move?
I seem to recall Steve Bartman being spirted out of Wrigley under under security escort, and then being placed under police protection. The Cups were five outs away from victory and still had their best pitcher on the mound the next night at home and still couldn’t get it down.
The dirty secret is that that Cubs team wasn’t very good. I think they won 80-something games and then upset Atlanta in the ridiculous five game series that baseball plays after going through the motions of a 162 game season. Giving up 8 runs because one guy partially interfered with a fly ball that Alou probably wasn’t going to catch anyway was just desserts for a mediocre team that was lucky to be there. After the Bartman play, I think the Cubs had a wild pitch, an error, a ball thrown over the cut-off man’s head and several walks. Basically they imploded.
ESPN did a half hour special on this Bartman incident and they basically bury the Cubs and their fans, and deservedly so. And I like the Cubs.
Good call William! I wasn’t making a case for Chicago, but the fact that a fan would do something like that, and the fanbase would support it. It would be like this. Imagine we are 1 free throw away from beating Duke in the Dean Smith Center, and a fan takes a laser pointer and shoots it directly into Graves’ eyes. Will misses the free-throw and we lose the game, and Will Graves looks angrily towards the fan, then the rest of the fans in the Smith Center boo Graves. For me, I’d be ticked at the fan for costing us the game, not Will Graves. But in that situation, the Cubs fans were mad at the outfielder. Just doesn’t make any sense to me, but it is SPORTS!