A breakdown of the future scheduling models include:

Football:

The Atlantic and Coastal divisions will remain the same with Syracuse joining the Atlantic and Pitt joining the Coastal. The current primary crossover partners will remain consistent with Syracuse and Pitt becoming primary crossover partners with each other.

When Pitt and Syracuse join the ACC, the league will play a nine-game conference schedule. The format will consist of each team playing all six in its division each year, plus its primary crossover partner each year and two rotating opponents from the opposite division. This six-year cycle allows each team to play each divisional opponent and its primary crossover partner six times (three home and three away) while also playing each rotating crossover opponent two times (one home and one away).

Men’s and Women’s Basketball:

As previously announced, the ACC will play an 18-game conference schedule beginning in 2012-13.

When Pitt and Syracuse join, each school will have one primary partner (Boston College and Syracuse; Clemson and Georgia Tech; Duke and North Carolina; Florida State and Miami; Maryland and Pitt; NC State and Wake Forest; Virginia and Virginia Tech).

The scheduling model will be based on a three-year cycle during which teams will play every league opponent at least once with the primary partners playing home and away annually while the other 12 rotate in groups of four: one year both home and away; one year at home only; and one year away only. Over the course of the three-year cycle primary partners play a total of six times and all other conference opponents play four times.

The format allows each program to see opponents with more regularity and creates an increase in competitive balance throughout the teams. It was determined that all 14 league members will continue to compete in the ACC Men’s and Women’s Tournaments and a decision on the Tournament formats will be announced at a later date.

In football the ACC will go to a nine game conference schedule. Syracuse will go to the Atlantic division with Pitt ending up in the Coastal. The current permanent crossover opponents will remain the same meaning UNC and NC State will continue to play their annual game versus each other. A nine game schedule also means teams will have seasons where they play five roads games and only four home games in ACC play.

In basketball the schedule will move to 18 games and everyone will be reduced to one permanent partner instead of two. That means UNC and NC State will no longer have yearly played each other twice a year. UNC’s permanent partner will be Duke and NC State will be attached to Wake Forest. All non-permanent partner games are setup on a three year cycle with teams playing once in the first two years then twice in the third year.

This change will obviously generated the most controversy among those of us who are ACC traditionalists and have long been irritated over what expansion has done to dilute the basketball product. Let me be clear, I am not necessarily knocking expansion because it is what it is in today’s college athletics landscape. However the lack of a round robin in basketball bugs me to no end but because UNC still had home-away games with both Duke and NC State I could live with it. Now we have a situation where the ACC it taking away something that, regardless of how it has gone over the past twenty years, is still two games that generate some passionate feelings among the fan bases. Not only that but the last time UNC and NCSU did not play twice a year was 1919! That is a long history of games now being pushed aside and right when it appears NC State might be close to finally getting their act together.

Unfortunately there is nothing that can be done about it. With the rash of conference expansion the ACC moved to keep itself viable in whatever future is ultimately carved out. There money coming from ESPN is far more important the preserving the traditions of ACC basketball which ultimately put the conference on the map in the first place. The N&O’s Joe Giglio best summed it up on Twitter:

Today’s news in short and stop me if you’ve heard this before: good for football, bad for basketball

This is what expansion has wrought. Welcome to the new ACC.

DEFENSIVE BACK – Tim Scott, North Carolina, CB, Fr., 5-11, 180, Fredericksburg, Va. Cornerback Tim Scott tied for the team lead with nine tackles and intercepted a pass in the East Carolina red zone and broke up another pass in North Carolina’s 35-20 win at East Carolina. After the interception, the Tar Heels scored two plays later to take an early 7-0 lead.

ROOKIE – Giovani Bernard, North Carolina, TB, Fr., 5-10, 205, Davie, Fla. Redshirt freshman tailback Giovani Bernard rushed for 146 yards on a career-high 24 carries and scored a touchdown in Carolina’s 35-20 win over ECU. He became the first UNC player to rush for 100 yards in three straight games since Natrone Means in 1992. Bernard had 102 vs. Virginia (Sept. 17) and 155 at Georgia Tech (Sept. 24). Bernard, the leading freshman rusher in the nation, is averaging 109.6 rushing yards and has 548 yards on 78 carries. Bernard had 113 of his 146 yards in the first half as Carolina built a 28-3 halftime lead. Bernard now has seven rushing touchdowns, which equals the total of last year’s leading rusher Johnny White.

I think the ACC figured they better toss Gio Bernard some kind of weekly award considering his body of work over the past three weeks. Bernard was named rookie of the week and may have a hard time breaking through the “offensive back” category considering that also includes quarterbacks. Tim Scott was named defensive back of the week becoming the second member(the other was Matt Merletti) of the Tar Heel’s rather woeful defensive backfield to be tabbed in the weekly honors. That is either ironic or a perfect illustration of how useless INTs and tackles are as a standard for this reward. The Scott INT was important but it should be noted that his tackle total was higher because UNC allowed receivers to catch the ball in the first place.

Yes, I am probably coming off a tad negative talking about a Tar Heel winning a weekly award. Obviously Scott compared better to other DBs in the ACC hence the award. Still, I think we would rather UNC players being named defensive back of week following an solid performance by the secondary as a whole.

• Safety Matt Merletti was named ACC Defensive Back of the Week for his two INT performance against Virginia on Saturday. Merletti also had seven tackles. These awards are interesting because I think the general consensus on Merletti’s performance at safety has not necessarily been a good one much like the opinion of the secondary as a whole. However two INTs in one game is nothing to sneeze at so there you go.
• Casey Barth is likely out of this week’s game versus Georgia Tech nursing a groin pull. Barth was already dealing with a quadriceps strain which kept him from kickoff duty. According to interim coach Everett Withers the thinking is to sit Barth now and get him healthy for a return later in the season.
• UNC has decided to change the center court logo in the Dean Smith Center to the one from years prior to last season. Last season the logo was changed and there were a fair amount of complaints that it looked off centered. Those complaints were taken into consideration and the old logo is back. This is one of those situations that seemingly only comes up in college sports where long traditions really matter and changing something like the center court logo bugs people.
• NFL news: Da’Norris Searcy snagged the game winning INT for Buffalo on Sunday. Hakeem Nicks was making ridiculous catches last night on Monday Night Football for the New York Giants. In that same game Robert Quinn crushed Giants QB Eli Manning on a sack. Quinn came off the end unmolested and wrapped Manning up.

On Saturday rumors began flying that the ACC had been in talk with Syracuse and Pittsburgh regarding a jump to the ACC from the Big East. Those rumors quickly gelled into “holy crap there is something to this” last night as SU and Pitt’s applications to enter the ACC had apparently been tendered. The ACC then announced a press conference for Sunday morning and it wasn’t to announce the football players of the week. This morning the ACC has announced that Pitt and Syracuse have been accepted into the ACC. Unlike the last expansion the vote was unanimous.

It should be noted that this is not something the ACC did on a whim. UNC AD Dick Baddour said on Saturday prior to the UNC game that the ACC had been working on realignment issues for quite some time.  ACC commissioner John Swofford  formed a committee to look at realignment over a year ago disabusing us of the notion that Swofford was just sitting back. The committee included four ADs, four school presidents and four faculty reps with Baddour representing UNC.

Clearly this is not a move designed with ACC football as the first consideration, an interesting given conference realignment is being driven largely the pursuit of gridiron money. With everyone else operating their realignment plans with an eye squarely on football, the ACC is looking to basketball, at least for the expansion to 14 teams. Assuming the ACC goes to 16(which seems likely) could it be the ACC addresses football needs with those teams? Texas has already been linked with the ACC but there are signs this move for Pitt and SU may have cooled that relationship. In fact, according to Chip Brown at Orangebloods, the move for Pitt and SU speaks to the ACC desire to remain an east coast conference.

Another Big 12 administrator told Orangebloods.com the ACC appears as if it is moving on without Texas in its plans.

That Big 12 administrator said the ACC is reluctant to bring in Texas for three reasons: 1) how the Longhorn Network would be worked into its revenue sharing; 2) that the ACC sees itself as an east coast conference and wants to protect that by not reaching into the southwest (no matter how much TV money adding Texas would mean); and 3) Texas indicated to the ACC it would need to bring Texas Tech with them to the ACC, and the ACC members were not excited about that because of Texas Tech’s academic standing (No. 160 in latest U.S. News and World Report).

If the ACC’s east coast bias holds true then rumors of UConn and Rutgers being next on the list would appear to have legs. If this move means Texas does not come to the ACC I imagine there will be a few people upset with Swofford for not landing the biggest fish out there. However this is about grabbing new markets and with SU, Swofford gets the school he wanted eight years ago before Virginia dictated otherwise. Pitt gets the ACC into western PA and it also ensure Maryland and Boston College stay happy though the new $20 million exit fee will do more to keep current schools from getting antsy than anything else.

More on this as it becomes official including some analysis on how this will impact ACC basketball.

Robinson discussed his article with David Glenn and some of the details are just mind blowing. Robinson placed the total amount of improper benefit in the neighborhood of $2 million(UNC’s total is around $27,000.) The now disgraced and federally incarcerated booster Nevin Shapiro apparently had complete and total access to the Miami athletic department. When you are dropping six figure donations left and right, that kind of access is pretty much assured. Shapiro was hanging around the football team, leading them onto the field, recognized by the school for his donations and one picture in the article had him standing beside Miami school president Donna Shala(holding a $50K check from Shapiro) who might not last past Columbus Day. Robinson also said during the last game at the Orange Bowl a.k.a the infamous 30-0 beatdown Miami suffered at the hands of Virginia, Shapiro nearly got into a fight with the Hurricanes compliance director in the press box. Despite these kinds of shenanigans Shapiro was still allowed access to the program for two more years. Adding to this mess is the fact Shapiro’s time at Miami happened, at least part of the time, under former AD Paul Dee. Dee sat in judgement of USC on the Committee on Infractions and did plenty of grandstanding about compliance and what not. Someone should tell Dee that compliance starts at home.

The disturbing aspect in all of this is almost anyone, who has means to drop enough cash, can get this kind of access and do the same manner of damage. 99.9 The Fan’s Adam Gold in a different interview asked Robinson if it was possible to prevent a person like Shapiro from doing what he did and the answer is not really. I think it could probably be stopped at a certain point but not before serious damage was done. In Miami’s case, coaches had knowledge of Shapiro’s activities including former Miami and current Missouri basketball coach Frank Haith. Robinson indicated that Haith knew what Shapiro was about and even said he “needed” someone like Shapiro “on his side” to advance the basketball program. We can only speculate what Haith really meant but the fact Shapiro apparently paid DeQuan Jones $10,000 to ensure he came to Miami tells you what you need to know. According to Robinson Shapiro and Haith spent all sorts of time together, including at strip clubs. If Haith survives to coach a game at Missouri I will be mildly surprised.

The way it looks right now, Miami is going to be taken for a walk or several walks. The words “death penalty” will get tossed about but I doubt it gets used here since the damage it did to SMU was so far reaching, giving to Miami would severely damage the school and the ACC in general. The same is somewhat true with a TV ban since it would keep other ACC schools off TV when they played Miami and no one wants that. The problem here is the NCAA does not have penalties spelled out. David Glenn asserted this was the second worst scandal he had ever seen in college athletics with SMU’s troubles in the mid-80s being #1. Nothing that has happened in the intervening 25 years can really hold a candle to that or even what the Yahoo story lays out. In other words, the NCAA plagued by inconsistency and a convoluted system, will be deciding these penalties on the fly meaning whatever they come up with it will be not enough in one area and too much in another.

Of course, UNC has its own front porch to sweep. Nine major infractions are not child’s play. UNC will have its own serious consequences and nothing that happens at Miami isn’t going to make UNC fans feel better or the school less guilty. Nor should it.  However, there is some comfort in knowing that while there were some royal screw-ups in Chapel Hill, there should be an opportunity here. There is a chance for UNC to learn from its mistakes and move past the scandal without(hopefully) debilitating sanctions that cripples the football program.

For Miami there will be no such window.

Television station WTVD is reporting that a UNC campus police officer, who was part of Butch Davis’ personal game-day security detail, may have improperly handled an on-campus, single-vehicle crash in May involving UNC football players.

Sgt. Shawn Smith, who was assigned to Davis for both home and away games, is a self-identified UNC fan who bragged about this fact on Twitter. On May 29th, Smith investigated the Mason Farm Road crash involving Herman Davidson, who transferred out of the UNC program at the end of the spring semester, as well as players Carl Gaskins, Jr., Dion Guy and Ebele Okakpu.

Davidson was driving the car, which belonged to Okakpu’s father, when he allegedly swerved to miss an oncoming car. The car flipped but there were no injuries. The police report notes Davidson had alcohol on his breath but was not impaired. Davidson was issued a ticket for driving without a license but no further charges were issued.  Smith initially noted in the report that Davidson was driving at the posted speed but the report was amended later to note a speed of 45 in a 25 MPH zone.

Smith resigned from the UNC police department on July 15th and denied there was any cover-up of the incident. Smith also declined to say whether or not his handling of this case was the impetus for his resignation, but he did tell WTVD that it was a “self-inflicted wound” and a “hard lesson learned.”

On a normal day, this would be another black eye for a program that is running out of eyes to blacken. Once again, someone with a close connection to Butch Davis and a self-avowed fan provided a potentially shady benefit to UNC football players.

And then along came Miami.

Yahoo Sports’ Charles Robinson (a UNC fan favorite) has a piece today describing a “renegade booster”, who is in jail for his role in a nearly $1 billion Ponzi scheme, as having provided “thousands of impermissible benefits to at least 72 athletes from 2002 through 2010.”

As Robinson notes:

In 100 hours of jailhouse interviews during Yahoo! Sports’ 11-month investigation, Hurricanes booster Nevin Shapiro described a sustained, eight-year run of rampant NCAA rule-breaking, some of it with the knowledge or direct participation of at least seven coaches from the Miami football and basketball programs. At a cost that Shapiro estimates in the millions of dollars, he said his benefits to athletes included but were not limited to cash, prostitutes, entertainment in his multimillion-dollar homes and yacht, paid trips to high-end restaurants and nightclubs, jewelry, bounties for on-field play (including bounties for injuring opposing players), travel and, on one occasion, an abortion.

Also among the revelations were damning details of Shapiro’s co-ownership of a sports agency – Axcess Sports & Entertainment – for nearly his entire tenure as a Hurricanes booster. The same agency that signed two first-round picks from Miami, Vince Wilfork and Jon Beason, and recruited dozens of others while Shapiro was allegedly providing cash and benefits to players. In interviews with federal prosecutors, Shapiro said many of those same players were also being funneled cash and benefits by his partner at Axcess, then-NFL agent and current UFL commissioner Michael Huyghue. Shapiro said he also made payments on behalf of Axcess, including a $50,000 lump sum to Wilfork, as a recruiting tool for the agency.

The story simply has to be read to be believed, given the depth of allegations of NCAA violations within the Hurricane program.  Shapiro alleges breaking NCAA rules with the knowledge and/or participation of a half-dozen football coaches, as well as a number of basketball coaches including former head coach Frank Haith, who is now in the same position at Missouri. Shapiro also claims he paid for prostitutes for players, provided cash bonuses and bounties, and gave numerous illegal cash and merchandise to players. He also donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the university, money Shapiro says was from the Ponzi scheme.

There is far too much to this story to try and summarize here, but if all of this is substantiated (and much of it has been by the research by Yahoo Sports and Shapiro’s cooperation with federal investigators), this is potentially the most far-reaching scandal ever in college athletics. And in a delicious sense of irony, the athletic director at Miami for most of the time of these violations was Paul Dee, who just completed his term as chair of the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions.

Much to the chagrin of ABCers, the revelation of the car-wreck prong of the UNC tire fire is now lost in the smoking nuclear crater that was the Miami athletic department. And maybe even Gregg Doyel will acknowledge UNC is no longer the turd in the college football punchbowl. But I will say this: Yahoo Sports has become the 21st century sports equivalent of the old adage about 60 Minutes – just like you didn’t want to see 60 Minutes show up at your door in the 80s, you don’t want Yahoo Sports to show up on your campus today. Or as ESPN’s Ryan McGee tweeted, two people you don’t want to see in your town: Jim Cantore and Charles Robinson.

More to come on both these breaking stories.

WR Dwight Jones, DE Quinton Coples and DT Tydreke  Powell were all named to the preseason All-ACC team. Unlike last season’s gaudy five names on the All-ACC defensive team(most of which missed games or never saw the field at all) UNC has just two defensive lineman on the list with Coples and Powell. Coples made the All-ACC team at the end of last season so its not a surprise he shows up here again. Jones’ performance during the last half of the 2010 season set him up for the possibility of a big campaign in 2011. Some of that will depend greatly on how well Bryn Renner and the other receivers play. Otherwise Jones is going to get locked up and if Renner can’t deliver the ball it is going to hurt Jones’ numbers. Powell had 47 tackles, three for a loss and 2.5 sacks last season and looks poised for a big season playing alongside Coples.

I don’t have any real issues with the list especially since they don’t pick anything beyond the first team. If they did you would see more Tar Heels which will probably be the case in December.

Having listened to Butch Davis answer different questions at ACC Football Kickoff, it was interesting to watch his emotional responses or the degree to which he checks what he says when answering an NCAA questions versus a football one. With the NCAA questions he has to be careful, make calculated statements and stick to certain talking points. When football questions get asked Davis is still guarded in his response but you can tell that is the topic he really wants to discuss. Davis wants to answer the question about how Bryn Renner will do or which part of the team concerns him most. I am sure he would love nothing better than to come back next season and deal with nothing but football questions, that is if he is still UNC’s coach next year.

Anyway, because the NCAA questions took up so much time, we only got nuggets when it came to actual football. The question Davis heard the most was concerning QB Bryn Renner. The quick story on Renner is he has the arm, the talent and the confidence. What he lacks is the experience which can only come by playing. Davis thinks Renner that quality you see in mobile QBs to extend plays and make something happen. In short Renner has the tools just not the game experience which tells me we should be prepared for the occasional bad decision. However there is also the possibility Renner can make the spectacular play as well. Or better stated, Renner might be able to turn a five yard loss into a 15 yard gain but will he have the wits about him to spike the football with one second left and 15 players on the field?

Here is a quick hit of some of the other items Davis covered.

• Transfer DT Brandon Willis who committed to Tennessee, then left for UCLA, sat out the required year only to decide he wanted to come back to UNC is still waiting NCAA approval to play this season. Color me shocked.
• RB Ryan Houston will not be taking contact in practice until mid-August as he continues to rehab from shoulder surgery. Houston is the only running back UNC has with any kind of real experience so it is an understatement to say having him back is a big deal.
• Davis called the linebackers “an area of concern.” This strikes me as low balling it a bit. UNC has Zach Brown and Kevin Reddick in two positions. All that is left is to fill the third and there are plenty of players fighting for that spot. The secondary on the other hand will keep people awake at night yet Davis did not seem concerned about that unit. Misdirection? Intentionally screwing with people? Coachspeak gone wild? I have no idea.
• JUCO transfer Sylvester Williams is getting a fair amount of attention. Davis said Williams has dealt with some difficult times and is “impressive” as a person. His football isn’t bad either based on various reports since spring practice.
• The defensive and offensive lines are strengths. I think the OL will merit watching since they have not necessarily always performed consistently and with a rookie QB behind them ratchets up their value even more.

Inside Carolina has a summary piece on Davis who also alluded to recruiting being tougher this season. I think that is evident looking at the commit list which had more in the way of highly rated players at this point a year ago. It would not surprise me to see the upcoming recruiting class ranked much lower than the previous years.

Tar Heel Blue has full audio of remarks from Butch Davis and players Jonathan Cooper and Tydreke Powell.

Okay not really. In fact I was mildly shocked at how much of what Butch Davis said today has been said already.  That can only mean the media was asking the same questions it has been asking for 13 months now but now with more actual information since the notice of allegations is out. Davis really didn’t offer anything that we have not heard before. He did say he was responsible for hiring John Blake and also for everything that happens in his program(via WRAL)

“I’m the head football coach and everything centers around the football program and this is something that I am absolutely committed (to), that we find out how can we make sure that these things do not occur again,” Davis said. “Without question, this has been one of the most difficult and challenging situations that our institution and this football program has gone through.”

If Davis says he is fully responsible for hiring Blake and the whole sordid affair, I would think that means some sort of discipline is on the table. Depending on who you are that could mean resignation or some sort of laughable slap on the wrist like suspending him for a game. In my opinion there ought to be something like say, Davis returning the raise he got in 2007. Of course that’s not going to happen and there is always the chance UNC is simply waiting for the bitter conclusion of this mess to do something.Until then we all sit awkwardly looking at each other across the room wondering what happens next.

As for the hiring of John Blake, Davis takes reponsiblity while maintaining there were no red flags from the NCAA when UNC hired him. I know that is being used as a defense by Davis here but at the same time it is not a totally meaningless point. The NCAA had not caught Blake for anything but one can see how any school might take the NCAA clearance as all they really need. In hindsight Davis says they should have done more to check Blake’s history. Speaking of which, Davis said he knew about Blake’s employment relationship with Gary Wichard but pointed out Blake had been back in college football at two different schools prior to UNC hiring him. Once again, depending on who you are, the fact Blake was shady at all should have been reason to wave off on him and Davis should pay. On the other hand everyone loves to point out how the NCAA has never seen a situation of a coach working for an agent while on staff at a school which could mean no one really though it would be an issue.

Davis also confirmed again he would release his 216 phone records and anything UNC related would be left unredacted. According to Davis, UNC has seen all the records and verified nothing is out of line. However the NCAA has not seen them which means the crusade of ABCers for the real truth must continue unabated or something. I do understand the underlying perception issue with Davis saying UNC has reviewed the record and found nothing wrong. I also get that notion that no one can be certain Davis is only redacting family members. However, the fact this is even being discussed and the NCAA is finished with its investigation tells me the enforcement folks knew about the phone and left it to UNC to vet or they just didn’t care to look. I cannot imagine the NCAA knowing about the records, asking for them and being turned down if Davis is perfectly willing to release them now. Whatever the case, the phone records have already been factored into the investigation. The public release of them will make for some interesting discussion of the phone habits of one Paul Hilton Davis but little else.

I will say this about Davis. For all the questions he was asked about crap he’d rather not talk about, I never got the sense he was anything other than accommodating. His interview with 99.9 The Fan’s Adam Gold and Joe Ovies is well worth a listen. Davis was asked some tough questions which I am sure pissed off the hardcore message board crowd but I am not sure why anyone would expect any different. The facts are Davis was head coach while nine major NCAA violations were committed. There are bound to be some tough questions.  Davis made his bed here but at least he is not making it worse by being a complete jerk about it like a certain favorite coach of Heather Dinich in Atlanta. For what it’s worth Davis took responsibility, talked long and hard about reform, ensuring it doesn’t happen again, etc, etc, etc. Depending on your view of this ordeal, your mileage will vary on those remarks.

Tomorrow I will delve into the football aspects of what Davis had to say which is hopefully something we can spend more time focusing on from here until October 28th at least.

What’s that? You didn’t know Georgia Tech was under investigation? Yeah no one knew. In fact the timetable for Georgia Tech’s brush with the NCAA went something like this.

Letter of inquiry: 9/13/2010
Notice of allegations: 12/11/2010
Committee on infractions hearing: 4/15/2011
Penalties announced: 7/14/2011

Every bit of this went completely unnoticed by the local media in Atlanta which means they don’t care or the pro sports/SEC presence sucks all the oxygen out of the room. That and it is much easier ton conceal this kind of thing when the NCAA is looking into violations from the past versus UNC’s situation where current players are involved. The real reason is that NCSU fans were too occupied with UNC’s situation to delve into it.

Anyway, here is the basic gist of what the NCAA did to the Yellow Jackets and why via ESPN:

The NCAA’s Committee on Infractions has placed Georgia Tech on four years’ probation, vacated its 2009 ACC football championship game victory and placed limits on men’s basketball scholarships after citing the school with rules violations, including failure to cooperate with its investigation.

“According to the committee, the university’s failure to cooperate and meet the obligations of membership compounded the seriousness of the case by adding onto what was originally an isolated instance of impermissible benefits and preferential treatment,” the NCAA said in a prepared statement.

There was also some issue with a youth basketball camp being held on campus which sucked the basketball program into the NCAA vortex as well. Paul Hewitt, the gift that keeps on giving. In addition to the other penalties the NCAA fined Georgia Tech $100,000 which I think is a more effective punishment than vacating wins. However giving up an ACC title hurts more so than a handful of wins.

What does this mean for UNC? Not much from where I sit because UNC has more major violations in play, the whole agent/runner/assistant coach aspect and the academic fraud. Mix in a little NCAA inconsistency and I have no idea what might happen. On the other hand, the NCAA beat the Georgia Tech’s failure cooperate like a drum which might bode well for UNC given how much the Tar Heel administration has bent over for the NCAA in all of this.

One more thing, Georgia Tech is still paying Paul Hewitt seven million dollars to not be their coach after his program created troubles with the NCAA.

Worst. Contract. Ever.