UNC football in big trouble

[Pancamo]

Wasn't Butch hired to clean up "da U" after the Pell Grant mess?

 

[BYH]

Wasn't Butch hired to clean up "da U" after the Pell Grant mess?

Yup.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1008584/index.htm

Some ironic graphs in there, 14 years later.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

The (Raleigh) News & Observer's Caulton Tudor minces few words with his stance:

http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/09/30/712304/tudor-uncs-butch-davis-must-go.html

The N&O's Robbi Pickeral has it from Butch that he's not resigning:

http://blogs.newsobserver.com/accnow/davis-will-not-resign-as-unc-coach

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And just think ... this wouldn't have happened if the N&O were still a family-owned paper as it was a generation ago. They tried to hide a Dean Smith vehicular citation in the classifieds years and years ago.

Good work by Mr. Tudor, who has written enough columns I've disagreed with over the years, and Pickeral, who has done stout work during her time in the Triangle.

 

[franticscribe]

A concern I've heard from here is that the University of North Carolina (which oversees the 1617-school system that includes UNC-Chapel Hill, Charlotte, NCSU, ECU, UNC-A, UNC-G, etc.) might try to place restrictions on all its schools in response to what's going on at UNC-CH. Of course that's coming from folks who are reveling in UNC-CH's "misfortune" and believe the UNC System will take a "gosh, if this is happening at Chapel Hill, imagine what's going on at our other schools" approach to the situation. I don't think the other member universities would accept that without a pretty big fight.

Well, it's not as if there aren't problems in the other programs throughout the 17 constituent schools at the moment. A&T had a student die last month during a track tryout that was against both basic safety protocols and NCAA rules. UNCW's AD just resigned/got canned after an assistant women's basketball coach used an extreme, unorthodox punishment on one of the players during a period when they weren't supposed to be practicing. And those are only in the last few weeks.

UNC-CH gets the attention because of its profile. And there's no shying away from that. I would argue that what happened in Greensboro -- putting a student-athlete's life needlessly at risk -- is far worse than the agent and academic problems happening in Chapel Hill right now. Though neither should ever happen.

I think a system-wide tightening of the reins probably is in order. My hope is that the entire institution, from Elizabeth City to Raleigh to Cullowhee, let alone the Chapel Hill campus, will come out of this stronger and better.

Last night I watched a short documentary on the Speaker Ban as part of a campus event and Bill Friday, of course, was featured prominently. He described the Speaker Ban-era, which for non-North Carolinians was a time during the 1960s in which the state legislature banned Communists from speaking at public universities, as the darkest period in the university's history. His assessment was that, despite how embarrassing that period was, it taught an entire generation of students the importance of academic freedom and free speech, that in the end, the university is a better place.

I hope this current scandal leads us to a similar kind of self-examination about the role of athletics and ultimately helps make the university a better place.

 

[Gonna Buy me a Dog]

Funny thing is, a segment of these cheating schools (like UNC) just plain suck. heck, if you're cheating, shouldn't you be... I dunno... BETTER?

wait ... i thought you "dunno"?

 

[mediaguy]

I'm just saying there's an impressive number of in-room movies on that receipt.

I know a lot of agents will give potential high draft picks an advance on future in-room movie purchases.