UNC can go to hell.....

Note: the article has language that many will find offensive.



www.offtackleempire.com/2016/3/28/113179...ations-investigation

www.washingtonpost.com/sports/roy-willia...95c06edca_story.html


www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/w...y-around-my-friends/

... and I read more and more about Roy today, I am more and more glad that Roy chose to leave. If he and UNC are not on a fast bound train hurtling toward a washed out bridge, there will be hell to pay for the NCAA.

My personal thought is that the NCAA is letting UNC play in this postseason in the hopes that when he retires Roy will still have 1 title left after the NCs in 2005 and 2009 -- and a huge portion of the games over the 18 years from 1993 through 2011 -- are vacated. Note that The Traitor Smith retired after the 1997 season, by which time the fraudulent courses had been offered for 4 years. I would think his 1993 title is probably safe, but everything since is in jeopardy.

Excerpt from the article Timeline of events in the UNC scandal published the News&Observer (based in Raleigh, NC -- NC State's hometown) --

Feb. 21, 2014: UNC system and UNC-CH officials announce a new investigation, this one led by Kenneth Wainstein, a former high-level U.S. Justice Department official. He and three other attorneys in his firm are expected to delve into unanswered questions about the role of athletics in the scandal.

Oct. 22, 2014: Kenneth Wainstein's investigation finds that pressure from the athletes' tutoring program prompted the academic fraud, countering UNC's long held position the scandal did not have its roots in athletics. His report identifies nearly 190 no-show classes, and hundreds more bogus independent studies that date as far back as 1993. Roughly 3,100 students took the classes, nearly half of them athletes. Several tutoring staff knew the classes had no instructor, including Jan Boxill, who would later become faculty leader. Experts now say it's the worst academic scandal in the history of college athletics.


There should be hell to pay. "Will there be?" is the lingering question.

I despise them both, but fraudulent UNC more than Syracuse. I can't "root" for either of them, and will not watch one second of the game, but I'll be pulling strongly for the TarHoles to lose.

Go OU.

This is great stuff, Wheatie! Very nicely stated.

espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/stor...y-all-ncaa-sanctions

One minute he's playing his incessant "me-first" victim card (everyone is out to get him and UNC, life is so unfair, it's been so hard on him and his program, blah blah blah), the next minute he's biting reporters' heads off for this or that perceived affront.

As I said before, if there is any ounce of karmatic balance left in the hoops universe, Villanova will win tonight and the NCAA overlords will grow a pair and hit UNC very hard with punishments fitting the crime in the aftermath.

SINCE the bogus "academic courses" were established to help keep student-athletes eligible (and IIRC the Wainstein 2014 report, sponsored *by* UNC , states this to be the case), and almost 50% of the "participants" were student-athletes, there is no question that this is more than a "general academics, not athletics" issue (the latter being UNC's stance). The fact that non S-As were allowed to enroll was a necessary camouflage put in place by the AFAM staff to not draw attention to the courses.

Without the bogus courses, IF:

Just one student-athlete did not have enough hours for a term to qualify as full time
OR
Just one student-athlete did not have a high enough GPA to remain eligible
THEN
the NCAA, by rule, is supposed to *at least* vacate all the wins in which that student-athlete participated while ineligible.

Given all the MBB players that participated (e.g., IIRC all the starters on both the 2005 and 2009 teams), the NCAA is going to find at least one ineligible player in several years during that 18 year time span.

I can see it taking the NCAA time to do the grunt work of checking the grades and GPAs of each student-athlete and adjusting them by taking out the bogus courses to see if those S-As were eligible or not. But they've had more than enough time now.

For the sake of its own future, the NCAA needs to come down hard on the tarred ones. If it does not, it needs to blue sky all its investigation to show why UNC was *NOT* punished. If the NCAA does not, I can see Congress getting involved (you know Congress will do anything it can to not make progress on its regular work), and the NCAA may find its legal status -- let alone its status in relation to its constituent schools -- severely altered.

Then again, maybe the world of college sports is as perverted as we dread.

Governors wrote: To a person, they replied that "nothing" really happened and this whole academic fraud is nothing more than a personal vendetta against the university. They also believe that the NCAA won't penalize UNC at all.

I hear ya, Gov. I, too, was very pleased with last night's outcome -- which I, too, did not watch.

I will say this regarding your patients' comments: I remember the fans and the administration and the athletics department and even the coaches of another university thinking much the same thing 28 years ago. They soon learned to their chagrin that they were wrong.

Given all that Carolina has become in large part to its Kansas connections, may history once again repeat itself as they suffer a much more deserved ignominy

It would have been funny 2 days ago when it was published, but today it's just plain hilarious.

UNC to Award Players with Three Credits in Net-Cutting if They Win National Title

HOUSTON — The North Carolina Tar Heels are just 40 minutes away from winning the program’s sixth national title, but university administrators are prepared to sweeten the pot for the players by offering credit towards their degree if the team cuts down the nets on Monday night.

In fact, UNC will give the players three credits for a special course named Celebratory Net-Cutting 405.
“Climbing up a ladder high above the ground and using a sharp tool to cut a single strand of net is a skill as difficult and delicate as performing ballet, in my opinion, and universities give academic credit for that,” said head coach Roy Williams. “I think they should get more than three credits, to be honest. And my players need more than three credits, too. I don’t think any of them are even close to being eligible academically for next season.”

The coach said the net-cutting course shows North Carolina is taking education seriously again.
“It would be easy for us to just make up fake courses again and have tutors do all the players’ work,” said Williams. “But we’re not doing that. We’re making them put in the time. In fact, that’s an actual course. Time Studies. The players all sat in a room today for 10 minutes and learned about the passage of time. That was worth nine credits of independent study. And they all aced it.”

NCAA president Mark Emmert said his organization is pleased with the changes the UNC athletic department has made.
“We’re happy with any real courses they want to create for their players,” said Emmert, “as long as they don’t teach them about basic worker rights or unionizing.”

North Carolina also announced that if they don’t win the national title, they will grant their players three credits in Disappointment Studies.