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Delany criticizes alma mater North carolina in academic fraud scandal


Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany said "a trust was broken" in the wide-ranging academic scandal at his alma mater, North carolina.


Speaking at the annual IMG Intercollegiate Athletics Forum, Delany gave an impassioned analysis of the scandal that already is one of the biggest in NCAA history. The enforcement


"You have to accept that some things that happened that never should have happened," Delany told an audience of professionals on Thursday.


An external investigation commissioned by the school revealed a pattern of paper classes - grades for little or no work -- for a period of 18 years ending in 2011. Drake Group president Gerald Gurney called it the "largest and the most egregious case of academic fraud by far in NCAA history."


Delany played in two Final Fours at North carolina in the late 1960s and was a captain for Dean Smith. Both of his sons are North carolina are graduates.


"We built a brand over many, many decades," Delany said. "We're going to have to earn our way back. A trust has been broken. It's not an isolated incident. It looks like there is a pattern of misconduct that affected a lot of people over a long period of time."


The important thing is the institutional, it's made up of a lot of people. What we have to do is come terms with the fact that mistakes were made," he said of the scandal. "We have to do what we can to protect the innocent. We have to accept responsibility … then we have to work to earn the trust back.


"That won't happen overnight but if we don't do it together, there won't be many win-win. There will be winners and losers."


NCAA president Mark Emmert would not speculate on whether the enforcement department would go past its four-year statute of limitations to investigate the alleged wrongdoing that goes back almost two decades.

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So much for the "Gutmann report..."
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Questioning the Gutmann Article Questioning the Wainstein Report


Insidecarolina.com (IC) has published an article by Harold Gutmann that purportedly scratches the surface on the failures of the Wainstein investigation of unc. After reading Gutmann's article and doing a little fact-checking of my own, I felt the need to question the questioner...


For this article, though, I'd to critically examine Gutmann's "tip of the iceberg..."

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Congressmen seek answers about NCAA academic oversight


The Congressmen sent the letter in the wake of the North carolina academic scandal, which showed that thousands of student-athletes over the course of two decades benefited from paper classes and lax academic requirements. Non-athlete students also benefited from the system, but a sizable portion - nearly half - were student-athletes.


The NCAA has not punished unc for the academic fraud.


In June, the NCAA responded to a previous letter that Cárdenas and Cummings sent, stating that these classes do not violate NCAA rules because the classes were available to all students, not just athletes.


In Tuesday's letter, Cardenas and Cummings wrote: "The NCAA's response suggests that participation by non-student athletes in 'no-show' classes somehow inoculates NCAA member institutions from sanctions by their governing body. Although the NCAA routinely legislates matters as mundane as meal quotas for student-athletes, its failure to sanction the use of 'no-show' classes calls into question the NCAA's commitment to its educational mission."

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unx alum Bob Lee...



NOTHING is Certainly A Possibility!


Somewhere in the murky middle between the ABC Mob's "Give Us Dean's Head" blood lust and The Franklin Street Ostrichs' "Wainstein... Julius - Who?" there exist a vast universe of possibilities as to "what will happen if anything happens and when will whatever happen and why hasn't it happened yet?"


Despite the absolute certainties long espoused by the most deranged representatives of said ABC Mob and said Ostrichs, I'm pretty certain No One Knows. "Nothing Will Happen" does remain a possibility. Nothing = No Further Sanctions - No DEATH PENALTY - No Loss of Accreditation (whatever tha heck "that" means) - No Roy Led Off In a Straight Jacket - No Dean Powerwashed Off The Dome - Zip, Zero, Nada, Goose Egg as our AT&T /Uzbekistan belle - Milana might say.


Neither The NCAA, The ACC, Congress nor the World Court @ The Hague are obligated to "do" anything.

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Ya can't make this stuff up. #carolinaway....


FROM: BobLee[/I]


I forgot to mention this. Many of you may already be aware.....


A unspecified group of unc Fat Cats are assembling a "war chest" to wage a legal fight against ANY punitive actions against unc.


Don't know if the "we hate the uniforms" guys are in this cabal or not. Likely some overlap.
 
"....the university would've loved to wrap it up as fast and as quick as possible and contain it and make it a football issue and maybe make it a Butch Davis issue."

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More on McAdoo suing unx but here's all ya need to know....



What this could mean


McAdoo's lawsuit could potentially uncover even more than the damning Wainstein investigation, which was by far the most thorough and provided a slew of information that had previously been discounted by unc.
The difference is in the power of subpoena.


McAdoo's lawyers will be able to depose people who declined to talk to Wainstein -- potentially key participants whom Wainstein called out for refusing to cooperate, like the former director of football Cynthia Reynolds and the former interim head football coach Everett Withers.


Withers is now a coach at James Madison University and Reynolds is in academics at Cornell.


The former associate dean and director of the men's basketball team, Carolyn Cannon, and another counselor for football, Octavus Barnes, also refused to cooperate, according to the Wainstein report.


Willingham, who is suing unc in a whistleblower-related lawsuit, said she also hopes to depose people who were not interviewed by Wainstein's team, such as members of the board of trustees.


"There's still a lot of denial, and Wainstein did not conduct his investigation with anyone under oath, nor did he have subpoena power," Willingham said.

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Judge hears media lawsuit over fired unc staffers in academic scandal


A coalition of North carolina news organizations and the state's flagship public university are facing off in court over records related to the school's long-running academic fraud scandal.


The two sides are battling because the University of North carolina at Chapel Hill hasn't disclosed the nine campus employees fired or disciplined for their roles in a scheme allowing fake classes and generous grades over nearly two decades.


The Associated Press and nine other companies filed the lawsuit last month.


North carolina's public records law requires state agencies, including public universities, to make employee records available. That includes records regarding their dismissal, suspension, or demotion for disciplinary reasons. Campus officials have said the disclosure isn't required until after an employee has finished appealing the decision.

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Originally posted by DevilDJ:

Florida State and North carolina: Two especially embarrassing examples of academic squalor
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Critcize FSU all you want but the fact is the ACC would have disbanded without 'Noles football program. The ESPN contract pays this conference very nicely due to the TV ratings FSU garners. FSU played 6 primetime games this season with very high ratings. With FSU football the ACC would have gone the route of Big East. Remember them?

Duke & UNC haven't gotten to Final Four since 2010, so don't rip the lone program that kept the conference afloat.
 
Guys! Please! You're derailing a perfectly good unx scandal thread with this in-fighting. Lol. Anyway , back on topic. I'm not gonna be near a tv for OTL today (5:30?) so for those who will be , a play-by-play/re-cap would be appreciated. Thanks. Also , Dr. Ridpath just tweeted. He's gonna be on the show too. Cool. Lol.
 
unx back in court today. Fighting the release of public information...again...



Jane Wester @janewester


unc has filed motion to dismiss #DTHhearing


Jane Wester @janewester


Something to consider: unc employees get paid normally as long as their disciplinary process goes on. #DTHhearing


Jane Wester @janewester


In short: law gives Folt the discretion to release otherwise confidential info to preserve institutional integrity #DTHhearing


Jane Wester @janewester


Defense argues that the court cannot require her to release that info - it's up to her discretion #DTHhearing


Jane Wester @janewester


Judge sounds skeptical re: phenomenon of some college leaders seeing univ. as their "kingdom" "where their power is absolute" #DTHhearing


Jane Wester @janewester


Lag time b/w termination decision vs. employee cleaning out desk can be months/years...paid. When should info come out? #DTHhearing


Jane Wester @janewester


unc's lawyer says news outlets' side is trying to put the burden on unc "to show cause for why records haven't been released" #DTHhearing


Jane Wester @janewester


That's wrong, they say, because Folt has the option to release but no requirement to do so #DTHhearing


Jane Wester @janewester


Judge on Folt in release day press conference: "She arguably used that discretion w/o releasing adequate information" #DTHhearing


Jane Wester @janewester


Judge: once employee's been notified of discipline, even if they file grievance, Folt has right to release info #DTHhearing


Jane Wester @janewester


unc's lawyer - who had argued that employees have right to privacy during grievance due process - agrees this is true #DTHhearing


Jane Wester @janewester


Stevens (media outlets' lawyer): Jaimie Lee was terminated Oct. 22 but records provided after that day showed she was still employed - why?


Jane Wester @janewester


Timing-wise, records provided by unc to @LangstonITaylor on Nov. 10 showed Jaimie Lee's promotions, raises - no termination #DTHhearing


Jane Wester @janewester


Jaimie Lee's employment record provided Nov. 10, a while after her Oct. 22 termination


Jane Wester @janewester


DTH got updated record showing termination before Thanksgiving - month-plus after termination


Jane Wester @janewester


Stevens: if she was released for disc reasons we are entitled to know why. Judge: "I know you are, but the question is when." #DTHhearing


Jane Wester @janewester


Were Lee's records delayed bc she was filing a grievance and going through that process? Is that a legal reason to hold record? #DTHhearing


Jane Wester @janewester


Motion to dismiss is denied. Court does have jurisdiction. Compelled to mediate. Before the holidays hopefully, says Stevens #DTHhearing


Jane Wester @janewester


Judge disagrees w atty general on when a termination is final. Waiting til grievance period ends is not necessary, he says #DTHhearing


Jane Wester @janewester


In Lee's case, that would mean her decision could've been released Oct. 22 #DTHhearing


Jane Wester @janewester


Announcing (but not naming) terminations at the release day presser seems like a final decision, judge says


Jane Wester @janewester


"Otherwise, why in the world would you make such a public declaration?" #DTHhearing


Jane Wester @janewester


Judge would like to see mediation happen in the next couple weeks. Plaintiffs on board with that, Stevens said #DTHhearing

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Part II. #carolinaway...



Katie Reilly @katiemacreilly


Defense argument: it's not within the court's authority to require Folt to take an action that is otherwise in her discretion #DTHhearing


Katie Reilly @katiemacreilly


Judge is skeptical: "It's one thing to say heads have rolled, but I'm not going to tell you whose heads or what happened." #DTHhearing


Katie Reilly @katiemacreilly


Judge: Folt "could release it in the interest of the public and the interest of the institution and the interest of providing information."


Katie Reilly @katiemacreilly


"Alright, is there another side to this?" Judge switching over to plaintiff argument #DTHhearing


Katie Reilly @katiemacreilly


Plaintiff attorney: Statute requires the institution to make records and produce them. #DTHhearing


Katie Reilly @katiemacreilly


Judge: "I infer that this is a government institution that is prone to make as many mistakes as they are to do things right." #DTHhearing


Katie Reilly @katiemacreilly


Judge asks why unc wouldn't keep two sets of records: a personnel record & one dealing with public info that could be released on request


Katie Reilly @katiemacreilly


Plaintiff argument: "If she was released for disciplinary reasons, we're entitled to information on what those reasons were." #DTHhearing


Katie Reilly @katiemacreilly


Plaintiff making argument, paraphrases Folt saying heads were going to roll #DTHhearing


Katie Reilly @katiemacreilly


Judge: "I'm not sure that's an exact quote. Otherwise, she wouldn't be the chancellor, I don't think." #DTHhearing


Katie Reilly @katiemacreilly


Defense asks the court to dismiss this case or allow them to proceed to mediation. #DTHhearing


Katie Reilly @katiemacreilly


Judge denies motion to dismiss, says the court does have jurisdiction over this matter. Orders the case to be mediated. #DTHhearing


Katie Reilly @katiemacreilly


Defense attorney says they may have trouble finding a mediator this time of year. Judge: "I bet you can find one." #DTHhearing

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WTF? Sometimes he knows sometimes he doesn't. Today , he knows...
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Andrew Carter@_andrewcarter


"Not at all," Roy says when he sensed more excitement for Saturday. "We're trying to finish exams." Notes unc had 12 finals today.



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Wake County judge orders mediation in media's lawsuit against unc


A superior court judge denied the University's request to toss out its lawsuit with 10 media organizations, instead ordering the two sides to go to mediation over the University's refusal to release the names of employees facing disciplinary action for their involvement in the academic fraud outlined in the Wainstein report.


Donald Stephens, chief superior judge in Wake County, said he wanted to see the case resolved in the next couple of weeks during a hearing in Raleigh on Friday.


"It needs to be done soon ... this is an important conversation to have," Stephens said.


Ten media organizations, including The Daily Tar Heel, filed the lawsuit at the end of November after the University refused to identify the nine individuals Chancellor Carol Folt said were facing disciplinary action during a press conference announcing the release of the Wainstein report in October.


At the Oct. 22 press conference, Folt said four employees had already been terminated because of their involvement in the decades-long scandal, during which 3100 students received credit for a bogus paper classes. The day after the report was released, a source familiar with the situation confirmed the names of eight of the nine employees facing disciplinary action at unc for The Daily Tar Heel.


A murky response


The University's lawyers from the North carolina Attorney General's office, filed a motion to dismiss the case before the hearing, which Judge Stephens denied.


Kimberly Potter, a lawyer representing unc, said the University has complied with state public record and human resources laws by supplying the documents it is allowed to give to the media.


But Hugh Stevens, the media organizations' attorney, said the University is interpreting the public records law in an inappropriate fashion.


As an example, Stevens used Jaimie Lee, an academic counselor implicated in the Wainstein report who was fired by unc following the release of the report.


Stevens said his clients requested the personnel files of the nine employees facing disciplinary action immediately following the release of the Wainstein report on Oct. 22. Lee's personnel file dated Nov. 10, which was released to news outlets a couple days after the report, stated she was still an employee at unc.


The University eventually announced Lee's firing a month after the report's release - the date of her dismissal was listed as Oct. 22.


"That's an example of the murkiness of how the University is responding to these requests," Stevens said.


Potter said the University is respecting the employees' right to privacy, and will not release the names of those under disciplinary review until all appeals have been exhausted - processes that, depending on the tenure and position status of the employee under review, could take months.


"These employees have the same due process as other state employees," Potter said.


'Heads will roll'


Judge Stephens was troubled by the fact that Chancellor Carol Folt was willing to announce that nine employees were going to face disciplinary action - including four employees who had already been terminated - without giving the names of those employees.


It's one thing to say a terrible thing has happened and heads will roll, but I'm not going to tell you what happened and whose heads," he said.


Stephens added that since the announcement was made by the head of the University - giving it the impression of a final statement - it didn't appear to be a matter that would be overturned through appeals.


"Otherwise, why in the world would you make such a public declaration?" Stephens.


While Folt used her own discretion when she announced that she would take disciplinary action against employees, Stephens said she might not have gone far enough. State law gives department heads the power to publicly announce employees' terminations.


"She arguably may have abused this by not providing more information (on the employees under review)," he said.


A timeline for mediation


Stevens, the media outlets' lawyer, said the Wainstein report names more than just nine current unc employees - meaning Folt's decision to keep quiet about those facing disciplinary action created a burden for any employee named in the Wainstein report.


"Right now, they are painted with the same tar brush as the nine because we don't know," Stevens said.


As for the impending mediation, Judge Stephens said he wanted the process to move quickly. Following the hearing, he met with both parties' lawyers in his chambers and said the mediation must be completed by the end of the first week of January.


"I think the courts do have jurisdiction over this matter ... I am going to compel you to mediation," he said.


When Potter expressed her worries about the immediate availability of a mediator with the holiday season growing near. Stephens said it should be not a point of concern for either party.


"I bet you could find one - if you need my help, I'll help you," he said.


"Let's get this done, ok?"

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Cloud of scandal turns 'carolina Way' into depressing punch line for unc


"It's gone from our nomenclature," Chansky said of The carolina Way label. "Nobody I know with carolina uses it anymore. A lot of people throw it in your face. It's a punch line, now."


Media reports came from such entities as The New York Times, ESPN, CNN and The Colbert Report.


"Extremely embarrassing," said Brick Oettinger, who retired in April after working for the unc education system for 40 years.


"Really embarrassing to all of us," said former Sports Illustrated senior writer Curry Kirkpatrick (class of 1965).


In a column posted on the Chapelboro.com website last week, Chansky wrote, "The brand we've loved and boasted about for years has been battered into submission."


Williams noted the fallout had hurt recruiting. Six of the eight prospects targeted by the Tar Heels had committed to other schools, he said.


In a column for Basketball Times, Bob Ryan wrote of North carolina, "No other program so clearly stands for something."


Ryan has had a change of heart.


"Am clearly let down by this entire mess," he wrote in a recent email. "Have written that had this occurred at scores of other schools, I would have shrugged. We all recognize the fallacy of 'student athleticism' at those institutions. But I wanted to believe that carolina was above this type of fraud. Guess I was wrong.


"If this actually extends back to Dean's time, put this in the 'What? You're telling me there's no Santa Claus?' category."

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N and O story...



Wake judge doesn't dismiss lawsuit seeking discipline records tied to unc scandal


A Wake County judge on Friday denied a request by unc-Chapel Hill to dismiss a lawsuit filed by media groups seeking disciplinary action records related to the athletic and academic scandals.


Donald Stephens, Wake County's chief resident Superior Court judge, told attorneys Friday that he was "troubled" that Chancellor Carol Folt told reporters that nine people would be terminated or disciplined but offered no details on which employees or why.


"You can tell your client that's what's troubling the judge," Stephens told the lawyers representing unc.


Folt was not in the courtroom Friday.


Stephens ordered attorneys representing 10 media organizations to sit down with a mediator and the counsel for unc to try to reach an agreement.


The media organizations, including The News & Observer, sued unc-Chapel Hill in late November to get the names of faculty and staff members disciplined in the wake of the athletic and academic scandal.


The media organizations stated in their complaint that under North carolina's public records law, the date and reason for any demotion, suspension or dismissal of a state employee must be available for public inspection.


Department heads have the discretion to release even more information in the employee's records, according to law, if it is "essential to maintaining the integrity of such department or to maintaining the level or quality of services provided by such department."


The suit also named Folt and Felicia A. Washington, vice chancellor for workforce strategy, equity and engagement at unc-CH, as defendants.


On Oct. 22, Kenneth Wainstein, a former federal prosecutor hired to investigate allegations of academic and athletic fraud, released a 131-page report disclosing that more than 3,100 students - about half of them athletes - took bogus classes in African and Afro-American Studies over an 18-year period that ended in 2011.


Since then, Folt has revealed that nine employees would be terminated or disciplined. She responded "four" to the question of how many employees had been fired. But she has not identified which employees are in the group.


Wainstein's report names at least 16 faculty and staff members as being directly or indirectly involved in the scheme, according to the lawsuit. unc-Chapel Hill officials have provided, when asked by media organizations, information about those people that "appears to be historical in nature" but failed to represent their status after Oct. 24.


Because the state has an extensive appeals process for employees who have been disciplined or fired, some agencies have argued that changes in employment status do not become a part of the public record until appeals have been exhausted.


"It's one thing to say a terrible thing has happened and heads will roll, but I'm not going to tell you whose heads," Stephens said from the bench as he listened to Kimberly Potter, a special deputy N.C. attorney general representing unc.


Stephens did not rule on the question of when a disciplinary action against an employee is "final."


unc representatives contended it was after appeals had been exhausted. Attorneys for the media argued that such records should be made available when the action occurred.


"What we're fussing about today is what would constitute 'final,'" Stephens said. "I'm not going to resolve that today."

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B-Rad. What a little betch. "You're wrong..."
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B. Martin ‏@yibyabby


@patricktaylor68 Appreciate the chat. It's hard to follow a threaded discussion via Twitter. Here's a recap: http://mindingthecoach.blogspot.com/p/jays...am-said-bb.html …


Bradley Bethel ‏@BethelLearning


@yibyabby @patricktaylor68 Only people who don't understand educational assessment believe the review was "half-ass."


B. Martin ‏@yibyabby


@BethelLearning @patricktaylor68 I disagree; but until MW explains her method of analysis, I'm not going to argue it. Ball's in her court.


Bradley Bethel ‏@BethelLearning


@yibyabby @patricktaylor68 On what basis? None of the other tests she used yield reading grade equivalents. They are therefore irrelevant.


B. Martin ‏@yibyabby


@BethelLearning I hear you, but I've done enough IV&V work to recognize a tailored task geared toward a desired answer when I see one.


Bradley Bethel ‏@BethelLearning


@yibyabby That's weak. The fact is that the other data was irrelevant to the question, which was about reading grade equivalents.


B. Martin ‏@yibyabby


@BethelLearning And that's not for a party to the dispute to decide when seeking an independent review.


B. Martin ‏@yibyabby


@BethelLearning The reviewers should decide what is relevant.


Bradley Bethel ‏@BethelLearning


@yibyabby You're wrong. There is no reason to give someone math scores when asking them to analyze reading comprehension.


B. Martin‏@yibyabby


@BethelLearning If claim is math scores,were a factor, you provide math scores to reviewers, regardless how you feel about their merit.

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Originally posted by DevilDJ:
WTF? Sometimes he knows sometimes he doesn't. Today , he knows...
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Andrew Carter@_andrewcarter




"Not at all," Roy says when he sensed more excitement for Saturday. "We're trying to finish exams." Notes unc had 12 finals today.
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Poor Ol' Roy, he really needs to get some treatment for that selective memory condition.

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Random question: How has this thread survived 11 pages when our game day threads start acting weird around 3?
 
unx alum Bob Lee...



Butch and Mack "Plead Sgt Schultz" and


ESPN had two of its current employees - "The Butcher of Kenan" and "The Right Reverend Mack Brown" on adjacent stools being queried by some guy from OTL. As I'm sure you all already know - Butch & Mack "Went Sgt. Schultz" sans the German army helmets.


Butch "knew absolutely nuthin' about nuthin' especially nuthin' about any Powerpoint presentation" explaining how the Crowder Scheme operated.


No, the ESPN OTL guy did NOT ask Butch if he knew his long-time best friend John Blake or where the heck John Blake is these days.


Mack not only knew nuthin' about any of that, I got the feeling Mack wasn't too sure who Butch was. As Mack confirmed he "don't know nuthin' 'bout nuthin either"


I think I'll ask my buddy Boz to check with CEO John Skipper for the next time ESPN plans to have Butch on to say "I don't know nuthin'"?


Gathered there Friday were "me" (the Internet Legend), "Mary & Jay" (The Whistleblower & The Dissident) and a retired unc Admin of considerably credible repute. Unlike me, Mary and Jay.... the credible retired unc Admin would prefer NOT to be threatened and called obscene names on monkey boards so he/she will remain anonymous.


The Anonymous Retired unc Admin (ARuncA) was curious about "Mary & Jay" and wanted to confirm his/her supportive opinions about their Noble Quest. Such confirmation was garnered over a delightful lunch.


ARuncA is understandably distraught over the "House Of Cards" that has been revealed at unc and is of the opinion that a thorough dismantling of said HoC is needed before healing can begin.


So which of those dozen places does the unc Athletic Academic Support Gang choose for their Holiday Party at noon on Friday? BINGO!


WHOA BL.... isn't the unc Athletic Academic Support Gang the same bunch that ...... and that ....... and that also ...... ? Yep, that be them. Was BB The Blogger that hates Mary so much there?


I've never seen or met BB The Blogger so I wouldn't know. Mary saw him when he walked by our booth. He did a horrified double-take when he saw "HER".


Alls we needed at that point was for a C-Blue Prius to crash thru the front door and pour out - Tiny Little Carol - The Very Ethical Jan Boxill - Dean Provost Dean - Jeff The Vice Chanc of Spin - Ken The $950/hr Investigator - Trydeke - Melvin - Debbie Don't Do Lunch - Jennifer The Tutor - and about a dozen whiney misfit toys carrying votive candles in support of free-range chickens.

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From the "COMMENTS" section of the Bob Lee article. Don't follow the women's game too much but I recall thinking it was kinda odd that unx lost such a highly-ranked recruit to transfer...


Sylvia's program also under investigation for improprieties in recruiting Diamond Deshields.
 
B-Rad references the same encounter mentioned in the most recent Bob Lee blog entry...



Bradley Bethel‏@BethelLearning


Ironic moment of year: I just walked into sports restaurant for department holiday party, see Jay Smith, Mary Willingham at same restaurant.

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Andrew Carter ‏@_andrewcarter


@coachstokey @BethelLearning The guy unc paid a fortune to get the bottom of this thanked us for our reporting. Time to move on, folks.


Bradley Bethel ‏@BethelLearning


@_andrewcarter When my documentary film gives a voice to those whose stories have been excluded and misrepresented, you won't be so smug.

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Tried to view some of B-Rad's tweets. Greeted with this...



You are blocked from following @BethelLearning and viewing @BethelLearning's Tweets.

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Ley posted this around 4pm Saturday afternoon so hopefully he'll include the Kane and Ridpath segments omitted earlier this week. He DID add their Twitter handles so it seems likely both will be heard this time...


Bob Ley@BobLeyESPN


OTL 8am ESPN2 frmr @GoHeels fb coach Butch Davis on massive acadmc scandal. @dankanenando @ESPNDanaOneil @drridpath join me. Set Your DVR.

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Ridpath ,Kane and O'Neal eviscerated unx this morning on OTL. Ridpath and O'Neal were rolling their eyes at comments made by Bubba Cunningham. Plenty of superlatives , rhetoric-wise too..."Worst scandal ever," "LOIC..."
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Mark Crisp ‏@markyd0522


@BobLeyESPN @ESPNAndyKatz @dankanenando @ESPNDanaOneil @drridpath Jesus Christ its time to move on!! Its over and done with.


B. David Ridpath ‏@drridpath


@markyd0522 @BobLeyESPN @ESPNAndyKatz @dankanenando @ESPNDanaOneil not even close. Still have ncaa.


krista crisp ‏@kristacrisp


@BobLeyESPN ncaa isn't going to do anything. And it's not the biggest scandal in the history of the world either quit being so dramatic.


Bob Ley ‏@BobLeyESPN


@kristacrisp check back in 6 months.

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RUH-ROH!!! unx alum Bob Lee drops a bomb...



The Scheme was originally conceived as a Basketball-specific Eligibility vehicle. Deborah Crowder and the late Burgess McSwain hatched it to help Dean / Gut / Matt / Roy boyz maneuver thru unc's vaunted academic labyrinth. Hiding a dozen or so Rasheeds, Rashads, Touches, Raymonds, Seans, Majhtars in the bureaucratic swamp was easy. When it expanded to do likewise for the less academically-inclined Footballers it became cumbersome.... and well, you see what happened.


Running a Scheme like this one is like an embezzler who starts out pilfering a few dollars out of petty cash.... and he gets away with that. Then first thing you know he's forging purchase orders and invoices and sooner / later he's lost control of his scheme. Burgess and Deborah's little "way to help Dean because Dean is, well, he's Dean" just got too big. To their credit, running The Scheme for 18 years is pretty darn impressive as flim flams go.


Is this not a GREAT TIME to have one's own website with an impressively large audience? It certainly is.



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Navigating the Flagship Post-Wainstein


They often used the unc paper class scheme-which Drake Group president Gerald Gurney recently called "the most egregious case of academic fraud…in NCAA history"-as the object lesson in collegiate sport corruption.


But where do we go from here? In Chapel Hill, NCAA penalties and possible accrediting agency sanctions are now pending in the wake of the famous Wainstein Report...Leaders, however, do not wait for circumstances to dictate their actions. They do not wait for unfolding events to force their hand. Instead they act preemptively to model good behavior, to implement their guiding values, and to combat glaring inequities.


If unc-Chapel Hill wants to salvage its final opportunity to forge a path of reform that will garner national attention, inspire emulators, and possibly usher in permanent changes to the college sports landscape, the waiting for leadership has to end. The institution must wrestle openly and honestly with the structural issues laid bare or hinted at in the Wainstein report. To date, unfortunately, the University's response to Wainstein's findings has been weak, directionless, and naive at best (cynical at worst.) Singing yet another round of the "it's time to move on" chorus, Chancellor Carol Folt and various university spokespersons have pointed reflexively to the "70 reforms" already implemented or in process across the academic and athletic arenas.


An idea of the purpose behind this "look over there" strategy can be gleaned through a close reading of the said reforms. Among these putatively cleansing institutional reforms are the following, listed in no particular order...:


9) in 2014 the Athletic department-our favorite of all the enumerated "reforms"-provided the NCAA an "annual compliance report as required by the infractions case of March, 2012." (This is not a typo. The University is touting as a reform its acceptance of the discipline meted out to it over two years ago by the NCAA.)Can you feel those bracing winds of change?


...but the inclusion of many a trivial and redundant item in this reform roster provides a clue to its real purpose. The "70 reforms" mantra is meant to create the impression of great change and profound lessons learned while it actually enables the institution to sidestep the deeper meanings of the scandalous behavior it fomented, facilitated, and used to advantage. The compiling of a catalog of "things that are different now," no matter how lengthy that catalog, could never substitute for searching conversation and a detailed explanation of what has actually been revealed through four years of institutional upheaval.


Very few of our leaders' words and deeds to this point in the post-Wainstein era indicate that they are ready to embrace their responsibility to hold a "let's take stock" conversation. Despite repeated, impassioned calls for a series of town-hall meetings where demands for accountability could be aired and large issues could be openly and thoughtfully addressed, there has been little-to-no effort to convene the campus community for a no-holds-barred colloquy, no effort to encourage teach-ins, no attempts to engage the student body or the general faculty in a dialogue about the chief lessons to be derived from the experience of 1993-2014. (The one seeming exception to this rule was a two-hour assembly the chancellor scheduled at a late afternoon hour on the very day the Wainstein report was released-with few members of the campus community having yet had the time to read or absorb the details of the special investigator's text.) Instead of exercising moral leadership, administrators have pointed to fixes already settled upon, they have lined up their nine scapegoats (though without telling the world anything about the process through which the goats are being led to slaughter), and they have announced with fanfare a series of large private gifts made to the University's treasury. And they continue to wait for the Wainstein report to recede ever further into the rear-view mirror.


In a series of blog posts over the next few weeks we will suggest some of the conversations that must still take place at unc-Chapel Hill if the institution is to emerge strengthened and emboldened to lead in the wake of its long humiliation.

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