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FROM: BobLee


I've already heard from both "Mary" (do you really wonder "Mary Who"?) and from "Butch's lawyer" whether I plan to be on-hand Wednesday for The Big Show? ..... Hell Yes!


Finally an event where it might be OK for Tar Heels fans to "wear black".


Wonder if "they" will be operating shuttles to the site - Kenan Center Rm 204?


Are deviled eggs and country ham biscuits appropriate tailgate fare for such an occasion?


If Ken "drops the hammer" will Wuffs be burning sofas on The Brickyard? .... If Ken does NOT "drop the hammer" will Wuffs burn sofas on The Brickyard ???

Will Charming Little Carol wear her 8" stiletto Jimmy Chus?


Does Ol'Roy even have a clue where The Kenan Center is? .... It's next door to Dean's Dome.


Woody said "always carry a fresh Sharpie" for autograph requests. I guess I need to have several on-hand. Will Dan Kane be giving autographs? Would Dan sign 2,000 items for free like Jameis did ????


Can I persuade BubbaTheRealAD to invite Rachel Bilson to hand out Magnum bars?


soooo many questions ???



MORE FROM: BobLee 2.0


I'm sure all of YOU KNOW (because 98% of this audience have functioning brains as well as opposable thumbs) that Ken Wainstein......


Cannot and WILL NOT levy any penalties or even recommend any institutional punishment in his upcoming report.

He is NOT a Judge or a member of any tribunal empowered to (1) slap wrists, (2) tear down banners and/or (3) bulldoze Domes or Stadia.


The findings he announces on Wednesday may very well / likely then be used by The NCAA and/or other organizations to exact pounds of flesh from unc-CH as appropriate. But he will NOT do so on Wednesday.


That reality however will be totally ignored by innumerable rabid ABC lynch mob loonies beginning around 2:00 PM on Wednesday and proceeding unceasingly for at least 72 hours if not longer.


Just going-on-record here so when you see monkey boards and regional media boards EXPLODE you can smile and say "that darn BobLee predicted this".


FWIW.... all of my inside sources in Old Well Land are "pessimistic" at best. Not sure if some info has leaked or interviewees are blabbing, but "it ain't looking too good" amid the pines or beneath the banners.


Me? I want what I've always wanted - The BOT3 and Little Dickie EXPOSED for their gross negligence, arrogance, and terminal cluelessness.


Stay tuned boys & girls.....


PS: I ran into "Burly John" Bunting Saturday night at The Choo Choo Lounge. He is looking good and appears VERY happy.

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Kane...



Were unc 'no-show' classes designed to avoid independent studies limits?


Since at least the early 1990s, unc-Chapel Hill sought to limit the number of "special studies" undergraduate students could take toward their degrees. The limit was the equivalent of four such classes - a small minority of the courses needed for graduation.


Those classes usually meant independent studies, which involved meetings with a professor, required reading, and a paper due at the end.


But a second type of independent study evolved into a scandal at unc: classes in the former African and Afro-American studies department advertised as lectures that never met and required only a paper at the end. More details that have emerged about the no-show classes provide evidence that several athletes in men's basketball and football had taken far more of the two types of independent study classes than the rules would allow.....



10 KEY QUESTIONS


After eight months of investigation, attorney Kenneth Wainstein, a former U.S. Homeland Security adviser and top Justice Department official, is expected to release his findings Wednesday into the long-running academic fraud at unc-Chapel Hill.


Wainstein's probe is the third investigation led or backed by unc tasked with finding out what went wrong. Here are 10 key questions in the case:


1 When did it begin?


Gov. Jim Martin's report pegged the fraudulent classes to the fall of 1997, though some evidence suggested they started in 1994. But Martin did not talk with Julius Nyang'oro, former chair of the African studies department or Deborah Crowder; their cooperation with Wainstein might pinpoint when the classes started.


2 Why did it begin?


Martin said some classes may have resulted from Crowder's desire to help anyone in need of a class. He also suggested Nyang'oro used the classes to boost enrollments in his department, which could lead to more staff and resources. But one unc email suggested Crowder was concerned the classes had gotten into the "frat circuit," which indicates she didn't want everyone to have access.


3 Who else knew?


Numerous emails show counselors in the tutoring program for athletes knew the classes didn't meet, only required a paper and weren't challenging. Another document indicated a Swahili professor knew about them in asking that a football player be placed in a "paper" class. Whistleblower Mary Willingham, a former learning specialist in the tutoring program, said it was common knowledge within the program that the classes were being used to keep academically challenged athletes eligible to play sports.


4 Did athletic officials raise questions about the no-show classes, and if so, to whom?


Athletic officials told Martin that after an independent study scandal at Auburn University in 2006, they had raised questions about the AFAM classes to the Faculty Committee on Athletics. But no documentation supports the claim, and Martin cited only one member of the committee - Jack Evans, then unc's faculty representative to the NCAA - who recalled such concerns. Martin later had to retract the finding.


5 Had the university admitted athletes who struggled to do college-level work?


Willingham said her review of testing data found more than 120 athletes over an eight-year-period who could not read at a high-school level. University officials and experts they hired dismissed her research as seriously flawed and said it overestimated the number of athletes who had trouble doing college-level work. Academic records independently obtained by the N&O suggested athletes with subpar academic abilities were being admitted, and needed heavy tutoring.


6 Why were so many athletes taking Swahili?


Eighteen Swahili language classes were identified as no-show classes. Other records show athletes paying little attention in Swahili classes that did meet.


7 Is it an athletic scandal?


Martin and unc officials have said no, because all students had access to the classes and received the same high grades. But earlier this year, unc officials began acknowledging the disproportionate numbers of athletes enrolled needed further explanation. In June, ESPN and the N&O reported high numbers of no-show classes and independent studies among members of the 2005 men's basketball team. Later that month, unc announced the NCAA had reopened its investigation.


8 Were tutors writing papers for athletes?


Rashad McCants, a star of the 2005 men's basketball team, made this claim on ESPN. Other evidence has raised questions about tutors overstepping their roles in helping athletes.


9 What drove the hundreds of grade changes in these classes?


Martin's report found 560 suspicious grade changes. Some may have been as innocuous as a student turning in a paper late due to sickness; others might involve something more nefarious.


10 Did the scandal go beyond the no-show classes in the African studies department?


Transcripts and other records show athletes often enrolled in the same classes, suggesting the goal was to keep them eligible, not to help them pursue a degree that best fit their abilities and interests.

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Kane has written more articles in the last 48 hours than he had in the previous six months. Hmmmm.....



Nearly two years after Martin report, Wainstein takes aim at unc-Chapel Hill


Nearly two years ago, unc-Chapel Hill trustees and the unc Board of Governors listened to what was supposed to be the definitive report into the long-running academic scandal.


"The hard questions have been asked, and today we have the answers," Chancellor Holden Thorp said before former Gov. Jim Martin stepped up to the lectern to deliver his report.


Martin's 74-page report found that the no-show classes stretched back to the 1990s. But Martin didn't review student transcripts or emails among the various parties connected to the fraud, nor did he have cooperation from the two people at its center.


On Wednesday, the two top panels governing the university will gather again. This time they will be hearing a report from a former top U.S. Justice Department official, Kenneth Wainstein. His team has gone where Martin hadn't, and it has the cooperation of former African studies chairman Julius Nyang'oro and his longtime department manager Deborah Crowder.


After the meeting, Chancellor Carol Folt will spend much of the day reaching out to the university community. She will take questions at a news conference, conduct a town hall meeting with students, staff and faculty and finish the day with a video conference for members of the Board of Visitors and former trustees.


Aiding her is a high-powered public relations firm, Edelman, a Washington, D.C., group that has at least 14 people working to getting out the university's message.


Spokesman Joel Curran said the firm began helping the university improve its communications in May. He couldn't immediately say how much they are being paid.


He said the overall effort Wednesday reflects a "strong statement for how the university intends to behave and communicate."


"It's very important for people to understand that this is an important part of our DNA as carolina," Curran said. "That we're open and we're communicating."


SCHEDULE OF EVENTS


Wednesday events surrounding the Wainstein report:


• 10:30 a.m.: unc-CH's Board of Trustees and the unc Board of Governors will hear Kenneth Wainstein present the report. They have signaled much of the meeting, or at least portions of it, will be closed to the public.


• 1 p.m.: Wainstein, Chancellor Carol Folt and unc system President Tom Ross will conduct a news conference at unc's Kenan Center. It will be broadcast live at carolinacommitment.unc.edu. The report will also be made available then at the same website.


• 5 p.m.: Folt will lead a town hall meeting of students, staff and faculty in G100 of the Genome Sciences Center.


• 6 p.m.: Folt will take questions from the Board of Visitors and former trustees in an invitation-only video webcast.

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Was wonderin' what happened...


unc Faculty Gov@uncFacGov[/I]


The Faculty Athletics Committee's open forum orig set for 10/21 has been postponed in light of the impending release of Wainstein. #unc

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Andy Bechtel @andybechtel


Some NC media have a copy of the Wainstein report. Curious to see if the embargo holds. Big news day ahead.

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Originally posted by icalfan:

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I actually think that's funny, Calfan...many Carolina graduates (and fans) can hardly spell 'cat', let alone, Krzyzewski.
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But that said, I think UK fans are having the best of both worlds with this pic...making fun of UNC...and giving it to K at the same time. So, with that in mind, I made a slight change.
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DevilDJ...you've been busy!!!
I'm really looking forward to seeing what's in this whitewash...I mean...report.

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Originally posted by OldasdirtDevil:

Originally posted by icalfan:

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I actually think that's funny, Calfan...many Carolina graduates (and fans) can hardly spell 'cat', let alone, Krzyzewski.
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But that said, I think UK fans are having the best of both worlds with this pic...making fun of UNC...and giving it to K at the same time. So, with that in mind, I made a slight change.
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The things you could put on that sign are endless. UNC*** is making it too easy these days. I would love to see what you come up with.

Just look at those faces! It's like someone just told them their Swahili classes have been canceled.

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What a joke. Glad he is not the face of the Duke BB program. OFC
 
unx = case study....
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Why all of us could face unc's problem


The recent revelations that at least 3,100 students at the University of North carolina, many of them athletes, took fake "paper classes" over the course of 18 years stands out as the greatest documented case of fraud in college athletics. Unfortunately, however, this type of unethical behavior is common across organizations and industries-and it shares common roots.


In my own research, I've documented the widespread human tendency to willfully ignore evidence of others' unethical behavior when it's not in our best interest to do so, a phenomenon known as motivated blindness. If we have incentives to support others or view them positively, it will be difficult for us to accurately assess the ethicality of their behavior.


Through a process called "ethical fading," the ethics of a given situation can fade from our decision making.

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I knew this would become an issue eventually...



unc Scandal: It is about race, racism and institutional racism, not athletic skullduggery


I went to work at the University of North carolina at Chapel Hill in 2003.


The AF/AM department had been objected to before it came into being. The fact that it was chosen as the repository of organized academic fraud gives you a very good idea of what the University thought of the study of black people. Pretty much the same thing it thinks of black people in general: They are sometimes a necessary evil, but can be managed so as to have as little impact on the status quo as possible.


The roots of the problem at carolina are in racism. Unless they acknowledge that and take steps to root it out, which will includes eschewing their habit of hiring blacks who keep their mouths shut to protect their jobs, the problem will crop up in other areas repeatedly. You have to kill the entire plant, not just trim off the ugly parts that are above ground. Get to digging carolina.

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Minus Margolis' fawning comments about Folt , this is an insightful article...



The "Lux Et Libertas" Head Fake


At the core of the scandal that has brewed at unc for the past 18 years is one question: Can a major university advance its mission to serve as a center for scholarship, research, and creativity while attempting to achieve national competitiveness in the big-time revenue sports of football and basketball? The answer for unc seems to be a resounding "no."


The integrity head fake plays out in many ways. To name a few:


1) The unc degrees conferred upon the thousands of students are not honest degrees. How will unc repair this damage to its integrity?


2) Many students who played on the national championship basketball teams of 2005 and 2009 were granted academic credit for fake classes. Will unc act with integrity and return these championships? What about the many victories in other sports? Will those, in the euphemistic haze of the NCAA, be "vacated?" Why doesn't unc simply offer to forfeit those games?


3) unc has proudly announced many changes in procedures, rules, and regulations over the past several years in response to this ongoing scandal. For example, classes in the School of Public Health, of all places, have been photographed to document attendance, i.e. that classes are truly meeting. Would it not be honest to acknowledge that absent the inexorable drive to remain competitive in Division 1 revenue sports (that is, to maintain academic eligibility for students who did not honestly earn that eligibility), these regulatory costs in dollars and dignity would not have been implemented?

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Shocked that fanboy Perrin has seen the light. Folt and Dean are still idiots....



unc FACULTY TALK APOLOGY, FORFEITS FOR SHAM GRADES


Professors at North carolina's flagship public university said Friday that the school should give up national championships, turn away some profits generated by big-time sports and apologize to a campus whistleblower after the release of a report detailing a scheme that used fake grades to keep some athletes eligible for years.


The university should give up whatever number of past championships or future star sports recruits is necessary to underline that scholarship, not sporting revenues, are why the school exists, Sociology Professor Andrew Perrin said.


"To the extent a tradeoff is necessary, we as a university are prepared to make the tradeoff in the name of academic integrity," he said.


But unc-CH can't just reject its role as a national competitor in collegiate sports, Folt said....James Dean, the school's chief academic officer, said the scandal "does not define this university" because the number of students, courses and staffers involved were a small fraction of those who have attended or taught at the campus over so many years.


Several professors said the school should apologize to Mary Willingham, a former learning specialist who went public with her concerns about bogus grades and low reading levels for athletes. Willingham resigned in the spring, then sued the university, claiming administrators retaliated against her. A faculty council meeting in January was the forum for a detailed take-down of claims by Willingham that she had data showing some Tar Heel athletes were so academically unprepared they read at a middle-school level.


Dean declined to say whether Willingham deserved an apology, citing her lawsuit.

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Arielle Clay @AClayNews


One professor asks for #unc to look into fraternities roles in paper class scheme.


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Yet another professor calling for @paperclassinc apology. Says she was slandered by faculty council.


Arielle Clay @AClayNews


Another prof. asks for apology 2 @paperclassinc."There is something wrong with the faculty council which is incapable of confronting admin"


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#unc History prof. Harry Watson says @unc needs to formally apologize to @paperclassinc. Other faculty applaud. #wral


Arielle Clay @AClayNews


Another faculty member asks: "What part does race play?"


Arielle Clay @AClayNews


One #unc faculty member suggests lowering student-athlete's athletic time commitments even at the sake of unc loosing competitive edge #wral

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UNC-Chapel Hill Should Lose Accreditation

This is an issue of institutional integrity, a violation of the most basic assumption upon which the credibility of any college or university is based: that the grades and credits represented on the transcripts of its students are an accurate reflection of the work actually done. Absent this assurance, a transcript-a degree-from the institution has lost its meaning.


What has been uncovered in the Wainstein report at Chapel Hill is not an isolated incident but a barely concealed process of falsification that persisted for well over a decade, involved more than one in five of all the university's athletes during that period, and was either known to or willfully ignored by many officials in positions of responsibility.


I have little interest in whatever penalties the NCAA chooses to impose upon Chapel Hill's athletics programs or that the university chooses to impose upon itself. As I said, this is not fundamentally an issue about sports but about the basic academic integrity of an institution. Any accrediting agency that would overlook a violation of this magnitude would both delegitimize itself and appear hopelessly hypocritical if it attempted, now or in the future, to threaten or sanction institutions-generally those with much less wealth and influence-for violations much smaller in scale.


I have read many responses to the report of corruption at Chapel Hill. Some argue that those at the center of the activities were simply trying to help at-risk students, to which my response is that awarding credits and grades without providing instruction is not "help" in any sense that I can accept. In the case of student athletes, I see it as closer to exploitation for the benefit of the university. Some argue that this behavior is widespread among institutions with highly visible Division I sports programs and therefore should provoke no particular surprise or outrage.


I hope that this last claim is untrue. If it is, however, the only way to alter such behavior is to respond with force and clarity when it is uncovered. Reducing the number of athletic scholarships at Chapel Hill, or vacating wins, or banning teams from postseason competition, is in each case a punishment wholly unsuitable to the crime. The crime involves fundamental academic integrity. The response, regardless of the visibility or reputation or wealth of the institution, should be to suspend accredited status until there is evidence that an appropriate level of integrity is both culturally and structurally in place.


Anything less would be dismissive of the many institutions whose transcripts actually have meaning.

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"When the school newspaper turns on ya..."
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Column: Hold power to the light


The employees facing disciplinary action are just a list of mid-level employees - people who were obviously complicit in the scandal but didn't truly have the power to be ringleaders.


Somehow, the University seems comfortable with the knowledge that a couple of athletic counselors, a secretary and professors had the ability to perpetuate massive academic fraud - more comfortable than it would feel acknowledging the reality that mixing a top research university with a Division I athletics department is not always a good idea. Perhaps that's why the University hasn't done that yet.


Students from the Black Student Movement and The Real Silent Sam Coalition stood on the steps of South Building Wednesday and admonished the University for placing the blame for the scandal squarely on the shoulders of the Department of African, African American and Diaspora Studies. This, they said, was a continuation of an age-old tradition of denying legitimacy to people of color and their history at predominantly white institutions like unc.


Students were right to feel outrage. Professors from the Progressive Faculty Network were right to bark back at the University and media outlets. In a way, that protest was able to do something this newspaper and many others haven't done enough of lately.


And while Deborah Crowder and Julius Nyang'oro should have to pay for their misdeeds, they aren't the reason this scandal happened.


And blaming newspapers for covering academic misconduct only lets the University off the hook.


Basketball coach Roy Williams might not have known everything about paper classes - of which his players enrolled in about 167 - but he knew enough to pull his players out of the classes when it started to look suspici


Women's soccer Coach Anson Dorrance used faux classes as a recruiting tool for players who didn't want to come to a university where they couldn't also play for a national team.


These men didn't have the threat of criminal charges hanging over them to compel them to talk. Therefore, can their accounts in the Wainstein report really be trusted?


It's the coaches and senior level administrators who truly deserve closer examination.


Let's afflict the comfortable.

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The N and O's take...



unc-CH faculty want to regain trust, take stronger stance on athletics


Surrendering sports titles. Abolishing admissions exceptions for athletes. Launching a national crusade to put academics before athletics.


These were some of the ideas pushed by unc-Chapel Hill faculty in an intense, two-hour session Friday to discuss last week's Wainstein report, which chronicled 18 years of phony classes and academic abuses that kept athletes eligible to play for the Tar Heels.


Professors posed pointed questions to Chancellor Carol Folt and Provost Jim Dean.. Faculty brainstormed about new policies and pledged to take a more forceful role with athletics.


"It's about the foundations of this faculty and the university," said Sue Estroff, a former faculty chair and professor of social medicine. "My trust has been tested. Has yours? What are we going to do about that? I don't want to work in a place where I don't trust, admire and take the word of my leadership and my colleagues. … I feel betrayed by our leadership, our faculty leadership, people all around us that we invested with the presumptive dignity and integrity that's on this campus."


Professors lamented a culture that they said pressured good people to make bad decisions. They questioned top brass on whether recent reforms were enough to keep future trouble away. Some demanded an apology to Mary Willingham...Dean, who had discredited Willingham's research on athletes' reading skills before the council in January, said he and Folt could not talk about Willingham because she has filed suit against them.


"There's something wrong with a faculty council which is incapable of confronting an administration," said Hodding Carter III, a public policy professor. "Because you are not doing your duty to the university by essentially being rubber stamps for whatever is put before you by the administration."


He said it was impossible for coaches and others in authority to have not known what was going on with the fake classes. "Please folks, don't just try to sweep this and talk about all the good things we're doing," he said. "Try to undo the last of the bad things that were done."


Lloyd Kramer, a history professor who served on the Faculty Athletics Committee during the peak of AFAM fraud, said there were good people who were brought down by systemic pressures.


Harry Watson, a history professor, spoke for a faculty group called the Athletics Reform Group in making six recommendations, including vacating any athletic championships that involved players who took fraudulent "paper classes" in African and Afro-American Studies. He also suggested a formal apology was due to Willingham.


"[She] told the university for free what the Wainstein report confirms and documents in excruciating detail," he said. "Had unc embraced her leadership in 2012, the university would have been spared years of humiliation and untold financial costs."


Sociology professor Andrew Perrin said he'd like the faculty and administration to affirm a simple principle: "That whatever number of wins, whatever number of championships, whatever number of star athletes recruited would be given up in the name of ensuring academic integrity, we will do that."

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KLASSY. Shoop is a minister , btw..... #carolinaway....



Scott Blackburn ‏@ScottBlack24


@DevilDJ32 @mmountshoop Purdue on... horrible offense. Look forward to seeing your husband fired .. again.


Marcia Mount Shoop ‏@mmountshoop


@ScottBlack24 @DevilDJ32 you sound angry and frustrated. I hope things turn around for you

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The same "Scott Blackburn...?" [/B]
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North Carolina fans had nearly all Monday night to prepare for the Tar Heels to be crowned national champions again.


Yet the moment still overwhelmed Scott Blackburn.


"It was destiny," the 26-year-old UNC fan said. "It was Tyler's destiny."


Blackburn was one of the thousands of fans who descended upon Chapel Hill to cheer on the Tyler Hansbrough and North Carolina as they claimed their fifth NCAA title by beating Michigan State 89-72 in Detroit in a drama-free championship game.



BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

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The best way to stop the problem of agents would be for the NCAA to come down hard and suspend a school for two years if it finds players with agents on campus.


Dean Smith



"Two years?" With or without the academic fraud?

This post was edited on 11/2 12:17 PM by DevilDJ

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More "karolina klass" from Scotty....
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Scott Blackburn ‏@ScottBlack24


@mmountshoop you should be thanking carolina. He robbed them of several hundreds of thousands of dollars while he was there.


Marcia Mount Shoop ‏@mmountshoop


@ScottBlack24 take good care Scott. I hope things work out the way you want them to in your life.


Scott Blackburn ‏@ScottBlack24


@mmountshoop yes and I hope your brand of Christianity allows you to quit lying on your blog about your experiences while at carolina Rev


Marcia Mount Shoop ‏@mmountshoop


@ScottBlack24 the peace of Christ be with you.


Scott Blackburn ‏@ScottBlack24


@mmountshoop I suggest u get to know Him before u offer His peace to anyone.


Marcia Mount Shoop ‏@mmountshoop


@ScottBlack24 I know Him well. He has walked w/me thru some difficult days. I hope u have that same blessing. I can't imagine life w/out Him


Scott Blackburn ‏@ScottBlack24


@mmountshoop the fact that after all this time you are still clearly angry about the carolina situation reveals who you truly are inside


Marcia Mount Shoop‏@mmountshoop


@ScottBlack24 I would like to know more about you, Scott. What do you do for a living?

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Deb Stroman is another scumbag. She's been "all-in" for athletics ala Boxill. She should probably get demoted/canned too but she's a big wig in the CBC and , well , you know how that kinda stuff goes. Really shocked that her and the CBC have been so supportive of unx given the racism and exploitation that school has exhibited the last couple of decades. "Sell-out" is the word used , I think?

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Pretty brazen. Stroman was a "go-to" for supplying a paper class to a tarhole jock. #carolinaway
 
True believer...
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Your paper has succeeded in its mission of being on the cutting edge of denigrating unc-CH. Can you also show leadership by leaving the witch hunt mentality to the tabloids and the chat rooms?


Once upon a time, I believed that The N&O meant to be the respected news source for all Triangle-area residents. But for many months, and particularly in the past week, I have seen little or no publishing of stories, viewpoints or editorials that do not reflect an anti-unc perspective.


Surely the Triangle is not composed of single-minded head-nodders. Surely other area universities feel fortunate beyond belief that they are not undergoing a similar scrutiny. Surely there are many academic and athletic triumphs to celebrate at unc, as at other area universities.


Be fair! Open up your paper to opposing viewpoints and print them!


JANET BARBARITZ TULOWIECKI


CHAPEL HILL

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In fact, I had been back to Chapel Hill this summer, after a long time away, and while it too has gotten over-developed, still I walked down Franklin Street in a sentimental haze, even stopping off to pick up a carolina sweatshirt and some gifts for the boys.


I have to say, I haven't felt much like wearing any of this swag this week. The release of the long-awaited Wainstein Report confirms in devastating detail the operation of a long-standing academic fraud at unc.


But I remember an incident that took place with an English grad student who was a friend of mine. One night as she was helping a young woman with a paper, a football player behind them was having trouble loading a dot-matrix printer. Jan was passing by and interrupted my friend and her student to say, "Give him a hand. She's non-revenue." That about sums it up, doesn't it? The tutoring center at unc was never really about education; it was about eligibility, which is to say, about revenue. The athletes were investments, and tutors were there to make sure the appropriate hoops were jumped through so they could get to the lucrative business of hoops and such. It makes sense that, eventually, the people running this show would find more efficient ways to minimize their exposure by assigning grades directly.

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unc and the Sports Media


However, to my knowledge and Google search, no one has asked one obvious question: how could the sports media, both local and regional, not have known about the academic transgressions and investigated them? In fact, the local paper, The News & Observer, has a long and proud history of investigating local college sports teams.


As far back as the 1980s, when Jim Valvano was North carolina State men's basketball coach and before his death from cancer turned him into a holy figure for ESPN, The News & Observer revealed how Valvano had brought in recruits with abysmal SAT scores -- one, Chris Washburn, had 470 out of 1600 (at the time, students received 400 for signing their names).


But where was The News & Observer during the 18-year unc scandal? Because so many athletes, coaches, and staffers were involved, how is that the paper's beat writers who spent enormous amounts of time, on a daily basis, with the school's football and basketball players, and the teams' staffers and coaches, never heard about the phony courses and phony grades? And if they heard, as journalists, how could they not have followed up on such important leads? And what about all the other journalists in North carolina who covered the Tarheel football and basketball teams during those years?

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Up to #2! Hang a banner...!
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Misery Index Week 10


2. North carolina: These days, it's hard to pinpoint the most humiliating aspect of North carolina football. The Tar Heels give their fans so many choices. Is it the contents of the Wainstein Report, which detailed just how big a mockery the North carolina athletic department made of the school's academic reputation for nearly 20 years? Or is it the product on the field, which barely resembles football?


Seriously, Larry Fedora, it shouldn't be this hard to stop somebody. If you give up 47 points to Miami this weekend, 43 to Georgia Tech (in a win!), 50 to Notre Dame, 34 to Virginia Tech (which is like giving up 60 to a normal team), 50 to Clemson and 70 to East carolina, you deserve to be mocked. You deserve to play in front of an empty stadium and feel the wrath of your fan base. But what makes all of it worse is there are no easy fixes for North carolina football. If you fire Fedora (and that's unlikely to happen anyway), who could you possibly get to come in right now?


North carolina could very well get hammered by the NCAA Committee on Infractions due to the African American Studies scandal, but we don't know. Nobody does. And until the NCAA delivers a Notice of Allegations - which could be months away - the scope of the problem from an NCAA perspective is still undetermined. No competent coach interested in preserving his career would voluntarily walk into that mess. Meanwhile, from Fedora's perspective, it would probably be smart to walk away from North carolina if he could, perhaps to a job such as SMU in his home state of Texas. But North carolina has played so poorly the last couple of seasons, been such a disappointment relative to preseason expectations, is Fedora even attractive enough right now to get a job that would pay him $1.7 million a year? It appears they're stuck with each other.

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Hardin believes Roy. Shocker...



Hardin: Believable, but there's work to be done


Do you believe Roy Williams is telling the truth?

I'll be honest with you. I do.

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Originally posted by DevilDJ:
Hardin believes Roy. Shocker...




Hardin: Believable, but there's work to be done




Do you believe Roy Williams is telling the truth?

I'll be honest with you. I do.

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You can fool some of the people all the time...and I guess Hardin is one of them.

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I read that article from the Chronicle of Higher Education earlier. Wow, what a powerful statement. Lose Accreditation! From a University President, no less!

UNC's Administration is what has lost all ethical credibility at this point. When someone as venerable as History Prof. Harry Watson speaks out against the admin and demands that they apologize ...

And, at this point, I'd have to say I don't think Roy is "lying" but ... I do think he intentionally looked the other way or chose not to investigate these matters. He may not have known "directly" but I think the deeper issue is that he chose to look the other way and that's where the ethical downfall is in Roy.

And, again, if Joe Pa can overlook the moral atrocities that he did, then why should anyone be surprised Roy would do this?

Kornheiser doesn't think Roy will survive this. That's another "Wow." I think the ACC and UNC would be well served if the basketball coaching staff resigned at the end of the season. I also think that ultimately those 2005 and 2009 titles should be vacated.
 
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