The Academic Scandal at UNC-Chapel Hill is starting to run much deeper now and the News and Observer of Raleigh is hitting this with great guns, but here is what we have today and it has hit the Tar Heel basketball team now as they come under heavy scrutiny, along with the Tar Heel football team and their academic policies…You need to read this and hit the link for the entire read…Long, but very informative…. from the News and Observer in Raleigh: The syllabus for the NAVS 302 class(Spring semester 2007) shows that it was a different type of course…
from www.wralsportsfan.com: Chapel Hill, N.C. — In a statement released Saturday, former University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student-athlete Julius Peppers acknowledged that a transcript found to be posted to the UNC-CH website last week was in fact his, but he denies any fraudulent grades or courses. CLICK HERE to read all on the Academic Problems at UNC with Julius Peppers on the fly, as he goes public for the first time and gives his reaction to the UNC Academic Scandal…..
from WRALSportsFan.com: Raleigh, N.C. — Classes started for North Carolina State University Thursday but incoming basketball player Rodney Purvis was not in attendance. Purvis is not permitted to attend classes until he receives clearance from the NCAA eligibility center. “We are working on it. His status is still under review,” NC State Executive Senior Associate Athletic Director Chris Kingston told WRAL Thursday. Read all on Rodney Purvis not at N.C. State when you CLICK HERE…. Atlanta — North Carolina State University basketball coach Mark Gottfried lost more than $300,000 in an alleged Ponzi scheme run by a former University of…
North Carolina Tar Heel basketball coach Roy Williams was in town today to play in the Pro-Am for the Wyndham Golf Tournament, at the Sedgefield Country Club and Coach Williams told reporters that he is getting sick and tired of hearing all of the questions about the Athletics Department at UNC not doing their job and he told those in attendance that he has been doing his job for 9 nine years and that he has done it right and as far as he can tell, “his program is clean”….. Coach Williams summed it by saying that the Academic Scandal…
UNC history professor Jay Smith is speaking out on the UNC Academic Scandal and today(Tuesday) he was talking about this with Joe Ovies and Adam Gold on 99.9FM radio, in the Triangle…. from www.wral.com: “I have come to the conclusion the problem is a systemic one,” said UNC history professor Jay Smith while joining Adam and Joe on 99.9 The Fan ESPN Radio Tuesday. “It is not an athletic or academic one. It is a systemic problem across the campus. Pinning it on entirely on athletics is wrong and pinning it on a couple individuals is wrong.” Smith insisted that…
New today from Gregg Doyel on the Academic Scanal at UNC-Chapel Hill, at www.cbssports.com: Where was North Carolina’s leadership in all of this? Where was the UNC president, the athletics director, the coaches for football and — yes — basketball? Where were they? In summary Doyel says: It’s time for the NCAA to start digging. In the meantime, North Carolina should get a head start on some of its own chores. For starters? There are some banners at the Smith Center that need to come down. Read all from Gregg Doyel and it will be worth your time when you…