OT: UNC leaders to get report Wednesday on academic scandal

[DarthGrumpy]

Meanwhile, I wonder if the UNC Athletic Department has given old Sepp Blatter at FIFA a call. Afterall, UNC may be interested in the legality of conducting a comprehensive internal investigative report and the suppressing the final report and findings because of the legal damage that the report may have on certain executives whose privacy must be protected, i.e. guilty as sin.

 

[amory]

UNC's collective response to all this has been maybe the most surprising part of the entire scandal.

Roy Williams:

"I know what we've done and what we didn't do, and I'm proud of what I've done and I'm proud of what I didn't do. I'm 64, so I'm not close to being ready to quit, but you also think, 'God, I don't want this to be what people remember about me."

and

"You can say I'm too short, too ugly, too much gray hair, that I have a bad golf swing, but there's not one fricking person in the world that can say that I never emphasize the academic side of it. If they say that, they're lying or whatever. I'm as proud of my ethics as I could possibly be."

Like, what? What?? I get trying to distance yourself in an effort to keep your job. But you can do that without acting like you're some kind of champion for preserving the "student" in student-athlete. He comes off looking like an insane person. Maybe he really didn't know about any of this, but if that's the case he wasn't paying attention at all and certainly wasn't emphasizing academics.

Then you see their fans completely dismissing the idea that this reflects on their athletics department in any way. They'd actually rather throw the school's academic system under the bus before their teams, despite the fact that a bunch of them have diplomas from UNC. What the hell is going on down there?

 

[UConniki]

I'ts the SOUTH !!!!!!!!!!!!!! We've lived in Fl. since 2000, the schools are terrible,in middle school if you get c's one year you're automatically placed in advanced courses the next year, the bar is set very low. Sports (football) are everything(fl.state)!!!!!!!!!