From the Duke BB website (
For Duke Blue Devils Fans) - They seem to really enjoy Carolina's problems
"Mary Willingham is about to seriously piss off some bigwigs in Chapel Hill.
Over the last few days we've been following along with increasing fascination as a few people online have talked extensively about what may be coming next in the UNC scandal.
We'll preface this by saying that while we can't confirm what's being said below the radar, in at least one case, we know that the person posting has deep knowledge of the issues and procedures involved and almost certainly has reliable connections within the NCAA. We're not saying anything else, but we know that it's not just some yahoo with an ax to grind.
Among the basic points/allegations which keep coming up are these:
- The NCAA either already has or will very soon send UNC the Amended Notification of Allegations.
- The ANOA is not merely revised but significantly expanded.
- UNC may be facing extraordinary penalties.
- UNC is said to have lawyered up and is prepared for a serious fight.
We'll know very soon if this is all correct and will revisit this at that point if needed.
These developments coincide with a startling post at
paperclassinc.com, the site jointly run by Mary Willingham, who previously worked with UNC's academic support program, and Professor Jay Smith, a leading faculty critic of the athletic department's excesses.
As the NCAA hammer apparently looms, as SACS deliberates on whether to drop or extend UNC's academic probation, Willingham drops this bomb at the end of
her most recent contribution:
"To share our own thoughts about the ability of our current leadership to inaugurate transformative changes, we will soon be posting to this website
transcripts of audiotapes recording the conversations Mary Willingham had with a succession of influential leaders between 2010 and 2014. What those transcripts show, we believe, is a leadership cohort so in thrall to the athletic program that it was aggressively uninterested in learning what a whistleblowing insider might have to teach academic officers. With remarkable consistency, the questions and comments they offered were limited, hostile, defensive, and dismissive. Why? Stay tuned."
Good night in the day! What does she have? Are these people aware that they were recorded?
In North Carolina, if you are in a public setting where there is no reasonable expectation of privacy, you can record a conversation without telling the other party. You may record a phone conversation if you have the consent of at least one party.
We have no idea what the hell this is going to be about. It's just another turn in this extraordinary scandal.
We can promise you this though: no one who was recorded is going to be happy about it."