Interesting Tweet regarding UNC

[Ballboy534]

Ahhh this is more like it... the ESPN board is dead, and dafunk hasn't been seen in several months. Kind of a shame that everyone here is ready to watch the hammer drop on UNCheat; it was pretty funny to watch their moronic fans decree the University's innocence repeatedly.

 

[hunzworth]

Honor Court to be reviewed | Reesenews

QUOTE:

"Last updated at 5:30 p.m., August 4
Police arrested a UNC-Chapel Hill alum on Wednesday in connection with a break-in discovered Monday morning at the student judicial system office, which houses the Honor Court.

Garrett Lee Haywood, 22, of Chapel Hill was charged with breaking and entering, larceny and possession of stolen goods. His bond was set at $2,500, and he was scheduled to appear in court Thursday afternoon."

....and....

"Officials won’t say if a break-in Monday morning to the student judicial system office, which houses the Honor Court, is related to the NCAA investigation or the Honor Court review.

Young refused to comment on whether the student files had anything in common or whether the building’s security had been stepped up since the break-in."


Okay, why did he commit the theft in the first place, and why did he take those specific files? There has to be some sort of rationale.

cant wait til it comes out that this guy was hired by some UNC booster and that these records pertain to strictly football and basketball players. <------------ I dont know that is what happened, just the way things have went down in carolina: thats what i expect.

 

[757Hokie83]

Ahhh this is more like it... the ESPN board is dead, and dafunk hasn't been seen in several months. Kind of a shame that everyone here is ready to watch the hammer drop on UNCheat; it was pretty funny to watch their moronic fans decree the University's innocence repeatedly.

hey ballboy, welcome to the SportsHoopla, glad you made it over

 

[HokieGhost]

Ahhh this is more like it... the ESPN board is dead, and dafunk hasn't been seen in several months. Kind of a shame that everyone here is ready to watch the hammer drop on UNCheat; it was pretty funny to watch their moronic fans decree the University's innocence repeatedly.

Welcome to the board!

 

[vtpoop]

Oh my. Too bad UNC didn't nip this stuff in the bud from the get go because the more that comes out, the more the entire university looks corrupt. The following is from a new article from The Charlotte Observer. YIKES.


The typical path for a college student beginning his or her academic journey starts with introductory courses, followed by more specialized ones. That's why many colleges label classes as 100 level, 200 level and so on.

But a transcript for former North Carolina football player Marvin Austin shows his academic path got off to an unusual start. In a summer 2007 session just before his first full semester on campus, Austin took a 400 level class in African-American studies and received a B plus.

The class was taught by the same professor, Julius Nyang'oro, who did not catch a blatant case of plagiarism by another football player. And Austin got into the class despite having a score on the written portion of the SAT that was low enough that he needed to take a remedial writing class, which he took in the subsequent fall semester.

A prominent critic of bigtime college sports said Austin's transcript suggests he was assigned to a class that was intended to provide him a good grade to maintain his eligibility on the football field.

"You don't start at the senior level seminar and then work your way down to remedial writing," said Jon Ericson, a retired Drake University provost who started an organization called The Drake Group that advocates for reforming college sports.

North Carolina spokesman Mike McFarland said he and other officials could not comment on Austin's academic record. McFarland said that would be a violation of a federal law that prevents the release of student academic records. But the law, commonly known as FERPA, which stands for the Family Educational Privacy Rights Act, does not prohibit university officials from commenting on student records it did not release. The partial transcript obtained by The News & Observer did not come from the university.

McFarland said the course Austin took does not require a prerequisite and is therefore open to all students. But he confirmed that students could not just sign up for the course. They had to get permission from the African and Afro-American Studies department, which is led by Nyang'oro.

McFarland also said a 400 level course is not necessarily harder than a 200 level course. But its designation as a 400 level course means that it is open to undergraduate and graduate students, suggesting it had a level of sophistication that would pose a challenge to a newly arrived freshman.

The title of the class is Bioethics in Afro-American Studies. A description of the class on CourseRank.com, an unaffiliated website that provides course information, describes it as a course that will "examine the process involved in resolving moral dilemmas pertaining to people of the African Diaspora." North Carolina officials could not produce a syllabus outlining the course requirements for the 2007 class.

Exceptions to the rule

Julia Nichols, the student services manager for UNC's Academic Advising Program, said it is unusual for any freshman to begin his or her college education with a 400 level course. The exceptions, she said, are freshmen who have demonstrated an aptitude, either through advanced placement classes or other experience and petition the professor to be allowed to take the course.

"As a general, blanketed rule, freshmen are not normally allowed to take 400 or 500 level classes," she said.

McFarland said university registrar records show 1,033 freshmen took a 400 level course in the past academic year.

Austin could not be reached for comment. He was a much heralded recruit when the Tar Heels landed him in 2007, but he was kicked off the team last year after an NCAA investigation that eventually found that he had accepted more than $13,000 in improper benefits from agents and others identified as go-betweens. He did not graduate from North Carolina. A defensive tackle, he was selected by the New York Giants in the second round of the NFL draft and is now competing for a spot on the team.

Austin provided the first public glimpse into the scandal by boasting on his Twitter account in May 2010 that he was partying in a South Florida club. It turned out he and other athletes were at a party thrown by a sports agent.

During the course of the investigation, 14 players missed at least one game and seven sat out the entire 2010 season in connection with the probe into impermissible benefits given to players and into academic misconduct.

On June 21, the NCAA sent UNC a letter alleging nine major violations. Three were leveled at John Blake, the associate head coach who was receiving money from a sports agent and had long-standing ties to head coach Butch Davis. Blake resigned in September.

UNC has until Sept. 19 to respond to the NCAA's notice of allegations and is scheduled to appear before the Committee on Infractions on Oct. 28 in Indianapolis.

 

[vtpoop]

Here is the rest of the article. It wouldn't let me post the entire article because it was too long.

Former Tar Heel's transcript raises questions | CharlotteObserver.com & The Charlotte Observer Newspaper

 

[WestEndVol]

Damn, that definitely doesn't look good.

 

[HokieGhost]

Here is the rest of the article. It wouldn't let me post the entire article because it was too long.

Former Tar Heel's transcript raises questions | CharlotteObserver.com & The Charlotte Observer Newspaper

Good find, vtpoop! Just another reason to start the day with a laugh!

 

[Forty_Sixand2]

As an academic, I am tempted to contact this professor and read him the riot act....

 

[Hokie200proof]

Wow. Austin could've been making a lot more at da U.

 

[HokieGhost]

Seems like the folks at UNC never learn...

Sports agent taught class at UNC-CH - North Carolina - NewsObserver.com

QUOTE:

At a time when UNC-Chapel Hill officials were embarrassed to find that sports agents had infiltrated the football program, the chairman of the university's African and Afro-American Studies Department hired an agent to teach a summer class.

At the time of the class this summer, the agent, Carl Carey Jr., was representing two UNC football players who had been selected in this spring's NFL draft.

Julius Nyang'oro hired Carey to teach a month-long course called Foundations of Black Education in the first summer semester. Carey is a former adjunct professor and academic adviser to football players who left the university in 2002 and started a business advising athletes looking to turn pro.

He became an agent three years later, and today represents one of UNC's biggest gridiron stars: Chicago Bears defensive end Julius Peppers.

 

[HokieGhost]

DavidTeelatDP David Teel
#UNC chancellor accepts resignation of professor hip-deep in football scandal.

UNC News - Statement from UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp

 

[vtpoop]

Just when you thought things were starting to calm down

NCAA Investigators Reportedly Back On Campus - Chapelboro.com - Serving the Greater Chapel Hill, Carrboro Area.

 

[HokieGhost]

Just when you thought things were starting to calm down

NCAA Investigators Reportedly Back On Campus - Chapelboro.com - Serving the Greater Chapel Hill, Carrboro Area.

LOL!! I guess the NCAA investigators have been reading PackPride again.

 

[Forty_Sixand2]

UNC refuses to be outdone by Miami. As a member of The brotherhood of higher education at an older, more historic university, this UNC stuff bothers me significantly more than the boats n hoes dealings in Coral Gables.

 

[vtpoop]

From one of the "insiders" over at packpride just a few minutes ago.

"Think big, as in FSU big. Multiple sports. Watch for Lacrosse, baseball and hopefully basketball among others. I warned about this late last year. Massive cheating going on over there. Multiple people turning in same papers."

 

[Ballboy534]

So much for academic integrity at one of the nation's oldest public university...

 

[Hokie200proof]

Wow. All that corner cutting for a carquest bowl.

 

[vtpoop]

New post from another one of the packpride "insiders" Brakk

"Just a quick word that was passed to me. 3 new players have been or are being interviewed today for receiving impermissable benefits. They are big names and these benfits were provided by one of the players that was booted last year. UNC is scared shitless right now as this is a new case and if it bears out true could be very, very bad as in SMU bad. Watch and see if anyone is held out of the UVA game this weekend. If these 3 are lookout"

 

[HoHumHokie]

New post from another one of the packpride "insiders" Brakk

"Just a quick word that was passed to me. 3 new players have been or are being interviewed today for receiving impermissable benefits. They are big names and these benfits were provided by one of the players that was booted last year. UNC is scared shitless right now as this is a new case and if it bears out true could be very, very bad as in SMU bad. Watch and see if anyone is held out of the UVA game this weekend. If these 3 are lookout"

Wow, hard to believe the administration didn't crack down on everything before last season even began. Any hints to the 3 players you are speaking of? Do their names rhyme with Doples, Clown and Towel?