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Post by Marty Da Hungry Wolf on Jun 7, 2014 10:23:18 GMT -5
Think there's anything there, or is he just being an attention-whore? Does he have any motive or anything to gain? Why just come out with this now? Is he riding the story's coattails?
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Post by Tizu on Jun 12, 2014 13:22:55 GMT -5
The NCAA stated once before that "this is an academic issue, not an athletic issue". I doubt anything comes of it. No idea why he's decided to come out with this now but I am more interested in why other players are staunchly defending Roy...
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Post by Marty Da Hungry Wolf on Jun 14, 2014 10:25:57 GMT -5
Again, I can see both sides of this issue: The Pro-Carolina crowd banishing McCants, saying he's a washout and this is a coattail-riding cash grab because he has a book coming out. The ABC crowd jumping on it saying "AH-HA!". As usual, I think the truth is somewhere in the middle. However, there are a few curious ironies in my opinion:
No UNC fan ever said anything about McCants re: he didn't belong at UNC while he was helping the team win a title, but now he's persona non grata. What changed? He dared to speak out about an issue that is getting closer and closer to boiling over, that's what. Funny how he's getting jumped on because he was all too willing to cut corners in his classes THEN, but he dares to speak out about it NOW. So what? If any of this is actually true, it doesn't make it any less true simply because the proverbial loose cannon says it 10 years after the fact. It still happened, whether or not any historical revisionists like it.
A pattern (I'll stop short, for now, of saying it's "systemic", thereby indicting UNC-CH at large) has been PROVEN that illustrates beyond ANY doubt that not only are/were UNC football and mens' basketball players disproportionately enrolled in AFAM classes (I don't care that NCSU players take easier courses than the general student population, NCSU has nothing to do with UNC as we've been reminded countless times), but that by and large these bogus (and, in some cases, totally nonexistent) classes represent the only passing grades (read C and above) these kids got in their entire time at UNC.
THIS, yes, is an academic issue but it certainly appears for all the world that this issue had a solely athletic benefit: keep the marginally academic student athletes eligible for athletic competition. That speaks directly to NCAA involvement due to questions, retroactive or not, about the eligibility of student-athletes at a given time.
Nothing may come of it, which wouldn't surprise me because if anyone is practiced at hiding the bodies it's UNC: it's ingrained in their blood. CYA should be a fraternity there. The problem, as I see it, is that it is just ..... not ..... going ..... away ..... any ..... time ..... soon. Way too much external media scrutiny is focused on this now, and anyone not directly connected to UNC (which is to say anyone not in the administration, coaching ranks, student body, athletic department, and anyone who has investigated UNC up to this point, seeing as how UNC has commissioned each investigation its little self) is screaming for a legitimately independent investigation and accounting. Hell, even the new chancellor who wasn't even there when all of this crap went down is already a tried-and-true, dyed-in-the wool wagon-circler and ass-coverer of the highest order, a truly seasoned professional at the art of spin.
It's the way it's always been, the way it is, and the way it'll always be - The Carolina Way.
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