OT: UNC academic scandal continues...

[schoosier 3,459]

One of the Deans at UNC blew this wide open. She said a high % of football and bball players couldn't read at a 4 th grade level. I use to root for them especially when Indiana Mr. Basketball Dave Colescott out of Marion went there. Now, they are not far behind UK as one of my most hated teams. The NC flagship university has been caught yet they will deny it. And why wouldn't they? The NCAA will probably go after SMU and Larry Brown again. The football team was caught getting parking tickets paid for, players cheating from a tutor hired by former head coach Butch Davis, and assistant coaches with ties to agents that are currently on trial. If lack of institutional is actually still a penalty, I would think this is the poster child.

[OliviaPope40 6,459]

Former UNC player Rashad McCants said in a radio interview Friday that he has not spoken with the NCAA about his allegations of academic misconduct.

McCants spoke out again during an interview on Sirius/XM radio with hosts Mark Packer and Houston Nutt. McCants, one of the players most responsible for leading North Carolina to the 2005 national championship, said a lot of the same things he told ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” during a pair of interviews last month.

There were some new revelations, too, though. Among them: McCants said he hasn’t spoken with the NCAA about his allegations – or about anything else, for that matter.

“Not at all,” McCants said during his interview with Packer and Nutt. “I’m still waiting on that. And UNC hasn’t reached out to me, and neither has the NCAA. But we have strategic plans in place to really make some strides and get the awareness out for the people who don’t know anything about what’s really going on.”

It’s unclear who comprises the “we” that McCants described in his interview. McCants made national news when he told ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” in an interview that aired last month that tutors wrote his papers and that he relied on no-show African and Afro-American Studies classes to remain eligible during his time at UNC. In danger of becoming academically ineligible, he said took all AFAM classes in the spring of 2005 and did so well he made the dean’s list.

Copies of McCants’ transcript, which “Outside the Lines” obtained, verify his course load.

McCants told ESPN that UNC coach Roy Williams knew about the no-show classes, and that Williams in the fall of 2004 warned him that he could become academically ineligible. Williams denied McCants’ claims and said he had no knowledge of tutors writing papers for his players.

During the interview on Sirius/XM, Packer asked McCants why he chose to come forward now with his allegations. McCants’ answer: “Well, when was there another opportunity to actually talk about the NCAA and academic fraudulence? That wasn’t a topic then. That hasn’t been a topic in the last eight years.”

McCants said he came forward now because the AFAM scandal at UNC created a timely platform to address academic issues that college athletes face. As he has said before, McCants told Packer and Nutt that he hopes to help inspire change.

“The more and more (the UNC AFAM case) unraveled, people reached out to me,” McCants said. “The misconception is people think that I just went forward with this. These people came to me. And I even had reservations before I even said anything, because I knew the backlash and what I was sacrificing. But ultimately, I’ve seen the light at the end of the tunnel saying you can change lives for the betterment and history of the world.

“And that’s what we’re trying to do.”

McCants said he was “very surprised” by the reaction of his teammates, who have come out in support of Williams and said that McCants’ allegations don’t represent their academic experience at UNC.

“It was my experience,” McCants said during the radio interview, “and I never pinpointed anybody that directly, never said any names, and I only insinuated my thoughts of Roy actually knowing about it.”

McCants told Packer and Nutt that he didn’t have any conversations with anybody about his academic turnaround in the spring of 2005, when he went from struggling in the classroom to the dean’s list. Asked during the interview how many of his teammates relied on no-show AFAM classes, McCants “that’s not really for me to say.”

“Those guys have to speak for themselves,” McCants said. “I’m not here to throw anybody under the bus. I’m not here to do what they’ve done to me. I’m here to save lives, I’m here to change lives for future generations.”

McCants said during the interview that it was “shocking” to him that the academic misconduct case that emerged in the NCAA’s original investigation at UNC didn’t lead to the basketball program. Most of the revelations about the AFAM department – rife unauthorized grade changes and no-show classes, with many of those classes featuring a disproportionate number of athletes – came after the NCAA closed the UNC football violations case in March 2012.

After two years of questions surrounding the problems in AFAM and their relationship to athletics, the NCAA recently decided to reopen its investigation.

McCants during the interview on Sirius/XM said that he and his teammates who won the 2005 national championship “weren’t a tight-knit group” but were successful, anyway, he said, because “we were a very intelligent group of guys who knew what it took to win.”

McCants told Packer and Nutt that he doesn’t anticipate speaking to Williams about the improprieties McCants has alleged. Asked if he thought his account had severed his relationship with Williams, McCants said he never had a relationship with Williams beyond that of a player-coach relationship.

“It looks like the relationship is severed, but there was never really a relationship between me and Roy,” McCants said. “I was the player and he was the coach. It doesn’t mean that every player on every team is friends with their coach.

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/07/05/3986296/former-unc-basketball-player-mccants.html?sp=/99/103/119/#storylink=cpy

Edited July 6, 2014 by OliviaPope40

[CampHoosier 3,697]

If they didn't buy bumper stickers 20 years ago the NCAA doesn't care

[Parakeet Jones 3,741]

If they didn't buy bumper stickers 20 years ago the NCAA doesn't care

Sometimes I don't think they care unless someone self reports.

[WayneFleekHoosier 48,054]

Check out the new articles where McCants is saying UNC and NCAA are planning to pay him 300 plus million.  He specifically says UNC is in the works to pay him 10 million. 

 

Thoughts

[LIHoosier 25,957]

Check out the new articles where McCants is saying UNC and NCAA are planning to pay him 300 plus million.  He specifically says UNC is in the works to pay him 10 million. 

 

Thoughts

If McCants is getting $300 million, Rasheed Wallace is owed at least a billion.

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[quote name="WayneHoosier" post="73573" timestamp="1404934219"]Check out the new articles where McCants is saying UNC and NCAA are planning to pay him 300 plus million. He specifically says UNC is in the works to pay him 10 million.

Thoughts[/quote] Links?


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[WayneFleekHoosier 48,054]

I can't seem to get the link feature to work.  type McCants and 310 million in any search function.

 

And.......what am I doing wrong with the link feature???

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[quote name="WayneHoosier" post="73573" timestamp="1404934219"]Check out the new articles where McCants is saying UNC and NCAA are planning to pay him 300 plus million. He specifically says UNC is in the works to pay him 10 million.

Thoughts[/quote] http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/07/08/rashad-mccants-says-hes-getting-310-million-from-unc-ncaa/


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[Hutch89 2,939]

wow, interesting.   i really don't know what to think about that.  Guess we'll wait and see.

[Walking Boot of Doom 18,170]

This has got to blow up soon.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/unc-professor-blasts-university-and-its-athletic-heroes-in-defense-of-rashad-mccants-164401647.html?soc_src=copy


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[schoosier 3,459]

Ok now you have this all pro wide receiver Gordon getting popped for a dui in Hairstons car. PJ just said they ran into each other in a grocery store and decided to swap cars. Guess who bails Gordon out and allegedly was in the car? None other that ole UNC buddy Fats Thomas who just happened to be the one supplying PJ with his rental cars when he had a little trouble once or twice. Nice coincidence. Fats just happens to be a convicted felon with a lot of access not only to UNC athletes but all pro NFL players. He is either a bag man for agents(most likely) or one for the Heels. And everyone used to say the Carolina Way. Yeah we get it.

[BGleas 7,880]

The interesting part of the article to me was when the UNC professor mentioned Roy Williams bringing his team academic adviser with him from Kansas, and how much Roy had to have this guy.

Is this partly a Roy Williams thing? Will this even go back to Kansas?

This has got to blow up soon. http://sports.yahoo.com/news/unc-professor-blasts-university-and-its-athletic-heroes-in-defense-of-rashad-mccants-164401647.html?soc_src=copySent from my place of advanced, analytical thinking: the toilet.

[Josh 12,579]

The interesting part of the article to me was when the UNC professor mentioned Roy Williams bringing his team academic adviser with him from Kansas, and how much Roy had to have this guy.

Is this partly a Roy Williams thing? Will this even go back to Kansas?
 

Roy had a big hand in getting Kansas put on probation for Lack of Institutional Control, now he's got a big part in the UNC scandal.  He just might go down as one of the most corrupt coaches in college basketball history.

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[quote name="Josh" post="74114" timestamp="1405309132"]Roy had a big hand in getting Kansas put on probation for Lack of Institutional Control, now he's got a big part in the UNC scandal. He just might go down as one of the most corrupt coaches in college basketball history.[/quote] Right behind our other favorite blue coach...


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