http://northcarolina.scout.com/2/984132.html

Quote :

"CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Inside Carolina has learned that the University of North Carolina’s football program is under investigation by the NCAA. “I can acknowledge that representatives from the NCAA have been to Chapel Hill to speak with some of our student-athletes,” UNC athletic director Dick Baddour told Inside Carolina on Thursday afternoon. “One of the things that they instructed us in very clearly is that we are to maintain the confidence of their visit and their review. They’ve requested that we not discuss it publicly. Obviously, we’re going to fully cooperate with the NCAA in every way that we can by making things available to them and in particular by following their instruction on discussing it publicly.” Inside Carolina's sources indicate that those "student-athletes" include members of the football program. Baddour could not confirm that the football program is involved, nor could he provide any detail into what the investigation concerns or how long the process would ultimately take to conclude. Inside Carolina has been able to confirm through its sources that the investigation is not academic-related. The UNC football program enters the fourth year of Butch Davis's tenure as head coach with lofty expectations for the 2010 season. The Tar Heels are coming off back-to-back 8-5 seasons and will likely be ranked in the preseason top-25 nationally. Defensive tackle Marvin Austin, defensive end Robert Quinn and linebacker Quan Sturdivant highlight a roster loaded with NFL talent and returning eight All-ACC players from '09. "

Most are hearing that it is related to player-agent contact.

[Edited on July 15, 2010 at 5:00 PM. Reason : .]

7/15/2010 4:58:52 PM

here comes state fan

7/15/2010 5:00:41 PM

bout time.

7/15/2010 5:08:54 PM

maybe some of their baller defensive players took gifts from agents and wont be able to play this year

7/15/2010 5:10:44 PM

in on page 1

hoping this develops into a huge scandal that destroys their program for years to come...

7/15/2010 5:11:38 PM

^ won't happen. We all know that the worst to come of this would be that the NCAA announces some 'future sanctions' that never come to fruition. It wouldn't matter how bad the crime, the penalty would be nothing

7/15/2010 5:14:18 PM

I hope its Austin and some of their D-line

7/15/2010 5:14:29 PM

I'm admittedly pretty ignorant of the process and how long it takes but don't these investigations and the punishment(assuming there are any violations) take a little while to develope. In other words, would it even be possible for this to affect the 2010 season?

7/15/2010 5:15:28 PM

we'll never hear about this again

7/15/2010 5:15:52 PM

in on page 1

hoping this develops into a huge scandal that destroys their program for years to come...

7/15/2010 5:18:42 PM

could be the issue

http://www.statefansnationforums.com/topic.php?id=1030

7/15/2010 5:25:38 PM

IF its something major and its found to be true, I think they'd get some harsh punishments. If the NCAA is willing to come down on a powerhouse football program like Southern Cal, I don't think they would hesitate to come down on a football program like UNC's. Of course it could be nothing serious.

[Edited on July 15, 2010 at 5:28 PM. Reason : ^oh snap]

7/15/2010 5:26:10 PM

At least now we can blame their awesome recruiting this year on cheating, instead of on us sucking it up.

7/15/2010 5:27:16 PM

^^
Not to sure about that. UNC is pretty much the NCAA's signature school.

7/15/2010 5:28:37 PM

their basketball program is

7/15/2010 5:31:00 PM

Maybe in basketball, but football is the real moneymaker for the NCAA

7/15/2010 5:31:58 PM

Stanford is perfection, but Texas is the signature school.

7/15/2010 5:34:43 PM

Stanford? nigga, you crazy.

7/15/2010 5:37:35 PM

I think he means a consistently competitive bbal and football school, with great academics

better academics than UNC, and generally better football

Texas has high level bball and football, and good academics

7/15/2010 5:40:24 PM

Stanford wins national championships in everything, like fucking 20 a year

7/15/2010 5:43:13 PM

Quote :

"Maybe in basketball, but football is the real moneymaker for the NCAA"

football makes money for the schools, and for the BCS, but not so much for the NCAA.

7/15/2010 5:45:30 PM

Their football program has been quite mediocre

7/15/2010 5:48:32 PM

Id put money though that for UNC, basketball makes them A LOT more than football.

7/15/2010 5:48:39 PM

Quote :

"Stanford? nigga, you crazy."

16 straight 1st place finishes in the Director's Cup ... they straight up dominate. They win it all with about 7,000 undergraduates to the 30,000+ that the rest of their competition has to pull from. They do this all while maintaining elite academic status on a worldwide scale.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears_Cup#NCAA_Division_I

They are perfect.

7/15/2010 5:52:24 PM

Regardless of how many championships they've won in non-revenue sports, their FOOTBALL program could hardly be described as the signature one.

7/15/2010 5:56:32 PM

he just said signature school

anyway this is getting off topic, this thread is about UNC

7/15/2010 5:57:26 PM

nothing is going to happen to these faggots and we all know it

7/15/2010 6:07:52 PM

^

7/15/2010 6:09:51 PM

^^

7/15/2010 6:13:12 PM

i'm not holding my breath either, but at the same time yall need to enjoy how all UNC fans (who know about this) are on edge and nervous about what might be

7/15/2010 6:14:45 PM

Nothing major will come if this. We all know it.

7/15/2010 6:30:15 PM

IOP1

PLEASE LET THIS BE TRUE

7/15/2010 6:31:32 PM

yo nigga, come play for unc

7/15/2010 6:52:44 PM

iop1

7/15/2010 7:02:35 PM

iop1

7/15/2010 7:07:18 PM

create a caption

also the obligatory:



[Edited on July 15, 2010 at 7:21 PM. Reason : granny shot]

7/15/2010 7:12:12 PM

in on page 1

burn the fuckers to the ground

7/15/2010 7:19:28 PM

Well I'm honestly surprised that something like this is happening to UNC, who always seems to come out of everything smelling like roses. I just knew there was no way they could go from nobodies to recruiting over established football schools without something going on.

But either way, it's UNC so there's only two possible outcomes: nothing's going on (don't laugh, it's entirely possible) or it's something petty like players selling their shoes and tickets (wonder what kind of penalty they'd get for that).

[Edited on July 15, 2010 at 7:29 PM. Reason : ...]

7/15/2010 7:28:28 PM

Quote :

"Inside Carolina's sources indicate that those "student-athletes" include members of the football program. "

I like that they put student-athletes in quotes

7/15/2010 7:30:26 PM

When you combine overall athletic programs, academics, and maybe most importantly brand name/marketing I stand by statement. I forgot to add general faggotry.

7/15/2010 7:36:20 PM

And all this time I just thought Tarheel was another word for Faggot.

7/15/2010 7:47:47 PM

lol at Novicane

not gettin' my hopes up.

7/15/2010 7:54:05 PM

7/15/2010 8:25:38 PM

http://twitter.com/schadjoe

Quote :

"One person said UNC's star football players such as Marvin Austin were among those interviewed by the NCAA"

Quote :

"One person said the questions from the NCAA to UNC players were intended to "make sure no Reggie Bush stuff is going on.""

7/15/2010 8:50:00 PM

I'm sure Swofford is on the phone right now taking care of it. The NCAA investigators will wake up tomorrow with dead hookers in their trunk.

7/15/2010 8:56:30 PM

iop1

7/15/2010 8:59:48 PM

surprised everyone's saying that the NCAA wouldn't slap a program like UNC . . . since USC just got roasted

7/15/2010 9:03:53 PM

USC doesn't have the Commissioner's office in it's back pocket (Swoffy). I doubt USC has the media in their back pocket like UNC, (read , NandO, CO). Paul Dee is the head of this NCAA department, the guy who hired Davis at Miami years ago, they are friends. Baddour is good at this, his rolodex could get his programs out of anything. Reggie Bush's intelligent father was on tape talking directly about the car that was given to him, it's on tape, don't know how more flagrant it gets.

[Edited on July 15, 2010 at 9:27 PM. Reason : .]

7/15/2010 9:25:15 PM

iop1

7/15/2010 10:20:04 PM

the only thing that will come of this is somehow State will get put on probation

7/15/2010 10:21:15 PM