Quote :

"The comments are so much fun to read"

Those comments are GOLD. Plenty of lols to be had in there.

8/8/2011 11:18:46 AM

If UNC cannot make a bowl game this year, then they should fire the world and blow up the stadium. Seriously their schedule is a huge joke (just like State's) and they should be able to manage 6 wins.

Fuck if they don't get six wins, they should re-hire Butch and re-fire him for not cheating enough to win 6 games on talent alone.

8/8/2011 1:07:56 PM

Wow. I just looked at their schedule. They could easily go 8-4.

8/8/2011 1:23:14 PM

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"So, how do bowl bans work anyway, because at the moment it looks like a mitigated form of punishment. Oh, he wants to self-impose a 2 year bowl ban, and why not? Their chances of even qualifying for a bowl game in the next 2 years is in question so you might as well take the bowl ban punishment now to reduce the impact. It would work out for him because since the beginning UNC has appeared to be in the punish ourselves to lessen punishment doled out by the NCAA mode. Makes perfect sense for them to purposely tank one or two seasons if it means they'll come back a lot sooner than they otherwise would have."

bowl bans hurt $$$ and hurt recruiting. I want to see loss of TV time.

8/8/2011 1:48:16 PM

if they get a tv ban then we wont be able to watch our game against them

[Edited on August 8, 2011 at 3:24 PM. Reason : .]

8/8/2011 3:23:47 PM

i thought the ACC pooled bowl game money and split it between all the teams, or something?

8/8/2011 3:32:01 PM

^i think everyone gets a cut from bcs bowl appearances

8/8/2011 3:32:54 PM

Every school in the conference gets a cut from every bowl game that conference goes to.

8/8/2011 4:03:26 PM

^ Yeah I think its they all pool TV revenue but the gate is to each school or something along those lines.

8/8/2011 4:19:03 PM

that's one less team going to a bowl is it not?

8/8/2011 4:52:02 PM

On my phone and about to take off for RDU so I can't quote the actual text, but if you check out PPP's polling of Carolina fans, it confirms that most alumni support the firing of Davis, and the 'hardcore' (read: Walmart) fans thought it was a bad decision.

http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2011/08/unc-football-polling.html

8/9/2011 12:51:29 PM

tards on PackPride think that Swofford has something to do with this, too, and that he's goin down in flames w/ the rest of em. bless their tarded hearts

8/9/2011 1:03:30 PM

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"Those describing themselves as 'hardcore' UNC fans are particularly supportive of the job Davis did with 65% approving and only 19% approving."

that's some hard-hitting reporting there

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"Very few UNC fans are planning to pull back on their support of the team this year, and few think the program will be in a weaker position 5 years from now than it is today."

lol they think they'll still be dark horse national title contenders in 5 years

[Edited on August 9, 2011 at 2:09 PM. Reason : .]

8/9/2011 2:06:53 PM

This states the obvious, but I got a kick out of it nonetheless:

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"Q12 Did you attend college at UNC? Yes.................................................................. 18% No ................................................................... 82%"

If this were an NCSU related survey, I'd expect that ratio to be reversed.

8/9/2011 2:18:52 PM

^excellent stat, and one of the biggest reasons i hate carolina athletics (being a state fan and alumni)

8/9/2011 2:22:31 PM

317 people polled in the survey, so that makes about 57 alums who took the survey

some of the crosstabs are interesting

for example, the fans age 19-29 are the most confident that UNC football will be stronger in 5 years

and, not surpising, the fans who didn't attend UNC are the ones who think the university's academic reputation hasn't taken a hit at all

8/9/2011 2:25:15 PM

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"Public Policy Polling on Butch Davis firing: 36% support, 27% opposed & 37% no opinion."

How does 1/3 of fans polled not even have an opinion?

8/9/2011 3:43:02 PM

^i'd guess it went something like this:

Surveyor: "How do you feel about the firing of Butch Davis; do you support it, are you opposed to it, or do you not have an opinion?"
UNC Fan: "Butch Davis? Is he some kid Roy is bringing in next year? Man go ahead and buy your Final Four tickets woo hoo Go Heels!"

8/9/2011 3:46:05 PM

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"Wow. I just looked at their schedule. They could easily go 8-4."

Is it that easy? They've got Rutgers and Lousiville at home, but after those two most of their middle-tier games are on the road. The rest are against lower-tier team and then Miami. All their road games are gonna be tough. And 10 games straight without a bye week.

8/9/2011 4:00:45 PM

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""Very few UNC fans are planning to pull back on their support of the team this year, and few think the program will be in a weaker position 5 years from now than it is today.""

Blind stupidity is still blind...


and stupid.

8/9/2011 4:05:05 PM

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"Q12 Did you attend college at UNC? Yes.................................................................. 18% No ................................................................... 82%"

wonder if that accounts for liars

8/9/2011 4:14:07 PM

It does account for all the NC State posters who are on there fake-trolling each other about UNC though

8/9/2011 4:42:14 PM

apparently they found a player with a website asking for money from speaking engagements

and then....

they found records of calls from Blake to players the DAY BEFORE the NCAA interviewed them.

thats basically what GTech got put on for.

8/10/2011 12:11:58 AM

alright- calling dweedle and others...

these are photoshop opportunities we have here....







[Edited on August 10, 2011 at 8:45 AM. Reason : .]

8/10/2011 8:44:04 AM

lol, I made some random joke to a coworker yesterday about academic integrity and he flipped his shit and claimed it was only a stupid football player and he got caught. Of course he wasn't even aware that the plagiarism wasn't even caught by the university.

He is also a diehard Carolina fan that was rejected for admittance. In denial about being a walmart nation fan.

[Edited on August 10, 2011 at 8:48 AM. Reason : ]

8/10/2011 8:47:15 AM

^^ahahaha. That second picture looks like a movie poster for Human Centipede II - Bigger, Bluer, Gayer

[Edited on August 10, 2011 at 9:18 AM. Reason : .]

8/10/2011 8:56:43 AM

HAHAHAHA nice

Fall 2011
Coming to a stadium near you.

[Edited on August 10, 2011 at 9:03 AM. Reason : .]

8/10/2011 9:01:26 AM

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" gcbrat wrote: UNC Officials showing prospective donors the newly scaled back version of the 'Blue Zone", "

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"unc sports info says that's 27,000 fans"

gold, Jerry, fuckin GOLD.

[Edited on August 10, 2011 at 1:41 PM. Reason : ]

8/10/2011 1:40:52 PM

NCAA Looks at Smaller Rulebook, Tougher Penalties:
http://www.wralsportsfan.com/college_basketball/story/9982114/

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""Some of these things our coaches and our boosters might not like, but I think we need to do what you're going to see in the next year," Spanier said. "I think coaches and boosters should now be afraid if they go out and break the rules now because we're going to de-emphasize the petty stuff and focus on the bigger things. So the cheaters, the rule-breakers, the folks that are trying to disrupt intercollegiate athletics in this country are going to be held more accountable than in the past.""

I like the way this sounds, and I hope it is in the context of 'punishments to be handed out in the coming 12 months.'

8/10/2011 10:19:43 PM

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"schadjoe Joe Schad In the wake of Butch Davis' firing, about 60 players showed up at his house to support him 30 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply "

8/11/2011 1:08:25 PM

I, too, would support a coach that hired a tutor to do my school work.

8/11/2011 1:24:06 PM

^LOL

8/11/2011 1:31:08 PM

^^^Wonder how Withers feels about all this?

Kinda like scoring a date with a girl you've had your eye on for a while, only to find out she still wants to bang her ex ... the one who was charming but obscurly sleazy.

Well, maybe it's not like that, but it can't make him happy

8/11/2011 2:05:07 PM

saw where Hunter Furr landed at ECU. I guess he was looking for an academic challenge

8/11/2011 6:14:49 PM

this is sure to piss off plenty of UNC fans

http://obsfifty.blogspot.com/2011/08/unc-system-president-board-of-governors.html

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"CHAPEL HILL - UNC system president Tom Ross and UNC Board of Governors chair Hannah Gage this morning issued a joint statement proclaiming the board's full support of chancellor Holden Thorp's leadership at UNC-Chapel Hill."

8/12/2011 3:39:48 PM

"full support" is usually the kiss of death.

8/12/2011 3:45:26 PM

I'm too lazy to do it, but it would be funny to look at some of those older articles where Thorp is quoted giving his full support to Davis. It'd be interesting b/c i'm sure the verbiage is nearly identical.

8/12/2011 3:53:25 PM

http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/08/13/1409528/davis-watches-son-play.html

HA

8/13/2011 3:57:59 PM

The next article is

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"Gaping holes to fill at UNC"

Can't make this stuff up

[Edited on August 13, 2011 at 5:46 PM. Reason : space]

8/13/2011 5:45:53 PM

Quote :

"@DerekRowles #BreakingNews -- #ABC11 breaking a story at 6pm involving on-campus crash with UNC football players.. UNC police officer now off the job."

Lolwut?

added
vvvvv

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"3 current and 1 former player involved in crash in May.. driver with alcohol on breath, but not impaired.. car flipped into bushes.. UNC police officer assigned to Butch Davis on game days was the investigating officer. Driver only cited with 'no valid license'.. even though he was going 20mph over the speed limit and had been drinking. Cover-up? UNC officer says no, but resigned weeks after the crash. Full story at 6pm"

[Edited on August 16, 2011 at 6:00 PM. Reason : more]

8/16/2011 5:58:57 PM

8/16/2011 6:02:30 PM

^yeah this will drowned out by how fucking bad this miami shit is though

8/16/2011 6:11:31 PM

no, this is pretty bad...its obvious preferential treatment.

alot of people will be really mad about this sort of thing...sure cheating is bad but no one could have possibly DIED from academic misconduct.

i wonder what player it was.

8/16/2011 6:22:06 PM

Cops twitter

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"Tar_Heel_Smitty is in a real bad spot."

[Edited on August 16, 2011 at 6:32 PM. Reason : dasd]

8/16/2011 6:32:38 PM

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/abc11_investigates&id=8310178

8/16/2011 6:52:00 PM

Isn't tar heel smitty the ass hat who was basically threatening Armstrong via twitter? I guess Armstrong got his own back.

8/16/2011 7:09:44 PM

Wow. UNC-CH, the bastion of integrity.

There is SO much awkwardness in this Drew Davis situation. Butch Davis offers a scholarship to his son Drew Davis... who is being coached by Bill Renner... who is the father of UNC's current quarterback, Bryn Renner... Really?




[Edited on August 16, 2011 at 7:14 PM. Reason : Hmm.]

8/16/2011 7:11:17 PM

Guys. Please don't pinch me. I never wanna wake from this dream. How does this story keep getting better??

8/16/2011 7:16:19 PM

Quote :

"The crash caused $18,000 in damage to the car Davidson was driving, which belonged to Okakpu's father."

Sounds like it could have been a fairly expensive car...

8/16/2011 7:21:37 PM

inorite? 18k to most peoples' car will total the fucker

8/16/2011 7:23:33 PM