Not really. The car was overturned, so realistically, just about every external body panel was probably damaged. That can total up to $18,000 pretty quickly, even if you're driving something fairly basic like a Chevrolet Tahoe (I'm going to go out on a limb and say it was an SUV, not only because it flipped at "45 MPH", but for various reasons, some of which involve stereotyping).

8/16/2011 7:23:37 PM

this may be true, but 18k will total just about any average person's car.

8/16/2011 7:25:27 PM

^^Even so you can't do more damage than the car was worth. It isn't like okapu rolled home and borrowed his dads new car his dad is in georgia...It sounds like to me the kid had the exclusive use of a fairly new car valued at the very least over 18,000 dollars. Maybe his family is rich enough to afford that as the secondary vehicle but given the number of lexuss, bmws, and mercedes (and new dodges) that were discovered during the parking ticket fiasco I wouldn't be surprised if there is yet another prong waiting to be unearthed.

[Edited on August 16, 2011 at 7:29 PM. Reason : asdf]

8/16/2011 7:28:50 PM

oh cock poo

8/16/2011 7:36:08 PM

Quote :

"Even so you can't do more damage than the car was worth."

Yes you can...

8/16/2011 7:36:30 PM

you can, but then I would expect the news media to say he "totaled the car" as opposed to "$18000 dollar bux in damages"

8/16/2011 7:38:27 PM

^^ for the purposes of insurance evaluation I believe it is deemed totaled after >50% of the cars value and as such I don't think a value would be placed on the damage outside of "totaled". However I have never totaled a car so I really don't know.

8/16/2011 8:06:14 PM

Quote :

"Tar_Heel_Smitty is in a real bad spot."

HE GONE

8/16/2011 8:27:28 PM

Quote :

"It sounds like to me the kid had the exclusive use of a fairly new car valued at the very least over 18,000 dollars. "

2000 Ford, undriveable, per the Smitty report.

8/16/2011 8:28:25 PM

is it friday?

8/16/2011 8:32:46 PM

Oh so now I see why Devin Hester didn't commit.

It's sickening to think how much time you waste caring about college sports and its all fucking rigged.

God I cant wait for when the UNC basketball program finally gets caught too

8/16/2011 9:03:11 PM

Quote :

"It's sickening to think how much time you waste caring about college sports and its all fucking rigged."

[Edited on August 16, 2011 at 9:05 PM. Reason : .]

8/16/2011 9:04:45 PM

somebody submit this shit to memegenerator.net

and when he blamed "a messageboard and a few athletes" do I assume this is the fine work of PackPride?

8/16/2011 9:16:52 PM

NCSU players- Have their apartment illegally searched (wonder which of Tar heel smitty's friends was involved with this?)
UNC players- Drive drunk and the police cover for them

Fuck this shit

8/16/2011 9:43:21 PM

^come on now, i think it's working itself out. but i'll believe it when i see it.

8/16/2011 9:50:06 PM

hahahaah thats funny because its still real to me is one of my favorite things in the world.

its just gay i mean we knew we were cheating when Chuck was here to land the big recruits, but i highly doubt he had an operation this advanced

8/16/2011 9:50:44 PM

Jesus just lower the hammer on these guys already.

8/16/2011 10:49:17 PM

somebody create a @Tarheel_Smitty account

8/16/2011 10:57:39 PM

Ruining a great idea, someone should drop the "Death Penalty" over on a tarheel board.

8/16/2011 11:40:33 PM

I think UNC might get off light, because the NCAA is stockpiling all the hammers they can find to drop on Miami

8/16/2011 11:42:57 PM

This was posted on IC in reference to the car crash news...

Quote :

"haha, speed was later amended..yeah, okay...this is gonna be taken waaaay out of context."

I'm not exactly sure how this can be taken out of context...it seems fairly black and white to me.

8/16/2011 11:56:29 PM

^^you're not gonna get a speeding ticket dismissed just because other people are being charged with murder and armed robbery

^i predict UNC fan's reponse to be "but Davidson transferred 3 weeks earlier, he wasn't a UNC student athlete, and the 3 UNC football players were just passengers"

which is actually kind of a valid, if bullshit, excuse

8/16/2011 11:58:19 PM

^Supposedly just passengers. There really is no way of saying who was the actual driver. Even if the police officer wasn't actively trying to cover for the players there would be question as to who was the actual driver because the officer most likely wasn't on the scene when the accident happened.

8/17/2011 7:09:21 AM

Quote :

"Smith believes he lost his job because of what he called a "message board and a few athletes." The I-Team is looking into those claims."

So the "I-Team" is going to investigate whether he was fired because of a message board and a few athletes. Maybe the article flow is a bit off and they meant that they would investigate whether there were any improprieties during the initial accident write-up? Surely that would be the cause of termination rather than "message board"

Reason for termination: The internet was invented, eventually someone put a message board on it.

[Edited on August 17, 2011 at 7:29 AM. Reason : -]

8/17/2011 7:27:04 AM

Wait. So this tar heel smitty guy is a cop, he filed a bogus police report, then quit his job, blabbed about it on twitter and he's blaming a message board and the athletes??



Jesusgoddamnchrist.

8/17/2011 7:49:38 AM

LOL at this latest news. UNC can't go a week without having some more shady shit go on. Time for the basketball team to start being pulled into this mess.

8/17/2011 7:55:01 AM

Quote :

"I think UNC might get off light, because the NCAA is stockpiling all the hammers they can find to drop on Miami"

UNC has already lost their head football coach, that's a big shot on its own. They will probably get a one year bowl ban as well (at least), and they may even self impose it oddly enough. They have a bunch of juniors that are talented enough that I imagine will jump in the NFL draft if they are even a 4th round pick or better (Moss, Reddick, Z Brown, Highsmith) to avoid coming back and not playing in a bowl. They also lose 6-7 starters who are seniors in 2011. UNC will not be tanking in the W/L column this year, but 2012 should get the ball rolling.

Keep in mind while the Miami stuff is bad, it's nothing to do academcially, i.e. the professors, and acdemic support staff have not been hit with anything.

I still can't get past that tarheellsmitty guy, it's got to be a joke. There's now way losers like this exist that can be a part of law enforcement?? Tell me it isn't possible.

8/17/2011 8:05:51 AM

Unless this officer blabs about the ordeal to the media, the department has no obligation to release any disciplinary information outside of reason for investigation (i.e. citizen complaint), result (sustained, unfounded) and any action resulting (termination, suspension).

8/17/2011 8:37:09 AM

Quote :

"There's now way losers like this exist that can be a part of law enforcement?"

actually, a lot of people decide to become cops because they're losers/morons, i've known a few. and i've known some who were decent people. but this guy seems like he might be an idiot.

8/17/2011 9:34:19 AM

looks like he has a new Twitter account

8/17/2011 8:05:56 PM

Someone explain this Tar Heel Smitty thing

I see a lot of people mentioning him, but no one actually saying a goddamn thing about him

8/17/2011 8:09:57 PM

he was some douchey guy on twitter who would talk shit to some local media people defending UNC through the investigation

now it turns out IRL he was Butch's personal cop at UNC, and the same officer to let the 4 drunk football players go with a warning when they flipped their car on campus in May

8/17/2011 8:11:53 PM

Well that is certainly awesome

8/17/2011 8:12:44 PM

He posted on tits twitter too

8/17/2011 8:19:20 PM

someone please tell me that this miami stuff spills into the time when butch was there. please? just to humor me? i've got a stiffy.

8/17/2011 9:30:50 PM

nope, '95-2000

8/17/2011 9:34:28 PM

Butch is teflon, gotta give him props on that

8/17/2011 9:35:00 PM

fuck it, i'm jerkin' one out anyway, just on the off chance that more people come out during the course of the investigation


I should head on over to IC to see how they're spinning this story.

[Edited on August 17, 2011 at 9:47 PM. Reason : ]

8/17/2011 9:38:48 PM

Butch Davis is Verbal Kent

8/17/2011 9:44:23 PM

^ +1

8/17/2011 9:56:04 PM

You have to give it to him. To this point it seems he was very good at his job. Specifically the keeping himself clean part.

8/17/2011 9:58:53 PM

Butch Davis leaves the U beginning a decade of cheating (with little results for the bulk of the time) and corruption that spanned football and basketball. The result of which will be the ultimate hammer from the NCAA.

Butch Davis is forced to leave UNC...


I am Butch Davis. God of Football Death.

8/17/2011 10:16:06 PM

lol butch got fired from UNC a week before camp - that's not teflon

8/18/2011 9:30:17 AM

yeah, but he's still getting paid.

8/18/2011 9:42:54 AM

Heather Dinich is being ripped apart by rabid UNC fans every time she mentions the UNC violations. It's hilarious to read.

http://espn.go.com/blog/acc/post/_/id/27620/2011-acc-predictions#comments

http://espn.go.com/blog/acc/post/_/id/27622/coastal-division-under-construction#comments

8/20/2011 10:14:48 AM

Is there a NCAA Coach game from EA Sports?

I nominate BD for the cover.

EVERY YEAR.

8/20/2011 10:15:43 AM

I haven't heard anyone mention that Paul D, chair on the NCAA infractions committee, was the AD at Miami and Hired Butch Davis and then also conveniently left Butch out of the letter of allegations to UNC.

HELLO?????????????????

8/20/2011 11:25:11 AM

sup?

8/20/2011 11:27:10 AM

How is anyone from Miami a member of the NCAA infractions committee?

8/20/2011 2:15:01 PM

Quote :

"I haven't heard anyone mention that Paul D, chair on the NCAA infractions committee, was the AD at Miami and Hired Butch Davis and then also conveniently left Butch out of the letter of allegations to UNC. HELLO?????????????????"

That's because Paul Dee isn't on the COI, the COI doesn't write the NOA, and Paul Dee doesn't like Butch Davis.

8/20/2011 2:39:30 PM