^^ i feel like i've heard of some many people doing something similar, i can't believe it's so easy

9/29/2010 10:47:27 AM

The part that looks shopped is the bottom left hand corner, it just looks off. However if you look at the top right corner you can see though the flag to the M of Stadium. Also, it looks overcast and it has been overcast the last couple of day in the triangle. I personally am undecided, but if it's real, kudos to EZU.

9/29/2010 10:53:06 AM

if that's a photoshop, that's one of the best i've ever seen.

9/29/2010 10:54:36 AM

what is it hanging from on the top right? Shouldn't it look like the top left?

9/29/2010 10:58:13 AM

That's no shop

9/29/2010 10:59:19 AM

my gut tells me photoshop...just doesn't look right for some reason...great job though if it's real

[Edited on September 29, 2010 at 11:01 AM. Reason : i'm still 50/50]

9/29/2010 11:00:46 AM

yea the top right corner doesn't look right.

9/29/2010 11:02:49 AM

Quote :

"i feel like i've heard of some many people doing something similar, i can't believe it's so easy"

I can't speak for others, but it was that easy for us. Someone left the gates wide open on Halloween night (terrible night with all of the people headed to Franklin street). We were hammered so we were not too concerned with the consequences, but we walked right in, went down the stairs, jumped a gate down to the field, ran out and pissed at mid field. Good memories. Fuck UNC.

9/29/2010 11:07:22 AM

9/29/2010 11:08:40 AM

wow, great photoshop

9/29/2010 11:09:30 AM

lol faggots. Told you it was chop.

9/29/2010 11:10:18 AM

^haha Taylor Zarzour was yucking it up on his radio show over the picture. Even more well-bowled EZU, well-bowled indeed. Zarzour got punked

9/29/2010 11:11:20 AM

Wow, someone did a really good job of photoshopping that ECU banner out of the picture... almost looks like it wasn't even there.

9/29/2010 11:22:09 AM

I can see aluminum through the entrance ways so the pic must have been taken during the 4th quarter.

9/29/2010 12:36:20 PM

what the hell does this ECU shit have to do with Nanny-gate? Is ECU getting investigated too now?

9/29/2010 12:45:42 PM

i'm too late to voice my opinion, but that did look like a chop. i thought so before i got to the proof! i promise.

9/29/2010 12:54:44 PM

i'm not convinced. looks real to me.

9/29/2010 12:56:57 PM

This video is hilarious of fat Marvin. Mentions Balmer and Blake, and his shots at ECU are great. The guy is definitely a charismatic speaker.

Marvin, many thanks to all that you've done for UNC football, I'm starting to warm up to you.

http://northcarolina.scout.com/2/900822.html

[Edited on September 29, 2010 at 1:34 PM. Reason : f]

9/29/2010 1:33:49 PM

^ i would play that video in the locker room before the game.

9/29/2010 1:50:41 PM

The fact that two different people were taking a picture of a stairwell at Kenan at the same time is almost as funny as the photoshop.

[Edited on September 29, 2010 at 1:55 PM. Reason : Like they wanted proof for their coworkers back at the Wal-Mart or something]

9/29/2010 1:53:41 PM

From twitter:

@kenmedlin: Baddour: NCAA will join UNC in acad invest. @ some point

9/29/2010 2:06:37 PM

Ken Medlin is a great guy... graduated from UNC but not your typical Carolina fan

9/29/2010 2:09:24 PM

Ken Medlin is a pussy ass bitch, Jeff Gravley for life

9/29/2010 2:11:21 PM

that video is just priceless: "they want to wear this jersey but they can't. Coach Davis won't recruit them."

spread it on the ezu msg boards, gotta get that in the pirate locker room.

9/29/2010 2:12:05 PM

9/29/2010 2:28:35 PM

So apparently DB thinks he will redshirt the players that lose a year due to their academic infractions?
WTF?

9/29/2010 2:42:24 PM

[Edited on September 29, 2010 at 2:57 PM. Reason : nope]

9/29/2010 2:49:45 PM

don't most players just get kicked off the team because they can't perform in school? What about known cheating? Let them stay in school if the Most Honorable Glorious UNC-CH, One of a Kind, Honor Court deems that the punishment. But redshirting for cheaters sounds awfully un-honorable

9/29/2010 2:55:36 PM

pp is blowing up right now because apparently baddour mentioned this as a possibility during his talk today.

9/29/2010 2:58:12 PM

yeah, that would be a publicity nightmare... IM ALL FOR IT

[Edited on September 29, 2010 at 3:01 PM. Reason : would make you think that the NCAA would enfore stricter penalties for trying to circumvent]

9/29/2010 3:00:54 PM

Didn't the UNC fountain turn red a few years ago? I remember something awesome like that happening.

9/29/2010 3:01:44 PM

i got a text of the picture from a different angle...i'm so confused

9/29/2010 3:04:04 PM

http://www.wralsportsfan.com/unc/story/8370529/

Quote :

"Dick Baddour said the investigation was moving "out of the crisis stage." "I never though it would got this long honestly," he said. In his comments, Baddour explained the process of the NCAA's investigation and the principles behind the university's response. "The integrity of UNC is paramount," Baddour said. He opened his remarks with an admission that the UNC athletics program had fallen short on academic compliance. After that realization, Baddour said, he dedicated himself to making it right. He outlined what he called his three principles for doing so. The first is integrity of UNC, the second, fairness to student-athletes and staff, the third is to participate and look forward. "Never let it be said UNC was in non-compliance with the investigation or was uncooperative," he said. Baddour spoke to the crowd for about 20 minutes before taking questions. He said the most frequent question he gets is about the perceived secrecy surrounding the investigation. "There are just some things we can not talk about," he acknowledged. In the most detailed manner to date, Baddour told the audience about the people and processes of the NCAA's investigation. Two people came to campus from the NCAA to ask questions and do interviews. Representatives from the university were in on those sessions, Baddour said. After the facts are gathered, the university and the NCAA will develop and agree to a "statement of facts," which is sent to another branch of the NCAA. It is there that any violations will be determined, he said. The NCAA will declare individual student-athletes ineligible based on the findings of violations. Then the university will have the opportunity to petition for reinstatement of the effected athletes. "If my second principle is to be fair to student-athletes and I think a punishment is not fair, we will back our student-athletes," he said. After his remarks were concluded, Baddour told reporters the university has scheduled a conference call Friday with the NCAA to appeal the suspensions of defensive back Kendric Burney and safety Deunta Williams and expects an answer on that appeal the same day. "There's a procedure that you go through, and then you get off the phone, and they do their deliberation, and then they call you back," he said. The NCAA suspended the players for six and four games respectively last week for receiving improper benefits. Both players have yet to play this season. Before he opened the floor, he praised both Chancellor Holden Thorp and head football coach Butch Davis. "Butch Davis has been tremendously cooperative," Baddour said. Asked about Davis' contract status, Baddour said, "Coach Davis has got my full support. There's no reason to wait. I am where I've been." Academic investigation moving quickly Baddour said the investigation into alleged academic infractions by football players is moving along quickly. "We are towards the back side of that," he said. Those issues arose as the NCAA asked questions about improper player-agent contact, Baddour said. The university is dealing with the academic investigation in-house, and any misconduct found will be dealt with by the university's student justice system, Thorp told the Board of Trustees last week. "We are absolutely buying into that and there is nothing we can do to shorten that," Baddour said, noting the Honor Court's 100-plus years as an independent investigative body. "We are committed to do this the right way, to restore integrity," he repeated. The tutor linked to those allegations is not cooperating with the university, Baddour said. "We would like that person to be involved," he said, "but we have no way to compel that." Secretary of State looking into athlete-agent relationships Asked about the reports that defensive tackle Marvin Austin and former assistant football coach John Blake had talked to the North Carolina Secretary of State about athlete-agent relationships, Baddour said he had not been privy to those discussions. Baddour said he understood that the state would aggressively pursue agents who contacted athletes outside of the law. "I endorse that and hope they will," he said. Baddour blasted deception by agents and agent representatives who try to solicit business from student-athletes. "They don't come in three-piece suits carrying briefcases," he said. "They come looking like students.""

9/29/2010 3:11:51 PM

9/29/2010 3:19:53 PM

I am beginning to worry that UNC may come out of this whole thing largely unscathed...

9/29/2010 3:46:16 PM

^why on earth would you think anything different? I mean, this is UNC we're talking about. They'll get off with a handful of suspensions and the honor court will dish out nothing more than a couple wrist slaps. Shameful.

9/29/2010 4:44:47 PM

from the: "You can't make this stuff up" file.

A thread on IC

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"Open Letter to the Honor Court at UNC Students: I know that you have been dealt some serious cases at the beginning of this school year. I also know that you have no control over anything but some academic issues that have arisen for your fellow students and that it makes no difference for your process that they happen to be football players. I wanted to let you know that many of the supporters of your University are watching how this is being conducted. It is important to us that you do your work deliberately, and with the necessary efficiency to ensure that your fellow students are not held out of their games wrongfully. In other words do it NOW. Hold your hearings, take your testimony, issue your rulings...whatever they are. Holding these athletes out of games without evidence of academic wrongdoing is harmful to them and not the reason that many of us write checks each month and year. I do not know any of these athletes personally and have no particular dog in this fight. But, I personally have given each year for many years to both the athletic endeavors and the academic schools. You should know that I will make no more donations to this school until your work here is completed. Further, if it drags on much longer there will be none at all. This is a travesty of justice. Do your job."

9/29/2010 4:52:55 PM

me on pg1:

Quote :

"^ 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 "

I have let myself get caught up in this thing too, even though I had an idea before that no matter how bad the situation was, nothing is going to happen to these fags

9/29/2010 5:01:23 PM

Quote :

"TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE"

9/29/2010 5:02:19 PM

don't give up guys, Baddour spoke on Adam and Joe this afternoon that the academic side involved more than one class AND some local reporter tweeted that the NCAA would actually soon become involved in the academic investigation. That can't be good.

9/29/2010 5:04:36 PM

Quote :

"Don't like Baddour? Close your checkbook. Despise Coach Davis? Don't renew your season tickets. Hate the NCAA? Boycott their sponsors."

Quote :

"BOYCOTT DA SPONSORS"

9/29/2010 5:05:41 PM

If this would have been our players that had done this and gotten caught we would have already been nailed to a cross.

9/29/2010 5:07:36 PM

No remember according to inside carolina it is UNC that is like jesus!

9/29/2010 5:26:50 PM

Q: How can you tell God is a Tar Heels fan?

A: Because the sky is Carolina blue!

Actually today its gray...kind of like the last 3 months for the UNC football program

9/29/2010 5:50:30 PM

Quote :

"If this would have been our players that had done this and gotten caught we would have already been nailed to a cross."

dude you're right. that's exactly how it would have gone. the ncaa is fucking out to get us. i know that we're just as relevant or not relevant as about 40 other schools in the country, but they fucking have it out for us bad. i am basing this on something that happened between the university and a coach, not the ncaa, 20 years ago, where do you get your info from?

9/29/2010 6:00:06 PM

I think UNC is just trying to sugar coat everything still. there are too many ties (blake to agent and butch to tutor) on both prongs for something bad not to happen.

also, this seems to me to be a little deeper situation that USC so therefore the punishment will be equal at the minimum. If not, USC will cause a stink I am sure.

9/29/2010 6:50:19 PM

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/2010-09-28-emmert-ncaa-president_N.htm

Interpret the "serials killers on the loose" comment as you see fit...

9/29/2010 7:19:58 PM

For the record: obvious shop, look at the blurring on the edges of the banner. Whoever did that needs to learn about the magic wand tool.





Secondly: Wow, I can't believe that you people are buying into the UNC spin.




The NCAA is going to laugh at any "Honor Court" ruling.

Redshirt a player for a year? LAUGHABLE.

"You fucked up, so you will sit out for a year.... but we'll let you come back next year and act like this never happened."

Right.

In the history of the NCAA coming into someone's shop and sitting there for months, when has something like that ever happened? Never. NEVER. NEVER.



Kentwan Balmer's dad stated that the players knew the MA party in Miami was an agent event. If the players knew, and the coaches didn't, that's Lack of Institutional Control at the bare minimum. If they did know, I think you can full expect to see the death penalty applied. And that's just one prong.


Keep the fucking faith, boys. God will grant you release.

9/29/2010 8:22:16 PM

Quote :

"I think UNC is just trying to sugar coat everything still."

Until basketball season when they can shift media focus...

9/29/2010 8:29:46 PM

Quote :

"Redshirt a player for a year? LAUGHABLE. "

Yeah, I'm pretty confident they wouldn't let them do that. If you red-shirted they'd probably just make you serve the game suspensions next season

9/29/2010 8:37:28 PM