UNC Football Players in the shoe business.

[Eagle74]

So, yet another scandal arises with the UNC football program. This time around 13 or 14 players caught selling their limited edition Jordan tennis shoes, for on average of over $2,000.00 a pair. The UNC coach now says that the 'players' should take responsibility of their actions, this, while he hand picks the limited games they will have to sit out. How many repeated velvet gloved slaps on the wrist does this team (and coach) get from the NCAA?

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Re: UNC Football Players in the shoe business.

You have to love staggered suspensions.

What a message it sends, ...

[shipfbfan12]

Re: UNC Football Players in the shoe business.

So, yet another scandal arises with the UNC football program. This time around 13 or 14 players caught selling their limited edition Jordan tennis shoes, for on average of over $2,000.00 a pair. The UNC coach now says that the 'players' should take responsibility of their actions, this, while he hand picks the limited games they will have to sit out. How many repeated velvet gloved slaps on the wrist does this team (and coach) get from the NCAA?

If this had been Duke this would be front page news and the first story on CNN/Fox News and ESPN but because it's beloved Chapel Hill this will be called a "Minor Infraction" and essentially swept under the rug. UNC Basketball and Football can basically do what ever they want without real penalties handed down by the NCAA.

[Braves'86]

Re: UNC Football Players in the shoe business.

I'm on board with the staggered suspensions. The point is to punish the guilty players, not the entire team.

[Fightingscot82]

Re: UNC Football Players in the shoe business.

I'm on board with the staggered suspensions. The point is to punish the guilty players, not the entire team.

Sure, but suspending them all at once and impacting the entire team encourages peer accountability. That's how it works in the work world. The staggered suspensions is really about protecting the coach's win loss record.

[laker]

Re: UNC Football Players in the shoe business.

Selling tennis shoes is against the rules, but the coach decides on the punishment.

Yet the school handing out A grades for bogus classes doesn't get a punishment.

How the hell can they still be an Association of American Universities school?

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Re: UNC Football Players in the shoe business.

Money. All about the coin.

Take away all the PR fluff, ... nobody really cares about their academics, etc. It's all about the coin at that level.

[GSCfan1275]

[Eagle74]

Re: UNC Football Players in the shoe business.

I know that NC State really wanted West Virginia to be in the ACC (and probably still does). Different philosophies between two close rivals.

[Sec10-A-14]

Re: UNC Football Players in the shoe business.

Didn't the NCAA negate Penn State wins and punish innocent team players for
action by their coaches.
So UNC will pick some pansy team that they should beat by 50pts to select
suspensions.
Good plan for UNC.... seesh!!!

[WU Fan]

Re: UNC Football Players in the shoe business.

It's common knowledge in this state that UNC can get away with just about anything, especially their basketball program. it goes way back to the Dean Smith days when winning brought in truckloads of dollars and underground recruiting brought in kids who only qualified because someone "massaged" SAT scores and transcripts. The A grades in the no meeting classes taught by people with questionable credentials followed. UNC self reported and was issued a gentle slap on the wrist. Alums I know won't discuss the subject/pretend it never happened/try to convince people that Duke's infractions were far more serious/Drink copious volumes of Johnny Walker Red and eat rare beef to keep from talking.

[Eagle74]

Re: UNC Football Players in the shoe business.

It's common knowledge in this state that UNC can get away with just about anything, especially their basketball program. it goes way back to the Dean Smith days when winning brought in truckloads of dollars and underground recruiting brought in kids who only qualified because someone "massaged" SAT scores and transcripts. The A grades in the no meeting classes taught by people with questionable credentials followed. UNC self reported and was issued a gentle slap on the wrist. Alums I know won't discuss the subject/pretend it never happened/try to convince people that Duke's infractions were far more serious/Drink copious volumes of Johnny Walker Red and eat rare beef to keep from talking.

Yep, and this is one of the things they don't want to talk about: http://www.espn.com/espn/otl/story/_...north-carolina.

[KleShreen]

Re: UNC Football Players in the shoe business.

Looks like Michigan, California, and some other school I can't remember are now caught up in this, too.

[catatonic]

Re: UNC Football Players in the shoe business.

Looks like Michigan, California, and some other school I can't remember are now caught up in this, too.

Selling shoes or academic fraud? Or both?

[catatonic]

Re: UNC Football Players in the shoe business.

It's common knowledge in this state that UNC can get away with just about anything, especially their basketball program. it goes way back to the Dean Smith days when winning brought in truckloads of dollars and underground recruiting brought in kids who only qualified because someone "massaged" SAT scores and transcripts. The A grades in the no meeting classes taught by people with questionable credentials followed. UNC self reported and was issued a gentle slap on the wrist. Alums I know won't discuss the subject/pretend it never happened/try to convince people that Duke's infractions were far more serious/Drink copious volumes of Johnny Walker Red and eat rare beef to keep from talking.

On a broader scale it is pretty much common knowledge that the NCAA cuts big time BB and FB programs more slack than lesser programs.