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How is it that North Carolina's basketball is revered as this pillar of College Sports, yet the Football team has been basically an embarrassment?
Yeah, it's kind of a rhetorical question, but it is being asked yet again after this. The school admitted former star receiver and current New York Giant Hakeem Nicks played a full season in 2008 even though he was academically ineligible.
The reason: Nicks was one of several athletes who received help from a tutor implicated in the NCAA's investigation of the Football team's wrong doing.
But...as a testament to the school's integrity (sarcasm), all the records Nick's set that year will stand...but with an asterisk.
Strangely, this "Scandal"cost the team wins during 2008, 2009 and 2010, but the records apparently will stand.
Read the full story from the Raleigh News-Observer RIGHT HERE
The Carolina Football team has had a series of issues that the NCAA is investigating. From Marvin Austin and others involvement with agents and payoffs to the academic issues with the tutor, they aren't exactly a poster child for good governance.
And yet what did it get them?
Not much. Sure, there have been some good players who got picked high in the draft, but seriously. How many ACC Titles did all this bring? How many Orange Bowl wins? Still waiting to see the Tar Heels play a BCS game? Yeah, so are we.
Argghhh! We just don't get the thought process sometimes, but it is, we guess, what it is. Nicks doesn't really care, he's making millions in the NFL. Butch Davis has been let go, though he continues to deny he did anything wrong. And the Carolina Football team, while decent by ACC standards, continues to lag FAR behind anything the Basketball team has done.
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