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Records show high legal bills for UNC during scandal
Published: 2012-07-11 18:22:00
Updated: 2012-07-12 06:02:00
Jul 12, 2012
Chapel Hill, N.C. — The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill spent nearly $67,000 in legal services and fees in a three-month span in 2010 while dealing with the fallout of NCAA violations and an academic scandal, according to a 208-page release Wednesday.
The heavily redacted documents also shed some light on some of the academic improprieties that were going on between members of the football team and an unnamed tutor.
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In one email exchange, an unidentified student-athlete reaches out to a tutor saying, “Please help. I’m going down,” with a two-and-a-half page, single-spaced paper attached.
A response to the email shortly thereafter reads, “I looked over your paper, and expanded it in a lot of areas!!! You are now at 8 ½ pages!!!”
In a Statement of Facts compiled by the university, the student-athlete said he worked with the unnamed tutor “approximately 20-25 times” including getting assistance on 10 to 12 papers even though he was only questioned on two of them.
In a deposition on Sept. 8, Amy Herman, associate athletic director for compliance at UNC, said that it was a search of select football players' email accounts in the summer of 2010 that led them to suspect academic problems on the team.
In a June 2, 2011, notice of allegations sent out by the NCAA, former football player Michael McAdoo was declared ineligible for receiving improper assistance from tutor Jennifer Wiley "on multiple assignments across several academic terms." McAdoo was later found to have heavily plagiarized at least one paper while at UNC.
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McAdoo has since moved on to the NFL, but he is appealing the November dismissal of his lawsuit that seeks damages after he was ruled ineligible for his senior season.
According to the documents released Wednesday, UNC filed nearly a dozen Requested Reinstatement forms to the NCAA as a result of unethical conduct, extra benefit and preferential treatment violations in regards to academic improprieties.
The most recent documents were made public in response to a public records request made by multiple media outlets, including Capitol Broadcasting Co., the parent company of WRALSportsFan They are only a portion of the requested documents leading up to a July 19 hearing on a joint lawsuit that lists former athletics director Dick Baddour, former head football coach Butch Davis, Chancellor Holden Thorp and Director of Public Safety Jeff McCracken as defendants.
The lawsuit still seeks communications between the law firm and the university, as well as recordings in their possession, an unredacted copy of UNC’s submission to the NCAA sent in September and records of Davis’ personal phone that was used for university business.
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RE: Records show high legal bills for UNC during scandal
I'm still waiting for WRAL and all the other "ABC" news agencies to wade in on all the other universities in North Carolina and do a in-depth investigation of those schools athletic programs, (you know email records, student records, and any other confidential information they can get), and see what they come up with. I've asked WRAL to do this three times now.
- Posted by chuck2
Thanks Marvin Austin! This is the gift that keeps on giving!
He'll probably give more than you could ever make in you lifetime.
You are correct upchuck. I have never embarrassed my university, myself, or my family like Marvin, Donte, Dwight, Greg, Butch, Dickie, etc, etc, etc have. They have given far more free entertainment than I ever will but I am ok with that.
RE: Records show high legal bills for UNC during scandal
I'm still waiting for WRAL and all the other "ABC" news agencies to wade in on all the other universities in North Carolina and do a in-depth investigation of those schools athletic programs, (you know email records, student records, and any other confidential information they can get), and see what they come up with. I've asked WRAL to do this three times now.
- Posted by chuck2
They don't for the same reason the police don't search your home for drugs when there is no reason to believe you have drugs. Are there issues at other schools? Most certainly, but until they do something to draw attention to themselves there's no reason to investiagte them.
Exactly. Then it is simply a witch hunt. Sometimes witch hunts actually turn up real witches. That didn't make them OK to do.
My point is that UNC has received their punishment, people have left, new people have come in to help get the program back on the right track but there are news agencies that still do not want to let it go. How long of reporting on this is long enough?
Because there is more that has yet to be released. They're saying they can take the heat, but yet, their feet have not yet been held to the fire.
RE: Records show high legal bills for UNC during scandal
^How long have UNC fans continued to bring up Valvano and the NCAA investigation?
RE: Records show high legal bills for UNC during scandal
I'm still waiting for WRAL and all the other "ABC" news agencies to wade in on all the other universities in North Carolina and do a in-depth investigation of those schools athletic programs, (you know email records, student records, and any other confidential information they can get), and see what they come up with. I've asked WRAL to do this three times now.
- Posted by chuck2
They don't for the same reason the police don't search your home for drugs when there is no reason to believe you have drugs. Are there issues at other schools? Most certainly, but until they do something to draw attention to themselves there's no reason to investiagte them.
Exactly. Then it is simply a witch hunt. Sometimes witch hunts actually turn up real witches. That didn't make them OK to do.
My point is that UNC has received their punishment, people have left, new people have come in to help get the program back on the right track but there are news agencies that still do not want to let it go. How long of reporting on this is long enough?
RE: Records show high legal bills for UNC during scandal
I'm still waiting for WRAL and all the other "ABC" news agencies to wade in on all the other universities in North Carolina and do a in-depth investigation of those schools athletic programs, (you know email records, student records, and any other confidential information they can get), and see what they come up with. I've asked WRAL to do this three times now.
- Posted by chuck2
Thanks Marvin Austin! This is the gift that keeps on giving!
He'll probably give more than you could ever make in you lifetime.
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