UNC focused on new season, not old NCAA questions

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UNC focused on new season, not old NCAA questions

Aug 5, 2012

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Chapel Hill, N.C. — At the annual "Meet the Heels" event in Chapel Hill Saturday, coaches, players and fans of the University of North Carolina football team were all rooting for the same thing: tough, smart, physical players who hit the books as hard as they hit their opponents.

A new face on the sideline, head coach Larry Fedora, could be a symbol that the Tar Heels have turned a corner. After two years of NCAA scrutiny, players and fans are ready to move on. Slideshow Fans, Heels kick off new season

Freshman long snapper Conor Fry said, "With Fedora coming to UNC, I think it's easy because he's brought so much good energy. Positive vibes are here, so I think everyone's mind is off of that."

"That" is the fact that even if they win all 12 regular season games, this year's team has no chance at an ACC Championship or a bowl game.

They are still paying the price for the Tar Heels who flouted NCAA rules about contact with agents, accepted gifts and got too much help from a tutor. In March, the NCAA vacated all 16 wins from UNC's 2008 and 2009 seasons. It imposed the one-year postseason ban on the team, along with three years of probation, through March 11, 2015, and a loss of five scholarships in each of the next three seasons.

Saturday's combination practice, pep rally and autograph session put the focus back on the current players and their performance.

"We're just going out there and doing our jobs, helping out the seniors, making sure they get a good season," said Miller Snyder, a sophomore kicker.

Fedora said his team would move forward, one step at a time.

"Right now all we're worried about is working hard during camp, preparing for the season and then getting ready for Elon," he said.

The Heels open against the Phoenix at Kenan Stadium Sept. 1 at 12:30 p.m.

Reporters: Kevin Holmes, Jason Jennings
Photographer: Bill Herrero
Web Editor: Jodi Leese Glusco

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RE: UNC focused on new season, not old NCAA questions

Yep. That is a fact. ewenc was caught cheating,put on NCAA probation, AND then after all that prof. kangaroo created fake/questionable classes. That is a fact !
- Posted by TwKaMF
Just curious, why do you call him Prof. Kangaroo? I'm sensing some bias here...but maybe it's just me...nah, bias pure and hateful.

Knew you Red Ragers would come out of the tall grass in the Cow Pattie field on this one, it's all you live for. I'm smellin more nervousness out of the Red Rage contingent than a guy that cleans septic tanks smells IT. Or maybe it's the orderly took a day off and you Red Ragers have messed yourselves. No matter the day, collective fear, the Red Rage way.
- Posted by Black Mamba

Nope. I just did not know how to spell his name.(or even say it)The capt./ prof. / dr. kangaroo reference is just sheet talking about the farce that is ewenc. What you smell is your/ewenc's dirty laundry.

No bias. Just the facts.
- Posted by TwKaMF
"Prof. Kangaroo" is not a fact. Red Rage logic is so convenient.
- Posted by Black Mamba

black dummmba, capt./ prof./ dr. kangaroo is a FACT ! ewenc's OWN have said that HE signed off on fake/fraudulent grades as well as suspect classes/credit(s) for ewenc "student" athletes. "Rage" does not apply. It is facts that DO apply.

STOP ! Stop lying, denying, defending,etc. STOP humiliating yourself talking about the farce that is ewenc !

RE: UNC focused on new season, not old NCAA questions

Maybe time for a little education. Capt. Kangaroo was a tv character played by a WHITE man. He lived in a children's fantasy land of fictional characters. Seems to fit the perceived reality of most hole fans.

RE: UNC focused on new season, not old NCAA questions

Fact?
- Posted by RextheSquare

Yep. That is a fact. ewenc was caught cheating,put on NCAA probation, AND then after all that prof. kangaroo created fake/questionable classes. That is a fact !
- Posted by TwKaMF
Just curious, why do you call him Prof. Kangaroo? I'm sensing some bias here...but maybe it's just me...nah, bias pure and hateful.

Knew you Red Ragers would come out of the tall grass in the Cow Pattie field on this one, it's all you live for. I'm smellin more nervousness out of the Red Rage contingent than a guy that cleans septic tanks smells IT. Or maybe it's the orderly took a day off and you Red Ragers have messed yourselves. No matter the day, collective fear, the Red Rage way.
- Posted by Black Mamba

Nope. I just did not know how to spell his name.(or even say it)The capt./ prof. / dr. kangaroo reference is just sheet talking about the farce that is ewenc. What you smell is your/ewenc's dirty laundry.

No bias. Just the facts.
- Posted by TwKaMF

"Prof. Kangaroo" is not a fact. Red Rage logic is so convenient.

RE: UNC focused on new season, not old NCAA questions

But so much new cheating has been discovered. There has been a system set up at UNC to keep athletes eligible via phone classes an AF/AM studies with advisors routing students to the fake classes. That is huge.
- Posted by wrx44

Fact?
- Posted by RextheSquare

Yep. That is a fact. ewenc was caught cheating,put on NCAA probation, AND then after all that prof. kangaroo created fake/questionable classes. That is a fact !
- Posted by TwKaMF
Just curious, why do you call him Prof. Kangaroo? I'm sensing some bias here...but maybe it's just me...nah, bias pure and hateful.

Knew you Red Ragers would come out of the tall grass in the Cow Pattie field on this one, it's all you live for. I'm smellin more nervousness out of the Red Rage contingent than a guy that cleans septic tanks smells IT. Or maybe it's the orderly took a day off and you Red Ragers have messed yourselves. No matter the day, collective fear, the Red Rage way.
- Posted by Black Mamba

Nope. I just did not know how to spell his name.(or even say it)The capt./ prof. / dr. kangaroo reference is just sheet talking about the farce that is ewenc. What you smell is your/ewenc's dirty laundry.

No bias. Just the facts.

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