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[AugustWest]

note, McADoo did write "given" instead of "give" in the above quote. so he did get that right.

[DooKSucks]

You really need help.

He's a goddamned football player. No one pretends that their fucking geniuses or on par with the rest of our student body.

[dave_rickart]

actually, he seems pretty on par with the rest of your student body....

[AugustWest]

i need help? I've been hearing Shackleford and Washburn jokes out of you for 6 years now. fuck you. payback is a bitch. maybe in the future you'll keep your yap shut.

[billy bob bocephus]

...maybe in the future you'll keep your yap shut....

I'll put a $1,000.00 on that at 1,000:1 odds that ds won't keep his yap shut...

UP! UP! UP!

[DooKSucks]

i need help? I've been hearing Shackleford and Washburn jokes out of you for 6 years now. fuck you. payback is a bitch. maybe in the future you'll keep your yap shut.

What about TA McClendon jokes? I'm sure I can think of some...

[AugustWest]

knock yourself out. I can take it. you on the other hand get your pussy in a wad when some one dares to call one of your cheating football players out as a moron.

[AugustWest]

that mean ol' press again.....


http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/unc-ad-de ... ncaa-29775

[AugustWest]

biddings up to $28!!!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/UNC-The-Carolina-Wa ... _500wt_922

[DooKSucks]

that mean ol' press again.....


http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/unc-ad-de ... ncaa-29775

That fucker deserves the scorn for that, and the damn professor should have fucking googled everything to start with when grading.

[AugustWest]

The Daily Tar HeelURL: http://www.dailytarheel.com/index.php/a ... plagiarism
Current Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:22:04 -0400

Paper in McAdoo lawsuit shows evidence of plagiarism
By Jonathan Jones | The Daily Tar Heel
By Kelly Parsons | The Daily Tar Heel
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Revised at 4:00 p.m.: The previous version of the story said PackPride.com reported the information. Instead, information within the site led to the story being reported.

The term paper on which former North Carolina football player Michael McAdoo was found to have received impermissible help from a former tutor also shows several plagiarized passages.

According to information first found on PackPride.com and later reported by SportsbyBrooks.com, McAdoo appears to have committed plagiarism throughout the paper and in varying amounts. He was found guilty on one count of academic fraud — having his citations formatted by former tutor Jennifer Wiley — by the UNC Honor Court in October.

“This work reflects his ideas exclusively,” said Steve Keady from UNC’s legal counsel during McAdoo’s appeals teleconference with the NCAA. “It is not a rip off. This really is his work.”

McAdoo’s lawyer Noah Huffstetler submitted the term paper as part of his client’s lawsuit against the NCAA and UNC to reinstate his collegiate eligibility. In numerous cases, several passages were taken verbatim or nearly word-for-word by McAdoo from sources that were either referenced later in the paper or not at all.

“I just wanted (Wiley) to look over my work, check it for grammar, make sure my ideas made sense and to check my citations so I would not be plagiarizing,” McAdoo said at the appeals hearing.

“And I never thought for a second that we were breaking any rules. I was working hard and she was there to make sure I was on the right track. She was willing to look over my work to make sure I was straight and I thought that’s what most students do. My biggest concern was trying to make sure I would not plagiarize so that’s why I wanted her to check all of the citations.”

Huffstetler, reached by phone on Friday, said he would not comment until the hearing, scheduled for July 13.

“Academic integrity is critically important to intercollegiate athletics and something that is expected from all student-athletes,” NCAA spokesman Christopher Radford said in a statement Wednesday. “As a result, the NCAA plans to vigorously defend the process by which penalties related to academic misconduct are ultimately determined by the NCAA Student-Athlete Reinstatement Committee, comprised of representatives from member institutions.”

McAdoo’s paper uses three consecutive paragraphs from a Tanzanian journalist’s blog post “Know the history of Swahili language and its original culture.” The paragraphs are nearly word for word from the blog post, which was written less than two months before McAdoo’s paper was turned in on July 13, 2009.

The paper also takes two paragraphs from an article entitled “The Brief History of the Swahili Language,” which was found on the Zanzinet Forum.

There is no mention of the blog post anywhere in the paper, including the works cited page that Wiley was found to have done for him.

McAdoo’s paper takes a substantial amount of work from Charles Cornelius’ “The History of the East African Coast.” McAdoo cites some usage of the book but claims several paragraphs as his own throughout his paper. On page four of his paper, McAdoo uses an entire paragraph that is nearly verbatim from the second page of the book’s introduction.

According to the Instrument of Student Judicial Governance, Section II.B.1, plagiarism is defined as “the deliberate or reckless representation of another’s words,thoughts, or ideas as one’s own without attribution in connection with submission of academic work, whether graded or otherwise.”

McAdoo’s professor Dr. Julius Nyang’oro is out of the country and did not immediately respond to emails.

“We are arguing that this was Michael McAdoo’s work, even the citations were his work. They were not formatted correctly, however,” UNC athletic director Dick Baddour said during the appeals teleconference.

McAdoo was ruled permanently ineligible by the NCAA on Nov. 15 after receiving $110 in benefits from a prospective agent and improper academic assistance from Wiley. The Honor Court gave McAdoo a failing grade for the assignment, suspended him for the spring 2011 semester and ruled him eligible to return to the team for the 2011 season.

The NCAA separately ruled him permanently ineligible. At that time, Baddour said the “facts of the cases simply do not support permanent ineligibility” and that UNC would appeal aggressively.

The NCAA heard McAdoo’s appeal on Dec. 14 and upheld its ruling on Feb. 9. Later, McAdoo, who had previously been under UNC counsel, retained individual counsel, something he was unaware he could do according to the lawsuit.

At the end of the appeals teleconference, the NCAA asked McAdoo if he had anything else to say.

“I would like to clarify one thing,” he said. “I wrote the entire paper and found all my sources and identified them. The tutor helped me with formatting because I thought that was okay. I did not intentionally seek out impermissible assistance.”

[AugustWest]

well, I found one tar heel with integrity. Johnathan Jones. I bet he's awfully lonely over there.

[AugustWest]

that mean ol' press again.....


http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/unc-ad-de ... ncaa-29775

That fucker deserves the scorn for that, and the damn professor should have fucking googled everything to start with when grading.

sucks, your whole basketball team has taken this guys course, and only god knows how many football players. how many times do you think that same paper has crossed his desk. 25? 30? more?

[DooKSucks]

We're a basketball school. I'm sure Ole' Roy has competent tutors...

[DooKSucks]

In the end though, the suit isn't about whether or not he violated academic rules--he did--but, instead, it's about the fairness of the NCAA sanctions. They're trying to take away two years of eligibility from the kid for stuff that cost other players around the country three or fewer games.

[AugustWest]

well then mcadoo committed academic fraud over at least three semesters, accepted illegal benefits, illegal help from wiley, and lied to the ncaa. the fact that unc's "honor" (the same "honor" court that accepted this paper as an original work) court refused to punish him for any of it is irrelevant. that's what yall dont understand. nobody gives a fuck about unc's word anymore. y'all lied through your teeth to get him back on the field and now the lie has been exposed. the rest of the country is laughing at you. those that are noticing anyway. now you've stacked teh deck with two teams of unc lawyers, and will be appearing before a unc judge. we'll see if another example of unc's complete disregard for integrity and honor works.

you've now given the ncaa the opportunity to put jennipher wiley on the stand. I'm sure you unc judge will do his best to limit the scope of questions the ncaa can ask but this is the same team of lawyers that is presenting a plagiarized paper as an example of academic integrity.

did you know that mcaddo's lawyer is managing partner of a firm that employs two BOG members? how is this not conflict of interest? oh wait y'all dont care about anything like that. never mind.


seriously, how can you condone this filth? all those conspiracies I've spouted over the years and the truth is even worse. it's sickening.

[AugustWest]

ds the last thing unc wants is for the ncaa to start being "fair" to unc. if the ncaa was fair unc would have been put on probation and gotten a post season ban for it's extra practice with obama, the ncaa would be looking into how a parent of every single recruit gets a job in chapel hill, and where all those dodge chargers the football team is driving came from

[AugustWest]

this is what passes for integrity at unc.

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all this huffing and puffing over M McAdoo's term paper ....

does any serious adult on here believe for one second that if they did a tutorectomy at every school like they have at UNC they wouldn't find multiple instances of the same thing at virutally every college football program from Dartmouth to San Diego St ? ...

I was a grader for a business statistics class in 1978/1979 ... there were 5 of the most prominent and most popular players ever in the history of Dean Smith / UNC bball in that class ... they all turned in the exact same homework ... like 1 person had done and just copied it 4 more times ... BFD ...

this is the most overwrought .. overthought ... overblown .. posturing b.s. ... who can be the most self righteous about the academic integrity of our defensive ends ...

pick something more worthy to spend your self righteousness on ...



ds, you do not want the ncaa to become fair to unc. your athletic dept would become a smoking crater.

[AugustWest]

@DaBully35 Reggie Bullock

I hope my Swahili tutor get me right for this summer class!


11 May via Twitter for iPhone

[AugustWest]

On learning Swahili at UNC

I took a class last year [he has not declared a major], and I am taking another this year. Maybe I'll use the language on a trip to Africa someday. There's no reason I chose Swahili other than that I thought it would be cool. I enjoy it.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/b ... erson0319/