The Goat Pen

Holden Thorpe commits a secondary violation by discussing that he was surprised by the scholarship being offered to drew davis.

The Carolina Way was a nice "brand" while it lasted....

stop cheating and institute a rigorous academic regimen. your grad rate will suffer but you'll be a real academic powerhouse and still be a NC contender in bball and a decent to good program in football. I flat out dont understand why you feel the need to cheat. you honest to god dont have to.

N.C. -- Defensive tackle Brandon Willis has decided to transfer from North Carolina for the second time (bwahaha) in as many years and cornerback Mywan Jackson has gone home to Florida for personal reasons, according to a school official.

with these two gone, 13 of unc's 2009 class of 28, ranked 6th in the nation either never made it on campus or are gone. your're right DS, CTC never recruited like this!!!

Willis transferred to UCLA and then back to UNC, who he committed to after de-comitting from UT.

and he's decomitted again. maybe. who the hell knows?

It's obvious that the kid has some serious issues. I hope he gets everything straightened out and does well, unless he goes to State.

maybe his issue is that he would like to go to unc and he would like to go to a clean program, but obviously cant do both.

god I hope they follow through with this....


"They have retained attorneys to explore legal action against Chancellor Holden Thorp, citing misrepresentation, possible fraud and unfair trade practices by firing football coach Butch Davis a week before practice started."

"The chancellor has done a lot of talking, and our clients relied on what the chancellor said publicly," Brown said. "They believed him. But he misled a lot of folks. And the chancellor"s bait-and-switch with Coach Davis has hurt a lot of people. They never would have made this kind of investment had the chancellor been straight up from the beginning."

"Very few coaches in America would have had the kind of drawing power that Coach Davis had and has to raise that kind of money for that kind of project in a down economy. It now appears that they used Butch"s name to raise the money, and then dumped him once the money was raised."

The Public Records Request is designed to elicit information on whether Thorp purposely waited to terminate Davis until after he had the money for the project.

The attorneys working the case, all UNC alumni, will file this request sometime this week.

The request will demand correspondence between Thorp and other individuals, including Board of Trustee members, Board of Governor members and other influential people, such as Art Chansky, Jim Heavner, and former UNC Presidents William Friday and Erskine Bowles.

"We"re handling this matter free of charge because of our love for Carolina, and our concern about these investors who were misled," Brown said. "We intend to get to the bottom of what really happened."

Attorneys handling this action on behalf of investors include Brown, of Charlotte, Matthew J. Dixon of Elizabethtown, J. Scott Hampton of Greensboro, Mark A. Johnson and Ray Smith III.

did Butch have to sign the Sign Out Sheet before he packed up and left campus?

butch's dog ate the sign out sheet.

guess this man's occupation...

English tutor?

Lawyer?

that is not DS. good guess though.

Director of Compliance?

nope. to be fair, it's a trick question. he's currently unemployed. he was a UNC police officer and Butch Davis' personal escort at games who just resigned after getting caught covering up a dwi accident involving three unc football players.

My second guess was going to be a NC cop. "Why the hurry, boy?"

dude rolled a car doing 18k in damage. had alcohol on his breath but "not impaired" cop wrote him up for no valid license

Davidson was no longer a member of the program at that time, but the three non-driving occupants were members of the team. It doesn't look good, but oh well. Boys will be boys.