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Re: MIAMI hit with LOIC

Posted: 2/21/2013 12:28 AM

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Planet Boulder wrote:
codewolfhowl wrote: signed with unc-ch out of highschool.  from elizabeth city ,i think.  heels and smith were loud and proud of the commitment

kid did not have the grades to graduate from highschool
Thanks, I don;t see the issue, here. He never enrolled at UNC and there is no way he would have been able to do so without graduating from high school. In fact, he wouldn't have been able to enroll anywhere.

What was the controversy?
There was not a violation of NCAA or ACC rules. The controversy was the way it was discovered he didn't qualify, and when.

unc-ch* had recruited this kid for 3 years. He had been a unc-ch* verbal since 10th grade. Going into the spring semester of his senior year, he was a year short of getting a diploma, even if he passed all his classes that spring. He passed 0 classes.

I don't know when most of your transcripts were sent to school, but it's hard to believe none of Williams' transcripts made their way to unc-ch* admissions offices within a few months of when he was to enroll.

He signed an LOI. An LOI within a few months of enrollment when someone within unc-ch*s athletic department or admissions department had to have known he was not going to legitimately qualify.

Yet, unc-ch* never recruited anyone else. They didn't pull the offer to get someone else. He and Hubert Davis were their only recruits that year. unc-ch* is a lot of things, but they aren't stupid.

Does anyone honestly believe if unc-ch*s basketball staff knew in December that Williams wasn't going to qualify they wouldn't have busted humps on the trail. There were a half dozen highly rated players that were still uncommitted, and even if they were committed, how many do you think would have decommitted and verballed at unc-ch*? At least one?

Like I said, there wasn't a violation, but considering the things we now know about how unc-ch* gets players into school, and keeps them in, is it really so hard to believe they would have either snuck this kid in, or created a phony GED to get him in?

I talked to a few people in Elizabeth City not long after the story broke, and although no one would speak of it on record, they said Kenny knew he was "in" at unc for years. Sound familiar?

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Posted: 2/21/2013 12:35 AM

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ncdoc wrote:
Planet Boulder wrote:
codewolfhowl wrote: signed with unc-ch out of highschool.  from elizabeth city ,i think.  heels and smith were loud and proud of the commitment

kid did not have the grades to graduate from highschool
Thanks, I don;t see the issue, here. He never enrolled at UNC and there is no way he would have been able to do so without graduating from high school. In fact, he wouldn't have been able to enroll anywhere.

What was the controversy?
EXACTLY!!!!  Only issue was UNC took a LOI from a kid with no chance of graduating.
Questions:

1) When do you think it's reasonable that someone within carolina's administration would have known a player a year and a half short of graduating wasn't going to qualify?

2) When did you send your transcripts to colleges?

3) Let's assume unc-ch* didn't figure out/find out/discover Williams wasn't going to qualify until after his fall semester of his senior year. They had 4 months to recruit someone else. Why didn't pull the offer and open recruiting?

4) If you knew he wouldn't qualify, for two years, why even get him to sign an LOI? Just to kill a tree?

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Posted: 2/21/2013 12:46 AM

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Frank Haith is being looked at for possible showcause by the NCAA for shenanigans while at 'da U. A couple of weeks ago while talking about this on the Steve Czaban show they said, "Only Calipari, Roy Williams and Coach K are allowed to cheat." Almost spit coffee all over my dashboard. That being said, if Haith was involved that would put a damper on their current dream basketball season.
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Posted: 2/21/2013 1:46 AM

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Seriously ncdouche....what the dealio? This just surprise you guys out of the blue?


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ncdoc wrote:
Planet Boulder wrote:
codewolfhowl wrote: signed with unc-ch out of highschool.  from elizabeth city ,i think.  heels and smith were loud and proud of the commitment

kid did not have the grades to graduate from highschool
Thanks, I don;t see the issue, here. He never enrolled at UNC and there is no way he would have been able to do so without graduating from high school. In fact, he wouldn't have been able to enroll anywhere.

What was the controversy?
EXACTLY!!!!  Only issue was UNC took a LOI from a kid with no chance of graduating.
Questions:

1) When do you think it's reasonable that someone within carolina's administration would have known a player a year and a half short of graduating wasn't going to qualify?

2) When did you send your transcripts to colleges?

3) Let's assume unc-ch* didn't figure out/find out/discover Williams wasn't going to qualify until after his fall semester of his senior year. They had 4 months to recruit someone else. Why didn't pull the offer and open recruiting?

4) If you knew he wouldn't qualify, for two years, why even get him to sign an LOI? Just to kill a tree?

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Posted: 2/21/2013 6:55 AM

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It is exactly what Ms. Shalala should do.  Force equal treatment from the NCAA.  Hell the examples  of unequal treatemtn are miles long.
BackNine wrote: If I was Donna Shalala, I would HAVE to publically call out the NCAA's handling of the UNC scandal, or lack thereof, in comparison to what they just handed down to Miami. If that's not hard evidence of favoritism and the presence of an agenda I don't know what is. Now that Miami has been hit with this allegation, they can take the gloves off. If I were Shalala I would get in front of every microphone I could and call out this injustice. And if it ticked off my colleagues in Chapel Hill then so be it. This double-standard is blatant  and can NOT be allowed to stand.  Not saying Miami is innocent - just saying that UNC is at least as guilty as Miami and probably more so. And that's before we talk about the efforts of coverup committed by the UNC politicos and other UNC surogates (Martin).
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Posted: 2/21/2013 7:05 AM

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duckmanjw wrote: Even throwing the Shapiro part out the window, there were enough violations found across multiple sports based on factual information, including multiple coaches to warrant the LOIC, especially for a program with the violations history of Miami.  

Most of this information was uncovered by the U itself, turned over to the NCAA and is the reason they self-imposed penalties.  If any of what Shapiro said was fact, the failure to monitor charge in regards to him is warranted, which is similar to what UNC got with ex-players and agents.

Until the school releases the NOA letter which they don't have to, you have to assume the AD is putting on a show to take everyone's eyes on the factual parts of the report.
Yes, I remember reading in the SI article that the one hero in the whole Miami mess was the compliance officer who exposed it. He was doing his job, it's a pity that no compliance officer at UNC was doing the same.
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Posted: 2/21/2013 7:44 AM

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I'll be so happy when the Powder Keg that is UNC* finally blows, it will be a day of reckoning that is long overdue. Hopefully, the handling of the U and the blatant mishandling of the Hole will be the spark. It's hard to fathom how they (NCAA) can botch the investigation at the U, then proceed anyway and just not think the general public will not see through the sham going on in CH.
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Posted: 2/21/2013 8:20 AM

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WOLFDAC wrote: I'll be so happy when the Powder Keg that is UNC* finally blows, it will be a day of reckoning that is long overdue. Hopefully, the handling of the U and the blatant mishandling of the Hole will be the spark. It's hard to fathom how they (NCAA) can botch the investigation at the U, then proceed anyway and just not think the general public will not see through the sham going on in CH.

Check the Wash Post thread this morning.
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Posted: 2/21/2013 8:24 AM

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seniorwolf60 wrote:
BlackRazor wrote:
duckmanjw wrote:
BleedWolfpackRed wrote: I don't mean to burst anyone's bubble but the NCAA is not going to be coming back to UNC.  The NCAA does not like to admit when they are wrong or in this case inept.  Given the way the Miami investigation went down and the criticism they are receiving a revisit is not likely and would draw more attention to the inability of Emmert to lead and the NCAA to oversee college athletics.  The NCAA wanted to go after Miami and did so by any means necessary.  They did not however want to go after UNC at least not with the intent to punish for wrong doings.  Hence the reason they allowed the cheats to investigate their own academic fraud and report any findings.
Emmert became the boss of the NCAA about half way through the UNC investigation.  To me, he could easily say, looking back and based on what we know now, a return visit to UNC is mandated.   If anything it would make him and the NCAA look better in light of this Miami debacle.
true but based on their recent history, my bet is they keep doing the opposite of what would make them look better.
Being wrong or inept is not a matter of concern to the NCAA when dealing with UNC. It's all about relationships. The people running the NCAA for the most part are administrators and lawyers. UNC is well fortified with lawyers and administrators in prominent places. They speak each other's language very nicely. Any wrongdoing by UNC, no matter how egregious, is portrayed as a minor aberration in a very wholesome system. Everything comes with a built in bias.
that might be changing, I just can't believe the NCAA wanted to show how tough they are so soon! AG & Joe made some good points yesterday saying that even after the NCAA admitted they screwed up in the Miami case, they still hit the Canes with LOIC. They wondered how much worse could their case have been against Miami had there not been any problems with the Miami investigation?

As they say in life, timing is everything. The NCAA should have let the UNC case simmer down some & then in a year or 2 come hard after someone. Instead, they push this Miami case with the UNC case still fresh in people's minds. I hope this blows up in their fat faces!

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Posted: 2/21/2013 8:34 AM

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Just search "Emmert" on Twitter if you want to see people calling for his head.

https://twitter.com/search?q=Emmert note:not a mobile link
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Posted: 2/21/2013 8:38 AM

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Well, if your on your way out, your surely not going to do anything to your golden goose at this point ,especially if your already a dead man walking. He'll go down with the ship and leave it to someone else, and in the end can tell whoever is pulling the strings....."see, it didn't happen on my watch."
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Posted: 2/21/2013 8:39 AM

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theSal wrote: Just search "Emmert" on Twitter if you want to see people calling for his head.

https://twitter.com/search?q=Emmert note:not a mobile link

Also heard Marc and Taylor on the Drive call for his head yesterday.
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Posted: 2/21/2013 8:41 AM

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codewolfhowl wrote: signed with unc-ch out of highschool.  from elizabeth city ,i think.  heels and smith were loud and proud of the commitment

kid did not have the grades to graduate from highschool
So, what you are saying is that the high school coaches and unc athletic officials did not have enough pull to get his grades doctored at the high school level in this case?  Maybe they should have set up an AFAM program there...
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Posted: 2/21/2013 8:46 AM

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wulfpackbaseball9 wrote:
ncdoc wrote:
Planet Boulder wrote:
codewolfhowl wrote: signed with unc-ch out of highschool.  from elizabeth city ,i think.  heels and smith were loud and proud of the commitment

kid did not have the grades to graduate from highschool
Thanks, I don;t see the issue, here. He never enrolled at UNC and there is no way he would have been able to do so without graduating from high school. In fact, he wouldn't have been able to enroll anywhere.

What was the controversy?
EXACTLY!!!!  Only issue was UNC took a LOI from a kid with no chance of graduating.
Questions:

1) When do you think it's reasonable that someone within carolina's administration would have known a player a year and a half short of graduating wasn't going to qualify?

2) When did you send your transcripts to colleges?

3) Let's assume unc-ch* didn't figure out/find out/discover Williams wasn't going to qualify until after his fall semester of his senior year. They had 4 months to recruit someone else. Why didn't pull the offer and open recruiting?

4) If you knew he wouldn't qualify, for two years, why even get him to sign an LOI? Just to kill a tree?
Sadly unc-cheat can claim to be on the right side here since he was never admitted.  Even though circumstances seem to say that he would have gotten in if not for the reporter blowing the story before William's enrollment.  We will not know at this point.  It looks like a duck and walks like a duck, but it never quacked, so we cannot say for certainty that it was a duck.  Now, there are certainly many other Rhode's scholars we can look at from their athletics where some digging could probably unearth shenanigans to get them into school... Dwight Jones, Ronald Curry, Ed Cota (I thought I heard stuff about him, but that could be my faulty memory...  Some would bring up JR Reid, but my understanding was that he was actually a fairly smart kid and did well in school..)
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Posted: 2/21/2013 8:46 AM

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 "I can't say as I ever recall them admitting a student that hadn't graduated
from [high school]."

Now you know one: Mike Copeland. Three credits short in June, needing A's in all three classes to graduate. Two months later he's on the team providing much-needed front court bulk. Copeland didn't graduate from a high school. ROY "graduated" him. Jamison, Coples, D. Jones, etc etc-- it's like Stephen Farmer (Admissions Director) said: in his 11 years there, they had "never turned down an athlete that a coach wanted."
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Posted: 2/21/2013 8:49 AM

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I can't believe people are surprised unc still manages to skate by basically untouched while other schools suffer...shocked I tell you shocked. More articles to get hopes up.

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Posted: 2/21/2013 8:51 AM

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OBXtriwolf wrote:

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I don't mean to burst anyone's bubble but the NCAA is not going to be coming back to UNC.  The NCAA does not like to admit when they are wrong or in this case inept.  Given the way the Miami investigation went down and the criticism they are receiving a revisit is not likely and would draw more attention to the inability of Emmert to lead and the NCAA to oversee college athletics.  The NCAA wanted to go after Miami and did so by any means necessary.  They did not however want to go after UNC at least not with the intent to punish for wrong doings.  Hence the reason they allowed the cheats to investigate their own academic fraud and report any findings.

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I agree. The NCAA is looking pretty inept right now. They are not going to go back to Cheater Hill. That would be admitting their ineptitude.

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Posted: 2/21/2013 8:53 AM

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redterrors04 wrote: I can't believe people are surprised unc still manages to skate by basically untouched while other schools suffer...shocked I tell you shocked. More articles to get hopes up.
are your Florida friends not discussing Miami's problems too?
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Posted: 2/21/2013 9:42 AM

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dpanther wrote: Seriously ncdouche....what the dealio? This just surprise you guys out of the blue?


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ncdoc wrote:
Planet Boulder wrote:
codewolfhowl wrote: signed with unc-ch out of highschool.  from elizabeth city ,i think.  heels and smith were loud and proud of the commitment

kid did not have the grades to graduate from highschool
Thanks, I don;t see the issue, here. He never enrolled at UNC and there is no way he would have been able to do so without graduating from high school. In fact, he wouldn't have been able to enroll anywhere.

What was the controversy?
EXACTLY!!!!  Only issue was UNC took a LOI from a kid with no chance of graduating.
Questions:

1) When do you think it's reasonable that someone within carolina's administration would have known a player a year and a half short of graduating wasn't going to qualify?

2) When did you send your transcripts to colleges?

3) Let's assume unc-ch* didn't figure out/find out/discover Williams wasn't going to qualify until after his fall semester of his senior year. They had 4 months to recruit someone else. Why didn't pull the offer and open recruiting?

4) If you knew he wouldn't qualify, for two years, why even get him to sign an LOI? Just to kill a tree?

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1- Reasonable to think they would have known about it at least a year in advance and I'd be surprisaed if they didn't.

2- Sent my transcripts when I applied for admissions in Nov of my Sr. year

3- Who's to say they weren't recruiting other kids? However, I think guys like Mourning, Owens, Mills, Sealy and Laettner had al committed to top 10 programs at the time. I know UNC recruited Owens very hard up until the time he chose Syracuse so, it's not like they bypassed others because Williams had committed.

4- I thought we were true huggers not killers. Maybe it mean't something to the kid, his HS, his coach and/or his family for him to claim he signed with UNC. I have no idea why the kid signed just like I have no idea why some kids sign LOI's on football signing date when they know they won't qualify and they will be free to sign elsewhere after prep school.

You have your own impression of what would have happened while I hold on tto the facts of what DID happen. Big difference between those two.
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Posted: 2/21/2013 9:53 AM

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Miami fans should be so mad with the ncaa regarding UNC CH when you consider
the Heels admitted to academic fraud,
a large number of athletes were enrolled in the fraudulent classes giving them an unfair advantage over other programs where the athletes had to study and thus had less practice/gym time, and the Tar Heels won several national titles while enjoying this unfair advantage.

How can the NCAA not even open an investigation into this? It is amazing!


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Posted: 2/21/2013 10:01 AM

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Guys, This is EXACTLY what is going on here. OBX nailed it. You need to get over it. The NCAA is NOT coming back to Chapel Hill. They skated by. It sucks but that's all that happens.

It's time to learn from Jim Carey in "Liar Liar".....what are you gonna do about it?

"NOTHING!! I'm gonna piss and moan and bend over and take it up the tailpipe!!!"

redterrors04 wrote:
OBXtriwolf wrote:

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I don't mean to burst anyone's bubble but the NCAA is not going to be coming back to UNC.  The NCAA does not like to admit when they are wrong or in this case inept.  Given the way the Miami investigation went down and the criticism they are receiving a revisit is not likely and would draw more attention to the inability of Emmert to lead and the NCAA to oversee college athletics.  The NCAA wanted to go after Miami and did so by any means necessary.  They did not however want to go after UNC at least not with the intent to punish for wrong doings.  Hence the reason they allowed the cheats to investigate their own academic fraud and report any findings.

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I agree. The NCAA is looking pretty inept right now. They are not going to go back to Cheater Hill. That would be admitting their ineptitude.

It's times like these when I think of the immortal words of Socrates who said "I drank what?"

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Posted: 2/21/2013 10:21 AM

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Bymie wrote:

Guys, This is EXACTLY what is going on here. OBX nailed it. You need to get over it. The NCAA is NOT coming back to Chapel Hill. They skated by. It sucks but that's all that happens.

It's time to learn from Jim Carey in "Liar Liar".....what are you gonna do about it?

"NOTHING!! I'm gonna piss and moan and bend over and take it up the tailpipe!!!"

I doubt most think the NCAA will return to UNC but that doesn't mean other schools should just accept the NCAA having 2 different sets of rules.

If 1 of the reasons the NCAA backed off was UNC threatened to sue, Miami should do the same thing. Schools can't allow the NCAA to pick & choose who plays by the rules & who doesn't.
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Posted: 2/21/2013 10:46 AM

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BlackRazor wrote:
Bymie wrote:

Guys, This is EXACTLY what is going on here. OBX nailed it. You need to get over it. The NCAA is NOT coming back to Chapel Hill. They skated by. It sucks but that's all that happens.

It's time to learn from Jim Carey in "Liar Liar".....what are you gonna do about it?

"NOTHING!! I'm gonna piss and moan and bend over and take it up the tailpipe!!!"

I doubt most think the NCAA will return to UNC but that doesn't mean other schools should just accept the NCAA having 2 different sets of rules.

If 1 of the reasons the NCAA backed off was UNC threatened to sue, Miami should do the same thing. Schools can't allow the NCAA to pick & choose who plays by the rules & who doesn't.
This! If the effectiveness of an organization is going to be compromised because some violator decides to sue, then the organization has no purpose for existence. The best way for the NCAA to fend off the likelihood of such lawsuits is to operate with a high level of competence and consistency. This is where the NCAA has made itself vulnerable. The way the NCAA has been operating during the past few years makes pending lawsuits look like a row of standing dominos.
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Posted: 2/21/2013 10:48 AM

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aglarang wrote:
wulfpackbaseball9 wrote:
ncdoc wrote:
Planet Boulder wrote:
codewolfhowl wrote: signed with unc-ch out of highschool.  from elizabeth city ,i think.  heels and smith were loud and proud of the commitment

kid did not have the grades to graduate from highschool
Thanks, I don;t see the issue, here. He never enrolled at UNC and there is no way he would have been able to do so without graduating from high school. In fact, he wouldn't have been able to enroll anywhere.

What was the controversy?
EXACTLY!!!!  Only issue was UNC took a LOI from a kid with no chance of graduating.
Questions:

1) When do you think it's reasonable that someone within carolina's administration would have known a player a year and a half short of graduating wasn't going to qualify?

2) When did you send your transcripts to colleges?

3) Let's assume unc-ch* didn't figure out/find out/discover Williams wasn't going to qualify until after his fall semester of his senior year. They had 4 months to recruit someone else. Why didn't pull the offer and open recruiting?

4) If you knew he wouldn't qualify, for two years, why even get him to sign an LOI? Just to kill a tree?
Sadly unc-cheat can claim to be on the right side here since he was never admitted.  Even though circumstances seem to say that he would have gotten in if not for the reporter blowing the story before William's enrollment.  We will not know at this point.  It looks like a duck and walks like a duck, but it never quacked, so we cannot say for certainty that it was a duck.  Now, there are certainly many other Rhode's scholars we can look at from their athletics where some digging could probably unearth shenanigans to get them into school... Dwight Jones, Ronald Curry, Ed Cota (I thought I heard stuff about him, but that could be my faulty memory...  Some would bring up JR Reid, but my understanding was that he was actually a fairly smart kid and did well in school..)
Yep, and I never said they committed a violation.

What I initially posted was the KW recruitment should have started opening people's eyes as to what the real background checks on unc-ch* athletes were all about.

It made zero sense that they would let a recruiting class be deficient knowing at least 6 months in advance KW would never qualify.

The people that don't smell something fishy there are the people that would look at Marvin Austin's Cheescake Factory tweet and say "so, he had a nice lunch. What's the big deal?"

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Posted: 2/21/2013 10:55 AM

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seniorwolf60 wrote:
BlackRazor wrote:
Bymie wrote:

Guys, This is EXACTLY what is going on here. OBX nailed it. You need to get over it. The NCAA is NOT coming back to Chapel Hill. They skated by. It sucks but that's all that happens.

It's time to learn from Jim Carey in "Liar Liar".....what are you gonna do about it?

"NOTHING!! I'm gonna piss and moan and bend over and take it up the tailpipe!!!"

I doubt most think the NCAA will return to UNC but that doesn't mean other schools should just accept the NCAA having 2 different sets of rules.

If 1 of the reasons the NCAA backed off was UNC threatened to sue, Miami should do the same thing. Schools can't allow the NCAA to pick & choose who plays by the rules & who doesn't.
This! If the effectiveness of an organization is going to be compromised because some violator decides to sue, then the organization has no purpose for existence. The best way for the NCAA to fend off the likelihood of such lawsuits is to operate with a high level of competence and consistency. This is where the NCAA has made itself vulnerable. The way the NCAA has been operating during the past few years makes pending lawsuits look like a row of standing dominos.
great points, that's why this LOIC charge so soon is so surprising. A UNC poster thought Miami would get off due to the NCAA admitting they had problems.

The NCAA may have chosen the wrong time to pick this fight.
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ncdoc wrote:
dpanther wrote: Seriously ncdouche....what the dealio? This just surprise you guys out of the blue?


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ncdoc wrote:
Planet Boulder wrote:
codewolfhowl wrote: signed with unc-ch out of highschool.  from elizabeth city ,i think.  heels and smith were loud and proud of the commitment

kid did not have the grades to graduate from highschool
Thanks, I don;t see the issue, here. He never enrolled at UNC and there is no way he would have been able to do so without graduating from high school. In fact, he wouldn't have been able to enroll anywhere.

What was the controversy?
EXACTLY!!!!  Only issue was UNC took a LOI from a kid with no chance of graduating.
Questions:

1) When do you think it's reasonable that someone within carolina's administration would have known a player a year and a half short of graduating wasn't going to qualify?

2) When did you send your transcripts to colleges?

3) Let's assume unc-ch* didn't figure out/find out/discover Williams wasn't going to qualify until after his fall semester of his senior year. They had 4 months to recruit someone else. Why didn't pull the offer and open recruiting?

4) If you knew he wouldn't qualify, for two years, why even get him to sign an LOI? Just to kill a tree?

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1- Reasonable to think they would have known about it at least a year in advance and I'd be surprisaed if they didn't.

2- Sent my transcripts when I applied for admissions in Nov of my Sr. year

3- Who's to say they weren't recruiting other kids? However, I think guys like Mourning, Owens, Mills, Sealy and Laettner had al committed to top 10 programs at the time. I know UNC recruited Owens very hard up until the time he chose Syracuse so, it's not like they bypassed others because Williams had committed.

4- I thought we were true huggers not killers. Maybe it mean't something to the kid, his HS, his coach and/or his family for him to claim he signed with UNC. I have no idea why the kid signed just like I have no idea why some kids sign LOI's on football signing date when they know they won't qualify and they will be free to sign elsewhere after prep school.

You have your own impression of what would have happened while I hold on tto the facts of what DID happen. Big difference between those two.
ncdoc: In #s 3 and 4 above, it *seems* that you are admitting that you don't have the facts regarding what actually happened. Am I incorrect? If so, what are the facts that we are missing?

I'm now honestly curious.

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Posted: 2/21/2013 11:00 AM

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wulfpackbaseball9 wrote:
aglarang wrote:
wulfpackbaseball9 wrote:
ncdoc wrote:
Planet Boulder wrote:
codewolfhowl wrote: signed with unc-ch out of highschool.  from elizabeth city ,i think.  heels and smith were loud and proud of the commitment

kid did not have the grades to graduate from highschool
Thanks, I don;t see the issue, here. He never enrolled at UNC and there is no way he would have been able to do so without graduating from high school. In fact, he wouldn't have been able to enroll anywhere.

What was the controversy?
EXACTLY!!!!  Only issue was UNC took a LOI from a kid with no chance of graduating.
Questions:

1) When do you think it's reasonable that someone within carolina's administration would have known a player a year and a half short of graduating wasn't going to qualify?

2) When did you send your transcripts to colleges?

3) Let's assume unc-ch* didn't figure out/find out/discover Williams wasn't going to qualify until after his fall semester of his senior year. They had 4 months to recruit someone else. Why didn't pull the offer and open recruiting?

4) If you knew he wouldn't qualify, for two years, why even get him to sign an LOI? Just to kill a tree?
Sadly unc-cheat can claim to be on the right side here since he was never admitted.  Even though circumstances seem to say that he would have gotten in if not for the reporter blowing the story before William's enrollment.  We will not know at this point.  It looks like a duck and walks like a duck, but it never quacked, so we cannot say for certainty that it was a duck.  Now, there are certainly many other Rhode's scholars we can look at from their athletics where some digging could probably unearth shenanigans to get them into school... Dwight Jones, Ronald Curry, Ed Cota (I thought I heard stuff about him, but that could be my faulty memory...  Some would bring up JR Reid, but my understanding was that he was actually a fairly smart kid and did well in school..)
Yep, and I never said they committed a violation.

What I initially posted was the KW recruitment should have started opening people's eyes as to what the real background checks on unc-ch* athletes were all about.

It made zero sense that they would let a recruiting class be deficient knowing at least 6 months in advance KW would never qualify.

The people that don't smell something fishy there are the people that would look at Marvin Austin's Cheescake Factory tweet and say "so, he had a nice lunch. What's the big deal?"
It's not like they didn't recruit other players that year. I recall they were in the hunt for Owens until the day he chose Syracuse. Many thought the fact that Jeff Lebo's Dad coached Owens would have given UNC an advantage but, it didn't turn out that way.
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Posted: 2/21/2013 11:12 AM

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ncdoc wrote:
dpanther wrote: Seriously ncdouche....what the dealio? This just surprise you guys out of the blue?


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ncdoc wrote:
Planet Boulder wrote:
codewolfhowl wrote: signed with unc-ch out of highschool.  from elizabeth city ,i think.  heels and smith were loud and proud of the commitment

kid did not have the grades to graduate from highschool
Thanks, I don;t see the issue, here. He never enrolled at UNC and there is no way he would have been able to do so without graduating from high school. In fact, he wouldn't have been able to enroll anywhere.

What was the controversy?
EXACTLY!!!!  Only issue was UNC took a LOI from a kid with no chance of graduating.
Questions:

1) When do you think it's reasonable that someone within carolina's administration would have known a player a year and a half short of graduating wasn't going to qualify?

2) When did you send your transcripts to colleges?

3) Let's assume unc-ch* didn't figure out/find out/discover Williams wasn't going to qualify until after his fall semester of his senior year. They had 4 months to recruit someone else. Why didn't pull the offer and open recruiting?

4) If you knew he wouldn't qualify, for two years, why even get him to sign an LOI? Just to kill a tree?

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1- Reasonable to think they would have known about it at least a year in advance and I'd be surprisaed if they didn't.

2- Sent my transcripts when I applied for admissions in Nov of my Sr. year  (which also supports the "they knew" long before recruiting season kicked in.)

3- Who's to say they weren't recruiting other kids? However, I think guys like Mourning, Owens, Mills, Sealy and Laettner had al committed to top 10 programs at the time. I know UNC recruited Owens very hard up until the time he chose Syracuse so, it's not like they bypassed others because Williams had committed. (Owens wanted badly to go to unc-ch*. He idolized Smith, and Lebo was a former HS teammate. But Smith didn't want to take the chance on a "sketchy" academic record.

4- I thought we were true huggers not killers. Maybe it mean't something to the kid, his HS, his coach and/or his family for him to claim he signed with UNC. I have no idea why the kid signed just like I have no idea why some kids sign LOI's on football signing date when they know they won't qualify and they will be free to sign elsewhere after prep school.

You have your own impression of what would have happened while I hold on tto the facts of what DID happen. Big difference between those two.
Yeah, the bolded are all your "facts". The only fact in your favor is Williams didn't officially walk onto campus in August.

Players sign LOIs all the time when they think they may not make the grades. When there's one, or possibly two classes that may keep them out.

Not when they're 14 classes short of getting the diploma.

I think your facts are a lot like the "facts" you presented when Fedora didn't interview (although his own tweet implied heavily that he did), and the discussion of red flags in FAC meetings (even though that has been widely refuted), and that unc-ch* didn't commit a violation when they put that stupid billboard up (when it absolutely was mandated by ACC offices that they were NOT to acknowledge the championship if they won it. They did it anyway.)

So, you stick to your "facts", and I'll continue to post proof of things, and pieces of evidence that logically would lead one to believe what the truth really is.

That "maybe the kid wanted to sign a letter for his family, or HS, or coach" sounds a lot like the "we had a bunch of basketball players take the Naval class because we were worried about graffitti" excuse.

Perhaps you work for the PR firm.noidea

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Posted: 2/21/2013 11:13 AM

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If these charges stick, does Al Golden jump ship?
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Posted: 2/21/2013 11:16 AM

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ncdoc wrote:
wulfpackbaseball9 wrote:
aglarang wrote:
wulfpackbaseball9 wrote:
ncdoc wrote:
Planet Boulder wrote:
codewolfhowl wrote: signed with unc-ch out of highschool.  from elizabeth city ,i think.  heels and smith were loud and proud of the commitment

kid did not have the grades to graduate from highschool
Thanks, I don;t see the issue, here. He never enrolled at UNC and there is no way he would have been able to do so without graduating from high school. In fact, he wouldn't have been able to enroll anywhere.

What was the controversy?
EXACTLY!!!!  Only issue was UNC took a LOI from a kid with no chance of graduating.
Questions:

1) When do you think it's reasonable that someone within carolina's administration would have known a player a year and a half short of graduating wasn't going to qualify?

2) When did you send your transcripts to colleges?

3) Let's assume unc-ch* didn't figure out/find out/discover Williams wasn't going to qualify until after his fall semester of his senior year. They had 4 months to recruit someone else. Why didn't pull the offer and open recruiting?

4) If you knew he wouldn't qualify, for two years, why even get him to sign an LOI? Just to kill a tree?
Sadly unc-cheat can claim to be on the right side here since he was never admitted.  Even though circumstances seem to say that he would have gotten in if not for the reporter blowing the story before William's enrollment.  We will not know at this point.  It looks like a duck and walks like a duck, but it never quacked, so we cannot say for certainty that it was a duck.  Now, there are certainly many other Rhode's scholars we can look at from their athletics where some digging could probably unearth shenanigans to get them into school... Dwight Jones, Ronald Curry, Ed Cota (I thought I heard stuff about him, but that could be my faulty memory...  Some would bring up JR Reid, but my understanding was that he was actually a fairly smart kid and did well in school..)
Yep, and I never said they committed a violation.

What I initially posted was the KW recruitment should have started opening people's eyes as to what the real background checks on unc-ch* athletes were all about.

It made zero sense that they would let a recruiting class be deficient knowing at least 6 months in advance KW would never qualify.

The people that don't smell something fishy there are the people that would look at Marvin Austin's Cheescake Factory tweet and say "so, he had a nice lunch. What's the big deal?"
It's not like they didn't recruit other players that year. I recall they were in the hunt for Owens until the day he chose Syracuse. Many thought the fact that Jeff Lebo's Dad coached Owens would have given UNC an advantage but, it didn't turn out that way.
Owens did want to go there. He idolized Smith. Smith basically told him he already had a 4, and didn't need another one. Owens was also academically on the edge, the only main difference was the nation knew Owens was on shaky ground academically, but no one knew Williams was until almost May.

Why is that?

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Posted: 2/21/2013 11:24 AM

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Here is a quote from a SI article about Owens recruitment.

Dean Smith and Rollie Massimino did not have much of a chance to land the player of the 1980s. Owens's brother—and best friend—Michael, 20, is a junior running back on the Syracuse football team, and both his parents, Bill and Marsha, wanted Billy to wear the orange. For the youngest of five children in an extremely close family, those opinions carried weight.
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Posted: 2/21/2013 11:30 AM

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And here's one from the LA Times:

"Just as Jeff Lebo made Owens better by pushing him, motivating him, being an extra big brother. Billy Owens picked Syracuse because his brother is there and he feels comfortable with the Orangemen players, but almost went to North Carolina because of Lebo.

"I think Coach (Dean) Smith's the best coach in the world. . . . He told me I had the potential to be a No. 1 draft choice in the pros," Owens said. "But, most of all, I would have loved to play with Jeff Lebo again." "

Big whoop.

I see you have latched onto this now. Typical misdirection from a unc-ch* PR man. rolleyes

Go answer PB's questions.

edit: And my last one. Why did everyone in the nation know Owens may not qualify (but he did), and no one knew about Williams, who was half his HS education short?

Perhaps, maybe, possibly unc-ch* could control Pasquotank County's educational process?

I know, you need facts, not opinion. But, I like thinking outside the box, not in a vacuum.

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Posted: 2/21/2013 11:38 AM

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wulfpackbaseball9 wrote:

And here's one from the LA Times:

"Just as Jeff Lebo made Owens better by pushing him, motivating him, being an extra big brother. Billy Owens picked Syracuse because his brother is there and he feels comfortable with the Orangemen players, but almost went to North Carolina because of Lebo.

"I think Coach (Dean) Smith's the best coach in the world. . . . He told me I had the potential to be a No. 1 draft choice in the pros," Owens said. "But, most of all, I would have loved to play with Jeff Lebo again." "

Big whoop.

I see you have latched onto this now. Typical misdirection from a unc-ch* PR man. rolleyes

Go answer PB's questions.

Your quote just substantiated the comment from the SI article. As long as his brother was at Syracuse and his family wanted him to go there it was highly unlikely he was going to sign at UNC with or without Kenny Williams.

Not misdirecting at all. You were the one that said UNC sabotaged an entire class because of Williams and I just refuted that by saying they recruited Owens until the end. Seems like your earliar comment about Smith telling Owens he already had his 4 and wouldn't take Owens is proven false by the comment above stating he almost went to UNC.

Which argument are you trying to prove because, so far you haven't proved much proof of anything except that Kenny Williams didn't qualify, didn't attend UNC and Billy Owens went to Syracuse.
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Posted: 2/21/2013 11:48 AM

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Back on topic...unc* cheated and has not been properly sanctioned...are we all in agreement here?
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Posted: 2/21/2013 11:54 AM

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Planet Boulder wrote:
ncdoc wrote:
dpanther wrote: Seriously ncdouche....what the dealio? This just surprise you guys out of the blue?


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--- wulfpackbaseball9 wrote:


ncdoc wrote:
Planet Boulder wrote:
codewolfhowl wrote: signed with unc-ch out of highschool.  from elizabeth city ,i think.  heels and smith were loud and proud of the commitment

kid did not have the grades to graduate from highschool
Thanks, I don;t see the issue, here. He never enrolled at UNC and there is no way he would have been able to do so without graduating from high school. In fact, he wouldn't have been able to enroll anywhere.

What was the controversy?
EXACTLY!!!!  Only issue was UNC took a LOI from a kid with no chance of graduating.
Questions:

1) When do you think it's reasonable that someone within carolina's administration would have known a player a year and a half short of graduating wasn't going to qualify?

2) When did you send your transcripts to colleges?

3) Let's assume unc-ch* didn't figure out/find out/discover Williams wasn't going to qualify until after his fall semester of his senior year. They had 4 months to recruit someone else. Why didn't pull the offer and open recruiting?

4) If you knew he wouldn't qualify, for two years, why even get him to sign an LOI? Just to kill a tree?

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1- Reasonable to think they would have known about it at least a year in advance and I'd be surprisaed if they didn't.

2- Sent my transcripts when I applied for admissions in Nov of my Sr. year

3- Who's to say they weren't recruiting other kids? However, I think guys like Mourning, Owens, Mills, Sealy and Laettner had al committed to top 10 programs at the time. I know UNC recruited Owens very hard up until the time he chose Syracuse so, it's not like they bypassed others because Williams had committed.

4- I thought we were true huggers not killers. Maybe it mean't something to the kid, his HS, his coach and/or his family for him to claim he signed with UNC. I have no idea why the kid signed just like I have no idea why some kids sign LOI's on football signing date when they know they won't qualify and they will be free to sign elsewhere after prep school.

You have your own impression of what would have happened while I hold on tto the facts of what DID happen. Big difference between those two.
ncdoc: In #s 3 and 4 above, it *seems* that you are admitting that you don't have the facts regarding what actually happened. Am I incorrect? If so, what are the facts that we are missing?

I'm now honestly curious.
Boulder, #3- I indicated and have provided documentation to show that UNC was recruiting Billy Owens to the very end. So, they weren't just focused on Williams and turning top 5 national players away because of him.

#4- Hell, I can't even find any documentation that he ever signed a LOI with UNC. Perhaps others can provide that. As I mentioned, there are lots of kids that do sign LOI's with schools knowing they will have to go to prep school to qualify. I think both of our schools have had several football players do that over the years. Were any of those as far away from qualifying as Williams? I don't know and chances are no one on this board does.
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Posted: 2/21/2013 11:59 AM

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wulfpackbaseball9 wrote: ^^Like I said, nice misdirection.
Very difficult to classify something as misdirection when you're the person that brought up the topic of Kenny Williams. All I've done is respond to your beliefs with facts.

Remind me again, what argument are you trying to prove?
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Posted: 2/21/2013 12:08 PM

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ncdoc wrote:
wulfpackbaseball9 wrote: ^^Like I said, nice misdirection.
Very difficult to classify something as misdirection when you're the person that brought up the topic of Kenny Williams. All I've done is respond to your beliefs with facts.

Remind me again, what argument are you trying to prove?
Let me be clear. My initial response to this was one sentence. It wasn't directed at you, and it never said a word about unc-ch* committing a violation.

You're the one that jumped in on this.

So far I have you saying he signed an LOI, now you have no idea if he did or not.
You have no idea if recruits sign LOIs that are half a HS education short of qualifying.
You, by your answer to #1 in my questions, admit unc-ch* should have known about Williams' academic shortcomings way earlier than they did. Yet they sat on one recruit. This isn't clemson basketball here, this is unc. They could have easily found another player if they had wanted to.

You have no answer to why a kid with no chance of qualifying would sign an LOI.
Or, why the nation knew Billy Owens was close not not clearing, but no one publicly knew Williams was.

Is there irrefutable proff unc-ch* was gonna let Williams in? Of course not. But when you look at everything posted so far my version of what happened and what unc-ch* did is a lot more believable than your version.

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Posted: 2/21/2013 12:11 PM

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This is why the NCAA is hung up in the UNC case-- they first have to come up with a good explanation of why the following is ok, and they haven't been able to yet: 

Two fraudulent classes had one basketball player only in them. And two more classes had  one basketball player and one other. There were no class meetings; no  professors; no evidence of assignments. The chancellor said he "couldn't [even]  determine who created these classes." The only evidence of the classes was a  grade... submitted with the forged signature of a prof who didn't teach the class.

One of these classes was a foreign language class (Swahili). A foreign language class with no professor and no classmates. The student would never hear one word of Swahili.  And it was also documented that some of the no-show classes awarded 6 hrs. credit, rather than 3, so double credit for these "classes" is also possible.

Can UNC document one case of a private, fake class being arranged for a non-athlete? I can't imagine one reason why they would hand out free credit hours and grades to anyone but an athlete. If  they can't show that they do it for regular students too, then this would be "a special benefit for athletes".

These "classes" took place between summer 07 and summer 09: credits and grades awarded 07-08 would have made players eligible to play in 09, and those awarded in 08-09-- well that was  a championship year. How will the NCAA justify allowing wins from these two years, at a minimum, to stand? Would they make the same argument for John Calipari? Nine months of brainstorming, and they are still stuck on how to get out of this one.
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Posted: 2/21/2013 12:12 PM

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sloth wrote: Miami fans should be so mad with the ncaa regarding UNC CH when you consider
the Heels admitted to academic fraud,
a large number of athletes were enrolled in the fraudulent classes giving them an unfair advantage over other programs where the athletes had to study and thus had less practice/gym time, and the Tar Heels won several national titles while enjoying this unfair advantage.

How can the NCAA not even open an investigation into this? It is amazing!
Miami should be mad because the Cheats had an agent (or at minimum an agent's runner) on staff as an Assistant Coach who was also the head recruiter. In addition, the agent to whom the assistant coach is employed is paying for trips to his workout facility in California. This seems to me to be as bad or worse than Miami since at Miami it was mainly a booster.

And then we have an "instructor" (Carl Carey) hired in the AFAM dept to "teach". This same person had as a job to keep Julius Peppers eligible via fake classes (see transcripts) and then signs Julius Peppers as a client.
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Posted: 2/21/2013 12:12 PM

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9, kids sign LOI's all the time when they aren't going to qualify. No different then than now. Think about all the football players that go to prep school because they didn't qualify. Don't they sign LOI's? Yes. Do some of them know there is no way in hell they will qualify? You better believe it.
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