Noted NC Politician (& UNC Alum) Comments on the Scandal

Joe Mavretic, the former Speaker of the NC House, recently had this blunt assessment of the problems in the Athletic Department at UNC, and his view is the polar opposite of what UNC System President Erskine Bowles stated earlier today:

” There is no need for internal investigations, or for assistant coaches to resign, to determine who is responsible for the damage to the flagship’s reputation. There are three university employees whose job is to ensure that calamities like this NEVER happen. Those three employees are the head football coach, the athletic director and the chancellor. These three persons have the authority, and the responsibility, to prevent athletic scandals and they failed.

“It does not matter how they failed, why they failed or who caused them to fail-THEY FAILED! If the Board of Governors and the Trustees want to send an unmistakable message to the university system of North Carolina and set a national precedent for the way these embarrassments should be handled, then the head football coach, the athletic director and the chancellor must be replaced FOR CAUSE.

“If this flagship university actually has a national reputation for academic integrity, any less severe action in this matter sets the precedent for how much damage these three can do for sport’s money.”

 

Can't really argue with ol' Maverick.

 

i kinda figured that Butch was gonna get the axe anyway.

 

Baddour has been a bumbling AD ever since Swofford left. He has messed up one thing after another... That type of scandal will surely call for a change in AD at minimum.