Academic scandal has permanently soiled unc Chapel hill the area beyond the east
end zone at north carolina's kenan stadium is a construction zone now. Gone is
the historic old field house with its terra cotta roof, and in its place are
random piles of dirt, construction equipment, some concrete pillars and two
towering white cranes rising into the carolina blue sky. Soon, a new"Blue
zone"Section of seats and suites will be erected so that the highest of rollers
can cheer the tar heels on in the ultimate lap of luxury. It's an upgrade that
will bring kenan up to par with some of the best stadiums in college football
and help create a healthy new stream of revenue into the athletic department's
coffers. But watching a game there will never seem the same. That's not the only
thing that has changed drastically around the place its students and alumni
refer to as blue heaven. With thursday's official acknowledgment of"Academic
misconduct"On the part of an undisclosed though apparently significant number of
unc football players, the once pristine image of tar heel athletics has been
soiled irreparably. It no longer matters what the ncaa finally rules at the end
of its ongoing investigation into coach butch davis' program and its dealings
with sports agents, something that could take weeks or even months to conclude.
Like cheap ray bans outlet the
atmosphere at kenan stadium, the public perception of unc has been forever
altered. You knew things were bad as soon as it was announced that the
university chancellor would be attending a hastily called press conference
thursday night to provide an"Update"On the ever changing situation. But when
holden thorp began his remarks with the ominous sounding preface,"To everyone
who loves this university, i sorry about what i have to tell you,"Bad suddenly
turned to the worst case scenario. That's not to say that unc will be put on
probation, be banned from the postseason or suffer any other kind of
institutional penalties for the violations it has self reported to the ncaa
improprieties that center around a tutor that allegedly wrote papers for key
members of the football team. It doesn't even have to come to that. By simply
admitting that the wrongdoing took place, the tar heels became the same as every
other college program they have always looked down upon. Scandal is no longer
reserved for places such as florida state, whose initials fsu have come to stand
for"Felony state university"Because of its athletes' frequent brushes with the
law.Recruits with dubious academic credentials and moral standards are no longer
the exclusive domain of certain state schools on the other side of cheap ray bans
uk the tracks. They also reside at buttoned down, holier than though
unc. Suddenly, the"Carolina way"Doesn't seem like the right way anymore. For
years, we believed and wanted desperately to believe that the world's greatest
golfer was also one of the world's great guys.It's an image that was carefully
packaged and portrayed in everything woods did. He had an infectious smile, a
great back story and a game that made him different from everyone else who has
ever picked up a club. Then one day last winter we learned the ugly truth.Woods
had his faults, just like the rest of us.Now we'll never look at him the same
way again, no matter how many majors he eventually wins. The same goes for the
tar heels. Oh, they'll work hard to repair the damage currently being done.The
process has already begun. "We will find out what happened.We will do everything
we can to keep it from happening again, and we will not let these mistakes
define our university and what we stand for,"Thorp said. "We will use this to be
a better university, a better athletic department, and a better football program
in the years to come. " As is the case with the shiny new"Blue zone"That will
eventually rise from the rubble that was once the kenan stadium field house,
unc's athletic reputation may someday be rebuilt.Calling me names and accusing
me of bias doesn change the basic fact that this academic scandal is worse than
most because unc has gone out of its way to rub its squeaky clean do things
differently here attitude in everyone else face for a long time.As it turns out,
unc doesn do things differently.It has the same problems as everyone else.And
now you, as unc fans, have got to live with it.I know that not easy, but you
do.And whether you like it or not, people on the outside will never look at your
program the same way. As for you neil, understand that there a difference
between a news story and an opinion piece(Or column).You might not agree with
it, which is fine, but that doesn make it bad journalism.
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