Nah, they're not lying. He didn't know they were using his likeness. He knew they were using pictures of him, but he didn't know what the word "likeness" means. There's your Tar loopHole.

12/20/2011 2:57:55 PM

Anybody screen cap his Facebook page to to email to the NCAA, prooofff

12/20/2011 4:12:45 PM

if you're in one of his networks, it would probably still be in his 'profile pictures' folder

12/20/2011 4:25:08 PM

ahahahhahahahaha

They declared him ineligible and are seeking reinstatement

ahahahahahahahahahaha

http://northcarolina.scout.com/2/1140770.html

Quote :

"Chapel Hill, N.C. - University of North Carolina senior wide receiver Dwight Jones committed a secondary NCAA violation when he allowed his name and photo to be used to promote an event in his hometown of Burlington, N.C. NCAA rules prevent student-athletes from using their name, photo or likeness to promote a for-profit entity. UNC learned of the secondary violation and has declared Jones ineligible. Carolina has applied to the NCAA for his reinstatement. “I apologize to my teammates, the coaching staff, and the University for the poor decision I made to allow my likeness to be used in the promotion of a party given by a family member while still a part of the Carolina football team,” said Jones. “I should have asked the coaching staff or administration before allowing this to happen. I was wrong and the party is cancelled. I’m sorry for being a distraction to our team and taking the focus away from our preparation for the Independence Bowl.” “Coach Withers and I met, and Dwight realizes he made a mistake,” said UNC athletics director Bubba Cunningham. “Dwight has cancelled the party and we have submitted a reinstatement request with the NCAA.” UNC’s compliance office also has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the party promoters. North Carolina plays Missouri in the AdvoCare V100 Independence Bowl on Monday, Dec. 26. The team departs for Shreveport on Thursday, Dec. 22."

12/20/2011 5:29:44 PM

OSU gets a bowl ban, schollies pulled, etc. UNC is uber-fucked.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/7372757/ohio-state-buckeyes-football-penalties-include-bowl-ban

one year post-season ban
9 scholarships lost over 3 years
3 years probation
Show-cause for Tressel

[Edited on December 20, 2011 at 5:52 PM. Reason : .]

12/20/2011 5:51:34 PM

^^Damn...party cancelled.

12/20/2011 6:12:57 PM

12/20/2011 6:34:42 PM

Party Canceled = Flier not posted anymore. He will still be there and still be making it rain...

what a great time to screw up AGAIN while the NCAA is drafting up your punishment...

[Edited on December 20, 2011 at 8:20 PM. Reason : idiots]

12/20/2011 8:20:03 PM

someone go and get pictures of him there.

12/20/2011 8:28:30 PM

at this point it would look better if UNC would just leave him ineligible instead of seeking reinstatement. "hey ncaa we've screwed up again and ruled this guy ineligible. since our track record with you all is so clean... do you mind reinstating him?"

12/20/2011 8:34:28 PM

Kinda wish they had issued probation so this would have fallen in that time frame.
Hopefully the NCAA sees this as a continuation of a cheating culture.

12/20/2011 9:08:56 PM

what is going on with the 216 records? i thought butch said he was going to release them.

12/21/2011 12:17:09 AM

http://deadspin.com/5869138/uncs-star-wide-receiver-wants-to-violate-a-bunch-of-ncaa-rules-for-his-birthday

12/21/2011 12:31:56 AM

^^^ it's definitely a contination of dumbassery. how can they claim they're educating their players about this stuff, when it is that blatant?

12/21/2011 12:48:40 AM

Quote :

"And so, five days after his college career ends at that bowl in Shreveport, La., Jones is holding a party at 778 Sports Lounge in Burlington (view the full flyer, which is currently the profile image on Dwight Jones's Facebook page and which features a free-floating cigar and hundred-dollar bills raining onto a throne of gold). The promotion offers $500 to "some lucky ladies," not to mention 24 comped admissions and 24 free shots on the hour—an odd choice of number, since Jones is turning 23."

keep it classy

12/21/2011 7:50:13 AM

Quote :

"• North Carolina: If any program's fans should be shaking after Tuesday's ruling, it's the Tar Heels'. UNC went before the committee in October, and its verdict is expected shortly. When its Notice of Allegations came out this summer, fans hung their hopes for a lenient sentence on the following facts: 1) It avoided the dreaded Lack of Institutional Control charge, receiving Failure to Monitor instead; and 2) The school was proactive, suspending players itself as soon as allegations of misconduct arose prior to the 2010 season. Well, Ohio State was also charged with Failure to Monitor. It self-reported every violation in Tuesday's report, preemptively fired Tressel, disassociated Pryor and DiGeronimo and self-imposed several penalties -- and still it got hit with a bowl ban. North Carolina should expect even worse, considering its case is wider in scope and involves two of the NCAA's biggest no-nos -- academic fraud and agent violations. I'd expect a two-year bowl ban and at least one docked scholarship for every player that received impermissible benefits or improper academic help. Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/stewart_mandel/12/20/future.ncaa.penalties/index.html#ixzz1hAuB7yp6"

Of course, the NCAA doesn't really seem to use other cases as precedent, but hopefully the OSU case shows how they feel about things these days.

[Edited on December 21, 2011 at 8:43 AM. Reason : ...]

12/21/2011 8:18:50 AM

best first post ever.

welcome to TWW, n00b

12/21/2011 8:43:20 AM

Quote :

"at this point it would look better if UNC would just leave him ineligible instead of seeking reinstatement. "hey ncaa we've screwed up again and ruled this guy ineligible. since our track record with you all is so clean... do you mind reinstating him?""

My take: They declared him ineligible then asked to reinstate him in the same breath. I guess that really shows just how hardcore their decision to declare him ineligible was.

12/21/2011 8:55:51 AM

^^^ from the same article.

Quote :

"While the NCAA loves to remind us that no two cases are the same, the Committee actually made two references in Tuesday's report that suggest otherwise. At one point, in discussing the "insider" status enjoyed by now-disassociated booster Bobby DiGeronimo (who paid several players $200 apiece for appearing at his charity event and hooked up some with unapproved short-term jobs), the report specifically references a 2003 case at Arkansas involving a similar figure. Later, the committee writes that they considered issuing a multi-year ban but refrained "after weighing the aggravating factors and the overall seriousness of the case in light of other recent major infractions cases where a multiple year postseason was imposed." "

12/21/2011 9:03:33 AM

As we know, UNC is the poster child team so they won't really get anything.

(I would love to be wrong.)

12/21/2011 9:22:52 AM

The dumb shit just keeps on coming. They should seriously revise their ruling to LOIC at this point I mean come on its painfully obvious they dont give a shit over there.

12/21/2011 9:53:24 AM

Dwight Jones cleared to play :/

12/21/2011 11:46:42 AM

^^^ is that a serious post? ohio state is 10x the poster child unc is.

12/21/2011 11:59:08 AM

^,^^^^Not to mention that UNC is a poster child within the Carolinas. You move out to Virginia and they see UNC as "a talented school" but hardly a poster child.

12/21/2011 12:06:19 PM

Hopefully the NCAA figured playing in Shreveport was punishment enough and will just tack on a little more icing on their punishment.

Hopefully...

12/21/2011 12:09:45 PM

Hopefully the party is still on. I don't want other nye plans

12/21/2011 1:07:42 PM

12/21/2011 4:08:03 PM

from facebook: I posted the link to the original deadspin article

GUY FROM HS: He got reinstated so i guess bahahahahahahah is in order from our end now
17 minutes ago · Like

ME: I guess you guys get the last laugh. you got a bowl prediction for next year?
8 minutes ago · Like

lol. i cant wait to see his response

keep in mind this guy is a UNC GRADUATE high school graduate

12/21/2011 5:01:35 PM

lol here is his response...

HIM: I think top 4 in the acc so peach or gator maybe

12/21/2011 10:46:57 PM

oblivious...

12/21/2011 11:00:13 PM

was listening to david glen on my way back from SC today. his whole show was dedicated to blowing up the NCAA

12/22/2011 4:56:28 PM

where is that damn UNC Football Fan Diagram, or is it just UNC Fan in general diagram?

I need it and I figured it would come right up on google.

12/23/2011 8:42:41 AM

http://thewolfweb.com/photos/00063748.jpg

voila

12/23/2011 8:57:41 AM

thank you

12/23/2011 9:08:34 AM

Quote :

"North Carolina: If any program's fans should be shaking after Tuesday's ruling, it's the Tar Heels'. UNC went before the Committee in October, and its verdict is expected shortly. When its Notice of Allegations came out this summer, fans hung their hopes for a lenient sentence on the following facts: 1) It avoided the dreaded Lack of Institutional Control charge, receiving Failure to Monitor instead; and 2) The school was proactive, suspending players itself as soon as allegations of misconduct arose prior to the 2010 season. Well, Ohio State was also charged with Failure to Monitor. It self-reported every violation in Tuesday's report, preemptively fired Tressel, disassociated Pryor and DiGeronimo and self-imposed several penalties -- and still it got hit with a bowl ban. North Carolina should expect even worse, considering its case is wider in scope and involves two of the NCAA's biggest no-nos -- academic fraud and agent violations. I'd expect a two-year bowl ban and at least one docked scholarship for every player who received impermissible benefits or improper academic help."

yes please

12/23/2011 11:34:10 AM

According to twitter the party is back on... Who would have seen that coming? And here I thought his apology was sincere.

12/28/2011 11:47:35 AM

i really hope the party is back on. make the NCAA take a 2nd look at the punishments they are about to hand down and decide that there really is LOIC

12/28/2011 1:20:29 PM

http://t.co/9XQ7TKq2

12/28/2011 1:35:09 PM

haha. what a freakin moron.

12/28/2011 1:38:31 PM

lol, what a complete travesty. idiots.

so does the fact that the season is over have any bearing?

12/28/2011 1:51:07 PM

Probably not. But I'm sure he was instructed by @UNCCompliance to say those things.

12/28/2011 1:55:50 PM

^ bingo. that's what's so infuriating. they knew EXACTLY what they were doing and what they were gonna do, but instead made up this song and dance about "oh, he's sorry, he didn't know...", knowing full well that this dumbass was gonna have the party anyway and use the same damned poster for it. I can't imagine a bigger "fuck you" to the NCAA than that.

12/29/2011 8:30:57 AM

they won't care

12/29/2011 8:47:31 AM

Would it still be a violation if you knew it was a UNC Uniform?

12/29/2011 9:10:48 AM

The poster says 1st annual...does the mean we can expect it every year? Hopefully we can make it somewhat of a commemorative anniversary party of the final blow to UNC football.

12/29/2011 1:01:54 PM

no that means they think hes going to come back to crappy burlington for new years once he makes it big. lol

12/29/2011 4:25:25 PM

Well, the date on the poster is Dec 31, 2012, so he's already on board for next year.

12/29/2011 4:36:16 PM

^the changes in font make me thing the 2012 is not meant to go with the December 31, it is just a celebration of 2012

12/30/2011 11:02:25 AM

I follow @unccompliance on twitter and it's funny to me some of the stuff they post. Here is a tweet from today...

Quote :

"Student-Athletes:Is this your last semester at UNC and only need a couple of credits to graduate?Get underload approval, contact Susan Maloy"

Hasn't the semester started? Don't all athletes have advisors and wouldn't they know if they were "under loaded"? I feel like they are trying to become clean in the eye of the public when this type of stuff is business as usual for all colleges.

1/9/2012 2:57:06 PM

http://didunccheat.com

1/10/2012 6:48:19 PM