^^^ Nope. Just thought it deserved to be posted again.

1/8/2014 11:48:23 AM

I guess she's getting death threats now

1/8/2014 4:28:11 PM

^ most of them are probably coming from the player that she outed that wanted to get his BA in cutting hair.

1/8/2014 5:24:41 PM

Poor guy, he'll never get to be a Cat Barber.

1/9/2014 12:48:35 PM

at least the guy who wanted to be a barber was realistic

1/9/2014 1:02:34 PM

Willingham should really let us know who that player was. And who promised him the 'barber' classes. Surely that can't be under FERPA

[Edited on January 9, 2014 at 1:08 PM. Reason : ]

1/9/2014 1:08:22 PM

This should be in this thread:http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/09/us/ncaa-athletes-unc-response/index.html

and here's WRAL's response:
http://www.wral.com/unc-system-report-details-athletes-academic-qualifications/13286604/
(the athletes get credits for classes, receive good grades, and the university reports about the same number of possible infractions as other schools, including NC State. Nothing to see here, folks.)

1/9/2014 7:06:20 PM

typical wral whitewash. I love how all of the information UNC chose to release is post scandal. I wonder how those same statistics would have looked prior to the scrutiny...

1/9/2014 7:16:15 PM

Yep, and yesterday's headline on WRAL was:

'CNN report examines poor reading skills of former UNC athletes'



[Edited on January 9, 2014 at 7:18 PM. Reason : ]

1/9/2014 7:18:37 PM

Businessweek is really on this

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-10/unc-officials-lash-out-at-academic-fraud-whistleblower

Quote :

"Let that sink in. UNC’s leadership is implying—falsely—that Willingham, a dedicated student advocate and tutor, defamed undergraduate sports team members in general. She had, of course, done no such thing. In fact, as Willingham explains to me by phone, she is always careful to break down UNC’s roughly 800-person varsity student-athlete population as follows: “Four hundred of them at any given time are on the ACC [Atlantic Coast Conference] Honor Roll or the UNC dean’s list. They’re doing great. Most of them are in the non-revenue sports. Another 200 are doing O.K. And about 150 to 200 are underperforming—some of them badly underperforming. Most of the last group are playing football or men’s or women’s basketball. We’re not serving the best interests of a lot of that last group.”"

1/10/2014 9:38:17 AM

Paul M Barrett is like Dan Kane on steroids

1/10/2014 9:47:13 AM

Quote :

"After a performance review this spring, she was demoted from her position as assistant director of UNC’s Center for Student Success and Academic Counseling. She was moved to an undesirable basement office and consigned to the paperwork-intensive role of advising students on whether they’re on track to graduate. “This was punishment for speaking out earlier,” she says. She has filed a formal grievance, which is pending."

This is, like, super illegal.

1/10/2014 1:05:19 PM

I don't know why it took 3+ years to get the national media in on this thing, but wow - these articles are pretty scathing.

1/10/2014 1:11:15 PM

is this a good place for this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JieHmC9DH8

1/10/2014 1:21:12 PM

^^^ holy fucking lulz, she got Milton'd

1/10/2014 1:22:33 PM

^^would probably make more sense in the Basketball investigation thread


http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2014/01/10/might-unc-chart-a-separate-course-for.html

Quote :

"At a meeting with the UNC Board of Governors, Hans said that it “might be time to explore a different path” for student athletes. He suggested possibly incorporating classes with the community college system, or even offering an entirely different degree level for those athletes who are not academically fit for a UNC university."

[Edited on January 10, 2014 at 1:23 PM. Reason : ]

1/10/2014 1:23:11 PM

we'll get em a degree, one way or another.

1/10/2014 1:28:46 PM

^^^^

Quote :

"A CORN FELL"

1/10/2014 1:39:15 PM

Quote :

"This is, like, super illegal."

Not at UNC it's not

1/10/2014 2:16:34 PM

Quote :

" He suggested possibly incorporating classes with the community college system"

Then they can play for the community college instead?

Clear message though. WE. MUST. GET. THESE. ATHLETES. Any other concern is secondary.

1/10/2014 2:36:41 PM

HAY GUUIZE MAYBE THEY CAN GET DEGREES AT STATE

HAHAH WOPPIES

-someone on inside carolina right now

1/10/2014 2:41:14 PM

Looks like our friends in the UK will hear about this too yeah? I'm chuffed to bits indeed.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2537041/University-North-Carolina-learning-specialist-receives-death-threats-research-finds-one-10-college-athletes-reading-age-fifth-grader.html#comments

[Edited on January 10, 2014 at 3:01 PM. Reason : ]

1/10/2014 3:01:16 PM

Someone with Photoshop put an NC State logo on the stapler

1/10/2014 3:09:03 PM

which story had the part about her being Milton'd?

1/10/2014 3:11:27 PM

Video
http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/09/us/ncaa-athletes-unc-response/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

This report make CJ Leslie looks like a poet. Poet.

[Edited on January 10, 2014 at 3:37 PM. Reason : .]

[Edited on January 10, 2014 at 3:38 PM. Reason : .]

Hi Sara Ganim.

[Edited on January 10, 2014 at 3:39 PM. Reason : .]

1/10/2014 3:35:00 PM

^ lol that is gold

Quote :

"we may as well just go over to Glenwood Elementary...and let all the 4th graders in here, 3rd graders in here."

1/10/2014 6:31:09 PM

http://www.wralsportsfan.com/blowing-the-whistle-in-the-wrong-direction/13294473/ - Adam Gold

Quote :

"You most likely know her as "The Whistle Blower." However, you might not fully comprehend in which direction that whistle was, and still is, being blown. Willingham isn't here to bring down the athletic department. She has no interest in adding to the most emotionally draining season of Roy Williams' Hall of Fame coaching career. And, the very last thing Willingham wants is to paint football and men's basketball players at UNC as "dumb jocks." She is on the side of the athletes, fighting for, rather than against, their needs. The Drake Group, an organization dedicated to academic integrity in collegiate sport honored her with the Robert Maynard Hutchins Award, given yearly to a member of the faculty who takes a "courageous stand to defend academic integrity" at their institution. Her institution happens to be the University of North Carolina and, given the last few years of controversy, the outpouring of negative reaction -- even to the extent of death threats – while sad and twisted, is almost understandable."

1/13/2014 1:08:04 PM

^ holy shit that 2nd bit of text is disgusting, even for the WRAL homers.

1/13/2014 1:15:11 PM

What's disgusting about it? I'm confused.

1/13/2014 1:19:26 PM

It was spot on till that last sentence. What the fuck was that suppoed to mean

[Edited on January 13, 2014 at 1:28 PM. Reason : ]

1/13/2014 1:28:30 PM

Isn't Adam Gold a Maryland fan? If so that explains his acceptance of death threats over athletes losing their eligibility as being okay.

1/13/2014 1:37:20 PM

The subject matter strikes close to home for Adam Gold, who can neither read nor write.

1/13/2014 2:07:20 PM

Quote :

"Amanda Albright ? @ amanda_albright4m @danielschere just got word from Mary Willingham that she will appear on The Colbert Report Thursday night"

::popcorn::

1/14/2014 9:55:35 AM

1/14/2014 10:16:42 AM

Oh sweet baby jesus...

1/14/2014 10:31:46 AM

Quote :

"Dan Kane @dankanenando 15m Just got word from Jay Smith that Willingham is not going to be on Colbert, but the story might. Not surprising for a topical show."

1/14/2014 12:35:52 PM

[Edited on January 14, 2014 at 12:48 PM. Reason : ]

1/14/2014 12:45:57 PM

http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2014/01/willingham-shares-data-with-officials

1/15/2014 1:19:38 PM

http://www.wral.com/unc-academic-adviser-sides-with-athletes-says-unc-has-not-done-the-right-thing/13301724/

1/15/2014 5:00:50 PM

At the bottom of ^ that story

Quote :

"Tonight at 6 Willingham outs the GPA of UNC players in the 2013 Belk Bowl"

[Edited on January 15, 2014 at 5:52 PM. Reason : ]

1/15/2014 5:52:16 PM

Quote :

""At UNC, we have also sadly admitted to tolerating a system of no-show classes (which preserved eligibility) that existed in our African and Afro-American Studies Department for more than two decades – a system that athletes, advisors, coaches and administrators all knew about, but for which only two people have been blamed," Willingham said."

This comes pretty close to summing it up.

^That's weird. You'd expect their GPAs to be somewhere around whatever's required for them to play. I can't imagine there's anything there to reveal.

1/15/2014 6:05:44 PM

^Yea AFAIK the university was getting their grades inflated to the point that they were "passing" and eligible. WRAL will probably say "Look they are fine" and try to discredit her. Just my guess, but we'll see.

1/15/2014 6:08:52 PM

For here too:

http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/01/15/3535977/former-unc-player-ties-counselors.html

1/15/2014 8:58:20 PM

Colbert right now

1/15/2014 11:36:27 PM

He's on about NFL now. Is it over?

1/15/2014 11:39:49 PM

Yeah, he did a couple minutes about Willingham and all the recent stuff.

1/15/2014 11:41:58 PM

FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK MY LIFEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEe

Watched State lose and missed the segment too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




Jk, will catch it later

1/15/2014 11:44:57 PM

Colbert 1:30am replay starting...in case you missed the UNC segment earlier, like I did

1/16/2014 1:30:54 AM

so, how was it?

1/16/2014 9:59:02 AM

they showed the "we may as well just go over to Glenwood Elementary...and let all the 4th graders in here" clip

1/16/2014 10:16:43 AM