12 Steps to UNC Delirium

[Mark Gastineau]

This letter to the editor hits the nail on the head:

http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/opinion-shop/article36377526.html

12 steps to UNC delirium
We have learned a lot about “The Carolina Way” in the last few months, and it seems to be a 12-step process in a recent example of 18 years of academic and athletic fraud:

Step 1: Bury the whistleblower

Step 2: Spend $1 million to hire PR spinmasters

Step 3: Conduct obligatory internal review lite 1

Step 4: Ease out unaccountable AD into early retirement with full benefits, move chancellor back to professor

Step 5: Stall, obfuscate, stall, see if news reporters can figure it out

Step 6: Hire friendly investigator, who sees no need to really interview anyone

Step 7: Trot out head coaches to earnestly claim they had no idea

Step 8: Bury whistleblower No. 2: player who took the courses ... well he’s crazy

Step 9: Just to keep him around, extend the head basketball coach’s contract

Step 10: Keep those pesky reporters happy with real investigation

Step 11: Interpret results yourself, take 89 days of NCAA 90-day response period, come up with a new delay to get through football and basketball season, keep the BS flowing to the new recruits

Step 12: Throw Hall of Fame women’s basketball coach under the bus, get her set for early retirement, problem solved!

 

[Fitch44]

What are the 12 steps to Duke flopping?

 

[Mark Gastineau]

What are the 12 steps to Duke flopping?

I assumed UK fans would be interested in this letter to the editor. But by all means, continue your incessant trolling. You're really a disgrace to the UK fanbase.

 

[pikespeak1]

I assumed UK fans would be interested in this letter to the editor. But by all means, continue your incessant trolling. You're really a disgrace to the UK fanbase.

I'm interested. Off topic question. On a scale of 1-10, how upset are you at Coach K for ruining college basketball with his one and done crap?!

 

[Mark Gastineau]

Off topic question

No thanks.

 

[downthehatch]

Good post, good letter, thanks for sharing it. And good work in avoiding the trolls.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

This letter to the editor hits the nail on the head:

http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/opinion-shop/article36377526.html

12 steps to UNC delirium
We have learned a lot about “The Carolina Way” in the last few months, and it seems to be a 12-step process in a recent example of 18 years of academic and athletic fraud:

Step 1: Bury the whistleblower

Step 2: Spend $1 million to hire PR spinmasters

Step 3: Conduct obligatory internal review lite 1

Step 4: Ease out unaccountable AD into early retirement with full benefits, move chancellor back to professor

Step 5: Stall, obfuscate, stall, see if news reporters can figure it out

Step 6: Hire friendly investigator, who sees no need to really interview anyone

Step 7: Trot out head coaches to earnestly claim they had no idea

Step 8: Bury whistleblower No. 2: player who took the courses ... well he’s crazy

Step 9: Just to keep him around, extend the head basketball coach’s contract

Step 10: Keep those pesky reporters happy with real investigation

Step 11: Interpret results yourself, take 89 days of NCAA 90-day response period, come up with a new delay to get through football and basketball season, keep the BS flowing to the new recruits

Step 12: Throw Hall of Fame women’s basketball coach under the bus, get her set for early retirement, problem solved!

Thanks for posting MG. Some of us appreciate it.

 

[Mark Gastineau]

Thanks fellas. Always happy to stick it to the cheaters.

 

[Fitch44]

Thanks fellas. Always happy to stick it to the cheaters.

I ain't trolling. This is a UK board and you come over here bringing the unc trash.
Do you always go into someone else's living room and tell them they are a disgrace to their own household?
Take your shit elsewhere. And don't make it personal with me.

 

[MSU129]

I ain't trolling. This is a UK board and you come over here bringing the unc trash.
Do you always go into someone else's living room and tell them they are a disgrace to their own household?
Take your shit elsewhere. And don't make it personal with me.

Well Fitch most of us take his side on this one because there is a mutual hate for UNC and they did cheat. So you really look like the prick this time and one of the ones who make the fan base look that way. He didn't come here with a UK cheating article, but of a team that we have made fun of on here ever since the story broke!

 

[Jkwo]

If you're gonna go after a Duke fan for being a Cal hater/K loving hypocrite, it should probably be someone other than Mark. He's really started to give Cal a lot of credit (not just here - on the main board), and he knows who the two best coaches in the game are.

There are a lot of trollish/passive aggressive/poser accounts made by rival fans on this board - his isn't one of them. All the man wants to do is celebrate the collapse of the baby blue empire. No hidden agenda.

 

[Xception]

Mark might have outed some UNC fans , great job and thanks .

 

[Fitch44]

Cool Story bro.

 

[Mark Gastineau]

All the man wants to do is celebrate the collapse of the baby blue empire

Who doesn't?

 

[Alumni Gym]

I ain't trolling. This is a UK board and you come over here bringing the unc trash.
Do you always go into someone else's living room and tell them they are a disgrace to their own household?
Take your shit elsewhere. And don't make it personal with me.

UNC IS TRASH, and there is NOTHING wrong with discussing it. I just wonder why don't you want to talk about UNC? Does it hit a nerve?

 

[Mark Gastineau]

And don't make it personal with me.

 

[Orange Soda King]

I don't really care about Duke enough to dislike them. I root against them often mainly because they are a rival and a fellow powerhouse. I do think they get the good end of the stick with refs and calls and there have been questionable flops, but that's WAY lower on the totem pole than the UNC stuff. I guess since I was born after the '92 game, I don't care as much.

 

[Fitch44]

UNC IS TRASH, and there is NOTHING wrong with discussing it. I just wonder why don't you want to talk about UNC? Does it hit a nerve?

Unc is trash. I hope they get hit hard.
I just have a problem with Duke fans, the same Duke fans who trash UK and cal on their board and have for years,
Coming here and using unc as a way to buddy up. Especially a program who plays the bullshit way they do.
I can think the unc scandal is one of the worst ever, and at the same time feel like Duke is a disgrace to basketball for the way they play.
I think k and Duke are phony. That is my opinion and it ain't changing.

 

[pikespeak1]

Thanks fellas. Always happy to stick it to the cheaters.

I like the list

If you're gonna go after a Duke fan for being a Cal hater/K loving hypocrite, it should probably be someone other than Mark. He's really started to give Cal a lot of credit (not just here - on the main board), and he knows who the two best coaches in the game are.

There are a lot of trollish/passive aggressive/poser accounts made by rival fans on this board - his isn't one of them. All the man wants to do is celebrate the collapse of the baby blue empire. No hidden agenda.

Sure he has now that Coach Subway Pizza Rat is playing the one and done game. He was silent before last year. The only reason he gives Cal credit now is so that his Coach K love does sound hypocritical. He might be fooling you but not me.

 

[Mark Gastineau]

That is my opinion and it ain't changing.

And it has nothing to do with this thread. You should probably listen to the real UK fans in this thread telling you that:

you really look like the prick this time and one of the ones who make the fan base look that way

 

[Mark Gastineau]

He might be fooling you but not me.

I think they only one getting fooled her is you, by common sense.

 

[Fitch44]

I think they only one getting fooled her is you, by common sense.

Cool story bro.

 

[Mark Gastineau]

Cool story bro.

you really look like the prick this time and one of the ones who make the fan base look that way

 

[pikespeak1]

Mark might have outed some UNC fans , great job and thanks .

Uh... No. Duke fans were among the loudest crying about Coach Cal "ruining" college basketball. I will not stand by silently while the Laettner lovers pretend that any UK fan old enough to remember 1992 welcomes them here. I hate dukies as much as I hate the cards.

I never thought I would see the day that a UK fan would call another UK a UNCheat fan for calling out a Duke fan.
It may be the end of days.

 

[Mark Gastineau]

Duke fans were among the loudest crying about Coach Cal "ruining" college basketball..

Lots of evidence there. You must be a crime scene investigator.

Mark might have outed some UNC fans , great job and thanks .

Fitch and pikespeak made it pretty easy.

 

[jarms24]

I assumed UK fans would be interested in this letter to the editor. But by all means, continue your incessant trolling. You're really a disgrace to the UK fanbase.

We are and don't pay attention to the others. I'm not the Rupp Rafters police or anything, but I enjoy your contributions to this board. Don't listen to the detractors.

 

[Jkwo]

I like the list


Sure he has now that Coach Subway Pizza Rat is playing the one and done game. He was silent before last year. The only reason he gives Cal credit now is so that his Coach K love does sound hypocritical. He might be fooling you but not me.

He was on MB long before he was posting regularly on here.. the reason he's over here now is because the MB has gotten tired of the "Make fun of UNC" party, and he needs an outlet to do it somewhere else.

 

[trentmonster]

Thanks OP, and say hello to Joe Klecko.

 

[prossdog]

I ain't trolling. This is a UK board and you come over here bringing the unc trash.
Do you always go into someone else's living room and tell them they are a disgrace to their own household?
Take your shit elsewhere. And don't make it personal with me.

So it would be ok if a UK fan posted that here but not a Duke fan? I root against Duke as much as anyone but I don't get your logic.

 

[Fitch44]

So it would be ok if a UK fan posted that here but not a Duke fan? I root against Duke as much as anyone but I don't get your logic.

A duke fan that trashes Cal and Uk on his board and then comes over here being fake. I don't get your logic.

 

[Mark Gastineau]

A duke fan that trashes Cal and Uk on his board and then comes over here being fake. I don't get your logic.

Where is your evidence? Exactly. Good lord you're terrible.

 

[prossdog]

A duke fan that trashes Cal and Uk on his board and then comes over here being fake. I don't get your logic.

Really? How do you know he does that? Because a few Duke fans made asses of themselves just like a few uk fans do, I see no need to lump them all together. If comes to our board, pipes in about subjects he he opinions about, and stays civil, he can come any time as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Fitch44]

Where is your evidence? Exactly. Good lord you're terrible.

Alright buddy. Here is your chance. Have you ever trashed cal and uk on the duke board? Ever?

 

[Mark Gastineau]

Alright buddy

I'm not your buddy.

Here is your chance

i.e. You are too lazy to try and find proof for your ignorant generalization.

Have you ever trashed cal and uk on the duke board? Ever?

You wouldn't believe me anyway, so this is pointless.

 

[Mark Gastineau]

And quit derailing a perfectly good thread making fun of UNC. You've turned this into your own personal contest to prove just how terrible you are to all other UK fans.

 

[mebeblue2]

great post Mark
please don't let some of the grouchy ones get to you

 

[Fitch44]

I'm not your buddy.

i.e. You are too lazy to try and find proof for your ignorant generalization.

You wouldn't believe me anyway, so this is pointless.

Alright buddy. Deflect, deflect, deflect.
So you have but you won't say you have. That would make me right and you won't let your buddy be right.
Got it.

 

[Alumni Gym]

And quit derailing a perfectly good thread making fun of UNC. You've turned this into your own personal contest to prove just how terrible you are to all other UK fans.

There's an old saying: "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."

I don't like Duke. Hell, why would I? But to see what UNCheat has done is crazy. They also broke FEDERAL LAW to boot. Then they white-washed it.

 

[Fitch44]

There's an old saying: "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."

I don't like Duke. Hell, why would I? But to see what UNCheat has done is crazy. They also broke FEDERAL LAW to boot. Then they white-washed it.

You guys don't read. I am not arguing anything about unc. I just don't want a Duke fan that hates on UK and cal coming here to talk about it.
Not sure where the confusion is.

 

[jarms24]

You guys don't read. I am not arguing anything about unc. I just don't want a Duke fan that hates on UK and cal coming here to talk about it.
Not sure where the confusion is.

Dude, WTF is your deal? This thread is about UNC and you're shitting all over it. Please stop.