lol
That’s narcissism at its finest...
While it is true AFAM started in the early ‘90’s, it had zero to do with duke or the hay days of Mikes success.
But, it’s a cute myth, constantly perpetrated by duke and uk fans who believe it was nefarious. The truth is far more complicated, but for the sake of simplicity, I’ll leave it there...
The NCAA cleared UNC of wrong doing and our trophies are just as shiny, and legitimate, as the day we won them.
Good luck with this years “best team ever”. I’m sure you’ll eventually win something of significance with one of them.
"Zero to do with Duke, " and K's back to back nattys. Why don't you stop kidding yourself and our board? Dean was DESPERATE TO MATCH K's record of what 7 final fours in 9 years, and back to back nattys. Look "Sheed" and some of those other guys do not see the inside of your buildings w/o AFAM.
I once talked to the author of the book "Cheated" (you should read it btw). Great coffee table book I heartily reccomend to all Tar Heel fans. Anyway he told me Wayne Walden (Roy's academic supervisor for the players) had an office in Smith Center right across from RoyBoy. He said the two were "thick as thieves" and Roy knew everything about the clustering of hoops players in AFAM classes, etc the whole ball of wax.
You had John Swofford (as ACC commish) quarterbacking everything he could to help his alma mater, ex UNC player and Big 10 commish Jim Delaney slugging away, and an NCAA president Mark Emmert who for some reason has a love affair with UNC....
Throw in the mega millions spent on lawyers, PR campaign, etc and sure the committee JUMPED at the FOOLISH NOTION about the classes were intended for all students. UNC even admitted to the accreditations folks (SACS) the classes were wrong, yet the NCAA swallowed the UNC lawyers crap it was a typo.
Face it, McCants spilled the beans, Mary Willingham had the guts as a tutor you were admitting great basketball players with 4th grade educations, and its a no brainer what went down for 23 years. You talk "myth???" Big revenue sports athletes going to Carolina to get an education under those circumstances is the "myth!" OFC