Is Donde Plowman the NCAA Kryptonite?

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ETNCvol said:
From her letter, sounds like the issue is who paid the airline ticket for Nico to come visit UT and when he actually signed with the NIL agency and what rule said when that occurred.

Time to lawyer up !

Too bad UT already was in the doghouse from previous investigation
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The more I read into it the more I think the NCAA is screwed here.
 
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utvolpj said:
Unc is the Jordan original and the ncaa knows that. I'm unsure what you mean about Jordan being ghetto
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Yeah bud I have lived in Charlotte sadly for over 30 years. I have heard pretty much everything there is to possibly hear about UNC and jordans ballhog, career 49% shooting butt.

And by ghetto, I mean its ghetto to have a basketball player logo (who never even played at your school, but actually at a Bball rival at least in the "fab 5" days) on a teams FOOTball uniforms. Might as well have the players all wear fake Js instead of cleats too...makes perfect sense. Except that it doesnt. Ever seen a Bball players uniform with a Heisman pose superimposed on it? Yeah, me neither. Cant imagine why the jumpman silhouette of a guy dunking a Bball....from another school...would ever be on Michigan football uniforms.
 
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While the response from Blonde Donde is admirable and we should all lay waste to the bureaucracy and hypocrisy of the NCAA, particularly their failings in the NIL space and their irrelevance to college athletics in general, the response from Blonde Donde is also predictable, as this current investigation and sordid scenario is fully on her watch, as was the entire Pruitt mess, from stem to stern, top to bottom, from the hiring, the contracting, the extending, the firing for cause and no buyout, the investigation, the $1.75 million in legal fees, the embarrassing and humiliating findings from the infraction committee and the $8 million fine paid from the Knoxville budget to the NCAA.

Now they are back for more.
 
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TartanTurff said:
While the response from Blonde Donde is admirable and we should all lay waste to the bureaucracy and hypocrisy of the NCAA, particularly their failings in the NIL space and their irrelevance to college athletics in general, the response from Blonde Donde is also predictable, as this current investigation and sordid scenario is fully on her watch, as was the entire Pruitt mess, from stem to stern, top to bottom, from the hiring, the contracting, the extending, the firing for cause and no buyout, the investigation, the $1.75 million in legal fees, the embarrassing and humiliating findings from the infraction committee and the $8 million fine paid from the Knoxville budget to the NCAA.

Now they are back for more.
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Your criticism would carry more weight if you did not resort to childish rhyme names. Especially ones that are so easy, and so sexist.
 
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TartanTurff said:
While the response from Blonde Donde is admirable and we should all lay waste to the bureaucracy and hypocrisy of the NCAA, particularly their failings in the NIL space and their irrelevance to college athletics in general, the response from Blonde Donde is also predictable, as this current investigation and sordid scenario is fully on her watch, as was the entire Pruitt mess, from stem to stern, top to bottom, from the hiring, the contracting, the extending, the firing for cause and no buyout, the investigation, the $1.75 million in legal fees, the embarrassing and humiliating findings from the infraction committee and the $8 million fine paid from the Knoxville budget to the NCAA.

Now they are back for more.
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And that kids is how you turn a single sentence into a paragraph.
 
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ETNCvol said:
From her letter, sounds like the issue is who paid the airline ticket for Nico to come visit UT and when he actually signed with the NIL agency and what rule said when that occurred.

Time to lawyer up !

Too bad UT already was in the doghouse from previous investigation
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WRONG.
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
Yeah bud I have lived in Charlotte sadly for over 30 years. I have heard pretty much everything there is to possibly hear about UNC and jordans ballhog, career 49% shooting butt.

And by ghetto, I mean its ghetto to have a basketball player logo (who never even played at your school, but actually at a Bball rival at least in the "fab 5" days) on a teams FOOTball uniforms. Might as well have the players all wear fake Js instead of cleats too...makes perfect sense. Except that it doesnt. Ever seen a Bball players uniform with a Heisman pose superimposed on it? Yeah, me neither. Cant imagine why the jumpman silhouette of a guy dunking a Bball....from another school...would ever be on Michigan football uniforms.
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Did you actually watch Michael Jordan play and win championships? The man is a competitive legend all across the sports world. To characterize him as merely a ball hog is laughable beyond belief.
 
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TartanTurff said:
While the response from Blonde Donde is admirable and we should all lay waste to the bureaucracy and hypocrisy of the NCAA, particularly their failings in the NIL space and their irrelevance to college athletics in general, the response from Blonde Donde is also predictable, as this current investigation and sordid scenario is fully on her watch, as was the entire Pruitt mess, from stem to stern, top to bottom, from the hiring, the contracting, the extending, the firing for cause and no buyout, the investigation, the $1.75 million in legal fees, the embarrassing and humiliating findings from the infraction committee and the $8 million fine paid from the Knoxville budget to the NCAA.

Now they are back for more.
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Holy Charles Dickens
 
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TartanTurff said:
While the response from Blonde Donde is admirable and we should all lay waste to the bureaucracy and hypocrisy of the NCAA, particularly their failings in the NIL space and their irrelevance to college athletics in general, the response from Blonde Donde is also predictable, as this current investigation and sordid scenario is fully on her watch, as was the entire Pruitt mess, from stem to stern, top to bottom, from the hiring, the contracting, the extending, the firing for cause and no buyout, the investigation, the $1.75 million in legal fees, the embarrassing and humiliating findings from the infraction committee and the $8 million fine paid from the Knoxville budget to the NCAA.

Now they are back for more.
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Plowman was hired in 2019. Pruitt was hired in 2017. Damn those facts when they go against your narrative.
 
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NCAA better buckle up - fatcats days of pushing around athletic departments are over.

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Unconditional Surrender said:
Holy Charles Dickens
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Off topic warning here (but relevant to the University of Tennessee in a roundabout way).

This will be lost on many, and I apologize and will try to enlighten those that didn't get a taste of this in their youth as students at UT. Taking English, there was this thing called the Harbrace Handbook. Always reminded me of that joke about the joke tellers convention where everyone knew every joke in the world and they saved time by just telling the number of the joke and everyone would laugh. One guys turn and he threw out "Joke 143" and nobody laughed. When he asked "why is nobody laughing"? The punchline: "You told it wrong". OK bad corny.

But Harbrace was like that in English. When your paper is graded, where you screwed up is just a code with no explanation. (like a joke number). My Achille's; heel was always "Superfluous Commas" (Commas were in Chapter 13 - I think it was a 13e for superfluous commas but it's been a minute) , and by golly the post that Unconditional Surrender is referring too put me in PTSD from UT English, Fall Quarter, 1975. Would be interesting to see the post he's referring to "coded up". LOL
I really wanted to be an English major, but I already spoke the language and this pushed me into Engineering instead.

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By the way, John C. Hodges, who wrote the handbook ( and who the undergraduate library of UT is named after), created this "monster work" and it has been adopted as the "go to" book by many schools and is the standard. If interested, more details in this link: Hodges, John Cunyus - Volopedia

My Dad was at UT in the '30s and he too had PTSD from this grading system. We were out fishing one day and he went on a diatribe about these grading codes. When fishing, sometimes you run out of things to talk about.
 
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utvolpj said:
Dumb. They don't view blue blood, Jordan branded UNC as small time
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This is about UNC Football. The investigation was UNC Football, not Basketball. They did a separate one in Basketball as well but it started with the Football team. UNC hasn't necessarily been great in Football.

Point is, the NCAA doesn't create parity, it does the opposite.
 
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