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Thorp and Bubba

Posted by Art Chansky | Oct 15, 2011 | Uncategorized

On a long weekend that brought together the past, present and future of Carolina Athletics, one could surmise that it was the shining moment for UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp. Under incredible scrutiny and pressure since he was...

Just Win, Baby!

Posted by Art Chansky | Oct 6, 2011 | Uncategorized

If Everett Withers keeps it up, he’s going to make it easy on Carolina’s new athletic director. Withers began his season as UNC’s interim football coach with a slight blip that had some people chortling in their corn flakes...

Silence Is Golden?

Posted by Art Chansky | Sep 28, 2011 | Uncategorized

The sudden silence surrounding UNC’s search for a new athletic director is anything but deadly. In fact, it’s a sign that the process has taken a step in the right direction. As a large list of qualified and sitting AD’s from...

The Thigpen Connection

Posted by Art Chansky | Sep 20, 2011 | Uncategorized

By far, the most damaging allegation from the NCAA into the UNC football scandal is on pages 62-63 of the 111-page response by the school, released Monday. It speaks to what, so far, the university has escaped – the dreaded lack...

Unfulfilled Potential

Posted by Art Chansky | Sep 14, 2011 | Uncategorized

Saturday’s less-than-satisfying victory over Rutgers could be considered a microcosm of Carolina’s entire football situation. Let’s call it unfulfilled potential. First, the stadium. You would think, after the...

The Butch Davis Experiment

Posted by Art Chansky | Sep 5, 2011 | Uncategorized

For the accomplished chemist, Holden Thorp, the first phase of the “Butch Davis Experiment” went off like another everyday application of E = mc2. With mass, energy and velocity, Carolina sent James Madison hurtling...

New Paradigm Needed

Posted by Art Chansky | Aug 29, 2011 | Uncategorized

The pressure is immense on Holden Thorp to make the right hire for Carolina’s next Director of Athletics. Thorp remains under heavy criticism for firing Butch Davis a week before football practice began, and that scrutiny comes...

Roy's New Digs

Posted by Art Chansky | Aug 22, 2011 | Uncategorized

Roy Williams’ “lamp story” best illuminates how much in need the UNC basketball offices were of expanding and upgrading. “When we moved into the Smith Center,” Williams said of his days as an assistant in 1986, “I carried a...

"Carolina Firsters"?

Posted by Art Chansky | Aug 15, 2011 | Uncategorized

This notion of “Football First” or “Basketball First” fans at Carolina amuses me. Having graduated from UNC and been around for four decades, I am hard-pressed to think of a Carolina alumnus or rabid fan who roots passionately...

Re-Emphasizing Football

Posted by Art Chansky | Aug 6, 2011 | Uncategorized

Maybe his timing shocked people and maybe he did not do it with the polish of a senior statesman (inadvertently committing a minor NCAA violation, himself), but it astounds me how Holden Thorp has become the villain in the...

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