UNC faces investigation with UNCERTAIN Future...Probe Widens!

CBSSports.com
Friday August 27

*UNC takes steps in face of investigation, Uncertain future.


Thursday night's UNC press conference featured a worse-for-the-wear Butch Davis, a somewhat exasperated Dick Baddour and a frustrated-looking Holden Thorp, all discussing the "widening" of the investigation into the football program at Chapel Hill.

In fact, we(CBSSports.com) earlier reported that two cornerbacks, Charles Brown and Kendric Burney, had already been kicked off the team, and two sources close to the athletic department firmly believe they will NOT be a part of the team in the future.

A spokesman from North Carolina has since DENIED the report that Brown and Burney were kicked off the team and Burney has even tweeted that he's excited for practice tomorrow.

Many of those decisions [as to what players are available] have not been made," Baddour said. "They're two prongs [to the investigation] and they're ongoing and we're working as hard as we can with the NCAA to bring those things into resolution."

But the depth of the investigation could mean that Carolina is forced to continually evolve that timeline over the next nine days leading up to their season opener against LSU -- something Baddour mentioned when he pointed out that "the review will likely extend beyond the start of the season."

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*More questions for UNC football as probe widens.

Yahoo Sports!
Friday August 27

"We are looking into improprieties that existed outside the classroom," athletic director Dick Baddour said Thursday night when asked about the specific actions that led to the probe. "That's about as close to that as I can get."

Baddour would not identify the players or even estimate any numbers, saying "to put a bracket around it could be misleading." He declined to get into many specifics, saying only that they involved "a student tutor and student-athletes on the football team."

Joint interviews conducted by NCAA and school investigators during that probe led them to a player who "raised an issue that we felt like deserved further consideration on our part.

"It led us down a road that brought us to what we're talking about," Baddour said.

While the investigation is centered on the football program, Baddour said that "we will certainly use the opportunity to take a complete look at everything that we're doing in the academic support program."

Baddour said the university has assembled a team to investigate the academic questions. While there is no timetable to resolve that aspect of the probe, "it is likely that the review would extend beyond the start of the season," he said.

If that happens, he said the school will decide if those players will play against LSU, and Baddour said that decision could come as late as gameday.

"The investigation now has two prongs, so I want to caution you against making assumptions if student-athletes don't play," Baddour said.

Davis did acknowledge that starting on Monday, he moved some players around the depth chart as part of a contingency plan in case they aren't permitted to play. He did not specify which players have risen or fallen.

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