Don't pin scandal in Chapel Hill on Butch Davis
Posted Aug 18, 2012
With the online release of Julius Peppers' North Carolina transcript from 2001 that shows he took bogus courses and remained eligible to play football with a sub-2.0 GPA, the academic scandal at UNC grows to systemic proportions. Before, it might have been easy and convenient to blame the fraudulent environment on former coach Butch Davis. But Davis wasn't hired until 2007.
(Virginian-Pilot)
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