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Former UNC Football Player Tydreke Powell Launches Multiple Allegations On The Radio

A radio caller to 102 Jamz, claiming to be a former UNC football player, let it fly on Monday about the UNC scandal, and he didn't limit himself to football players, either.

By JD King
Tydreke Powell (#91) is shown here in 2011 about to level Virginia Tech's Logan Thomas. He may be about to do the same to UNC football and basketball.
Tydreke Powell (#91) is shown here in 2011 about to level Virginia Tech's Logan Thomas. He may be about to do the same to UNC football and basketball.
Geoff Burke

Let's be clear on a couple of things first. This is from a radio show where a guy called in and said he was former UNC football player Tydreke Powell. There's no way to prove that who he is unless he decides to confirm his comments publicly. If his is him, though, he has some damning things to get off of his chest.

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He says a number of things, most notably calling Roy Williams "a snake" and saying that he obviously knew what was going on.

From the call: "Listen, let me tell you this right here. One thing about Carolina, man, if you ain't got a class with a basketball player, you [better] go find one. If you got one with [them], you know it's an A ... Butch Davis kinda turned it around, but we still didn't get no respect. But when these guys, when you walked into class and saw a basketball player, if you dropped that class, I mean you were just ignorant, man."

He also made a direct allegation at a particular player, whose name was beeped out, saying that the basketball player never came to class except for tests and that a girl took those for him, apparently in exchange for athletes "running a train" on her.

Someone will have to get him to affirm his comments, but either way, this is not good news for Williams, who is already under a certain amount of pressure. He's bound to hear questions about this, Friday night if not before.

On Friday, UNC launches the regular season with N.C. Central coming to the DeanDome.

The audio is on this page.

Incidentally, among other things, Powell indicts himself. On the one hand, he seems proud to say he has his degree; on the other, he freely admits that he took some fake classes, something which may come back to haunt him.

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