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We keep saying that UNC would have been vastly smarter to have dealt with the scandal fully, effectively and openly, not to mention quickly. But the university has declined to do that and so we have a continuing mess.
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This week's highlights are a tweet from Mary Willingham which read:
'05' UNC basketball champs starting 5 +1 took a combined 69 paper classes. truth=transcripts=transparency. A real education= #ncaareform
— Mary Willingham (@paperclassinc) April 7, 2014
Wow. First of all it kind of dings her reputation, doesn't it? She could be right and it still wouldn't be the right thing to do. But it does keep the scandal front and center.
To make matters worse, the Student Athletes Human Rights Project lashed out as well, accusing UNC of exploiting African American athletes.
Given UNC's well-known history of helping with civil rights cases, it's doubly galling and reminds how much the Heels have lost.
But it's still hard to to Tuesday's developments as California Congressman Tony Cardenas demanded answers about how the NCAA handled the investigation and threatened to call people in under subpoena.
Usually when congress gets involved, it's for things in the pol's district or state.
That's where are now: UNC's humiliation is as bad or worse as anything experienced by UNLV, Fresno State, Kentucky or the rest of the SEC in basketball or football.
It just keeps rolling, and at this point, there's almost nothing to do about it other than what Dr. Friday did in the 1960s and State did after the Valvano mess: just reboot the whole department.
Two problems with that: first, UNC clearly has no appetite for that, and second, there is no one at UNC with moral authority to take such radical steps. And the third problem is that Carolina fans would go off the deep end.
It'd be great to have a William C. Friday around, but those guys don't grow on trees.