Like many university leaders, UNC's Thorp struggled with athletics scandals

Source: newsobserver.co Posted By: Jacky S...4251 days ago

Fourteen months ago, UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp drew derision from sports fans but high praise from academics for firing popular football coach Butch Davis after an NCAA investigation found agents offering perks to players and a tutor fixing up their papers.

Thorp’s explanation was simple: Academics come first at one of the nation’s top public universities, and the issues raised by the investigation had become too big a distraction for that mission.

But the athletics-related distractions....

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