I Don't Even Know What to Make of This

[IrishLax]

North Carolina records: Tar Heels players racked up $13K-plus in parking tickets - ESPN

 

[GO IRISH!!!]

I remember when this happened a few years ago at UCLA. I can't remember the outcome and I am far too lazy to look it up, but I seem to remember it was kind of a non-issue. I think the players in question lost on campus parking priviledges or some BS along those lines.

It sucks, but it will probably just get swept under the rug.

 

[NankerPhelge]

It's hard when you can't read those "No Parking" signs.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

The university says student-athletes "do not receive special treatment"...

 

[IrishLax]

I remember when this happened a few years ago at UCLA. I can't remember the outcome and I am far too lazy to look it up, but I seem to remember it was kind of a non-issue. I think the players in question lost on campus parking priviledges or some BS along those lines.

It sucks, but it will probably just get swept under the rug.

Yeah, I mean, I don't think it's a big deal... but just like... how the hell do you even get $13k in parking tickets?

 

[GO IRISH!!!]

Yeah, I mean, I don't think it's a big deal... but just like... how the hell do you even get $13k in parking tickets?

Yeah, that's a lot of dough. At some point, you would think they would change where they choose to park.

 

[KPENN]

Told my uncle who graduated from UNC when Butch was hired that things wouldn't end well. Luckily I have nothing to worry about with the b-ball program

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Yeah, that's a lot of dough. At some point, you would think they would change where they choose to park.

Unless they have an invincible feeling of entitlement stemming from constantly receiving "special" (read: illegal) benefits, so that they no longer feel like the rules apply to them.

It's a pretty strange scenario, I'll admit, but we have to at least entertain its possibility.

 

[IrishSteelhead]

I remember in school all campus unpaid parking tickets at the end of a semester would have your grades encumbered. Weird how this went on for so long. Unless the cars were registered to someone else, which opens a whole other angle of speculation.

 

[woolybug25]

For some reason, this really doesn't bother me. With all of the rampant cheating going on, this is small taters.

 

[GO IRISH!!!]

Unless they have an invincible feeling of entitlement stemming from constantly receiving "special" (read: illegal) benefits, so that they no longer feel like the rules apply to them.

I know it's a pretty strange scenario, I'll admit, but we have to at least entertain its possibility.

I think you hit the nail right on the head!

 

[military_irish]

13k is alot, considering here on campus I think all parking related tickets cost around 40$

 

[Whiskeyjack]

For some reason, this really doesn't bother me. With all of the rampant cheating going on, this is small taters.

The "violation" itself is very small beer. I do think it's indicative of the culture though, which means this likely goes much deeper.

You know Irish players can't get away with this kinda crap.

 

[IrishLax]

Apparently.... this IS a big deal:

Greg Little had nine license plates in 22 months. The student newspaper discovered this by searching a public database after UNC was finally sued into releasing records requested under the FOIA act. There is obviously some combination of car trouble, generous grandmothers from poor sections of Durham, footloose and fancy-free car swapping on the whims of a young man feeling the wind in his hair, and OBVIOUS EXTRA BENEFITS UNC WAS BEING SLAPPED IN THE FACE WITH EVERY TIME HE GOT A PARKING TICKET, WHICH WAS APPARENTLY ON A DAILY BASIS that explains how this may have occurred.

Meanwhile, phone records show John Blake was talking to Marvin Austin and Gary Wichard when they were on one of their non-kosher trips. They're going to get hammered, too.