What if....

What if...
Roy Williams didn't know? Was he really that "out of the loop" on the "Carolina Science of Eligibility"? Did Roy really not know about anything beside the fact his players were flooding AFAM paper classes and it worried him that his boys were getting steered that way? Cause if he did know, I'm sure Roy would have went straight to Wayne Walden, the basketball team's academic advisor. He would gotten to the bottom of any scandal on his Rolex. According to the Wainstein Report, Walden didn't recall ever having a conversation with Williams about bogus classes. Convenient.

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Debby Crowder actually hated sports and had no reason to construct the fraudulent(in more ways than academic) scheme to keep troubled student-athletes eligible? Would there have been no shadow curriculum at UNC? Was it completely on Crowder's shoulders? The alleged mastermind. The architect. The brains. Nino Brown. The Godfather....well, Godmother. According to the Wainstein Report, the scheme started and ended with Don Debby.

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Mary Willingham turned her back? What if she "left well-enough alone"? What if she were a cold-hearted, uncaring learning specialist who felt nothing about the kids and their future? In my opinion, Willingham was vindicated and thrown under the bus in the same breath. With her assertions that Roy knew of the scheme, Wainstein allowed for rebuttal to help Williams deny these claims. 

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Tarheel Nation unified and yelled conspiracy? Would that be enough to deter News & Observer from running more stories? It seems like it scared other media outlets into becoming more vigilant for UNC. I resent how media has placed this case on the back burner, as though it is not worth covering. The shovel has been supplied; all one has to do is dig. Thank you, Dan Kane & the staff of N&O.

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The NCAA was feared? Would that prevent schools from committing academic fraud, misconduct, impermissible benefits or whatever the NCAA wants to call it? I'm old school; it was called cheating in my day. In UNC's case, it was the "norm" for decades. And what if the NCAA still instilled fear with appropriate penalties for wrong-doing? Could you image if the Death Penalty or a television black-out were still viable options on the table? Would the NCAA dare to punish UNC to the fullest extent of the law? Could you fathom John Skipper not being able to watch or broadcast the Carolina games on his own network ESPN? I don't want to imagine UNC receiving the Death Penalty, even if it is warranted.  As a fan of competition, there is nothing greater in sports than the Duke/UNC rivalry.

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Marvin Austin never started a Twitter account? What if questions were never raised?

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UNC would be willing to sacrifice all others sports to save the men's basketball program?

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the Wainstein Report was a figment of our imagination? What if Kenneth Wainstein blew more smoke than Governor Martin, Cheech & Chong and Snoop Dogg combined, in order to project mirrors and illusions for the sole purpose of protecting Roy Williams and Mens Basketball? What if UNC retained Wainstein & company to aid in damage control?  Retained to serve as a medium between school and scapegoat(s)? To protect Dean Smith's legacy? Was it the university's plan to divulge so much information that there would be no reason to doubt the Wainstein Report? What if UNC's main purpose for hiring Wainstein was to bleach the white-washed with crucial, damning evidence that it would never be questioned? Retained to completely exonerate one of, if not the most revered college basketball program in the history of the NCAA? 

What if?