UNC-CH Chancellor Holden Thorpe to take top Job at WashU!

[tele]

Good Lord.

Kind of reminds me of when the Cards hired Mcguire as hitting coach...

[throatybeard]

Kind of reminds me of when the Cards hired Mcguire as hitting coach...

I'll go further. Pete Carroll has to leave USC so that the sanctions don't hit him, and the Seahawks say come on down!

[PSurprise]

So I guess since he's moving to a Div-III school, he doesn't have to sit out a year before he can begin on his next academic scandal?

[burnspbesq]

I'm willing to bet that somewhere on Inside Carolina, there is a post expressing the hope that Thorp will take Ol' Roy and/or Sylvia with him, and another post bemoaning the fact that because WashU doesn't play lacrosse, he can't take Breschi with him.

[cspan37421]

What does this say about WUSTL?

Imagine those HS seniors who, having been turned off by UNC's scandal, took UNC off their list but still applied to WUSTL.

[Duvall]

What does this say about WUSTL?

Imagine those HS seniors who, having been turned off by UNC's scandal, took UNC off their list but still applied to WUSTL.

I doubt there are many such people, if any.

[cspan37421]

I doubt there are many such people, if any.

I know of one.

[oldnavy]

I know of one.

Dang, what are the odds? Tell that kid to stay away from the lotto.

[throatybeard]

The most enjoyable graph is the first one:

http://www.stltoday.com/news/nationa...1267951cc.html

[sagegrouse]

The most enjoyable graph is the first one:

http://www.stltoday.com/news/nationa...1267951cc.html

Even casual readers deserve the money quote from this AP story:

ST. LOUIS • After five scandal-plagued years as chancellor at the University of North Carolina, Holden Thorp was downright ecstatic to start over on a campus where the term “student-athlete” doesn’t evince snickers and groans.

Tee-hee. -- Sagegrouse

[miramar]

The most enjoyable graph is the first one:

http://www.stltoday.com/news/nationa...1267951cc.html

The new provost at Washington University spends little time worrying about academically suspect jocks — as a Division III school, Washington U. doesn’t even award athletic scholarships. It’s a far cry from Chapel Hill, where an academic fraud investigation found dozens of athletes taking no-show classes, along with assorted other abuses...

[OldPhiKap]

Even casual readers deserve the money quote from this AP story:



Tee-hee. -- Sagegrouse

And it continues:

The new provost at Washington University spends little time worrying about academically suspect jocks — as a Division III school, Washington U. doesn’t even award athletic scholarships. It’s a far cry from Chapel Hill, where an academic fraud investigation found dozens of athletes taking no-show classes, along with assorted other abuses, and led to Thorp’s resignation from the top job at his alma mater — the sole college he applied to as a high school senior in Fayetteville, N.C.

“I wanted to get back closer to the academic side of things,” said Thorp, who arrived in St. Louis three months ago. “Washington University, more than a public university, is on the whole more unapologetically devoted to academic achievement as its primary focus.” For him, “that is a liberating feeling.”

Damning, damning, damning.

[oldnavy]

And it continues:



Damning, damning, damning.

Yea, but isn't this a little deceptive? If I remember correctly Thorpe was right there in the middle of the mess at UNC, not some shielded faculty member who was powerless to do anything against the powers to be. Maybe I am remembering it wrong, but I seem to remember him as spineless when all this was going on under his watch.

[TKG]

Yea, but isn't this a little deceptive? If I remember correctly Thorpe was right there in the middle of the mess at UNC, not some shielded faculty member who was powerless to do anything against the powers to be. Maybe I am remembering it wrong, but I seem to remember him as spineless when all this was going on under his watch.

Reinforcing the "unc-athletic-department-as-windshield- faculty-and-administration-as-bug" relationship that continues to exist at the public ivy of Orange County.

[miramar]

Yea, but isn't this a little deceptive? If I remember correctly Thorpe was right there in the middle of the mess at UNC, not some shielded faculty member who was powerless to do anything against the powers to be. Maybe I am remembering it wrong, but I seem to remember him as spineless when all this was going on under his watch.

"I see nothing, nothing..."

Of course, I realize that a lot of people will ask, "Who is Sergeant Schultz?"

[OldPhiKap]

"I see nothing, nothing..."

Of course, I realize that a lot of people will ask, "Who is Sergeant Schultz?"

If you have to ask, you should be thrown in the Klink.

[wilson]

"I see nothing, nothing..."

Of course, I realize that a lot of people will ask, "Who is Sergeant Schultz?"

[johnb]

he should be able to teach these guys to avoid academic distraction:

http://bearsports.wustl.edu/Sports/C...bk7-17-13.aspx