Official ND press release, press conference at 6 pm
August 15th, 2014 at 6:24 PM ^
right?
August 15th, 2014 at 9:59 PM ^
August 15th, 2014 at 5:12 PM ^
According to ND's statement, the 4 players are just being held out during the investigation, and haven't been dismissed.
August 15th, 2014 at 5:15 PM ^
s c a N D a l.
August 15th, 2014 at 6:29 PM ^
Insert Chris Hardwick.
August 15th, 2014 at 5:39 PM ^
I am LITERALLY getting a bag of popcorn, kicking the kids off the TV and watching this PC like it's dubya-dubya-III
August 15th, 2014 at 5:41 PM ^
Kicking the kids off the TV? What kind of a father are you?
August 15th, 2014 at 5:45 PM ^
I intend to watch, and not for the schadenfreude.
August 15th, 2014 at 5:54 PM ^
It looks as though the site the OP linked to will be running it (there's now a video screen, and while currently it's blacked out you can hear people moving around, etc., so it looks like it will "go live" at 6 pm). So
- Click on the link, start the video, and open your popcorn as you watch the show.
- ?
- Profit.
August 15th, 2014 at 6:06 PM ^
I did not realize the link to the announcement and the link to the press conference are one and the same. All virtual beatings are reserved for NDU today.
August 15th, 2014 at 6:11 PM ^
And thanks, link worked.
August 15th, 2014 at 5:51 PM ^
August 15th, 2014 at 5:57 PM ^
August 15th, 2014 at 6:03 PM ^
August 15th, 2014 at 6:01 PM ^
It will be live on ESPN right now.
August 15th, 2014 at 6:04 PM ^
Anyone see Phork in a while?
August 15th, 2014 at 6:08 PM ^
He made an appearance in the first thread on ND today.
August 15th, 2014 at 6:26 PM ^
August 15th, 2014 at 6:31 PM ^
And he wasn't horrible there, but still.
edit: If more rival fans were like him I'd welcome them here, there or anywhere.
August 15th, 2014 at 6:08 PM ^
Oh, the piety!
August 15th, 2014 at 6:08 PM ^
"Several students including 4 football players" - so this is more than just the team.
"No one has been dismissed from the University." - so those 4 are only "being held out" as the Father said.
"Papers and homework that was written for them by others."
"Suspicions arose July 29th"
"Jack had a conversation with Brian yesterday, but we have great confidence in Brian, his staff, and they have been nothing but supportive"
My biggest question is what the connection is (if there is one) between Golson and the current situation.
August 15th, 2014 at 6:17 PM ^
wake up the echoes, my calculus homework is due
— mgoblog (@mgoblog) August 15, 2014
August 15th, 2014 at 6:22 PM ^
August 15th, 2014 at 6:25 PM ^
I was actually pretty impressed with what they had to say. They didn't try to dodge anything.
August 15th, 2014 at 6:30 PM ^
Seriously? I thought they said absolutely nothing. I don't think I learned a single thing from that press conference.
August 15th, 2014 at 6:58 PM ^
Well the questions weren't exactly in depth. IDK, they seemed pretty forthright that impropriety was going on, and even acknowledged that it may go back further than the past few years. I wouldn't expect either of the two to just volunteer everything, but they weren't evasive.
August 15th, 2014 at 7:03 PM ^
They didn't admit anything was going on except an investigation. They didn't admit to anything that wasn't said in the press release. Any question that asked anything was shot down. I learned absolutely nothing new from the press conference.
August 16th, 2014 at 2:20 AM ^
August 15th, 2014 at 6:27 PM ^
deciding they needed to say something to make them feel important and to let people know "they are on it".
blah, blah, nothing, blah, blah, nothing, nothing, nothing. Oh and Kelly didn't know anything he was devasted.
August 15th, 2014 at 6:32 PM ^
I thought that was absolutely worthless. Why have a press conference if you don't intend to answer any questions? Might as well just have a press release. Every real question was answered with "I don't want to speculate" or "We aren't prepared to answer that at this time."
August 15th, 2014 at 6:35 PM ^
I also love how he emphasized that this was an academic issue, not an athletics issue. Oh yeah? You hold a press release every time students are investigated for cheating?
EDIT: With the athletic director present.
August 15th, 2014 at 6:33 PM ^
They didn't say anything. They didn't even say when the alleged fraud occurred, even though the players obviously handed in suspicious papers at certain points in time. Papers are dated. It was all a big stonewall.
August 15th, 2014 at 7:00 PM ^
Maybe they just want to get all of the facts that they can, before they start opening Pandora's Box. I'm not trying to defend ND, of all schools, but I'm reserving judgement for now.
August 15th, 2014 at 6:35 PM ^
August 15th, 2014 at 7:17 PM ^
August 15th, 2014 at 8:36 PM ^
They basically said that other than holding them out of practice they weren't going to be punished until the investigation was complete.
Not really unreasonable considering the situation. I was actually a little surprised they confirm the 4 players by name even though it was all but confirmed when they weren't at practice.
August 15th, 2014 at 6:47 PM ^
Hey guys football is hard so yeah cheating is probably fine because they get up early.
August 15th, 2014 at 6:58 PM ^
August 15th, 2014 at 7:15 PM ^
August 15th, 2014 at 7:52 PM ^
August 15th, 2014 at 10:20 PM ^
August 15th, 2014 at 7:00 PM ^
At one point, Swarbrick flat-out lied. He said we shouldn't confuse these allegations (cheating) with past cases such as Golson's. But although ND never actually said what Golson did -- officially, they chalked it up to "academic issues" -- Golson himself has acknowledged that he cheated on a test. Swarbrick is a lying douche.
August 15th, 2014 at 7:01 PM ^
I didn't catch that part.
August 15th, 2014 at 8:38 PM ^
He acknowledged Golson's issue as what it was but said it wasn't fair to lump all academic issues together as "this type of issue" meaning academic dishonesty. He said there have been cases of players not meeting grades but that there hasn't been rampant cheating as the question made it sound.