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UNC Professor Offers \Some Helpful Advice To Athletics Officials

In order to cultivate our newest Carolina tradition of class and integrity in athletics department personnel decisions, I have a proposal: fire Elmar Bolowich, Matt Doherty and Anson Dorrance. Bolowich? His team was seeded number one in the NCAA tournament but didn't win. Best Carolina soccer season ever? So what? Obviously overrated. Doherty? He's hardly even arrived and already he has lost multiple games. Obviously not our man. Dorrance? He lost an unprecedented three regular season games this year. Obviously over the hill. Terrific late season surge, excellent scholars on the team, another (ho-hum) NCAA title? Irrelevant: this season I have personally, on more than one occasion, seen empty seats at Fetzer Field! We need a coach who can put cash customers in those seats! So I say to our new Phanariot Hospodar, James Moeser and his Director of Athletics Richard Baddour: in the great tradition of the abscission of Carl Torbush, can these guys. Or maybe, Hospodar Moeser, you should re-evaluate the man who has permitted these three to remain employed at Carolina ...

James W. White

Professor

Department of Political Science

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