UNC student athletes vandalized the visiting locker room at Wallace Wade Thursday night following UNC's victory over Duke. Apparently, this was an extension of the celebratory painting of the victory bell. Worse, none of the coaching staff saw a thing and did nothing to stop the damage. Nothing? No, not a thing. Saw nothing did nothing. Well friends, where are the adults? I played football in high school. From the moment we left school on the bus to go on a road game, through the whole game and the entire ride home, we were under the constant supervision of our coaches and staff. There was also a school official, usually the Principal or the Assistant Principal along too. I did not play football in college, but I did spend enough time around the athletic department as a tutor to know that football players never were left alone on game day. There was always a coach, a graduate assistant, or a football staffer with the players from the time the bus left until it got back. It simply boggles the mind that no responsible adults were present when this was going on.
Larry Fedora, it's time for you to step up and take responsibility. Find out which coaches were "not present" and find out why. Then dismiss them. Find out which players were the ring leaders. Coaches always know who their leaders are. For good or ill, coaches know. Dismiss the ring leaders from the team for the rest of the season. I know it's just the NCSU game and that's a big game for you. But, it's not as big as the school's reputation. Which is in tatters if you haven't noticed. Third, find the participants and make them run the stairs at the stadium, and run and run and run. Run them until it hurts or they are doing physical damage to their bodies. Teach them that doing stupid things have consequences.
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