Doug Sligh

@mckenzielaw @ForwardCarolina @SenatorBerger Oops. It was 2-1. Maybe it was time to go.

@mckenzielaw @ForwardCarolina @SenatorBerger Agree. He lost Rockingham, but not 2-1.

In the history of North Carolina politics, the fumbling of @SenatorBerger's primary by his campaign team has got to be among the biggest of all time. They had basically unlimited money at their disposal - literally tens of millions spent - for a 25-year incumbent with universal name recognition. Virtually unanimous backing by the Raleigh establishment. Corporate lobbyists roadtripping up to Wentworth and Mayodan to hold signs for him. They even bought a Trump endorsement by re-rigging our state's congressional map. All against a candidate with almost no money at all. And not only does Berger lose - he gets crushed 2-1 in his home county. That's how much people hate the Berger family. Spare a tear today for @JimBlaine.

@mckenzielaw @Cjaques4 What Carolina is doing to Hubert Davis is obscene. No one loves UNC basketball more than him and he deserves better than this.

@Cjaques4 Yes, as Carolina would be playing Duke in two weeks if Caleb Wilson didn’t go down. This side show is ridiculous. Hubert has done the job.

Completely agree.

@Kelly_Quinlan Who was the last juco guy who played at GT. In any sport?

Cross said there are a few guys who are priority guys on the team now. There are some JUCOs and a few portal guys already in. He said finding the right fit is important to him so as not to sign the wrong guys.

@mckenzielaw I heard all the trusted traveler programs were suspended.

Wondering if anyone knows anything about the RDU TSA situation? Also, is this chaos affecting Clear? TSA-Pre?

@mckenzielaw @statefansnation Didn't they get the most successful coach in the history of football? What could possibly go wrong?

@statefansnation Agreed. And we all Know how about last coaching search.

Are people INSANE?! The guy delivered a fantastic season, having to change the core of his entire team when one of the best players in all of college basketball got hurt in the last two weeks of the year. This was a Potential Final Four team with a healthy Caleb Wilson. The guy played in a national championship game and won an ACC regular season. Clearly can recruit. Would be a HORRIBLE standard to set to fire such an incredibly good man and full blooded Tar heel that has achieved the following in just five years.

@mckenzielaw Yep, they were bad. Of course, my remedy was the mute button on my remote. What an amazing feature!

@mckenzielaw They certainly looked black on TV. I think Ga Tech uses a blue that looks black on TV as well.

UVa’s unis are hideous. When the the Cavs adopt the black?

@mckenzielaw But, does anything change college athletics in the near term? Other than talk, I don't see it?

I wrote this in August after the first EO. It will apply equally for the second promised one from today’s do nothing meeting at the White House.

@mckenzielaw @EdLawDude @NerdLaw_JockLaw I believe he is hosting people who will not tell him he is full of $hit.

@EdLawDude @NerdLaw_JockLaw Agreed. They are gathering all these people who don't know only little about the law. But maybe that's what he wants.

Much has been made about the lack of athlete representation. But, the lack of attorneys is exponentially more galling. @NerdLaw_JockLaw could solve this in 15 minutes.

@DolezalForGA What about the law of universal gravitation?

This week, I introduced SB486 to ensure only American laws are used in American courts. Sharia Law has no place in the United States and it has no place in Georgia.

@Kelly_Quinlan GT is not dropping Georgia and ND is part of the ACC contract wiith the Irish. It looks like they will have to move the Tennessee game to some future year. So that year will be just as brutal as 2027.

So this is interesting as GT has four non-conference games set for 2027 in a brutal schedule. That would mean one game is moving if this is correct.

@RossDellenger The punishment for violating the rules has to be stiff and virtually certain. Otherwise this is just the NCAA of the past.

Sen. Eric Schmitt has released a “blueprint to save college sports.” Here are the key points.

@PeteThamel Four years eligibility does not mean you get to play four years.

Chambliss: "I’m asking for what the NCAA has in their rule book. All athletes get four years of eligibility."

@samcehrlich @mckenzielaw I am not a lawyer, but it seems this judge is taking a very subject statement in the NCAA bylaws and applying it to a strict legal opinion. It could be in Chambliss' best interest to NOT play football at Ole Miss this year.

And we just heard the magic words: per this court, Trinidad is a third-party beneficiary of the contract between Ole Miss and the NCAA. New legal theory unlocked (as Eric outlines below).

@mckenzielaw @chapelfowler @KendallRogers Clemson has ten home games in Feb & early March against teams for the NE that Clemson overtly scheduled. Then they play GT and Miami at home as part of the ACC schedule. I don't understand the problem. Would it be cheaper for Clemson to travel to ATL & MIA?

@chapelfowler @KendallRogers Makes sense to me. Baseball is easily one of the biggest drains on an athletic department-- usually second behind women's hoops. Clemson actually has a chance to break even given its fanbase and its enthusiasm for its baseball program.

Clemson coach Erik Bakich elaborates on his plan to push back the start of college baseball season, which has regained traction nationally per @KendallRogers. Bakich: “We have 20 home games in February and March and 10 home games in April and May. It’s like, ‘What the hell?’”

@mckenzielaw I appreciate you pointing out the problems with Clemson's reporting, but who's coming clean other than half dozen flush programs. And, maybe they aren't either.

This doesn't make any sense. Or the math doesn't. I've read the article 3x times. Am I missing something? Clemson wants you to believe their athletic department turned a profit last year. The profit number — $893,714 on a $198.6M operation — is thin and opaque. But even that figure can't be verified from the numbers Clemson made available. Football made $5.8M. Unless I am missing something, the catchall "non-program-specific" category made $35.9M. Non-revenue sports outside football and basketball lost $14M. A dingbat with a calculator can add those up and arrive at $27.7M — a long way from $893K. What's missing in the numbers Clemson provided to the Greenville News? Basketball is never broken out, leaving a $27M gap with no explanation. The problem isn't the reporting — the Greenville News is doing the critical work of holding public institutions accountable with diminishing resources. The problem is that the NCAA financial reporting format is opaque by design, built to ensure that no one outside the athletic department can follow the money. When the numbers a public university puts into the world don't add up to their own bottom line, that's not an accounting quirk. It's a feature. Those running college athletics finances, or at least the reporting of the same, have perfected an accounting shell game that would make Enron blush. Again, if I am reading the numbers well, Clemson nearly doubled its direct university subsidy to $13M, parked $54M in contributions in a non-sport-specific bucket, slashed fundraising costs by two-thirds, and called the result "profit." Clemson is a public land-grant university. Its athletic department is essentially asking South Carolina taxpayers to subsidize a $200M enterprise so it can report a $893K profit — while simultaneously arguing it generates enough value to justify paying its football coach $10M+ a year. I am from Clemson, BTW. Go Tigers.

@mckenzielaw The part of his comment that doesn't sit well is about the punch. I don't doubt the coach had a bloody lip. Nor do I doubt a fan did it. But "punch" implies intent and no one seemed angry at Duke players or coaches. Storming is dangerous because people can get hurt.

@DougSligh Empathize, Doug. I guess my sense is that Duke gets a lot more storming than most teams. Last year at Wake was a good example. But I have no reason to believe that coach is lying. He actually provided more detail today.

Lots of people are suggesting that Coach Scheyer should be "charged" with "libel" should video evidence not emerge. Ridiculous. Defamation requires a false statement about a person/plaintiff. Scheyer’s statement is about unidentified fans in a crowd and harm to Duke staff/family, not about UNC as an institution and not about a specific identifiable UNC person. And you don't "charge" anyone with "libel" (it's actually slander). Then, you have to prove your damages since this isn't defamation per se. Jeff is totally within his office here. He can and should prosecute anyone who assaulted a Duke staffer.

@mckenzielaw I agree. People are excited about beating Duke and that joy brings on the court storming. Nobody storms the court after beating Boston College.