Loading ...Hakeem Nicks, one of the all-time great wide receiver in North Carolina history, will have all of his school records marked with an asterisk following the revelation that he competed while academically ineligible in 2008. Records show that the now New York Giants star received "improper academic help" from a tutor implicated in the NCAA scandal at UNC – a scandal the NCAA referred to as "academic fraud."
Nicks holds several Tar Heels records including career receiving touchdowns with 21 and career receiving yards with 2,840, as well as yards in a single season with 1,222 and touchdowns in a season with 12, both of which he accomplished in 2008. He also holds records for career receptions with 181 and the season record with 74 (2007).
“We have no knowledge of [his ineligibility] whatsoever,” Nicks' agent Peter Schaffer said. “[And] it’s low on the totem pole of relevant issues.”
The asterisk that appears next to Nicks' records will now be accompanied with a note that reads "participation later vacated due to NCAA penalty."
Back in 2010, Nicks also had his name come up during the NCAA investigation as one of three former players who provided “impermissible assistance” to current athletes by way of travel, lodging, entertainment and other expenses valued at approximately $3,300. However, there was never any evidence linking Nicks to agents, prospective agents or runners. The three merely thought they were "helping their friends out."
Nicks has not yet made any comments on the situation.
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First oh yea
And really does not change the fact he still put up thoes #
I am SHOCKED to hear that there is illegal academic assistance and money passed under the table for incidental expenses at big-time collegiate football programs. Shocked. Round up the usual suspects.
Are u being serious?? I cant tell lol
It’s from Casablanca. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_ME
He’s our guy and we love him; but let’s not minimize or celebrate cheating
one of the great problems facing our society is the belief that everything’s a big game and the object is to win at all costs, doing whatever it takes, legal or illegal
it is that kind of mentality that gave us the mortgage backed security debacle, the LIBOR scandal, and the drug money laundering at HSBC — to pick on just the backing industry
it’s what gives us steroids and spy-gate and bounty gate
its a cultural problem promoted directly and indirectly by comments like the couple above
we should celebrate excelling only when it is done openly, honestly and fairly
why anyone would want to win when he has to cheat to do so is beyond me
You must be kidding? Yes, the colleges should be honorable and it’s sad that they’re not, but do you really expect a poorly-educated kid from a bad background who knows his one shot at creating a future for himself and his family is to look the other way when corners are cut so he can play ball and make it to the NFL to, instead, play by rules that were created by people who haven’t a clue how hard life is at the bottom of society?
Blame the school, blame the NCAA, heck, blame the hypocrisy of the NFL, but don’t equate what Nicks seems to have done to the cheating that Presidents, Congressmen, investment bankers and others who have unlimited opportunities do because they’re simply dishonorable and selfish. That’s ridiculous. Might as well side with Jabert against Jean Valjean. After all, stealing bread IS wrong, except when it’s not.
no doubt his “cheating” is not on the same scale and he starts out way behind the 8-ball, but that doesn’t justify it
that’s like me saying I should be able to cheat on my taxes because Romney does it alot more and alot better
*banking*
But look at the context illigal academic help comon man
I don’t know what that could possibly mean. It can’t be that he’s not allowed to have a tutor. Every college I have ever been associated with through either my personal education or that of my sons, offers and encourages tutoring.
It sounds more like someone took tests or wrote papers for him, which, if true, just highlights the already well-publicized and understood joke that is the “student-athlete”
Dirt – on your and cowherd’s premise that we won the SB because we were the healthy, I disagree. We were playing without several starters and key players who were very important. They were important, we just overcame it. Our roster was stacked with enough depth to overcome significant losses. SF was much healthier than we were. What key player did Bmore lose? Philly was very healthy save for Vick. I think what people overlook is our quality depth. In the NBA being 12 deep doesn’t really work and you rather have a big 3 like Miami. But in the NFL the opposite is true. Now being “12 deep” in the NFL doesn’t draw the attention “big 3″ teams like Philly will always get attention but in the end that “12 deep” team is what’s successful in the NFL. Which is a major reason why I feel great about out team heading into the season.
Who were these players? Thomas, Beatty, and who else? The Super Bowl had one player not dress due to injury, an undrafted rookie free agent linebacker.
And again, the above two guys were replaced with former starters at their positions. Both of which started on a previous championship team.
The facts are, when the Giants got healthy, which they did, they beat everyone down.
The facts are, the 2011 Giants were Manning, Jacobs, Bradshaw, Nicks, Cruz, Manningham, Ballard, Diehl, Beatty, Boothe, Baas, Snee, McKenzie, Ballard, Hynoski, Tuck, Umenyiora, Pierre Paul, Canty, Joseph, Kiwanuka, Boley, Blackburn, Williams, Webster, Ross, Amukamara, Phillips, Rolle, Grant, DeOssie, Weatherford and Tynes. That’s 33 guys. They lost 1 along the way, the other 32 played during the money stretch.
Here is the final IR list going into the Super Bowl: Andrews, Austin, Beatty, Clayton, Coe, Goff, Hixon, Johnson, Jones, Parker, Sintim, Thomas, Tryon, Witherspoon.
2 of those guys matter and were replaced with talent, the rest wouldn’t have made a difference. Maybe, maybe Goff. Who’s not here anymore, so it’s possible even Reese wouldn’t think so.
In fact, I would argue the team was made better with one particular injury that allowed Cruz to take the league by storm.
Hmmm. I think you are not really disagreeing with me. You just see us replacing injured players successfully as those injured players not being that good or replacable. My point is that it was great depth that allowed us to win because we had good players replace those those that were injured. Don’t forget facts like Rolle was probably our 5th string nickel back. And Goff fully healthy was by far our best option at MLB last year. Cruz developed but that doesn’t mean losing Hixon didn’t hurt. Look at our return units. But when we got mostly healthy we did prove to be the best team.
In fact, they thrashed everyone but the Niners (the score was close in the Super Bowl but the Giants totally dominated that game and it might well have been a blowout if not for the phantom holding call against the Giants when they were driving to make the score 16-0) once they got healthy, and they are now a significantly better team thanks to the return of young players with experience and a camp, better health for a few who played hurt last season, a couple of great free agency signings, and a fine draft. If they stay healthy this could be a pretty interesting season despite a killer schedule.
I think this may be one of the better NFL seasons in many years. Lots of very good teams. When parity still allows for some really superior teams to congregate near the top things can get very exciting.
Despite this, you can’t say the Giants didn’t make the right choice on draft day:
@jwyattsports: #Titans WR Kenny Britt was arrested for a DUI at Fort Campbell this morning, per @WUZ1045. Military base hasn’t confirmed
@greggrosenthal This would make 8 arrests for Kenny Britt since he entered the NFL in 2009.
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Both great talents, but looks like the NYG made the right choice.
Full disclosure: at the time, I wanted Britt. Then again I also wanted Derrick Morgan over JPP. Shows what I know.
I also wanted Britt over Nicks. Talent wise we are not crazy becaue when he’s been on the field Britt shows great ability. But the knuckle head factor is the big difference. I still think talent wise Britt and Nicks were the 2 best WRs in that draft.
DHB has ability and I think in the coming years he will show he was the 3rd best talent drafted in the first round.
Crabtree I always thought was overrated. His Soph year was way worse than his freshman year. He played in a system that made his numbers look great. He’s still got the skills to be a high level #2 WR but he was in no way the best WR in the draft.
Harvin I always thought was overrated because he was never a great WR. I think if he was actually switched to RB he would be a top10-15 RB. As a WR he can be a high level slot WR but he’s not a #1 WR and since college has always been injured.
Maclin I always thought was too small. He’s been better than I though he would be and if he continues to add strength can be very good. IMO him and DHB have very similar upside.
Nicks I always thought would be a good WR. But I underestimated his explosion. His hands was obvious in college. But his explosiveness and route running have allowed him to develop into a high level #1 and maybe top 5 type of WR.
Britt I thought looked the most like a #1 WR. He had great size, good speed and I saw explosion in college. He would have been my #1 ranked WR. I saw TO in him. But sadly it appears he’s a knucklehead. He still has the ability to be a top 5 WR in the NFL. He was great in the first few games last year before he got injured.
I haven’t been by in a while, except on the day the sad news of JD came across.
Kyle is gone again? What is he up to? I just noticed that he hasn’t tweeted in about 2 months. Anyone know if everything is ok?
He’s focusing on his athletic career.
He’s got me on lockdown until he sees The Dark Knight Rises. I saw it last night and he won’t see it until this afternoon. Otherwise we talk every few days. He’s good.
Was it everything you’d hope it would be? (Save us the details, too, as I haven’t seen it)
First of all, Colin Cowherd is a moron.
I know Giants fans like the guy because he’s one of the few pundits who says anything nice about Eli. But in the end he’s just another generic ESPN talking head; an entertainer whose commentary is all about keeping the needle moving. Tuning into Cowherd for solid football analysis makes about as much sense as tuning into Rush Limbaugh – another entertainer – for a well-reasoned, cogent take on the US political scene.
Far as I’m concerned, citing Colin Cowherd as an authoritative voice on anything having to do with sports is the quickest way to discredit whatever point you’re using him to make. This case is no different.
Yes, Dirt is undeniably correct when he says that the “2011 Giants were Manning, Jacobs, Bradshaw, Nicks, Cruz, Manningham, Ballard, Diehl, Beatty, Boothe, Baas, Snee, McKenzie, Ballard, Hynoski, Tuck, Umenyiora, Pierre Paul, Canty, Joseph, Kiwanuka, Boley, Blackburn, Williams, Webster, Ross, Amukamara, Phillips, Rolle, Grant, DeOssie, Weatherford and Tynes.” And it is also true that none of those guys wound up on IR last year.
However, that analysis overlooks the fact that for much of 2011 many of those key Giants were unable to be on the field at the same time due to – yep – injuries! No, not the season-ending kind but the “miss 2-3 weeks at a time” variety.
In fact, according to one metric, the 2011 Giants were historically unlucky when it came to injuries to key players:
At Football Outsiders, we use a metric called Adjusted Games Lost (AGL) to determine how severe a team’s injury situation has been. AGL separates starters and key reserves from subs, so an injury to Umenyiora or another starter gets more weight than one to some seldom-used backup.
It also accounts for weeks when a player is listed as “questionable” or “probable” but still takes the field, so when someone like Tuck shakes off a toe injury and takes the field in a limited role, it counts as a partial injury.
AGL is a great argument settler, because it takes conversations past the “who cares about your whole linebacker corps, we lost our punt returner” stage.
The Giants are on pace to finish the season with the third-highest defensive AGL of the last decade, behind only the 2008 Lions (who went 0-16) and the 2009 Bills (who went 6-10 and got their coach fired). Through Week 14, they lost the equivalent of 58.9 games by starters to injuries. That means the Giants go into the average game missing four defensive starters and key reserves.
http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/45807356/ns/sports-nfl/
Now, it’s certainly true that most of those injury problems were behind them by the time the stretch run rolled around. And it logically follows that had all their key players not been healthy for the stretch run, they don’t make it to another Super Bowl.
But in the end, that tells us nothing of significance. The fact of the matter is that NO team makes it to a Super Bowl if it’s missing more than one or two key players. ALL of the teams that made it as far as the final 8 were more or less as healthy as the Giants.
And a healthy Giants team was good enough to beat a healthy Green Bay team – widely regarded as the league’s unstoppable juggernaut who had compiled a 15-1 record in the regular season… during which they had been healthy.
Bottom line: The Giants won because they were the better team, not the healthier team.
Did anyone argue otherwise? Of course the Giants needed the improved health, but they beat some healthy teams every step along the way because they were, in fact, the best team of 2011 led by the best quarterback (or, for that matter, player in the NFL) of 2011 and a defense that got it’s act together just in time to dominate some pretty good offenses. Simple as that.
And the 2012 Giants are better than the 2011 Giants. They just may be the best team to come along in decades, but we’ll have to see about that.
Dirt says:
July 20, 2012 at 12:51 AM
Spent some time at the beach these last days. Took the wife’s car, which doesn’t have Sirius – horrible mistake. Anyway, yesterday I’m flipping through FM channels for the first time in 5 years, find nothing then land on The Herd. I like Cowherd. So he’s going on about something and makes a point that seemed so out of place:
The Giants won the Super Bowl because they were the healthiest team.
Maybe I should have said “Does anyone who isn’t a ratings whore who seeks controversy by suggesting everyone else just doesn’t get it suggest that?”
I suspect Cowherd is smarter than the general run of commentators, but I don’t hear him very often and assume none of these guys know the Giants nearly as well as any of us picked at random. Ergo, I pay no heed to what any of them say.
This isn’t an “I told you so” but I did report at the time that a number of people around the Rutgers program had told me that Britt was a complete prima donna and real trouble. I wanted no part of him.
I was a big fan of DHB and was fixated on him until Samard put me on Nicks’ trail. After watching some highlights I was totally sold and said at the time that he looked a lot like Michael Irvin to me and the Giants HAD to draft him. Later, Butch Davis was quoted as making the Irvin comparison, which I still think is obvious.
I have contended, and still do, that Hakeem is going to Canton along with Eli (and if he keeps it up, JPP). Reese made the right pick even though rumor has it he preferred Harvin, in which case he got lucky.
I do remember you saying that about Britt. I didn’t know your intel was true but it was spot on. I’m a Maryland alumn and though DHB might end up with us until he ran that 40. I though he had more upside than Nicks. My ranking was Britt, DHB then Nicks. I think also Britt was attractive because he could have replaced much of the size we lost with Plax. Great call by JR. Another reason that gives me confidence in Wilson being better than Martin.
Don’t forget that Reese would have taken Maclin if Philly had not.
Nicks is a freak. I still challenge anyone to find a WR who can jump with him.
The catch he made in the SB over the middle was simply jaw dropping.
His feet had to be at least 35 inches off the ground. “IN FULL PADS”.
There are only a handful of DB’s who could even hope to defend it.
Not much was made of it athletically speaking, but that was truly a freak show catch.
As for the cheating, well let’s see…would you rather have a kid like Nicks, or a kid like Dez Bryant? End of story. Bryant has more talent than ANY wide out in the NFL. Unfortunately, he’ll be either dead or incarcerated by the time he’s 25 years old. Mark my words. Only for his mothers sake, I hope I’m wrong.
“Don’t forget that Reese would have taken Maclin if Philly had not.”
Well, we have no real basis for knowing that apart from some rather nebulous internet rumors.
That said, it’s probably inarguable that some of Reese’s good fortune in the draft has come as a result of continually drafting at the bottom of each round and letting the other GMs trade up, trade down, reach for players, and otherwise overthink their picks.
Sometimes the best move of a GM’s career is made possible by the screw-ups of others. Just ask OKC’s Sam Presti – who doesn’t draft franchise cornerstone Kevin Durant if Portland doesn’t grab Greg Oden first. Or Rod Thorn – who was also the beneficiary of the hapless Blazers selection of Sam Bowie over Michael Jordan.
So, yeah, it’s quite possible that Reese goes in another direction in the 2009 draft had the Giants been positioned higher. A lot of highly touted WRs came out that year; Nicks was just one of many possibilities whom the Giants are rumored to have liked. Happily for Reese, a goodly number of GMs drafting ahead of him liked the other guys better.
Tuck has been working out at Torrey Pines five days a week this summer and three of those days are spent on the Patch.
He met founder Pete Egoscue in New York and heard about how the system worked for players like Torrey Pines grad and former NFL player John Lynch, and former NFL player Junior Seau.
“Players that I really respect what they do on the field coaxed me to get out here,” Tuck said.
“The years I have done it fully I’ve had some of my best years,” Tuck said, noting that his last year without Patch was one of his most injury-prone.
Not wanting a repeat of that one injury-plagued season, he was committed to set aside the time to work out on the Patch this summer.
http://www.ranchosantafereview.com/2012/07/18/torrey-pines-high-school-patch-workout-system-a-winner-for-new-york-giantssuper-bowl-champ-justin-tuck/