Why are we not talking about the absolute double standard when it comes to off-field incidents and how they get. This story about the fformer Miami player is tragic, and my thoughts are with the family involved, that goes without saying. But it just highlights a pattern we see every single year. When something happens at a program that’s considered a “blue blood” or a media darling, the narrative gets softened. Yet if this involved a player from our program. It would be framed as a “culture” problem. It would be used as a cudgel against our head coach and our entire administration. They’d question the character of our croots and our locker room. We’ve seen it happen before. A player makes a mistake somewhere else, and it’s an isolated incident. A player makes a similar mistake here, and suddenly it’s a systemic failure and a referendum on our entire state. It’s exhausting. This isn’t about minimizing what happened, it’s about the glaring inconsistency in the fallout. The sports media has its favorites, and they protect them. They create a narrative of chaos for some programs and a narrative of isolated misfortune for others. It directly impacts perception, which impacts recruiting, which impacts everything. How many times have we lost a recruit because some talking head on a national show painted our program with. It happens constantly. This creates an uneven playing field before we even step on the grass. We’re building something real here in Chapel Hill, with high-character guys who buy into the team. They get the benefit of the doubt. We have to prove ours, over and over. Until that changes, we’re not just fighting the teams on our schedule, we’re fighting a biased narrative that’s been years in the ...