Bringing The World Home To You

© 2024 WUNC North Carolina Public Radio
120 Friday Center Dr
Chapel Hill, NC 27517
919.445.9150 | 800.962.9862
91.5 Chapel Hill 88.9 Manteo 90.9 Rocky Mount 91.1 Welcome 91.9 Fayetteville 90.5 Buxton 94.1 Lumberton 99.9 Southern Pines 89.9 Chadbourn
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
4/16/2024 4:00m: Our web player should now be able to play our livestreams on iOS 17.4 devices. Thank you!

Investigation: UNC Football Player Got At Least $2,000 From Agent

UNC Athletics Logo
UNC-Chapel Hill

Former UNC-Chapel Hill football player Marvin Austin said in documents unsealed today in Wake County Superior Court that a player agent, Terry Shawn Watson from Georgia, paid him several thousand dollars cash. The money came to Austin in a Fed-Ex package while he was a player at Carolina in 2010.

Other payments were sent to the home of Jennifer Wiley. She was the tutor who was at the center of an academic fraud scandal that came out of the investigation into the football program.

At least four other UNC football players also received packages from Watson, according to the Secretary of State Investigation documents. That office regulates sports agents in North Carolina.

The UNC-Chapel Hill football program is under NCAA sanctions until 2015. No charges have yet been brought by the Secretary of State.

Dave DeWitt is WUNC's Supervising Editor for Politics and Education. As an editor, reporter, and producer he's covered politics, environment, education, sports, and a wide range of other topics.
More Stories