North Carolina isn\u2019t saying much about UNC football G.M. Michael Lombardi, who has been placed on paid administrative leave. Lombardi had something to say on Friday night, via his attorney.<\/p>\n
\u201cMichael hasn\u2019t been told anything<\/a> about the nature of UNC\u2019s investigation and welcomes the opportunity to clear his name, which has already been sullied by baseless statements and innuendo on social media,\u201d lawyer Tom Mars said, via Pete Thamel of ESPN. \u201cHe is fully cooperating with UNC and expects the investigation will be swift, thorough, and fair. Michael would ask that people have the decency to let the process run its course before jumping to any conclusions about the nature of the investigation or whether there\u2019s any merit to whatever has been alleged.\u201d<\/p>\n North Carolina has said that it is investigating \u201callegations<\/a>\u201d regarding Lombardi. Thamel reported on Monday that the situation \u201cstems from a human resources complaint filed by a former UNC front office employee<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s not unusual for the subject of an investigation to know nothing in the early stages. In many cases, the employer speaks to the person against whom accusations are made as the last step, after all other relevant information is gathered. When UNC interviews Lombardi, he\u2019ll get an idea pretty quickly as to what it\u2019s about.<\/p>\n For now, he\u2019s still getting paid. He\u2019s just not working. Whether he returns depends on the outcome of the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Carolina isn\u2019t saying much about UNC football G.M. Michael Lombardi, who has been placed on paid administrative…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-796714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}