Bwhahahaha I read the excerpt and thought 'that's some Florio worthy BS right there. Then I read a couple of comments and decided to investigate the blind link... and ofc it was Florio lmao. Whether you see his byline or not the stench of the inner lawyer weaseling its way round to make his opinion come off as a fact is unmistakable
This is 'shoot the messenger' kind of logic.
There were two Florio reports.
The first was his respin of Pablo Torre's "strong claim" that Jordon had been banned. It was attributed to "two sources within the University of North Carolina" who were not named. It was not attributed to UNC itself.
The second contained a statement from UNC itself that was shared across multiple platforms, and that's the one I quoted.
IMO, anyone with a 8th grader's reading skills should be able to tell the difference between the two.
The bare truth is a state university who hired a legendary 73 year old coach felt it had to issue a statement that his 24 year old girlfriend doesn't work for them and only represents his personal brand. They could have issued a statement just saying she was not banned and left it at that, but nope, they went far beyond that.
IMO, it's not BS to suggest that this means they are warning anyone and everyone that she in no way represents UNC, so any emails they get from her do not necessarily represent UNC's point of view, nor do any representations she might make in a meeting, etc.
By my way of thinking, Florio was quite conservative and was not sharing his opinion. If he was, he'd probably be writing that Belichick is a simp being led around by his willy by a trollop who has taken him to the cleaners for $8M, so far.
He definitely isn't the only person who has such an opinion.