Let The Shit Hit The Fan In Miami!

[RollTide72]

From one of the Yahoo articles:

?When Shapiro made his allegations nearly a year ago, he and his attorneys refused to provide any facts to the university,? Freet said. ?We notified the NCAA enforcement officials of these allegations. We are fully cooperating with the NCAA and are conducting a joint investigation. We take these matters very seriously.?

All told, the length, breadth and depth of the impropriety Shapiro has alleged would potentially breach multiple parts of at least four major NCAA bylaws ? and possibly many more. Shapiro described acts that could include violations of multiple parts of bylaw 11, involving impermissible compensation to coaches; multiple parts of bylaw 12, involving amateurism of athletes; multiple parts of bylaw 13, involving improper recruiting activity; and multiple parts of bylaw 16, involving extra benefits to athletes.

Perhaps most troubling is Shapiro?s sustained impropriety could trigger the NCAA?s ?willful violations? exception to its four-year statute of limitations. Under bylaw 36.2.3, an investigation can expand beyond the statute if information reveals that an individual tied to a university has engaged in ?a pattern of willful violations? over a sustained period beyond the previous four years.

 

[RollTide72]

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=nfp-20110816_smu_has_nothing_on_the_u&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

You thought the Fab 5 scandal at Michigan was bad? This case, as thoroughly and precisely documented by Charles Robinson, is Michigan on steroids.

Miami booster Nevin Shapiro, locked up for his role in a $930 million Ponzi scheme, told Yahoo! Sports over an 11-month investigation that he provided thousands of impermissible benefits to at least 72 athletes from 2002 through 2010. And according to Shapiro, these transgressions sometimes occurred with the knowledge or direct participation of at least seven coaches from the football and basketball programs.

Shapiro estimates, in all, the total costs being in the millions of dollars.

Cash, prostitutes, use of a multimillion-dollar home and yacht, trips to swanky restaurants and nightclubs, jewelry, bounties for on-field play (including bounties for injuring opposing players) and travel.

Oh, and an abortion.

If you're first-year Miami head coach Al Golden right now, being head coach of the Temple Owls in the MAC is looking mighty appetizing this evening.

 

[Old School]

In case you wonder why I keep bringing up the former AD Paul Dee....

THIS HAPPENED UNDER HIS WATCH and he is now the chairman of the NCAA committee on infractions. This is why the NCAA needs to go.

and the walls came tumbling down..

the farce that is college athletics..

just pay them to walk the campus and then play on game..

stop the charade

 

[neverteaseit]

Miami has always been dirty IMO and yet they never got any real sanctions against them in the past. There are many others also. I still say the criminals (FSU) back in the day did shit as well.

Miami should go on death row. Dee should be terminated immediately. Shalala is a fucking hypocrite and will say what she has always said. I know nothing pass me some more Big Athletic Cock. She should be fired immediately also.

The NCAA will fuck this one up as well. All those fucking geeezers at the NCAA should be gone. Before long we may need to go back to 1965 to find a real national champion that is not involved in some scandal.

We still have awaiting penalties... North Carolina, Boise State, Oregon, Ohio State, Auburn "I know notin Cam". If you believe he didn't know anything then I got some swampland in Antartica for you.

This shit is becoming a joke for the programs who are actually clean. I am trying to figure out which ones they are but there has to be some.

 

[joefrog91]

Surprisingly, Ponyfans.com is kinda apathetic about it.

 

[Old School]

Miami has always been dirty IMO and yet they never got any real sanctions against them in the past. There are many others also. I still say the criminals (FSU) back in the day did shit as well.

Miami should go on death row. Dee should be terminated immediately. Shalala is a fucking hypocrite and will say what she has always said. I know nothing pass me some more Big Athletic Cock. She should be fired immediately also.

The NCAA will fuck this one up as well. All those fucking geeezers at the NCAA should be gone. Before long we may need to go back to 1965 to find a real national champion that is not involved in some scandal.

We still have awaiting penalties... North Carolina, Boise State, Oregon, Ohio State, Auburn "I know notin Cam". If you believe he didn't know anything then I got some swampland in Antartica for you.

This shit is becoming a joke for the programs who are actually clean. I am trying to figure out which ones they are but there has to be some.

-"Holmes it took the Feds getting envolved to cleanup Major League Baseball.They may have to step in and cleanup this Football farce as well"

 

[RollTide72]

I just don't see how Paul Dee can stay employed by the NCAA. I think it's a joke he is the Chairman of the NCAA Infractions Committee to begin with. Not only did all of this shit go down under his watch, more than 50 football players were alleged to be among the participants in a massive fraud of the federal Pell Grant system, when the Hurricanes later were banned from playing in a bowl game and stripped of dozens of scholarships while he was AD.

Pot meet kettle.

Sporting News Commentary
http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/feed/2011-08/um-violations/story/miami-mess-a-strict-failure-of-leadership

 

[RollTide72]

I think Stewart Mandel from Sports Illustrated hits the nail on the head here:

If USC got a two-year bowl ban and 30 docked scholarships, what should Miami get for an encyclopedia of allegations so tawdry as to make USC look like a bubble-gum shoplifter? Can you ban a team from the postseason for a decade? Can you take away 90 scholarships? Not likely. All that's seemingly left is the biggie -- the death penalty -- and it's entirely possible: Miami qualifies as a repeat violator for any violations before Feb. 27, 2008, stemming from it mid-90s Pell Grant scandal. But the NCAA hasn't gone there in 25 years.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/stewart_mandel/08/16/miami.hurricanes.allegations.reaction/index.html

 

[layinwood]

Sucks big for the incoming frosh. If I was one of them I would pack my bags, head home and beg the NCAA to let me into another school ASAP.

 

[Cie]

I will let Seantrel Henderson stay at my house and drive him to practice if he'll agree to play at LSU

 

[RollTide72]

I will let Seantrel Henderson stay at my house if he'll agrees to play at LSU

:mj07: :mj07:

He thought he was avoiding USC's NCAA trouble.

Whoops! :facepalm:

 

[Cie]

:mj07: :mj07:

He thought he was avoiding USC's NCAA trouble.

Whoops! :facepalm:

:0002

 

[layinwood]

If some of these numbers are true the the IRS will be wanting to have some conversations with these guys.

 

[RollTide72]

LSUFreek is a GENIUS!

http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2011/8/17/2368181/lsufreek-on-miami-burn-baby-burn

 

[RollTide72]

 

[neverteaseit]

"Holmes it took the Feds getting envolved to cleanup Major League Baseball.They may have to step in and cleanup this Football farce as well"


See I don't think it would. I am not an attorney so I have no idea if they could legally pursue it, but I don't see why they couldn't.

If the school comes under investigation for an athlete or agent involvement and is penalized, then why can't the school sue the agent to recoup losses from his activity? Why can't the school sue an athlete for those losses as well once he signs an NFL contract? All it would take is for this to pay off a couple of times and then you might make some headway. Taking large amounts of $$$ away is the only way to hurt these guys.

They should sue for tuition, attorney fees and anything else under the sun. Licenses for agents should be suspended as well or the NFL should make it illegal for them to represent a player in contract talks. The NFL is all smoke and mirrors as well. They could really care lesss what a kid does in college IMO. They just want the product on the field.

AD's need to be held more accountable also. The ole I know nothing may have worked 20 years ago but I don't think so in today's modern world. Start firing these posses as well.

I know I am living in a fantasy land thinking this would happen, but I would like to see one school try it. It would definantely shake up some tactics especially if it was a success.

For every major violation a school should lose bowl elegibility for 1 year. Maybe this could force schools to police thier own crap before it hits the streets. Boosters should be banned for life also if involved. Yea I am sure that $$$ train would end.

I realize most college athletes never go to the NFL etc. But the majority of those involved are ones who will. All programs suffer after the fact.

I don't agree with paying athletes either. Once you do this you open up the flood gates for more corruption. Then when does it end? It could be worse than what occurs now.

No matter what happens it will continue. Someone always thinks they can get away with something. In the end a program gets destroyed and the player/players involved are long gone making millions in the NFL etc.

Something needs to be done that is for sure. What they are doing now has not and will not work. It is going to take something drastic to change this landscape.

I will get back to dreaming anything will change in the NCAA.