Color me surprised.
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Color me surprised.
http://espn.go.com/college-football/...miami-athletes
It surprised me a little when OSU got into some big time trouble with the NCAA. It surprised me even less with the Butch Davis issues at UNC, and even less with the USC allegations.
It does not surprise me at all that The U is in trouble. That football program always seems like a recipe for disaster. I guess what else I realized from this story, when Yahoo sports comes snooping around your program your in some serious trouble.
In other news, the sun rose in the east today.
Makes you wonder if someone affiliated with the U did Shapiro wrong cause he's spilling his guts about every misdeed he was ever a part of. If he was such a great booster, wouldn't he keep his mouth shut?
Shapiro’s chief reason for blowing the whistle? Being abandoned by many of the athletes he helped, when he believed he had forged legitimate friendships with them.
Read more: http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-foo...#ixzz1VIbFlw1V
If the NCAA doesn't issue the death penalty here they never will again. At least not until Cleveland State has a football team.
The best description I heard on this versus recent transgressions of OSU, Boise, Alabama, etc
They were doing 70 MPH in a 65, Miami flew past them doing 130 in a Ferrari flipping the bird at cops.
Yahoo has an entire section devoted to this story
Holy crap, this sounds really bad for Miami and it appears he's got all the proof the NCAA needs too. Good luck Hurricanes. :eek: :eek: :eek:
Wow. Now that is how you break the rules.
I love the Devin Hester quote where he said "He doesn't know the guy", yet there are two personalized autographed photos and at least 3 pictures of them together in small groups and clubs and restaurants.
The problem is the guys who received the improper benefits and the coaches who let it go are long gone. It would suck to be an incoming freshman or a soph who had nothing to do with these payments but are going to get hammered.
Could this be grounds for serious consideration of the death penalty? There's receipts, bank accounts, credit cards and other forms of corroboration to back many of these allegations. This scumbag felon obviously has an axe to grind, but he's apparently backing it up with hard facts.
No matter the name of the penalty, the NCAA schwackhammer is going to come down on The U. It's going to be painful, and it's going to linger for years.
You would think so, but this is the same NCAA that allowed Cam Newton to play because he "didn't know" what his dad was doing and that then allowed OSU to use known ineligible players in a bowl game, breaking virtually every precident in (at least recent) NCAA history. They then had the infractions committe send a 5 page letter to Kentucky about Calipari's victory total, even though that claim had nothing to do with any alleged infraction. And how long did it take them to act on the Reggie Bush case?
I agree that these findings deserve a tough penalty, but right now I'm not confident in the NCAA's decision-making.
There would have to be proof of this scandal going really high up at Miami for them to get the death penalty. It could happen, but I really doubt it.
I don't even see it as a Miami issue or an Ohio State issue, etc... This is a problem with all of college football. There's too much of it going on and the only way anyone seems to get busted is when Yahoo Sports starts snooping around.
I don't really blame young guys that don't have any money for taking when a rich ahole is throwing it around, the problem is that those guys are allowed to be this involved in a program. The funniest part of the whole thing is how Paul Dee, the man who was on the committee that punished USC, was the AD at Miami for a lot of those years.
The NCAA has big problems.
To be absolutely fair, if there had been an actual special benefit given/received, the NCAA likely would've ruled differently on Cam's eligibility. The OSU decision was a little weird in how the NCAA back loaded the penalties but I don't think the NCAA could be accused of looking the other way.
Concerning Miami, i'll be surprised, if they don't get nuked. Maybe they won't get the death penalty but they're going to find it tough to be competitive for a significant period following their punishment despite the conference they play in. This might have some far reaching implications too as there are several coaches that were on Miami's staff from the period encompassing Shapiro's that would have full knowledge of major violations if the allegations are true and who have went on to become prominent members of high profile football programs throughout the US.
For the record, the USC and Miami situations are how journalists are supposed to cover these kinds of things.... don't fire all cannons until ya know what you're shooting at....
This might also have other far reaching consequences.... Texas A&M is most likely going to join the SEC... a team like Virginia Tech would be a prime target for expansion given the chance for the SEC to try to invade the DC area and they may be more prone to jump ship if the competitive nature of their conference takes a hit by a major program getting significant sanctions....
Yahoo is free to do as they please, but does anyone else have the feeling they could pick any school they wanted, do an investigation, and land evidence to get sanctions against that school?
Miami making a strong case to be included when the SEC expands.
Poor post, steeped in common misconceptions...
Quote:
These are listed NCAA Major Probations by current members of these respective
conferences:
1. Big 12 Has 56 Probations; 12 members = 4.7 per institution
2. PAC 10 Has 45 Probations; 10 members (before this season) = 4.5 per institution
3. SEC Has 50 Probations; 12 members = 4.2 per institution
4. Big Ten (11) Has 42 Probations; 11 members = 3.8 per school
5. Conference USA 41 Probations; 12 members = 3.4 per school
6. ACC 35 Probations; 12 members = 2.9 per school (about to add UNC/Miami)
7. Mountain West Has 19 Probations; 9 members = 2.1 per school
8. Big East Has 32 Probations; 16 members = 2 per school
9. WAC Has 18 Probations; 9 members = 2 per school
10. Missouri Valley Has 15 Probations; 10 members = 1.5 per school
11. Atlantic 10 Has 13 Probations; 14 members = 0.9 per school
Miami isn't getting any death penalty.
Randy Shannon barred this guy from practice once he took over as HC because he was viewed as a 'questionably' character or booster by UM. It wasn't specifically him as it was a whole group of folks, but he was included. Drew Rosenhaus as well. There are a lot of holes in his story but I'm not going through all of them.
With that said, I have no doubt players were paid as its just a matter of finding a paper trail. Paul Dee was their AD at the time and he's now head of the NCAA INfractions committee. (he's the one who gave USC their punishment last year).
It's not hard to believe this has going on in South Florida for at least 25 years.
It's a shame the NCAA is so skittish now about the death penalty, SMU got exactly what they deserved being a program built from the bottom up on cheating.
Miami will not be issued the death penalty because the football team funds other non-revenue sports at Miami. To many people will be hurt...girls volleyball, softball, mens golf, etc. I look for the NCAA to go after the existing students that were given the "gifts."
On a side note the former A.D. at Miami when all of this went down was the head of the infractions committee on the NCAA...what a joke! This is the same guy that cleared Derrick Rose to play at Memphis through the clearing house then over a year later said he was ineligible...this jokers name is Paul Dee. The phase he used against Memphis was "strict liability." Coach Cal today sent out a tweet and all it said was....Paul Dee....strict liability! Classic....
Miami is a small private school. Their boosters pale in comparison to FSU and Florida and the rest of the SEC. They have been mediocre the last 5-10 years. UM lost many recruits to LSU and the likes because of a last second 'change of heart.' If they're paying recruits, then they're doing an awful job at it.
I don't really buy this. You can say schools like Harvard, Yale, Princeton are small private schools yet they have endowments topped by no one.
South Beach is a cesspool of people who want to flaunt their money and be famous. I haven't been to Gainsville or Tallahassee but I would imagine there is more money and flaunting down in Miami than in either of those two cities combined.
I think it's kinda silly to even talk about Miami deserving the death penalty right now. The SMU scandal was really really bad.
I expect Miami will be hoisted on Dee's own petard, so to speak, since the primary logic behind USC's sanctions was that the only way USC could not have known about the Bush and Mayo situations was for compliance to actively avoid doing their jobs. Hammer, meet another nail.
However, I will quibble with one thing -- the infractions committee does not have anything to do with clearinghouse operations, so it's not factual to say that Dee cleared Rose to play. And I doubt any other leader of the infractions committee would have made a different decision given what the organization's rules are.