Link: NCAA eyes booster's claims Miami players took cash

[rickvox79]

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...-boosters-claims-that-miami-players-took-cash


The NCAA has been working overtime lately it seems. Now Miami is in their cross hairs again it looks like.

 

[willie52]

This line ought to peak some interest...."One source added that the secondary focus of the look was on the recruiting methods of at least three SEC schools and a number of ACC schools in the area". If I remember correctly, wasn' that LSU, *U, and Tenn?

 

[b2v4ua]

This line ought to peak some interest...."One source added that the secondary focus of the look was on the recruiting methods of at least three SEC schools and a number of ACC schools in the area". If I remember correctly, wasn' that LSU, *U, and Tenn?

Yep, you remember correctly.

 

[IMALOYAL1]

Tweeted by - @McMurphyCBS Brett McMurphy about 1hr ago.

Miami source on severity of what's going to hit the fan at UM. "Between a 1 & 10, it's a 10."

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"One source added that the secondary focus of the look was on the recruiting methods of at least three SEC schools and a number of ACC schools in the area"

Any team that has recruited the South Florida area with very good results, were up against tough competition. That doesn't say you had to cheat to get players from there, but it will probably put you under suspicion.

 

[GrayTide]

If the U's is a 10 then tOSU's is at least a 12. New HC same old Miami.

 

[DiamondDust]

If the U's is a 10 then tOSU's is at least a 12. New HC same old Miami.

This was apparently before Golden took the job.

 

[GrayTide]

Yes it was before Al Golden over, but IMO it will still be a case of the inmates running the asylum.

 

[kyallie]

I'm shocked Clay Travis didn't break this story. And where was Brooks?

Just a matter of time.

 

[WMack4Bama]

Yahoo! (Wetzel, Robinson, and the like) are legit. They investigated this thing almost a year before the story broke. Here's their story. AMAZING revelations here

Renegade Miami football booster spells out illicit benefits to players

In 100 hours of jailhouse interviews during Yahoo! Sports’ 11-month investigation, former Hurricanes booster Nevin Shapiro described a sustained, eight-year run of rampant NCAA rule-breaking, some of it with the knowledge or direct participation of at least seven coaches from the Miami football and basketball programs. At a cost that Shapiro estimates in the millions of dollars, he said his benefits to athletes included but were not limited to: cash, prostitutes, entertainment in his multimillion-dollar homes and yacht, paid trips to high-end restaurants and nightclubs, jewelry, bounties for on-field play (including bounties for injuring opposing players), travel and on one occasion, an abortion.

Also among the revelations were damning details of Shapiro’s co-ownership of a sports agency – Axcess Sports & Entertainment – for nearly his entire tenure as a Hurricanes booster. The same agency that signed two first-round picks from Miami, Vince Wilfork and Jon Beason, and recruited dozens of others while Shapiro was allegedly providing cash and benefits to players. In interviews with federal prosecutors, Shapiro said many of those same players were also being funneled cash and benefits by his partner at Axcess, then-NFL agent and current UFL commissioner Michael Huyghue. Shapiro said he also made payments on behalf of Axcess, including a $50,000 lump sum to Wilfork, as a recruiting tool for the agency.

 

[CrimsonProf]

Two of our guys named in this...ugh.

 

[WMack4Bama]

Yes indeed...Stoutland and Pannunzio. Hope it works out for them. Here's more from Dan Wetzel

Who is Nevin Shapiro. Great article.

Two of our guys named in this...ugh.

 

[GreatMarch]

I haven't read the entire article but it seems most of this took place even before the tenure of Coach Randy Shannon. I know when he took over he said a lot of things in the program needed to be cleaned up such as guns and outside influences. Someone mentioned our new O-line coach but I think much of this took place before he was hired at Miami to replace Art Kehoe.

Correction.....I see where they were named. Ugh

 

[CrimsonProf]

Hard to see how Stoutland keeps his job. Same with Pannunzio.

 

[DiamondDust]

Got to be one incredibly foul smelling fan in Miami right now...

 

[BamaFlum]

Does anyone think our AD puts out a press release about the coaches named?

 

[TheRealPokeChop]

You guys get this doesnt affect UA right, Just the coaches names who may be looking for jobs. No reason to feel bad about it, those violations were at the U not UA.

 

[CrimsonSEC]

For an apparent program insider like him to sing like this, somebody at Miami must have ticked this Shapiro guy off big time.

 

[Tide1986]

You guys get this doesn't affect UA right, Just the coaches names who may be looking for jobs. No reason to feel bad about it, those violations were at the U not UA.

True...from a compliance perspective...but losing the OL coach at the beginning of the season could be a big hit to us.

 

[TheRealPokeChop]

True...from a compliance perspective...but losing the OL coach at the beginning of the season could be a big hit to us.

true but an assistant is replaceable.

 

[WMack4Bama]

Not sure...According to Cecil, they've requested UA to make a statement on it. I doubt seriously, though,that it's anything more than a cardboard, generic, "We're looking into it" or "No comment"

Does anyone think our AD puts out a press release about the coaches named?