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

[CoastGhost]

The Miami Story - Interesting Perspective - Yahoo

http://sports.yahoo.com/investigati...YcB?slug=dw-wetzel_miami_scandal_scene_081711

SIAP

 

[uagirl]

Re: The Miami Story - Interesting Perspective - Yahoo

I just saw this article, and I can't lie, this part scares the crud out of me.

"You must understand that in 2005 when I was president at Murray State, I fired our football coach, Joe Pannunzio, because of numerous incidents that occurred in our program under him that were quite bad," he said. "Well, Pannunzio immediately was hired by Miami, and he's one of the coaches who's been prominently mentioned by Shapiro in the current scandal. He's now the head of football operations at Alabama."

Why is this man anywhere near our program?

 

[rizolltizide]

Re: The Miami Story - Interesting Perspective - Yahoo

I just saw this article, and I can't lie, this part scares the crud out of me.

Why is this man anywhere near our program?

That's a really good question.

Past performance isn't always indicative of future results,, I mean he could have cleaned up his act after Murray State, but it seems pretty obvious now that he didn't. But, he was hired here before the Miami info came to light, so maybe we thought he had cleaned his act up. I know if I was in charge of it at this point he'd be gone.

 

[TideEngineer08]

Earle isn't it interesting the NCAA is so concerned with finding the "bag man" and having him talk in this case? They just passed right over that part in the Means case.

A question I have had since the Newton saga began.

 

[Crimson Surfer]

Re: The Miami Story - Interesting Perspective - Yahoo

I just saw this article, and I can't lie, this part scares the crud out of me.

Why is this man anywhere near our program?

CNS commented on the situation.

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2011/08/nick_saban_discusses_improper.html

Saban said clearly he doesn't know anything about what allegedly transpired in Miami, but acknowledged any wrongdoing could lead to discipline.

"I know what goes on in this program and I know that we do things correctly," Saban said. "We do have people in this organization, who worked there (at Miami). Before those people were ever hired here we do an NCAA check to make sure they pass all compliance criteria and that they don't have any red flags relative to compliance history.

"We certainly did that in both of these cases. Now, if any of these people had any wrongdoing, I'm sure the NCAA will investigate it in due time and, if they did anything wrong, I'm sure they will get the appropriate punishment, which we would do if we had any internal problems in our organization. But we're going to continue and control and manage what we do in our organization and do it correctly, and that's basically all we can be concerned about."

 

[kyallie]

Re: The Miami Story - Interesting Perspective - Yahoo

CNS commented on the situation.

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2011/08/nick_saban_discusses_improper.html
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Couldn't be any more explicit! Thanks Steve.

 

[DiamondDust]

Re: The Miami Story - Interesting Perspective - Yahoo

This is absolutely hilarious and sums things up nicely:

http://eye-on-collegefootball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/24156338/31419360

 

[Crimson Surfer]

Re: The Miami Story - Interesting Perspective - Yahoo

http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/sports/UM-Source-Confirms-Shapiros-Role-in-Recruiting-128052448.html

University of Miami officials said Friday they wouldn't comment on the Shapiro recruiting claims.

Both Hurtt and Pannunzio were named in the Yahoo! Sports report that broke the news of the scandal Tuesday.

Hurtt, now a defensive line coordinator at Louisville, wouldn't be commenting, school officials said. Pannunzio, now director of football operations at the University of Alabama, was also unavailable for comment Friday, Associate Athletics Director for football communications Jeff Purinton told NBC Miami.

Former assistant coach Jeff Stoutland, also now at Alabama, was also named in the report, but the source tells NBC Miami Stoutland was, "as clean as they come."

 

[Special K]

Re: The Miami Story - Interesting Perspective - Yahoo

http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/sports/UM-Source-Confirms-Shapiros-Role-in-Recruiting-128052448.html

That's great to hear about Stoutland. I don't see how in the world Pannunzio keeps his job and I'm not really worried about losing him (in fact I kind of want him gone just to cut our ties with this mess). On the other hand, Stoutland leaving at the outset of the season would be a tough deal.

 

[Chinacat]

This whole storyline is not what any Bama fan wants to see. Like gas on the fire. I did a fifteen minute web search and came up with these ESPN stories concerning Pannunzio's tenure at Murray State. In a nutshell, he was fired for a losing record, 2-9 his final year. The bad things the the Cal State president mentioned were the arrests of two players for dealing drugs on campus.

Here is the link to the various ESPN stories. http://search.espn.go.com/joe-pannunzio/


If we had professional journalists working this story, I am sure they would have turned this up. I am confident in Coach Saban and our compliance folks.

 

[RTR91]

This guy had some pull within the U Athletic department...

http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsport...-nutt-and-shapiro-spoke-in-2006-about-um-job/