Major program about to get busted?

[dabrockster]

Saw this and made me chuckle...

[Portland Ute]

Gregg Doyel lays down the hammer on Oregon and the NCAA:

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoot...liver-recruits

[TripletDaddy]

Gregg Doyel lays down the hammer on Oregon and the NCAA:

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoot...liver-recruits

At USC, the checks were written by outsiders: agents, runners, marketing reps.

At Oregon, the check was written by the Oregon football team.

Yep. Mike Garrett was right.

[Katy Lied]

In 2009, Lance Thomas, player for Duke walked into a jewelry store and put down $30,000 cash for bling worth more than $100K. He said he would be back in 15 days with the remaining $67,800. He never did pay off the balance, so the jeweler is suing for his money back.

The first and most obvious question for NCAA investigators: Where did a college senior, the son of a single mother who is a manager at a Ford plant in New Jersey, according to Duke's website, come up with that sort of cash to drop on something as frivolous as jewelry?
The second and more complicated question: Did Rafaello & Co., a New York-based jeweler with a website that touts its client list of rappers and pro athletes, extend an opportunity to Thomas to pay less than a third of the purchase in advance because of who he is? Because, in other words, he played for Duke? Part of Ohio State's football troubles, remember, stemmed from Terrelle Pryor and others receiving discounts from a tattoo parlor.

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bask...ege-basketball

[Coach McGuirk]

UNC is going to be hurtin' for certa.....nevermind, I am sure the NCAA will find a way out.

AFRI 370 is an upper-level course at UNC-Chapel Hill for seniors majoring in African and Afro-American studies and other students with a background in the study of Africa. It was touted to have “lectures, readings and research projects” on a significant problem facing African leaders or American officials tasked with African issues.


But when it came available in the spring semester of 2010, among those enrolled were several freshman football players who struggled to read and write at a college level.


There were no lectures or readings, and the class never met, one of dozens of such classes offered between 2007 and 2011. The players simply turned in a 20-page paper they produced with extensive help from tutors and oversight from counselors. That help, at times, included intense editing and material made available for use in the papers, according to records from UNC’s Academic Support Program for Student Athletes obtained by The News & Observer.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/09/...emic-help.html