The Rest of College Football

[Optimus Prime]

Sure, he also wrote a book. There will be very little if any bank records, Cash is King most of these Hood Rats live in a "Cash Economy" and I doubt many have checking accounts.


My former accountant sold his home to 50 Cent in Hollywood, Fl. The Rapper and his posse appeared at the closing with suitcases of 20 dollar bills from T-Shirt sales...1.5M of them.

[entropy]

btw.. 2 weeks from tonight:

Murray State at Louisville 5:00 p.m. ESPNU (HD)
Mississippi State at Memphis 7:00 p.m. FSN (HD)
UNLV at Wisconsin 7:00 p.m. ESPN (HD) (3D) / espn3
Bowling Green at Idaho 8:00 p.m. ALT
Kentucky vs. Western Kentucky (Nashville) 8:15 p.m. ESPNU (HD)

Fordham at Connecticut 6:30 p.m. espn3
Montana State at Utah 7:00 p.m. KJZZ (cable)
New Hampshire at Toledo 6:00 p.m. TBA
North Carolina Central at Rutgers 6:30 p.m. espn3
North Texas at Florida International 6:00 p.m. espn3
South Carolina State at Central Michigan 6:00 p.m. TBA
UC Davis at Arizona State 9:00 p.m. Possible for FSAZ
Villanova at Temple 6:00 p.m. espn3
Wake Forest at Syracuse 7:00 p.m. espn3
Western Carolina at Georgia Tech 6:30 p.m. espn3

[JRB]

One thing I'd like to see, though I don't know how practical it would prove to be, is the institution of a legal remedies for schools to pursue against rogue boosters. Maybe booster laws could be passed at the state level, as agent laws have been, or schools could request contributors sign binding pledges that require them to abide by NCAA rules or face specified consequences. Legal ramifications wouldn't deter everybody(it's almost inconceivable that they would have dissuaded Nevin Shapiro), but the threats of prosecution and/or getting sued by their beloved university would deter at least some of the folks that might engage in this, IMO.

[iam416]

I just wanted to say that it was a nice touch by ESPN to have Nick Saban on their roundtable on how to save CFB. Well done.

[entropy]

I wonder if Yahoo, just to prove a point, will go after all programs on the round table. everyone likes to show up their competition

[entropy]

For the first time, a Miami player is speaking out about the scandal that has rocked the Hurricanes' football program and sparked an NCAA investigation.

More...

[Hannibal]

I think that Miami might get out of this with relatively little damage if they fire anyone left over from that era and self-impose some decent penalties.

[Optimus Prime]

They deserve it, although I 've had season tickets th elast couple years I am so glad I didn't renew this season, these guys will NEVER learn. Feel sorta bad for Golden, he walked into a mess.

[iam416]

I wonder how long it will take Golden to suspend all current players named in the Yahoo article.

[entropy]

we'll soon find out if the NCAA is all talk. Yahoo couldn't have handed them anything more damaging besides video of actual money exchanges.

[entropy]

Miami's ex-AD new poster child for college football hypocrisy

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/story/15446543/miamis-exad-new-poster-child-for-college-football-hypocrisy

You will want to be there when the NCAA phones up Paul Dee.

You won't, of course, because it will be a secret when the former Miami AD will be questioned about his culpability in one of the worst scandals in amateur athletics history. Dee will be asked to explain why and how Nevin Shapiro was able to gain unprecedented access to a program and lavish on players what one source told Yahoo! Sports was "sex, money, meals, some jewelry, whatever they needed ..."

What do investigators say to one of their own? Dee is a former NCAA infractions committee chairman, the sheriff in charge of sentencing NCAA wrongdoers. He's the guy who sat in judgment of USC when the program was burned to the ground, then scolded the school for letting it happen.

"High profile players demand high-profile compliance," Dee said 14 months ago in reference to Reggie Bush.

There have been few more hypocritical words spoken in the history of NCAA enforcement.

Now it's Dee's former football program that resembles a five-alarm blaze. It looks for all the world like Miami's former AD fiddled while Coral Gables burned. Shapiro, a booster, detailed to Yahoo! an eight-year run of lavish payoffs that would make SMU, circa 1987, blush.

If the infractions committee chairman's school is committing some of most heinous crimes in NCAA history, the system is not only broken, it is beyond repair. CBSSports.com found that, counting Dee, three of the last six infractions committee chairpersons have been allowed to operate within the system despite having their records stained by wrongdoing or embarrassing court dealings.

A fourth, attorney Gene Marsh, a veteran of more than 100 infractions hearings, now represents NCAA miscreants. That was him with Jim Tressel rushing out of the hearing room issuing no comments with his client.

Using this Miami case as a foundation for the current state of affairs, it seems like you're either stained by the cult of wrongdoing or profiting from it.

Dee himself, AD from 1993-2008, was in charge when Miami football was at the center of a Pell Grant fraud scandal in 1995. The program was stripped of 24 scholarships, given a one-year bowl ban and three years probation. Despite that, he was allowed to be on the infractions committee for the max nine years from 2001-2010.

Shapiro's run of lawlessness came at roughly the same time that Dee was on the committee, the last three years as chairman (2008-2010). That committee is the nine-person board that hears testimony at hearings and ultimately decides penalties for schools and individuals.

It was responsible for sending USC to the brink of the death penalty last year. At almost the exact same time Shapiro was running wild. In essence, Dee sat in judgment of others while a known rule-breaking booster was running his program into the ground.

Miami had a student lounge named after Shapiro. (His name has since been removed.)

According to Yahoo!, Shapiro tried to punch out Miami's compliance director during an embarrassing loss to Virginia. Amazingly, the school did nothing to disassociate itself from Shapiro after that confrontation.

Shapiro was so ingrained that he led the Hurricanes onto the field. Twice.

School president Donna Shalala is pictured in a Yahoo! story holding a $50,000 donation while standing next to Shapiro.

All that isn't as jaw-dropping as what Dee told the Palm Beach Post on Tuesday.

"We didn't have any suspicion that he was doing anything like this," he said. "He didn't do anything to cause concern."

Scores of coaches and administrators have said the same thing to Dee and his committee. They have been ignored and sent to NCAA jail. But look at the statement above. Substitute the names Pete Carroll for Paul Dee in relation to Lloyd Lake in the USC case and you could have used the same quote.

It's one thing to ignore Shapiro. It's an insult to our intelligence for any high-ranking Miami administrator to say they had no idea what he was all about.

"Karma," said one individual affected by that USC decision, "is a bitch."

Miami football was so rife with corruption in '95 that Sports Illustrated famously stated on one of its covers, "Why the University of Miami should drop football"

After the NCAA gets through this latest scandal, school officials may have no option but to self-impose a death penalty. Yahoo! stated that 72 players and seven coaches who at least had knowledge of the situation were involved.

High-profile compliance? Please.

You have to wonder how the NCAA vets its committee members.

Current chairman Dennis Thomas has been commissioner of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference for the last 10 years. Under his watch, two of his schools were slapped with major penalties within three months of each other in 2006 (Savannah State, Florida A&M).

Previously, Thomas spent 12 years as AD at Hampton University. In 1991, the football program he inherited was put on probation following a grade-changing scandal.

Let's say it again: Couldn't the NCAA find someone clean, or cleaner?

In doesn't end there. Former chairman Jack Friedenthal is being sued by former Buffalo coach Tim Cohane in a case that stretches back 10 years. Cohane was given a two-year show cause order as part of a recruiting violations case. Friedenthal, the faculty athletics rep at George Washington, currently sits on NCAA appeals committee.

He is believed to be the first infractions committee member to be sued personally.

These are the people judging NCAA wrongdoers. Suddenly, a guy like Shapiro looks like some sort of savior. Not only is he singing to the NCAA like Christina Aguilera on Red Bull, he is lifting a veil on a hidden process.

If you're worried about the source, ratting out is what guys do when they're wronged. The NCAA is more than happy to listen. USC's case likely never would have come to light if only Bush had paid convicted felon Lloyd Lake the $300,000 he owed him.

Laying low is what guys like Dee should do when they've been caught in a sickening web of hypocrisy. Paul Dee does not lay low. For years he was the bombastic, contentious AD at the U. After one Labor Day night loss at home to Florida State, he flew into a rage and kicked the media out of the Miami locker room basically because his team had lost. He was later rebuked in a letter sent by the Football Writers Association of America.

It's going to get real bad for Miami real soon. Coach Al Golden must be wondering a) why he took the job and b) well, there really isn't a b). If half of this stuff is true, Miami is going to be hit with big-time NCAA penalties. Golden might see his career stalled like a dinghy out of gas in Biscayne Bay.

At least he is young enough to have a future. Dee has only a sordid and hypocritical legacy with Miami and the NCAA.

[Wild Hoss]

I just wanted to say that it was a nice touch by ESPN to have Nick Saban on their roundtable on how to save CFB. Well done.

Next week they'll be interviewing Rae Carruth on his thoughts regarding the pratfalls of relationships.

[entropy]

New Iowa/ISU Trouphy (CyHawk Trouphy)

[entropy]

Longhorn Network's push for high school highlights irks Big 12 rivals
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By Chuck Carlton / DMN

DALLAS — The voice on the other end of the cell phone Friday spoke with a mixture of frustration and exasperation.
The speaker, a high-ranking Big 12 school official who requested anonymity, wondered why the Longhorn Network was again talking about high school coverage. In this case, it was ESPN vice president Burke Magnus telling the Austin American-Statesman that the startup hoped to use high school highlights in its coverage.
The official recalled the contentious internal conference debate that led to a one-year Big 12 moratorium on high school game telecasts just a couple of weeks ago. Athletic directors looked at every contingency and thought they had squared the knot.
"What part of 'no' don't they understand?" the official said.
Apparently, to ESPN "no" means maybe. Or at least keep asking, searching and hoping.
Expect the issue to surface at the NCAA's summit on high school broadcasts Monday. Magnus plans to attend. So does Longhorn Network executive Dave Brown. Texas is sending three athletic department representatives.
The NCAA weighed in Aug. 11 with a ban on high school broadcasts, announced by president Mark Emmert.
The official NCAA interpretation reads: "The academic and membership affairs staff determined it is not permissible for an institution- or conference-branded network to broadcast (audio or video) programming involving prospective student-athletes."
So didn't that settle it?
"It's not crystal clear," Texas athletic director DeLoss Dodds said Friday.
Expect the Longhorn Network and ESPN to lobby that the high school highlights are news. Maybe they'll cite the First Amendment. Who knows what will happen?
"I've said 100 times we're not going to do high school football games unless the NCAA says everybody can do it," Dodds said. "We're not going to violate any rules. We'll do what's right."
Even if they get the right to air high school highlights, should they?
ESPN and Texas must know how divisive this issue is. If Texas A&M eventually gets all the legal and legislative concerns out of the way and if the Southeastern Conference finds a 14th school and sends an invite, the Longhorn Network might be remembered as the catalyst.
Asked to comment on the high school highlights plan, A&M spokesman Jason Cook gave a slightly cryptic response Thursday: "Recent conversations reflect our ongoing concern."
One possible translation: Told ya so.
Any last-ditch hopes the Big 12 held of persuading A&M to stay evaporated with the highlights possibility, another Big 12 school source suggested.
Other ADs in the league expressed the same fear as the previously mentioned school official in phone interviews.
Let's say the Longhorn Network can show highlights, and let's consider a progression:
Aledo's Johnathan Gray, a top Texas commitment, scores on a highlight-worthy touchdown run. Now Gray talks about his touchdown. Now Gray's touchdown gets replayed several times during the week. Soon there's a highlight package of Gray.
"We want to make this work," the high-ranking school official said of conference unity, "but this issue is of great concern."
ESPN must know anytime anybody talks high school broadcasts on the Longhorn Network, that's the equivalent of lighting a victory cigar in a dynamite factory.
Other member schools might be forced to match the Longhorn Network, or pull an A&M. It's potentially that serious.
In a conference that might soon be trying to lure high-profile new schools, the debate represents a membership migraine.

[lineygoblue]

Broadcasting HS games live, or even on a tape delay, will give Tejas a huge recruiting advantage over anyone trying to recruit a kid in Texas. There's no way around it.

"Coach, (or AD) .. make sure Jimmy-Bob Scatter-arm verbals to Texas, and we'll get some of your games on the Longhorn Network"