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NCAA already rules on Hurricane players

  • Didn't they take their sweet time with our players involved with the Whitney last year? Can't remember sorry if I'm mistaken.

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    johnaustin ●

  • It's baffling how these things get handled, at least looking from the outside it is.

    PittCock ●

  • Same with tennessee. All of their major violations, but we can't get a stupid hotel situation done. They pick and choose who they want help or not, and no one can convince me otherwise. The NCAA is a racket. They're like the mafia.

    OCock

  • johnaustin said...

    Didn't they take their sweet time with our players involved with the Whitney last year? Can't remember sorry if I'm mistaken.

    got it resolved literally minutes before KO

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    AmenCornerCock ●

  • I think in our Whitney case though didn't it go down on that Friday before the game. That's what I recall and if so, the NCAA worked pretty fast.

    garnetblood ●

  • Would someone please post a link to the UM suspensions...I am on a DOD computer and can not access anything on the web that has sports for a heading...except by link...Thanks.

    boomer01

  • Our players got cleared pretty quickly. The situation didn't, and neither will Miami's.

    97srad750 ●

  • EIGHT CANES MUST SIT OUT GAMES, REPAY BENEFITS: The NCAA ruled that eight Miami 1aa1ncaa 1aa1ncaa2 Hurricanes football players previously recently called ineligible by the school must each sit out games this season and repay illegal benefits given them by booster Nevion Shapiro.

    Olivier Vernon is suspended six games and owes approximately $1,200. Ray-Ray Armstrong ($788) and Dyron Dye ($738) are suspended four games each. Suspended one game each, alphabetically: Travis Benjamin (owes $150), Marcus Forston ($400), Jacory Harris ($140), Adewale Ojomo ($240) and Sean Spence ($275).

    The three suspended for multiple games were found to have received benefits from Shapiro and school personnel while being recruited as an enticement to enroll, which the NCAA called "some of the most serious recruiting violations." The other five received benefits while already UM student-athletes.

    Suspensions are effective immediately, so UM figures to be depleted somewhat in its Sept. 5 opener at Maryland.

    Click on NCAA Press Release for the complete, official details. Click on Impact Light ... For Now for my latest column on this evolving story. I write that the football team made out much better than it might have in terms of immediate impact on the 2011 season, but that the findings regarding Vernon, Armstrong and Dye are serious enough to all but guarantee future.

    UM catches a break losing top players such as Harris and Spence for only one game. The larger NCAA investigation continues, so eventual sanctions against the UM football program are still unknown. But Tuesday's finding that eight current players did receive improper benefits to varying degrees mandating game suspensions leaves little doubt that future sanctions are coming.

    Read more: http://blogs.herald.com/random_evidence/2011/08/8-canes-football-players-suspended-combined-19-games-.html#ixzz1Wcq2AnoK

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  • Thank You

    boomer01

  • pleasework said...

    Not a bad return on investment, illegally recruit top players to your school and they only have to sit out a few games. Kinda like a hamstring pull. If I were Vandy, I would explore this program building technique. Once the program is built up, I would go back to integrity. It pays to cheat if you are a well known program. This is so embarrassing for this school not to get the death penalty. What do you have to do?

    This is not the punishment - this is just for the current players who took benefits. This will drag on a long time on the administration side. And can't believe nobody is talking about the basketball program....which should probably actually get the death penalty. But nobody cares about Miami bball so it's not getting any play

    MCC

  • As someone said in another thread pleasework, this is just addressing the players eligibility. This is not the schools punishment. They can and most likely will still get hammered.

    PittCock ●

  • MCC said...

    This is not the punishment - this is just for the current players who took benefits. This will drag on a long time on the administration side. And can't believe nobody is talking about the basketball program....which should probably actually get the death penalty. But nobody cares about Miami bball so it's not getting any play

    Yep, the basketball program was the only one Shapiro said they actually paid players to attend...I really think Frank Haith will be lucky to coach a single game at Mizzou.

    bluegrasscock ●

  • pleasework said...

    Not a bad return on investment, illegally recruit top players to your school and they only have to sit out a few games. Kinda like a hamstring pull. If I were Vandy, I would explore this program building technique. Once the program is built up, I would go back to integrity. It pays to cheat if you are a well known program. This is so embarrassing for this school not to get the death penalty. What do you have to do?

    The breadth and scope was enormous but the individual amounts mainly were paid to players already on the Hurricane roster. Shapiro even says that they could not afford to pay recruits to attend Miami...the only one he says they did that for was a basketball recruit. These guys, when looked at it, were basically receiving about the same amount of cash AJ Green got for his jersey...some more, some less.
    Now this is so widespread that Miami will get hit with some major sanctions as opposed to UGA however.

    bluegrasscock ●

  • Who are they going to pay back. Shapiro?

    ospop4690

  • OCock said...

    Same with tennessee. All of their major violations, but we can't get a stupid hotel situation done. They pick and choose who they want help or not, and no one can convince me otherwise. The NCAA is a racket. They're like the mafia.

    Wrong... the Mafia handles their dirty laundry quickly.

    CockyMike1

  • When determining restitution... who decides how much the hookers were worth? Somebody gots to pay foe da hoes.

    CockyMike1

  • Pretty sure NCAA was in Miami for a long time before it broke.

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    CockStar

  • Doesn't seem like alot of money......must of been some sleazy prostitutes to be that cheap!!!!

    spurdog59

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