Palmetto Proving Grounds

1st of all there was a lot of shoddy journalism involved with the repeated references to us giving out 56 large in extra benefits. That was all about the whitney.No doubt compliance dropped the ball here but everyone knows NO ONE ever pays rack rate. Plus there were non-athletes getting similar deals.

More problematic was the deal in Philly. Everyone knows what those 2 guys were doing-on their own apparently- was totally against the rules. This is where we dodged a bullet imo.

They would have totally beat us if those hotel rates were higher, thats practically steroids.

I mean we didnt preform an action of any sort that would contribute to giving us a upperhand on the field so I dont see how its cheating.

I think you are splitting hairs trying to differentiate between cheating and breaking the rules.

The only crowd seriously flinging that term around is the Clemscum. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

We had booster out of control and cheating in Philly, but it was pretty contained. That had nothing to do with compliance really, it was just a booster stepping way over the line and Pretending he didn't know he couldnt.

The Whitney is interesting. I dont know whether the Whitney manager was intentionally cheating or whether he was making a business decision. Either way it was more about public perception. The public looked at the leases based on the published nightly rates. USC compliance looked at it in the prism of reasonable monthly rates in Columbia. Compliance maybe should have known better based on appearance of impropriety.