MIAMI & the NCAA Situation

[charsibb]

Whatever happens in football aside, Larranaga's doing wonderful things with your basketball team. Wish we'da gotten him instead...

[Who'sYourData?]

lol, do you guys even hear yourselves? Walk away unscathed? No way Miami walks away?

 

They havent gone unscathed or walked away from anything. They've already sat out 3 postseason games. Some of you act like nothing has or will happen when it comes to punishment. It's not Miami's fault the NCAA dragged their feet for 2+ years and allowed Miami to do unprecedent self imposing.

 

 

Unprecedented self-imposing?  LOL

 

Every program in serious trouble self-imposes penalties in an effort to lessen the final penalty.  It is hardly an altruic gesture, simply an attempt at survival.  You guys kill me.

 

It appears that the NCAA has "proven" (at least to their belief) $170,000 in illegal benefits to student athletes.  Not the millions reported, but schools have been penalized for a lot less.  One also must assume there were more illegal benefits, but they weren't able to get the "proof" needed.  The bigger issue is that Shapiro was all cozy with the Miami administration which is where the lack of institutional control comes in.

 

I still find it very distateful for an institute of higher learning to whine and complain at this stage.  Miami isn't saying they are innocent, they are saying the NCAA is flawed so they should be let go.  I learned when I was little that two wrongs don't make a right.  Apparently Miami doesn't recall that lesson.

[TheUpperHand]

I hope Miami gets the only thing I can think of worse than the death penalty: A mandatory invite to the (former) Big East.

[cygnus34]

NCAA investigator wrote letter on Shapiro's behalf

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By Tim Reynolds, The Associated Press

March 6, 2013

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CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) One of the investigators who worked on the NCAA's inquiry of Miami athletics wrote a letter on behalf of former booster and convicted felon Nevin Shapiro just days before he was sentenced two years ago.

In the same letter, dated June 3, 2011, Ameen Najjar even suggested that the NCAA could eventually hire Shapiro.

Najjar, who is no longer with the NCAA, told U.S. District Judge Susan Wigenton that college sports' governing body could have utilized Shapiro "in the future as a consultant and/or speaker to educate our membership."

Najjar also said that Shapiro assisted the NCAA with investigations involving a number of schools. Najjar did not specify the schools not even Miami, where Shapiro is the central figure in the scandal that has dogged the Hurricanes' athletic department for at least two years.

"Throughout the course of our interactions, it is my belief that Mr. Shapiro possesses a unique depth of knowledge and experience concerning representatives athletics interest ('Boosters'), agents and the provision of extra-benefits to student-athletes," Najjar wrote in the letter, a copy of which was obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.

Najjar left the NCAA last year and attempts by the AP to reach him in recent weeks have been unsuccessful.

"Nevin Shapiro has not been and will not be a consultant for the NCAA," the NCAA said in a statement late Wednesday night. "We are aware of the letter but cannot comment further at this time."

Najjar's was just one of a number of letters written to the court on Shapiro's behalf before sentencing, none of which appeared to sway Wigenton. Four days after the date of Najjar's letter, the judge gave Shapiro a longer sentence than prosecutors asked for on the securities fraud and money laundering counts he admitted to in a plea agreement in September 2010.

She also ordered him to pay more than $82 million in restitution to his victims.

Najjar wrote to Wigenton using NCAA letterhead, and did so when he had the title of director of enforcement. His role in missteps that the NCAA made during the investigation was detailed last month, when a probe that NCAA President Mark Emmert ordered found, among other things, that Najjar appeared to manipulate the investigation by hiring Shapiro's attorney, Maria Elena Perez, and having her use subpoena power to interview people related to the Miami case.

The NCAA does not have subpoena power. Two people were subpoenaed and deposed as part of Shapiro's bankruptcy case, though some of the information gleaned in those interviews was being used in the NCAA's case against Miami.

The NCAA said it was removing that ill-gotten information from the notice of allegations, which Miami was presented with last month and included the charge that the Hurricanes had a "lack of institutional control" when it came to monitoring Shapiro's access to the athletic department.

Perez, in a letter to the Florida Bar dated Feb. 21, said she "is not and has never acted, in the capacity of an attorney for the NCAA." She billed the NCAA for about $57,000 for work she performed related to the investigation, and records show she received about one-third that amount.

Perez told the AP last month that "had I realized I was dealing with, what is in my opinion ... such an incompetent regulatory institution, I would have never allowed Mr. Shapiro to have had any type of contact with the NCAA period."

[Rizman]

Suck it Miami fan.  Your players violated rules for years and you want nothing but a bowl ban.  What a joke.

[cygnus34]

http://www.flsd.uscourts.gov/wp-content/uploads/adminOrders/2013/2013-15.pdf

[cygnus34]

Do really think this is a JOKE?  She is now fighting for her career.  There is a lot of evidence of collusion between her and the NCAA against Miami. 

[Triple B]

Do really think this is a JOKE?  She is now fighting for her career.  There is a lot of evidence of collusion between her and the NCAA against Miami. 

 

 

Motive?

[cygnus34]

MONEY!

[cygnus34]

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/03/09/3277011/fred-grimm-the-ncaa-had-big-plans.html