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Oklahoma recruits getting paid for not working

tornado

tornado

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Some what similar to the POB/Star Transport situation,
two players dismissed....but read the article and you see a pattern of other recruits getting stuff suspiciously...
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2537332


Not even Star Transport pays $18,000 for a couple hours of work.
If BU's kids got game suspensions and the school got an investigation and year's probation, then shouldn't OU get at least that much, maybe MORE given the magnitude and sheer audacity of throwing this much $$ at recruits.

This is NOT just an accounting glitch!
 
Re: Oklahoma recruits getting paid for not working

tornado said:
Some what similar to the POB/Star Transport situation,
two players dismissed....but read the article and you see a pattern of other recruits getting stuff suspiciously...
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2537332


Not even Star Transport pays $18,000 for a couple hours of work.
If BU's kids got game suspensions and the school got an investigation and year's probation, then shouldn't OU get at least that much, maybe MORE given the magnitude and sheer audacity of throwing this much $$ at recruits.

This is NOT just an accounting glitch!
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We all know they won't.
 
There is definitely no lack of institutional control.

This is just an error that, well.... (with a shrug of the shoulders) just accidentally took place.

Actually, it sounds more like OU was a victim in this situation.
 
I think the NIU case you cite has to go into the file of
"Is this fair?"

The case involves a woman player, who received LOTS of extra benefits from
LaVerne Ghyant, who was the director of NIU's Center for Black Studies during that time.

This isn't just a case of a relatively unconnected booster giving a free meal or inadvertently paying a kid a few hundred dollars extra.

This is a case of a true insider, an employee of the university, one of the top dogs at the university, the head of the Black Studies Dept.
"made purchases and paid for transportation costs for the student, as well as allowed the student to live with her for parts of May and June 2004, providing her with meals, cash, storage of her personal items and other benefits"

In other words, the player had absolutely free run of one of the school's employees' home and got everything free for months! Even cash, food, and "other benefits". And all of this was done knowingly! Not behind the scenes by an obscure booster or outside employer.

How could the coaches and compliance people NOT know this was going on?
This is so different from the BU case, that I suspect even a person who's blind, deaf, and dumb can see the difference.
But yet, when the original penalty was handed down, the NCAA then backed off and cut the penalty in half due to "mitigating circumstances."

The woman player then transferred to another D-I school and had a fine career, never missing even ONE game!!
She received absolutely NO penalty at all!!

Is this fair I ask??
In the end NIU gets a penalty that's substantially less than what BU got and the player got no penalty at all, where POB and Will got hit hard!
 
It does seem the NCAA is at the minimum, inconsistent here.
They should have tallied up the cash, gifts, etc, the player got and counted them under the dreaded "Extra Benefits" rule, just like was done for Will and POB.
 
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