Booster lays the wood to Miami Football in Yahoo! Sports report
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As of today, the Miami Hurricanes still have a football team. But that may change in the coming months when details of the explosive Yahoo! Sports report are sorted through. The allegations in the piece, authored by Charles Robinson, makes the SMU scandal of the 80′s look pedestrian.
Here are just some of the highlights from the report:
-Nevin Shapiro, the booster who provided the information to Yahoo!, estimates that he gave millions of dollars to players and benefits including “prostitutes, entertainment in his multimillion-dollar homes and yacht, paid trips to high-end restaurants and nightclubs, jewelry, bounties for on-field play (including bounties for injuring opposing players), travel and, on one occasion, an abortion.”
-”All told, the length, breadth and depth of the impropriety Shapiro has alleged would potentially breach multiple parts of at least four major NCAA bylaws – and possibly many more. Shapiro described acts that could include violations of multiple parts of bylaw 11, involving impermissible compensation to coaches; multiple parts of bylaw 12, involving amateurism of athletes; multiple parts of bylaw 13, involving improper recruiting activity; and multiple parts of bylaw 16, involving extra benefits to athletes.”
And arguably the most disturbing claim, Shapiro paid for an abortion without informing the player.
-In one instance, Shapiro described taking a player to the Pink Pony strip club and paying for a dancer to engage in sex with the athlete. In the ensuing weeks, Shapiro said the dancer called one of his security providers and informed him that the player had gotten her pregnant during the incident. Shapiro said he gave the dancer $500 to have an abortion performed, without notifying the player of the incident.
“I was doing him a favor,” the booster said. “That idiot might have wanted to keep [the baby].”
It’s only a matter of time before more sordid stories come out of this mess, but in the meantime, the NCAA is “investigating” the allegations.
Renegade Miami football booster spells out illicit benefits to players [Yahoo!]
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