Michael Irvin thinks Nevin Shapiro is a snake and a rapist
A. Isaac 
Michael Irvin, who was inducted into the University of Miami Hall of Fame in 2000, had some rather unkind words for Nevin Shapiro. Specifically, Irvin called the former booster a snake and a rapist.
“I called him a snake and rapist because think about it this this way … he’s snaking people, but you are a rapist,” Irvin said. “How do you walk into someone’s home. Forget football. Forget the University of Miami. I don’t care about it. How do you walk into someone’s home and sit and eat dinner with them? Watch and look at their kids? Look at all the things in their home that they worked hard over the years to gather and then you take a check and then you go and blow away all of their savings?”
I ain’t never met him. I said this too though and I’ll be honest with you, I would have fell to those aphrodisiacs that he was throwing around. I would have fallen into that. I would fall into it. Listen I wasn’t able to handle at 19,18, 20. I wasn’t even able to handle it at 30. Thirty-five? I just got here at forty-five! I just got here. If you would have offered me boats, women, and my hands are up in the air. [Max Kellerman: He's not asking you to throw a game. He's asking you to play harder!] He’s asking me to play. Lets go play. I’ll do what you do. Lets go have some fun. I am going to play.
As far as the Ponzi scheme stuff is concerned, Irvin is right. Shapiro literally ripped millions of dollars from people and probably left a few in some dire straights.
So yes, he’s an asshole–we all know that.
But with regards to the Hurricanes program, the notion that an athlete “has” to participate in drug-fueled booze cruises with prostitutes is bogus. There are thousands of NCAA athletes each year who pass on gifts simply because they want to keep their amateur status and possibly want to continue on to other endeavors in life.
So, for the time being, I’d appreciate it if guys like Michael Irvin and Luther Campbell would shut their trap and accept that their school, the “U”, is only among the elite because they cut corners. And from the looks of some of the things that went on with Shapiro, they cut corners better than anyone else.
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