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South Carolina Gets NCAA Notice of Allegations

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"Anyone can poke around our program. We don't have anything to hide. Poke on everything - the hours we practice and train.
They can poke everything we do. And our compliance people poke, too." - Steven Orr Spurrier


Well, Steve....
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BB73;1995418; said:
There were reportedly 10 football players that stayed at a hotel called the Whitney, from May, 2009 until October, 2010 - at a rate of about $100/week. A couple of players had a value of between 15 and 20 grand in extra benefits.

There were also 2 women's track and field athletes that were said to have received $740 each in extra benefits, so this is over 90% football-related, in terms of the dollar values.

There's also the involvement of two boosters, Kevin Lahn and Steve Gordon, providing impermissible benefits (totalling about $8,000) to recruits through their Student-Athlete Mentoring Foundation (S.A.M.)

At first glance, having that many guys staying at the same place at a rate well below its value sure looks like a failure to monitor to me.

But this will get miniscule attention, when compared to the tOSU stuff. Unless a FOIA request discovers that Spurrier got a couple e-mails about it prior to the start of the 2010 season.
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USD 85.00 - USD 139.00 = average nightly rate

per http://www.whitneyhotel.com/
 
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Have had sports center on for 30 minutes and haven't heard a thing about this. They've even had "breaking news" about conference expansion. Does anyone else recall the day the tat 5 story broke? It was being reported as "breaking news" every five minutes. Fuck these assholes.
 
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bucknut11;1995675; said:
If they'd just make it a rate available to the public, there would be no more violations. Perhaps it's time to plan my next vacation :sneaky:
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Couldn't they also just say that the parents were paying the bill and the athletes had no knowledge of the arrangement?
 
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ysubuck;1995662; said:
Yeah. The OSU stuff was on the crawl at the bottom every 30 seconds or so.

But like Gator said, it's not like these athletes got tattoos. They just got $47,000 worth of free shit.

Have some perspective people.
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Exactly. These guys didn't trade their autographs or any other violation that they charged the Nazis with at Nuremburg. Just $47,000. I mean, really, I make that in like 7 months working 40 hours a fucking week.

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JCOSU86;1995679; said:
Exactly. These guys didn't trade their autographs or any other violation that they charged the Nazis with at Nuremburg. Just $47,000. I mean, really, I make that in like 7 months working 40 hours a [censored]ing week.

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