OT: Oregon CB Arrested Driving an Oregon Employee's Car
Oh my. This was dumb.
Not only was Oregon's All-American CB Cliff Harris arrested for driving 118 MPH on Sunday, but he did it in an Oregon employee's rental car.
"So, I rented the car for my own purposes on Friday. Cliff Harris and his licensed friend, who showed me his license, asked to borrow it and paid me the full amount in cash that I paid for the rental," said the woman, who agreed to speak to KEZI, on condition of anonymity.
Man, there's a lot of smoke at Oregon too.
Things like this don't shock me at all anymore, I have been so desensitized from the past year.
Of course they paid in Cash. Why in the world would you pay with any method that would allow documentation of the payment.
I mean, I suppose a check would be possible . . .
. . . but do you expect her to swipe the kid's Mastercard?
I'm not defending the lady (it was obviously dumb), but some people in this world use actual, you know, money to make transactions.
I guess ESPN and SI are gonna set up shop in Eugene next.
I would prefer that they do that AFTER rooting out all wrongdoings at OSU.
By that time Phil Knight will be long dead.
is that these men would not have been able to get the rental on their own, as you generally need to be 25 to rent a car. And so even if they paid the full amount (which I doubt is the case), they would still be receiving a benefit by virtue of their athlete-status by having someone do something for them that they could not do on their own.
...the correct interpretation of why this is a big deal.
Not just that, but there are serious insurance and rental agreement implications when allowing, not only underage (<25) people drive it, but anyone driving it who is not on the rental agreement. Just stupid people all over the place, but this is super-dumb.
also said Harris had a suspended license which would make it impossible for him to rent the car.
Hmm, as far as I know you can rent a car as long as you are a licensed driver, but the rental companies usually charge an arm and a leg (I rented at the age of 21 on spring break and it was an extra 50 bucks a day) for people under 25.
If they did pay her cash (unlikely), then you're simply picking nits when it comes to the under/over 25 price.
Also, are they friends? I mean, if a friend asked to borrow my rental car and then got pulled over doing 100+ I'd be pissed, but it can hardly be construed as an NCAA violation.
That being said, this is pretty shady.
They're supposedly friends, but giving players subsidized cars is a major violation regardless.
When I tutored student atheletes at Pitt back in the day, I sometimes tutored the same kids for long enough that we were friends. I wasn't allowed to give them a ride across campus - even if I happened to be going to the same place. Also, if I brought a pizza for dinner (mmmm, cheap pizza) to the tutoring session, I couldn't give them the left-overs after I finished eating. I had to throw it away. Those were the rules in the late '90s, anyway.
This is just a weird situation.
I mean, there's nobody more responsible than a given 20-year-old male, right?
Two 20 year old males
Two dozen 20 year old males wearing ski masks in a room full of nerds?
doesn't everyone do this ?
Go Blue !
Is this why rental companies have commercials advertising local area rentals?
Who really thinks these guys gave the Oregon employee any cash at all? Mhmm... Thought so.
Harris is going to be giving the State of Oregon some cash: the fine for going over 100 mph in Oregon is $1,148, and tack on $427 for driving with a suspended license.
The NCAA needs to start fining schools for infractions. We could probably pull the economy out of a recession between the fines and the hiring opportunities in the NCAA investigation branch.
Seriously, it takes the NCAA years to wrap up an investigation...how long will it take them to investigate Auburn, Oregon (possibly) and OSU? They are still wrapping up the USC mess. This could take years and years.
they should hire more investigators; hey, it could help the economy in the short run.
What happened to her original purposes?
I mean seriously. How does this go?
*UO Employee decides she needs a rental car on Friday*
*uses rental car*
*Cliff Harris and other football players show up at her house*
"I hear you rented a car."
"Yeah..."
"Can we use it?"
"Sure, can I see your friend's license?"
"Here you go."
"This isn't illegal at all. Just give me cash so you can go do whatever you're going to do with this rental car when I probably don't know you very well and it's still out in my name. There's no way this could go wrong."
"Here's your cash."
"Thanks, this was a wonderful transaction. Have fun."
What the hell?!?!
This explanation will fly!
rents a car and lets somebody else drive it under their name.
dumb
Title should be fixed: "Driving" not "Diving"
/Louganis'd
Dammit. Thanks for pointing that out.
Off the subject, but I really hate the trend toward starting sentences with "so" that seems to be everywhere now. Really obnoxious.
So it occurs to me that I'm starting to agree with you.
So you think a post here is going to make you less annoyed?
/annoying smiley face made of punctuation marks
So what?
We're going to win the national title by virtue of every other program going on probation for one violation or another.
common place. It may force the NCAA to start chopping off heads to set an example. They have to put a stop to the prevalent culture throughout college athletics... or at least put up an appearance of doing so. So maybe this is bad for Ohio State as well. What better message to send to all then by launching a B-52 strike against the Buckeyes.
And people thought recruits went to Oregon for the ugly uniforms.
Thorny: [after pulling car over] Do you know how fast you were going back there?
College Boy 1: Umm... 65?
Thorny: 63.
College Boy 1: But... isn't the speed limit 65?
Thorny: Yes, it is.
College Boy 3: [stoned] I'm freakin' out, man!
If Appy State gets hammered too, the four embarassing consecutive losses from the end 2006 through the beginning of 2007 could be erased from the record books.
I know we all want to say that this is huge issue, but i encourage you all to look at it in another way.
The article only states that the woman was an employee of the university. She said that seh had gotten to know the Oregon players over the past couple months. She very easily could have simply been a chick that worked in the Rec building or as an atheletic trainer for another sport.
It very easily could be true that these football players got to know a person, who happend to also work for the university, that they simply became friends with. I don't see this as such a big issue.
Still, I think it would be a major violation (not program crippling or anything like that) no matter what her capacity was. OTOH if she was a grad student logging study table hours Oregon probably won't feel any heat, just the players.
This is probably the least of the infractions occurring in Oregon. They received 2 years probation back in 2006 for violations, and that hasn't seemed to slow them down. Heck, the money Philip Knight footed to build their athletic training facility should be a violation in its own. Check out this video on the Oregon Training Facility. How in the hell do you tour this place and not commit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYbqtaHdJzY