Yahoo releases its 10/10
Sucks to be Al Golden right now. Also, please peer to the right and notice that Robert Marve is being investigated. U MAD DANNY HOPE!?
Edit: Individual player pages are up.
August 16th, 2011 at 6:06 PM ^
Stop what you're doing and read it.
This is great stuff.
August 16th, 2011 at 7:47 PM ^
WOW. I just finished reading it and that is all I can say. It is so juicy and filled with so much information. If this guy comes out with a book it is going to be a must read.
RIP Miami Football.
August 16th, 2011 at 6:10 PM ^
EDIT: Never mind
August 16th, 2011 at 6:10 PM ^
Yes. That would be an understatement.
August 16th, 2011 at 6:10 PM ^
The guy claims he gave 100s of thousands in benefits over almost a decade with coaches knowledge.
August 16th, 2011 at 6:10 PM ^
If only the NCAA would allow programs to cover the cost of Cristal and abortions none of this would ever happen.
August 16th, 2011 at 6:10 PM ^
This would seem to qualify as very bomby. Miami football will receive the death penalty if these claims are true.
August 16th, 2011 at 6:20 PM ^
Lack of Institutional Control
Death Penalty
August 16th, 2011 at 7:20 PM ^
They are going to get hammered... freaking hard. I'll go up to $100 that they won't get the Death Penalty.
August 16th, 2011 at 10:54 PM ^
Unless Al Golden is "fired" and says he acted alone and the university had no knowledge of anything improper. If Miami does that they'll be fine. They just need to follow the OSU playbook.
/s
August 17th, 2011 at 8:02 AM ^
I thought Al Golden was just hired at the U. That would be a pretty ironic defense. I think the best part of the story is that he was paying for all this stuff with illegally obtained ponzi money.
I think the only way this will ever end is to turn college football and basketball programs into minor league affiliates of the school or a pro team. Drop the "student athlete" title and just pay the guys a salary. Or IF they want an education they could still take a scholarship as payment. You generally don't see these kind of problems in college baseball or hockey because guys don't have to go to college to get to the pros. I'm not saying this is what I want, but I think there's too much money and power being thrown around for these sports to remain "amateur" athletics.
August 16th, 2011 at 6:10 PM ^
Does it make me a bad Michigan fan if the first thing I thought when I read this was: "Holy crap, this makes OSU's violations look like impermissible stretching?"
August 16th, 2011 at 6:12 PM ^
If it does, then I'm right there with you.
August 16th, 2011 at 6:20 PM ^
Damn right. I just finished the second paragraph of the story and my jaw is on the floor. This sounds significantly bigger than OSU's problems.
August 16th, 2011 at 8:14 PM ^
This is huge, but hopefully this doesn't detract too much from tsio's wrongdoings.
August 16th, 2011 at 7:31 PM ^
not at all, because it completely takes the negative spotlight off of osu, which is not what we want
August 16th, 2011 at 7:49 PM ^
If this makes osu's violations look like impermissible stretching, what did we do.
We should be expunged for any and all wrong doing now or at least remove the "major" part of the description.
August 16th, 2011 at 8:23 PM ^
Nope. I am right with you. The U makes Ohio State look like boy scouts.
There is only one punishment suitable for these violations.
August 16th, 2011 at 8:50 PM ^
guy to come forward, to the NCAA or other, and bring the photos/stained dress/ blood samples this time
August 16th, 2011 at 9:28 PM ^
Remember Gary Condit? The CA congressman who had been having an affair with an intern who turned up murdered in DC? His scandal was the biggest headline in the nation ... on September 10, 2001. You never heard about him after that.
Tonight, the state of Ohio collectively exhales, and quotes the former congressman: "Whew."
August 16th, 2011 at 6:11 PM ^
I've never seen the word "douche" appear so many times in an article without actually being spelled out.
Or perhaps I just saw the picture of Douche Shapiro with Winslow and that's all I could think about.
August 16th, 2011 at 6:13 PM ^
EDIT: cut and paste fail
I was trying to paste in the list of players involved.
A who's who of Miami football, and a ton of current players.
August 16th, 2011 at 8:16 PM ^
For lack of a list, just know it was A LOT of them, including a bunch of big names like Hester, Winslow jr., Wilfork and so many more.
August 16th, 2011 at 6:33 PM ^
For those clamoring for the death penalty in OSU's case; it was never feasible. Why? Because there would be nothing left to punish Miami with...
Robinson:
We have corroborating sources, either human, document or photographic, on at least 72 Miami players or former recruits receiving benefits.
Some of it is just ridiculous. Example:
Abortion: 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].”
August 16th, 2011 at 6:23 PM ^
August 16th, 2011 at 6:26 PM ^
Me. Miami seems to have more players than actual fans. I don't think I've ever met a Miami fan in the wild.
Would have loved to see an SEC school.
August 16th, 2011 at 6:28 PM ^
Yes. It would have been more enjoyable if it was the Miami of the late 1980's.
August 16th, 2011 at 6:43 PM ^
I would have been more shocked if they had reported that Miami players *weren't* receiving tons of extra benefits. They even nicknamed him after the last guy that paid for their rule breaking.
August 16th, 2011 at 10:42 PM ^
Yeah. I definitely figured it was a school in the south, but I wanted it to be Auburn, Alabama, or Florida. Honetly, one of the least-surprising findings I could have imagined for a "name" CFB team. Still, the stories they have to tell are amazing.
August 16th, 2011 at 6:25 PM ^
The loser gets the death penalty. I can't wait for that game as the commentary leading up to it should be pure entertainment.
August 16th, 2011 at 6:45 PM ^
It'll be Convicts vs...Convicts?
August 16th, 2011 at 8:18 PM ^
Convicts vs. even worse convicts? It'll be like the whole nine yeards, except teams representing two prsions play each other.
August 16th, 2011 at 7:33 PM ^
how jealous are OSU players that all they got were some tattoos, weed, and free rounds of golf??
August 16th, 2011 at 6:23 PM ^
Wow not to make light of Tressel etc. but this is stuff the pros probably wouldn't even get away with under Goodell's regime...
August 16th, 2011 at 6:23 PM ^
What a fantastic read. If half of that is true, Miami is in very serious trouble. The stuff in that article is crazy.
August 16th, 2011 at 6:24 PM ^
Robert Marve is on the list, for all you Purdue haters.
August 16th, 2011 at 6:27 PM ^
August 16th, 2011 at 7:22 PM ^
Rob Henry will still start and Purdue will still suck.
August 16th, 2011 at 8:28 PM ^
Who hates Purdue?
August 16th, 2011 at 10:36 PM ^
LOL seriously. Waste of effort.
August 16th, 2011 at 6:25 PM ^
Miami Football meet curb, your about to get stomped.
August 16th, 2011 at 6:30 PM ^
Wow! Dont mess with Yahoo! Sports and Chucky Robinson. I guess the Dolphins aren't the only pro team in Miami. Heck, Dolphin players are going to start complaining that they're under-compensated.
August 16th, 2011 at 6:26 PM ^
I think they have to get hammered. But I doubt they will get the death penalty. The NCAA has said they will never do it again. It will be a massive bowl ban and scholly reduction that will make the usc sanctions look like a love tap.
August 16th, 2011 at 6:39 PM ^
I think the NCAA has to do the death penalty, there is no other punishment that covers what took place.
August 16th, 2011 at 6:59 PM ^
Don't get me wrong I think the U should get the death penalty. I just don't think the NCAA has the cajones to hand out the death penalty again.
August 16th, 2011 at 7:35 PM ^
while i would have agreed with you before reading this article, i don't think they even have a choice...
August 16th, 2011 at 7:48 PM ^
Ding dong Miami's dead.
I know people in the NCAA have said they wouldn't give out the death penalty again. Miami's case is going to test them. USC's violations were very similar, but less widespread, with far less complicity from the school and for a much shorter period of time. Miami was also guilty of similar widespread violations in the past. Their case is going to demand a significantly stiffer penalty than USC got. I don't know that there's much room between that and the death penalty, maybe eliminate scholarships in FB and MBB for a few years.
August 16th, 2011 at 6:29 PM ^
My god. It reads like an Onion article.