They were given
permissible benefits just from someone who apparently isn't allowed. Meaning everything was okay, except the guy had done some minor donating/spending at IU.
It's pretty impressive they were able to find the $185 he spent over 15 years ago.
I think this turns into a 4 game suspension. Just guessing. I have no knowledge about these things.
They found the $25 administrative charge to defray Quarterback Club luncheon notice postage that Kim Dum paid. And declared her a booster on that basis. Meanwhile her employer was unable to recognize that she was embezzling about $1.5 million over a 5 year period.
Dunbar was a serial groupie similar to Susan Sarandon's character in Bull Durham. She bestowed gifts on her signicant other of the season and his friends. The NCAA noted this gave ND a competitive edge. None were recruits and all were enrolled at ND at the time and all were known to her in her circle of friend.
It was a gray area for the NCAA how to deal with personal gifts from a friend in a known relationship.
The enforcement committee was deadlocked in their verdict. Rather than leave it deadlocked, they went down the hall and got another NCAA employee, not on the committee, to break the tie.
Had ND appealed the ruling it would have been overturned as the NCAA violated their own procedures in deliberation and had established precedent in their expanded "booster" definition. President Malloy felt an appeal was ignoble and would not allow it. As such that "booster" definition went unchallenged and became the law on NCAALand.
