South Carolina in Trouble with NCAA

[Whiskeyjack]

McMurphyCBS via Twitter:

South Carolina receives NCAA notice of allegations: LINK

South Carolina NCAA highlights RT @JoshatTheState: $47K extra bennys for Whitney deal, $8K of S.A.M. trouble, failure to monitor on both

JoshatTheState via Twitter:

South Carolina could go before Committee of Infractions Feb. 17-18 in Los Angeles

Jamie Blevins, manager of Whitney Hotel, has been disassociated, joining Kevin Lahn in South Carolina's detention room

NCAA letter tells South Carolina it is subject to repeat violator status. File that under Bad News

slmandel via Twitter:

Suites at the Whitney Hotel were going for $14.59 a night for South Carolina players. Guessing that beats the AAA discount.

It's a good thing NCAA caught on when it did in Aug. '10 or S. Carolina would be vacating its only SEC East title season.

 

[IrishLax]

Wish they had lost to Navy.

No surprise that a program with a head coach who advocates players taking benefits and getting paid gets caught for violations.

 

[ohara831]

Wish they had lost to Navy.

No surprise that a program with a head coach who advocates players taking benefits and getting paid gets caught for violations.

Me thinks you are not a fan of the ol' ball coach, eh?

 

[ShakeDown]

Sergeant Whiskeyjack you are a modern day Sherlock TwitterHolmes.

 

[Kak7304]

Wow, I thought SEC teams were untouchable.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Sergeant Whiskeyjack you are a modern day Sherlock TwitterHolmes.

 

[crzychris]

Me thinks you are not a fan of the ol' ball coach, eh?

Wait, you mean there are actually people out there who are fans of Steve Spurrier?

 

[GreatGolson]

where theres smoke....

 

[loomis41973]

where theres smoke....

..there's herb.

 

[Rhode Irish]

Raise your hand if you are surprised.

 

[greyhammer90]

Raise your hand if you are surprised.

**Hand up** Not that they did it, because most of them are. But that they got caught.

 

[Irish4Life09]

Raise your hand if you are surprised.

I'm surprised it has taken this long to catch Spurrier...he's been at this garbage for a loooooong time.....

 

[ShakeDown]

Fail.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Fail.

 

[HereComeTheIrish]

 

[ShakeDown]

Dude this made me legit laugh out loud... You constantly amaze me with your ability to peruse the entire forum with such authority. I can just manage to post every other week.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Suite life of South Carolina players ends with NCAA sanctions.

Living the high life in a posh downtown hotel is about to end for 12 South Carolina student-athletes, including 10 football players.

The NCAA released its notice of allegations to South Carolina stating that 12 student-athletes received $47,000 worth of impermissible benefits from the Whitney Hotel, a luxury establishment near campus.

According to the NCAA, South Carolina athletes were given reduced room rates and nine athletes were given extra time to pay their rent. Athletes were given rooms that were normally rented $57 a night for extended stays of three months or more for $14.59 a night. So, instead of paying $1,710 per month like a regular tenant, South Carolina athletes were paying roughly $438 a month.

Not a bad discount.

The statement named three football players, which were blacked out, but The State noted that 10 football players were involved in the allegations and that nine had deferred payments on their rent. The three players named are the most egregious offenders as they paid the reduce rate for 410 days, 459 days and 268 days. All three players made special arrangement to defer their payments. The impermissible benefits for the three football players constituted $39,690 of the $47,000 penalty.

The letter also implicates the school's Student Athlete Mentoring Foundation and its president Steve Gordon and treasurer Kevin Lahn, who provided $8,000 in impermissible benefits related to recruiting.

One of those recruited players is freshman wide receiver Damiere Byrd, who is currently serving a four-game NCAA suspension.

These are major violations and South Carolina has until Dec. 14 to respond. It also could appear in front of the NCAA Committee on Infraction Feb. 17-18.

 

[NDPhilly]

Don't repeat violators get the DEATH PENALTY?

 

[Rack Em]

Don't repeat violators get the DEATH PENALTY?

No, the NCAA is trying to be progressive...

 

[BGIF]

where theres smoke....

There's NDOM ...

and a billion burnt vbucks.

 

[BGIF]

NCAA -- South Carolina Gamecocks athletes got illegal benefits - ESPN

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The NCAA said 10 football players stayed at the hotel at a rate of $14.59 a day. It found two members of the women's track team lived there at a rate of $14.16 per day. It said those rates were not available to the general public and gave athletes extra benefits worth $47,000.

In documents obtained from the school last October through a Freedom of Information Act request, its athletic compliance office had signed off on the rate of $450 per player for a two-bedroom hotel suite. The NCAA had deemed the rate should've been $57 per day for a total of $1,710 per month.

Last summer when Spurrier said he learned about the arrangements, he told his players to pay their bills and find acceptable places to live.

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The NCAA's allegations also included dealings with the Student Athlete Mentoring Foundation, its president Steve Gordon and its treasurer Kevin Lahn -- both South Carolina graduates.

Earlier this month, the NCAA suspended freshman receiver Damiere Byrd four games and ordered him to repay $2,700 in impermissible benefits before he can play for the Gamecocks. Byrd's father, Adrian, is a vice president with the foundation.

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The NCAA said Gordon and Lahn contacted South Carolina staffers in football, basketball and track about prospective student athletes and funded unofficial visits to campus for those prospects.

The NCAA also said Lahn paid $3,350 for a dinner cruise on Lake Murray about 10 miles away from campus for SAM members visiting for football camps in June 2010. Along with those prospects, 16 members of the men's and women's track team, along with (Track COACH) Frye, attended the dinner cruise.

The benefits from Gordon and Lahn totaled $8,000, the NCAA said.

The NCAA also alleged that South Carolina failed to monitor either the hotel or the SAM situations.

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South Carolina has disassociated itself from both Lahn and Gordon as university boosters, school spokeswoman Luanne Lawrence said.

Gordon has said the NCAA's practices, as well as its suspensions of Byrd and Florida defensive tackle Sharrif Floyd -- also part of SAM -- are unfair.

The NCAA "can blackball me forever," Gordon said Monday by phone. "I'm trying to get inner-city kids to college."

I can understand Gordon just took a wrong turn while touring on campus and ended up 15 miles away at a 50,000 acre lake with a 500 mile shoreline and confused the tour cruise with the USC cafeteria. I am curious though about the coincidence of Coach Frye and his track team missing the cafeteria and ending up on the same cruise 15 miles from campus. It's a small world in the Palmetto State.

 

[HereComeTheIrish]

NCAA -- South Carolina Gamecocks athletes got illegal benefits - ESPN








I can understand Gordon just took a wrong turn while touring on campus and ended up 15 miles away at a 50,000 acre lake with a 500 mile shoreline and confused the tour cruise with the USC cafeteria. I am curious though about the coincidence of Coach Frye and his track team missing the cafeteria and ending up on the same cruise 15 miles from campus. It's a small world in the Palmetto State.

Tis' a mystery indeed. Probably just the southeastern humidity that clouded the mind for a quick second...