The System: The Glory And Scandal Of Big-Time College Football - Plot & Excerpts
Back in the 1980s, the NCAA issued the death penalty—a one-year ban—to SMU’s football program after athletic department staffers paid twenty-one Mustang players from a secret slush fund set up and funded by boosters. The total amount of money involved was $61,000. The SMU scandal seems quaint by today’s standards. In 2011, the NCAA began investigating University of Miami booster Nevin Shapiro for allegedly spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on seventy-two Miami football players between 2002 and 2010. Shapiro claimed he gave players money for everything from big hits against opposing teams (bounties) to cover charges at nightclubs and entertainment at strip clubs. He claimed he even paid for an abortion after a Miami player impregnated a stripper. Yet something as innocuous as giving student-athletes grocery money or treating them to lunch violates NCAA rules. Those rules define “boosters” as “any individual, independent agency, corporate entity, or other organization”
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