The U Just Got Yahoo! Sportsed

As I mentioned on the ’Cosm, looks like the U has met the minimum criteria to qualify for the SECs 14th team.

The icing on the cake of this college football hydrogen bomb is that many of these violations occurred on former UM athletic director Paul Dee’s tenure in Coral Gables. Is that the same Paul Dee that is the current head of the NCAA Infractions Committee? You damn right it is.

Holy shit. I don’t keep up with NCAA personnel so I did not know this. That should be real damn interesting.

As for Haith and Texas I have no conerns. This was clearly the booster in Miami spearheading things. Though Haith may have been involved there, it doesn’t appear he initiated it and thus didn’t likely have anything going on here.

I hadn’t realized how much Shalala really does look like Bilbo Baggins. Lesson learned: make a hobbit your university president at your own risk.

Look at her smiling down at her Precious. Birthday present, imo.

“Can you ever really trust a guy named Drew?”

Yes, if the last name is Stubbs.

Now feeling outcast, the booster said his goal is to rip away the façade of ‘The U’, and reveal an ugly truth about one of the country’s most celebrated college football programs.

A very wise man once said: “You Lie Down With Dogs, You Get Up With Fleas.”

Is that a real picture? It looks photoshop’d.

I would really like to know how many players on our team, if given the opportunity, would take up a booster on some of these more egregious offerings, such as the bounty for taking a player out of a game or prostiution. Anyone care to put an over/under on it?

I would really like to know how many players on our team, if given the opportunity, would take up a booster on some of these more egregious offerings, such as the bounty for taking a player out of a game or prostiution.

After the whole ‘Cosm staff just got back from a weekend of debauchery in Vegas, the view on free prostitutes might not be what you’re thinking.

Missouri could be looking for a new basketball coach before football season kicks off.

Should any of us be surprised – this is the SOP at the U. Luther Campbell thinks Nevin Shapirio is a lightweight.

I’ve been to Mansion. $89k would probably cover bottle service for a few hours. Assuming you left the OL at home.

Oooh, ooohhh! They passed a new rule! Oh, darn! I guess we can’t pay players anymore, huh?

Wow. He says that his motivation for reporting this is REVENGE against the players and coaches who abandoned him after getting…arrested for extorting nearly a BILLION DOLLARS!

FTFA:
’ He simply won’t allow himself to be played like that. "It’s bittersweet," he says during one prison visit. "These guys were my boys. Then they did me dirty."
"There’s a man’s code of ethics and that’s all out the window with the way these guys have responded to me." ’

Dude, I think any code of ethics, regardless of gender reference, gets thrown out when you go full D-bag:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3h4L_FPgDs&feature=related

Everyone is dirty. Have you seen the North End Zone? Adzillatron? Baseball signing bonus alchemy for football players? Purple Drank? Townhouse High in Las Vegas, where all the Canadians go on their way to Austin? Anyone watch the national title game last year? Did I really detect a notion that Reggie Bush and USC were somehow wronged because the wrong guy caught them? Some are dirtier than others, but college football is NFL Lite, with all of the attendant unpleasantness. For every Draddy winner there are 5,000 Ramonces, and most people are fine with Ramonces if they win and don’t get caught. It’s fun to watch, but I have to do it with the sound off, to avoid the ESPN apologias.

Burntorangejuice — How about just a poll of the commenters on this website? Let’s not hold college athletes to standards most people wouldn’t follow.

Please stop by HR, General.

Wow. My faith in humanity is shaken.

I’m not even thinking about the scandal. I’m imagining what a massively pathetic douchebag this Shapiro guy must be.

People like him exist. People can be like that.

Just, wow.

Please do yourself a favor and go check out the Nevin quotes on the Twitter feed of @celebrityhottub.

  sir broosk
@celebrityhottub
Nevin Shapiro: “For Brandon Meriweather’s birthday, we hung a helicopter from a crane and filled it with orphans. Best pinata ever.”

Boats N’ Ho’s

He should have called his agency Prestige Worldwide.

This fool was giving out $500 bounties for players GETTING excessive celebration penalties. These player-by-player reports are priceless.

My favorite part of that story…

OK, wait, I had a lot of favorite parts in that story.

But one of my favorite-est parts was that Shapiro went by “Little Luke” in honor of Luther Campbell.

I can hear Obi Wan now – “Use the whores, Luke.”

Juice wins the “over the top” award for this thread.

Isn’t Tech’s new AD Kirby Hocutt from Miami? I’m not trying to cast aspersions and I haven’t had a chance to read Robinson’s article, but I would assume there’s some interest in Lubbock. My dad got his doctorate from Tech and he’ll be pissed if they have to find another AD after finally getting rid of Gerald Myers. Dedfischer know anything?

I guess the story Yahoo was working on that would qualify as a “10” in terms of damage to a program that people were referring to in the spring. Kind of redefines what a “10” would be, doesn’t it. If, by comparison, the Orgeon/Lyles was the “7” others referred to, I’d downgrade it to about a “2” when measured against this.

Glad we ended our flirtation with Randy Shannon when we did. Even though he isn’t implicated by name in anything I’ve seen, the residual stink would not be welcome. Hopefully this also puts the ill-advised brainstorming of adding Miami to whatever UT/ND/BYU superconference we might be dreaming about.

Donna Shalala looking like the happiest Hobbit ever

Actually, I think she looks more like Deep Roy.

Please stop by HR, General.

Second door on your left in the basement under Player’s (accessed through manhole behind dumpster in Schlotzky’s parking lot.)

Knock once and only once.

Good to see The General is back from his latest tour of duty.

Did I really detect a notion that Reggie Bush and USC were somehow wronged because the wrong guy caught them?

Not at all. Reggie got what he had coming. But, USC caught a pretty big penalty for essentially not knowing where Reggie’s parents were living. The NCAA couldn’t even mildly link the staff to anything but a little negligence.

If 10% of what Shapiro says is true, then The U was up to its neck in links to his activities.

This fool was giving out $500 bounties for players GETTING excessive celebration penalties.

The U was all about the swagger.

Vash: You act as if being told to report to HR is agood thing.

Isn’t Tech’s new AD Kirby Hocutt from Miami?

Yep, he played at Kansas State and is pretty young (38). He just fired his football coach, hired his replacement and then suddenly resigned. Gee, you think he might have seen this coming?

Bevin was never the same after he learned he was adopted and Shithead left.

May iPhone auto-correct burn in hell.

Inspired audition for the $EC by the Canes. They’re sure to get the invite over FSU now. Step up your cheat game Noles!

man this format stinks. I’ve tried to create a profile on EE, Safari, Firefox, Chrome. None of them work properly. Hurry up and switch formats.

Sweet Jesus, will somebody please Photoshop out the Hobbit’s camel toe! I can’t unsee that, but others might be saved.

I had no idea about Dee. That’s amazing info.
 
Miami has lived up to every expectation. I congratulate them.
 
Has there ever been a worse corruption to on-field success ratio in NCAA History?
 
At least SMU, A&M, USC, OU had the sense to maximize their expenditures. Sloppy, sloppy work, Canes.

Scipio: Baylor basketball?

USC got hammered because Garrett made sure that (A) the compliance department was a 2 man, revolving door unit and (B) the warm bodies occupying the cubicles had no authority to do anything. Garrett personally overruled Cubicle A on Mayo.

USC handled the Bush/Mayo inquiry about as badly as a university can handle something like this. Just a disaster from the get-go.

It’s not about what Reggie’s parents were doing in San Diego. It’s what Garret wasn’t doing in Heritage Hall. Convenient how everyone’s forgotten about McKnight (Reggie all over again, 6 months prior to the COI meeting) and the hiring of Lane “An NCAA Investigation is a Compliment” Kiffin.

But I will admit, watching Paul Dee bleat has to be the highlight of my sports summer (not that it takes much, since I can’t stand MLB).

Baylor basketball. Well played.

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