Most blatant NCAA violations you witnessed your school get away with?

Most of these aren't that bad. I have heard of football players being busted for cheating or plagarism at a big 10 school and having it all swept under the rug...criminal offenses ignored...division 3 athletes submitting fake "medical redshirt" forms so they can run a 5th year...professors bumping athletes up from failing grades to passing ones...coaches teaching phoney classes so athletes could have full course loads and still be guarenteed As. And not to mention all the out-of-season all-day football practices that happen at pretty much every single school.

Galen Rupp

One day, during the indoor track season, after the semester was well underway, my coach came up to me and informed me I was getting a half scholarship (until this point I was a walk-on, but had become the 2nd best runner on the team), but not to ask any questions. I had already paid my school fees, but a couple of weeks later, I received a reimbursement check for what my scholarship had retroactively paid for.

I never asked any questions, but was always very curious how this happened, any ideas? This was a D1 program.

You mean Nike sending a team of attorneys to negotiate with UO and the NCAA to get a pro reinstated as an "am".

wisco whistleblower wrote:

underage drinking, bar-crawling, library carousing and other mischief

At UW?! No way!

way back when, i was recruited to run at a Southern Cal 2-year school (Not NCAA, but good story anyway) coached by a famous past Olympic Champion. I was told i wouldn't be 'given' a job that i didn't have to go to and also wouldn't have to worry about classes, as the grades 'would take care of themself'. I decided it was too fishy for me, and about a year later the coach was busted for many similar illegal moves.

There is no reason to regard NCAA rules as anything more than an ego trip by the pettifogs and control freaks at headquarters. Imagine, trying to stop a visiting runner from running with the team, or worse, wow, being ogled by the coach, flagrante delicto, in courant motion in short pants, leaving carbon footprints galore and fumes of deadly CO2. Schools should be able to treat their athletes any way they like short of force and fraud under the laws of the land.

But all the NCAA rules are less perverse than the Title 9 assault on the facts of life: greater male testosterone and athletic interest. Title 9 is a real scandal, now being used by gender prigs as an tool to suppress male competitiveness and provoke resentment of football.

In contrast, none of the usual recruiting offenses are even culpable.

I Win wrote:

One day, during the indoor track season, after the semester was well underway, my coach came up to me and informed me I was getting a half scholarship (until this point I was a walk-on, but had become the 2nd best runner on the team), but not to ask any questions. I had already paid my school fees, but a couple of weeks later, I received a reimbursement check for what my scholarship had retroactively paid for.

I never asked any questions, but was always very curious how this happened, any ideas? This was a D1 program.

It's called a refund check, happens to a lot of people. I've gotten at least one per year for 5 years at my D1 school. I was only an athlete for four.

Question, i know galen was coached by Al Sal, but what did he do to circumnavigate the NCAA rules? I've heard some small things but nothing concrete or big enough like cars, or the like

knew a kid that had everything paid for at the college he was going to (room, board, tuition, books) and he was getting paid $500 per semester just to do whatever he wanted

That's not that unusual. I know a couple people on fully scholly's at big schools, and they get checks at the end of each semester as well. What happens is the athlete has a choice of meal plans, and if they don't choose the largest/most expensive one, they get the difference between that and the one they choose back in cash.

random a hole wrote:

The Illini basketball teams of the mid to late 80s had a suspiciously large number of team members driving new Chevy Blazers.

I'm just sayin...

That is really weird as Chevy has not made a Blazer in like 5 years.

They must be REALLY good.

wisco whistleblower wrote:

Wisconsin distance athletes getting away with flagrant underage drinking, bar-crawling, library carousing and other mischief that they themselves extensively documented. The NCAA, the University athletic department and the school administration don't give a hoot. Post - last previous golden era (the circle of influence of the great Chris Solinsky) and Pre - current golden era promise of budding new, spiritually caring youngsters. I.e. most of the troublemakers graduated last year or are graduating this year. Oh well!

underage college kids drink? OMG DATELINE should do a story on this groundbreaking scandal!

The dude clearly states it was in the mid-late 80's. You even copied that line in your post. Derp.

Candied Ass wrote:

random a hole wrote:

The Illini basketball teams of the mid to late 80s had a suspiciously large number of team members driving new Chevy Blazers.

I'm just sayin...

That is really weird as Chevy has not made a Blazer in like 5 years.

They must be REALLY good.

I don't know if you are being serious or not, but he clearly stated that it was the Illini team from the mid to late EIGHTIES (80's) not the current teams. Maybe you just got so excited to rip on this person that you forgot to read half of what they wrote.

Or maybe you are really bad at using sarcasm or telling or joke. Or maybe I'm bad at reading your bad jokes. But I think it is the first.

wisco whistleblower wrote:

Wisconsin distance athletes getting away with flagrant underage drinking, bar-crawling, library carousing and other mischief that they themselves extensively documented. The NCAA, the University athletic department and the school administration don't give a hoot. Post - last previous golden era (the circle of influence of the great Chris Solinsky) and Pre - current golden era promise of budding new, spiritually caring youngsters. I.e. most of the troublemakers graduated last year or are graduating this year. Oh well!

Does anyone "give a hoot"?

Not at my school, but a top-ranked runner female athlete who was on a sponsored "elite" team raced for a couple years as a "pro," then went back to grad school under the premise she was still eligible. Went on to be NCAA champ in the 10k a couple years ago.

ehhhh wrote:

I don't know if you are being serious or not, but he clearly stated that it was the Illini team from the mid to late EIGHTIES (80's) not the current teams. Maybe you just got so excited to rip on this person that you forgot to read half of what they wrote.

Or maybe you are really bad at using sarcasm or telling or joke. Or maybe I'm bad at reading your bad jokes. But I think it is the first.

Oh shit I got owned. wow. okay I will switch to another username.

Went to a D3 college and our AD used to take money made at sporting events and gamble at the casino with it. She finally got caught after doing it for 10 years.