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

Chuck S - you're full of S

nobody wants to hear about your fake stories from the days back when you had hair.

sheez.

Rupp was a pro at least two years at Oregon. He traveled with Alberto and his pro group all indoors his junior year, reaped the benefits of this group, ran pro races and took on-line classes while doing this. He was a pro and he got away with it.

Rupp was a pro at least two years at Oregon. He traveled with Alberto and his pro group all indoors his junior year, reaped the benefits of this group, ran pro races and took on-line classes while doing this. He was a pro and he got away with it.

To Ruppwatcher: Seriously Dude??? You're a total douchebag! Everything thing you said is NOT an NCAA violation. Bring some proof without your whiny ass, slow as f---, envy riddled, edible complex, I can't break 20 in a 5k BS to this conversation.

He traveled with Alberto? How th F is that a violation? OU can pay for that.

Reaped the benefits of his group?? Why is training with great runner a violation?

Ran pro races??? That is not even remotely close to a violation!

Oh and he took online classes! AGAIN!!! NOT a vilation!

Hey douchebag, I mean Ruppwatcher, go F yourself!!

Ok, that was a little harsh, but seriously man! We get one good distance runner in Amrica, and dudes want to make stuff up false accusations to make him look bad. WTF??

common dude, Rupp obviously had unfair advantages over other NCAA athletes, whether it was NCAA legal or not, it was not fair. He could fly to Europe, or across the country whenever, and Im sure he received $1000s of dollars of gear and whatever money. When it comes down to it he should have just gone pro and took classes whenever, rather than race college athletes as a pro

Yeah man, if other athletes who are not as talented as Rupp want to race overseas...guess you pays for their travel expenses...not the university.

Nor Cal wrote:

Title 9 could be easily fixed by not counting football into the "numbers." The bottom line is their is no women's football team or equivalent. Also football makes the university and NCAA so much money I honesty think they should have more scholarships and budgets. This is not fair to the "lesser" sports.

Take football out of the equation, let them make and spend their money. Even out all the other sports... That's the solution.

And take the last lap out of a 5K and I'd run a hell of a time. Why would football be removed? I recently read that in 2010, including all bowls, tv money, and all other income, 14 NCAA football teams made more money than they spent. Title 9 has nothing to do with the men's lesser sports. If the women choose to spread their money around instead of putting it all into one dark pit, they should do so. Maybe men should make a stink about so much of their money being spent on one sport.

A lot of people like to turn Title IX into a "women vs men" issue. "Oh, men have football, they're at such an advantage."

It's not. It's about revenue sports vs. everything else. Football and men's and women's basketball are treated really well. Men's XC and women's XC are treated badly. It's not about the gender, it's about the cash. And football makes the most of it.

And believe it or not, most men's sports are hardest hit by this while women's sports are cushioned.

After winning the conference indoor mile in 1986, coach gave me a Pizza Hut gift certificate and $20 and told me, "go have fun with your girlfriend."

HAHAHAHAHAH that awesome

I ran on a top 10 DIII xc team - early '90's - the school was just starting some internal drug testing. This was supposed to be random.

So, 'randomly' the top 7 was tested from the xc team and 'randomly' the 3rd string was tested for the football team.

They were also a top 10'ish team. Not a single starter was tested.

Our Athletic director would say, “Make sure everyone is at practice tomorrow,” which was the signal that we were going to have random drug testing the next day. We’d make sure to spread the word and anyone at risk would warm up on their own and join practice after testing (only those at practice would be subjected to the random test). Coincidently, the known religious athletes were the ones who were randomly chosen for the drug test. FYI I don’t think we had anyone using PED’s but I know some smoked.

I went to a school on the east coast in the late 80's...watched our star lacrosse player take the acct final front and center and just copy from the people on his left/right

it would have been the first time back in NCAAs and they needed him to be eligible

the school looked so low on the xc/track program that I received more help when they knew I played on the hockey team, which was a club sport

PSU golf course wrote:

Probably when my coach kicked me in the nuts while I was stretching before a workout.

That's awesome. Did he then make some not-so-slightly-vulgar comment about your lack of toughness all-the-while laughing like a perv at your swollen yam-bag!!??

I can't even count the number of shouting and/or shoving matches at practice he got into with athletes over the years.

They just don't make 'em like him anymore.

Crazy that Brauman is still coaching Gay and others.

ncaa d1 athlete wrote:

A lot of people like to turn Title IX into a "women vs men" issue. "Oh, men have football, they're at such an advantage."

It's not. It's about revenue sports vs. everything else. Football and men's and women's basketball are treated really well. Men's XC and women's XC are treated badly. It's not about the gender, it's about the cash. And football makes the most of it.

And believe it or not, most men's sports are hardest hit by this while women's sports are cushioned.

i know of a school in which the xc team brings in money and the football team spends more than they make and the basketball teams break about even. football still takes a priority.

To Late80's dude....I am NOT saying Rupp is not a super runner....he is. Congrats to Rupp. Keep it going. What I am saying is that he had unfair advantages over all other NCAA athletes. You have NO idea what you are talking about.

1. A Pro coach who is employed by NIKE while enrolled

2. Living in Portland in a High altitude house paid for by Nike while enrolled (FACT)

3 Who paid for all his travel while he competed UNATTACHED...NOT OU = a violation if UO did and a violation if NIKE did.

4. The title of the original post doesn't say anything about Rupp. It asks for violations.

5. Get off the OU bandwagon.

6. Just to confirm -- Rupp is a stud, but he's and was while at OU, a NIKE supported stud.

7. Rupp is the one who has to look himself in the mirror.

my coach started dating one of the girls he was coaching on the girls team...i think that's a violation...i guess she didnt get pregnant till after she graduated so maybe it was okay..?

I ran at the University of Oregon, graduated in the spring of 09, anyways Vin used to solicit head from Rupp, AJ, and Mercado. I don't know if that is an NCAA violation, but at least it didn't seem right. ??