issafram

November 17th, 2023 at 2:15 PM ^

It's funny to me that Stallions somehow got in contact with a booster and convinced him to finance this shit.  So many morons associated with this shit

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Clarence Beeks

November 17th, 2023 at 2:16 PM ^

Maybe a dumb/naive question, but is a booster funding an analyst actually NCAA or Big Ten rules? No question some real potential legal liabilities for both the booster and Stalions, but I’m actually curious about the university itself under NCAA/Big Ten rules. It’s a terrible look, so that isn’t my point - I’m purely curious about the rules themselves.

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curl06

November 17th, 2023 at 3:36 PM ^

Maybe.

"11.3.2.1.1 Noninstitutional Income and Benefits Disclosure. A full-time or part-time athletics department staff member who receives athletically related income or benefits from a source outside the institution... must report such earnings to the president or chancellor on an annual basis; however, the athletics staff member is not required to report any cash or cash equivalent (as opposed to tangible items) if the total amount received is $600 or less."

Note that the 11.3.2.1.1 reporting requirement is intended to clarify income earned from "bona fide outside employment" which I would doubt this would apply. Did he report this income to the president?

"11.3.2.2 Supplemental Pay. An outside source is prohibited from paying or regularly supplementing an athletics department staff member's annual salary and from arranging to supplement that salary for an unspecified achievement."

This seems like the more likely violation. I'd guess receiving money from a booster could be seen as supplementing their salary.

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Ghost of Fritz…

November 17th, 2023 at 2:21 PM ^

A booster helped pay?  O.k.  

Now reveal the name of the OSU booster that paid for the PI firm.

I wish Mr. T has spent his money on a PI firm to investigate OSU instead of on Stalions scheme. 

Because...booster spending on PI firms gets real results and apparently is 'sportsmanlike.'

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Yeoman

November 17th, 2023 at 2:43 PM ^

Do we care who the booster is?

What seems significant to me, and beyond this particular case, is that a PI firm that is a major player in the NCAA investigative world (or so we're told by the OSU insiders who claim to know who they hired, if not who actually did the hiring) just happens to be based in Columbus, OH and has a president/CEO who used to do liaison work with the DEA and is a linkedin buddy of Ryan Day's brother.

It's a vast network all right. We're not in it.

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Mpfnfu Ford

November 17th, 2023 at 3:28 PM ^

The main thing is that all the people who thought Michigan was too virtuous to have bag men can all go grab their clown make up and pick out their favorite pair of oversized shoes. Michigan didn't spend a decade being bad because it didn't cheat like everyone else, it was bad for a long time because Michigan 1. Made a hire that looked good on paper and turned out to be bad and then 2. followed that up with a hire that looked bad on paper and also was bad.

This is the big time, everyone cheats, including Michigan. Michigan just needs to not be as shitty at cheating so it doesn't get caught next time and hope this sloppy operation doesn't get Michigan nuked from orbit. 

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