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发帖数: 764 | 1 CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- The NCAA will be at the University of Miami Monday to
question people involved with knowledge of potential violations regarding
impermissible benefits.
Multiple sources confirmed to InsideTheU Sunday that the NCAA is looking
into comments made by former UM booster Nevin Shapiro regarding his
involvement in NCAA violations.
The NCAA will be meeting with “a number” of people Monday to try to gain
more knowledge of the situation and a possible wrongdoing.
Shapiro, who contributed $150,000 to the UM athletic program, pled guilty in
June for running a $930 million Ponzi scheme and was given a 20-year
sentence. He stated in April 2010 that he plans on writing a “tell-all book
” about his involvement with former UM players.
His involvement with UM dates back to 2001 during the Larry Coker and Randy
Shannon-coached teams.
"Larry Coker was blissfully ignorant (to Shapiro) and Randy Shannon hated
that guy and didn't want anything to do with him," one source said.
During his time around the program, many players were suspicious of Shapiro.
“Obviously with a guy like that driving around, pulling up in an Escalade
or a Range Rover, you ask questions, ‘who is it’. ‘Oh he’s a booster’.
‘What does he do?’ ‘I don’t really know, I think he’s a jeweler or
something’,” one former player told InsideTheU. “You would get a
different story every time.”
The player continued: “Nobody ever knew what he did. We heard he was in
imports or exports. But we heard he had like 15 different jobs. We never got
a straight answer.”
Shapiro, or “Lil’ Luke, or Lil’ Dookie“, nicknames the players gave him,
is making theses allegations, “because he’s trying to pay back whoever he
can,” a source said. “That’s the type of dude he was. He had like a
Napoleon complex. He had to be on top of the world all of the time. I didn’
t know him personally, but that’s how he carried himself. I have met a few
times on the sidelines and stuff, but he was always, ‘I’m a man’ and he
swears up and down that he changed everybody’s lives, which definitely
doesn’t go for everybody.”
NFL players Tavares Gooden, Devin Hester, Jon Beason, and Randy Phillips are
mentioned by sources as being mentioned with Shapiro as well as “other
household names” and former quarterback Kyle Wright.
When Shapiro was arrested in connection for the Ponzi scheme for being the
owner of a bogus wholesale-grocery distribution, the players were a bit
surprised.
“We were surprised of the magnitude,” one player said. “Everyone knew he
was up to something, but didn’t know how bad it is and for him to be
involved in the second-largest Ponzi scheme within the last 10 years, it
really caught everybody off-guard.”
Sources told InsideTheU that they believe there will not be any
documentation linking Shapiro to any former players. The NCAA has a four-
year statue of limitations regarding violations, which means if UM is found
of any wrongdoing, this ruling could be a factor.
“I’m definitely confident UM will be okay,” a source said. “It will
raise a lot of eyebrows, but at the end of the day, he’s sitting behind
bars and he owes $900 million.” |
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