Wonder if Al Golden is Worried About the Ponzi Scheme King Chirping to the NCAA
According to a Inside the U, the NCAA is going to be poking around the University of Miami’s campus today, looking into allegations about the always-dangerous, “violations regarding impermissible benefits.”
The allegations center around former Miami booster Nevin Shapiro, a guy who was once referred to as, “the Caligula of South Florida’s Ponzi Empire.” According to Inside the U:
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.
Al Golden, the new Miami coach, is already trying to put a rough offseason behind him, and now a potential scandal falls into his lap. Wonderful. Shapiro’s attorney has confirmed the NCAA’s visit, and the Miami Herald says Shapiro can back up his allegations:
Shapiro, during interviews with The Miami Herald in 2010, mentioned Devin Hester, Randy Phillips, Jon Beason, Antrel Rolle and Kyle Wright among former players he had close relationships with. He also spoke of being close with Clint Hurtt, UM’s former recruiting coordinator who left after the 2009 season to take a job at Louisville. Shapiro has said he took players to dinner and bought them gifts.
… Perez, asked Monday if Shapiro has evidence to support his allegations, said, “Absolutely. He has different photos, phone records, credit card statements and bills.”
It’s going to be a long month in Coral Gables.
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August 15th, 2011 at 1:27 PM
20 years for scamming 930 million seems kinda low
August 15th, 2011 at 1:29 PM
these are the assholes torture should be reserved for. this piece of shit deserves a bamboo chopstick shoved up his peehole.
August 15th, 2011 at 1:33 PM
Just stay away from Lincoln and Athens, Ga., Mr. NCAA man.
August 15th, 2011 at 1:33 PM
From the Inside the U piece:
So Donnie Brasco was a UM booster. Or at least the players thought so.
August 15th, 2011 at 1:34 PM
these are the assholes torture should be reserved for. this piece of shit deserves a bamboo chopstick shoved up his peehole.
that sounds unpleasant…
August 15th, 2011 at 1:34 PM
I’m sure ESPN and Sports Illustrated have already sent reporters down to investigate.
/Waits for BREAKING/DEVELOPING STORY on ESPN
August 15th, 2011 at 1:35 PM
We save our aggressive mandatory minimums for stuff like selling weed.
August 15th, 2011 at 1:36 PM
The Inside the U thing also seems to say that Randy Shannon didn’t care for this guy but Coker just turned his head the other way.
August 15th, 2011 at 1:38 PM
Ohio State fans are so fucking bitter. You wanna know why OSU getting pinched was huge? Because it was OHIO FUCKING STATE. Take it as a god damn compliment. One of the 5 best programs in the nation was under heavy scrutiny. It was a big fucking deal. Quit acting like the world was against you for christ’s sake.
August 15th, 2011 at 1:39 PM
Larry Coker always reminded me of that kid playing the banjo in the beginning of Deliverance…
August 15th, 2011 at 1:39 PM
+1 10-year mandatory minimum.
August 15th, 2011 at 1:39 PM
husker…where the fuck did that come from?
August 15th, 2011 at 1:41 PM
Comment No. 6
August 15th, 2011 at 1:42 PM
Yeah. I was wondering the same thing. That was like a tornado with the siren.
August 15th, 2011 at 1:42 PM
husker…where the fuck did that come from?
I also would like to know the answer to this
August 15th, 2011 at 1:44 PM
Without the siren. Whatever.
Someone said it earlier but if the U gets taken to the gallows than VT shouldn’t even consider leaving for the SEC. They’d be penciled into to a BCS berth like every year. Them and Free Shoes.
August 15th, 2011 at 1:45 PM
to be fair, pat forde hasn’t responded to my emails demanding an apology.
August 15th, 2011 at 1:45 PM
That was a joke on ESPN being late to the story, and still calling it “Breaking/Developing”
/I think
August 15th, 2011 at 1:46 PM
Not to jump on the Crouton dude, because my anger is more directed at the 11 Warriors people, but it’s like they don’t get why OSU getting in trouble was a big deal. OSU fans want to be seen as the titans of the Midwest (which they are) but he moment shit hits the fan they want people to slow down and take it easy like they were Ohio U or some school like that. If Oklahoma, Texas, Florida or Alabama had to fire the best coach in their history and essentially kick the best player on the team to curb it would have been a huge deal. It’s not like people take joy in nailing OSU and only OSU. People take joy in nailing anyone who’s at the top. It would be no different if it was any of those other schools.
August 15th, 2011 at 1:48 PM
It would be Free Shoe, VT and then absolutely no one.
I don’t think so.
August 15th, 2011 at 1:48 PM
I would take joy in Notre Dame getting sanctioned to bejeezus and they’re no where near the top.
August 15th, 2011 at 1:49 PM
That’s how I read it.
August 15th, 2011 at 1:49 PM
Sports reporters who hate sports take joy in nailing college programs.
August 15th, 2011 at 1:50 PM
Death Penalty!? Sure why not.
August 15th, 2011 at 1:50 PM
They’re filming the new commercials for NFL Gameday right now and I will never not be amazed at the size of Deion Sanders’ domepiece.
August 15th, 2011 at 1:51 PM
Human nature dictates that we take joy is taking people (programs in this case) down a peg or two.
August 15th, 2011 at 1:52 PM
no…we want the shoddy investigation passed off as journalism recanted. george dohrman had an axe to grind and that was painfully obvious if you read his bullsht investigation that was nothing more than hear-say and speculation. he’ll keep his job tho!
all i want is that guy’s head on a platter. is that too much to ask? i don’t think so…
August 15th, 2011 at 1:54 PM
I had SportsCenter on in the background last night and I saw what looked like a 10-12 man panel on college football with something regarding change. What the hell was that all about?
August 15th, 2011 at 1:54 PM
Human nature dictates that we take joy is taking people (programs in this case) down a peg or two.
This is true. There are two types of compelling human interest stories: the rise of someone (or some thing) through rough travails to success, and the fall of someone (or some thing) from the peak of power and influence.
August 15th, 2011 at 1:56 PM
I don’t know anything about Dohrman. Why did he have an axe to grind?
August 15th, 2011 at 1:56 PM
Fair. But to the extent people (fans) care, it’s to laugh at the program’s expense for a few months and move on.
But reporters who enter the sports arena with the sole intent of digging up dirt on programs to take them down are some of the worst kinds of people.
Did you really get into sports journalism to file FOIA waivers and question boosters?
August 15th, 2011 at 1:59 PM
The point of a journalist is to expose the truth to the general public. The only reason they file FOIA requests is because people want to keep things hidden. Don’t blame the journalist for having to file that request, blame the institutions for reusing to release them.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:01 PM
speak for your own humanity, not mine.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:02 PM
Again, that’s fair, but skills like that would be better served for stuff that matters, not to dig up dirt on something that’s universally viewed as a release from the rigamarole of day to day bullshit.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:02 PM
Ok.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:04 PM
College football has another scandal? No, don’t believe it.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:04 PM
probably because tressel didn’t succumb to his homosexual advances.
not sure why he wrote that article…all i know is people smarter than i picked his investigation apart due to lack of evidence to support his thesis and using incomplete quotes for dramatic effect. like, for example, not using a YSU internal investigative report at all when discussing tressel’s time there and the infraction in question. one of the women he quotes declined comment without explantaion but dohrmann said in his piece, “Saternow, then the school’s compliance officer, had such misgivings about the car that she recused herself from the (internal) investigation committee because, according to (former YSU president Leslie) Cochran, she did not feel she could be objective.”
of course the email correspondence didn’t go into any detail…
it was just shoddy, shoddy journalism and im not just saying that as a buckeye fan. and yet, herbstreit, robinson, wetzel, etc haven’t mentioned the illegitimacy of it at all despite using it as a springboard for their own career’s advancement.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:05 PM
Why hasn’t ESPN even mentioned the Tuscaloosa Suit/Autograph situation? Isn’t that kind of a big deal at a big program? I heard Dan Patrick mention it once last week. That’s it.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:05 PM
Hopefully they wear a condom.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:06 PM
But they are paid to cover a beat. If they are told to be the best CFB reporter they can be, filing FOIA requests are a necessity. Of course I’d like to see political/gov’t reporters be as vigilant, and I think they are. But I don’t think a CFB writer filing a FOIA request means that other reporters can’t or won’t. Again, it’s the job of the reporter to get to the truth and to do so in an ethical way. Filing a FOIA request is a part of that.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:07 PM
truth requires objectivity. there is none in mainstream journalism.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:08 PM
truth requires objectivity. there is none in mainstream journalism.
It could be argued that complete objectivity is impossible. But there are certainly some journalists and organizations which are better at marginalizing it than others.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:08 PM
Marginalizing the lack of objectivity….is what I meant to say there.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:09 PM
ESPN should be taken out of the conversation with the likes of SI and other media outlets. ESPN isn’t in the business of exposing their bread winners. People who bang on ESPN for not being a credible source of news need to realize that they don’t care to be one, so they don’t care if you think they suck at it. They are in the business of making money.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:10 PM
You’re Abe Froman? The Ponzi Scheme King of Miami?
Are you saying I am not who I say I am?
August 15th, 2011 at 2:11 PM
No it doesn’t, actually. Truth is truth no matter what angle you want to take.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:12 PM
Suh is the TRUTH.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:13 PM
absolutely. however, there’s a massive lack of effort in attempting to be objective, which creates a lot of noise, mistakes, and bullshit to sift through when absorbing news.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:13 PM
Objectivity is a complete farce, and anyone who doesn’t buy that is sorely mistaken. I would love nothing more than to see Auburn burn to the ground (literally and figuratively) but no matter how much I want it to be the case, the truth is what will determine what happens. It doesn’t matter if I write a scathing expose on AUB fans fucking horses for fun and how they pay recruits by the horse so they can take home a sexual toy. If it isn’t true and the facts aren’t there to prove it nothing will come of it.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:14 PM
Word.
/favorite Husker of all time
//yes, even over Frazier
August 15th, 2011 at 2:14 PM
“…you’re going to find that many of the truths that we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.”
August 15th, 2011 at 2:17 PM
I agree with you re: ESPN not being a bastion of objective journalism, but all other journalism outlets (newspapers, magazines, web sites, etc.) are out to sell a product, too. Places will run with whatever they think will sell.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:17 PM
Than that really isn’t “truth.”
August 15th, 2011 at 2:17 PM
The TRUTH tried to take some guy’s head off over the weekend. I have a feeling you’ll see him get Suh-spended at some point this year if he keeps pulling that crap.
/waka waka
August 15th, 2011 at 2:17 PM
not if the truth isn’t presented in its whole in an objective manner. then it’s not truth at all. it’s lies of omission…such as in Dormann’s case referenced above.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:18 PM
But…the he used the word “truth”.
/about as far as I’m going into a serious debate
August 15th, 2011 at 2:19 PM
Speaking of suh….tell him to take it easy on colt. He’s not a longhorn anymore.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:19 PM
Is this the Charles Robinson “10″ story?
August 15th, 2011 at 2:20 PM
I disagree with the last line. Grant Wahl wanted to run a piece on bribery earlier this year during the WC bidding but they held off on account of not having locked down sources willing to speak. The NYT and WaPost and WSJ have a sense of credibility that they won’t ruin for the sake of 10,000 more papers being sold.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:21 PM
WHAAAA!? objectivity is a idealistic notion, but if you’re a fucking journalist or anyone delivering/reporting news, it’s your responsibility to give me the news without interjecting any narrative or cloaking opinions as fact. we see this all the time in shit TBL writes.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:21 PM
Football is getting soft. If The House Of Spears wanted to take off his head he would of done so. Also, he was just sticking up for Delmas who was cheap shotted the play before.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:22 PM
Perhaps. Isn’t Yahoo supposed to drop a bomb on the SEC West pretty soon?
August 15th, 2011 at 2:23 PM
That was the rumor of the “10″ story but really, all Robinson said was that it was a big football program. I don’t think he narrowed it down to the SECW.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:23 PM
Who knows. Everyone assumed it was an SEC school, but there has been a lot of smoke around the South Florida recruiting game. Not sure who that affects, really.
THEN IT’S NOT THE TRUTH.
I’d run screens and handoffs for the first two series until he leaves for the game if I were in charge.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:24 PM
The fact that those outlets do rely on integrity is what sells their papers. So, yeah, they aren’t going to run a flimsy story since it would hurt their credibility. Hurt credibility = lost $$$.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:26 PM
With all this discussion of truth I have revolving scenes from A Few Good Men and Dead Poet’s Society in my head.
Objectivity, as miz said, is an idealistic notion, but that it may be manifestly impossible to attain it, doesn’t give individuals charged with reporting facts a free pass to throw ethics out the window.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:26 PM
An ATL radio show host said it was an SEC West school but it wasn’t ARK or Ole Miss. It sounded like he was making shit up, to be honest, but I’ve heard LSU was one of the teams involved with the South Florida recruiting shenanigans. Who knows what the story is, but when you hype it up like Robinson did, it only lessons the blow when it comes down.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:27 PM
your responsibility is to attempt to be objective. that’s as close we’re ever going to get. don’t use your “objectivity is a complete farce” as a crutch to present your opinions as fact.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:28 PM
I guess the point I’m trying to make is that all media outlets are in business to make money. While ESPN does it in more sensational fashion, the NYT, WSJ, etc. are out to achive the same goal – $$$.
The difference is how they go about doing it.
But the objective is the same for ESPN as it is for Sports Illustrated as it is for Yahoo Sports…make money.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:28 PM
Alex mack vs suh is gonna be AWESOME.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:29 PM
I’m going to miss having an actual center playing center this NFL season.
/scowls at Roberto Garza
August 15th, 2011 at 2:29 PM
But that’s not the responsibility of a journalist. The responsibility is to unearth the truth, whatever that may be.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:30 PM
I think Suh will break that poor girl in half. I’m not gonna watch a snuff film.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:36 PM
but don’t you have to attempt to be objective when presenting that truth you’ve unearthed!?
August 15th, 2011 at 2:38 PM
cute but mack’s not a sloch, by any means. one of the best centers in the league…last year he handled vince wilfork and casey hampton for game-long stretches, has done admirably against ngata and just beat the shit out of bj raji and pickett on saturday.
granted, those guys aren’t suh (ngata is close tho), but mack’s a fucking beast in his own right.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:38 PM
As long are you publish what really happened you can be biased as hell. It’s when your bias comes out in your work that you’ve failed.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:39 PM
w00t!
August 15th, 2011 at 2:40 PM
I bet Donna Shalala knows some good lawyers. There will be some big headlines again in December when this piece of shit book comes out but I’d put money on the actual sanctions levied as a result being fairly minor. This guy is a piece of shit that is going out in public talking about how his feelings are hurt because the ex-Canes he gave money to while they were in college didn’t want to hang out anymore after they graduated.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:43 PM
i bet donna shalalalalalalala knows how to take a cock.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:45 PM
i bet donna shalalalalalalala knows how to take a cock.
She’s more of a pegger
August 15th, 2011 at 2:46 PM
how can you be bias, but publish what really happened at the same time?
that sounds a lot like being objectively bias.
/headsplosion
August 15th, 2011 at 2:47 PM
The only reason Miami would be in deep water would be if they knew about what this fuckhole was doing and turned a blind eye or tried to sweep it under the rug. It’s still going to be shitty, but not Ohio State shitty.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:47 PM
lol. they call her “the obelisk” because of how huge her strap-on is. looks like the washington monument.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:48 PM
+ 10 Things I hate about you
August 15th, 2011 at 2:49 PM
Maybe the photos are damning, but how do phone calls and bills show he was giving things to athletes? Beside the point anyway, this guy is a tremendous POS.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:50 PM
It’s called being human.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:51 PM
so were the agents that reggie bush screwed over who went and spilled the beans…in a scummy situation, the scummiest people are usually the ones who know what’s up.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:53 PM
Agree. I have no doubt this douchebucket gave the benefits to the players he is alleging, at least in some form. I just don’t think Miami’s house is going to brought down by it unless there was a cover-up. If they want us to vacate wins from the mid-2000s they are more then welcome, we sucked at that point.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:53 PM
Yup. It’s why when people go after whistleblowers as “someone with an axe to grind” (think Auburn players on HBO) they fail to realize that almost every single whistleblower in the history of whistleblowers has an axe to grind. If not, they wouldn’t be blowing their whistle.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:55 PM
I don’t understand. I guess we’ve come full circle though, so maybe I’m not meant to:
August 15th, 2011 at 2:56 PM
im more human than human. if you prick me, i bleed oreo milk.
August 15th, 2011 at 3:00 PM
YEAAAAAAAAAH, I am the astro creep Ademolitionstylehellamericanfreak yeah
August 15th, 2011 at 3:00 PM
Being human as far as journalism goes means being able to handle you bias. Being able to keep it in check while searching for the truth.
August 15th, 2011 at 3:01 PM
is that like trying to be objective? cuase it sounds like trying to be objective.
August 15th, 2011 at 3:04 PM
/cue woman moaning
//imagines it’s Sheri Moon Zombie
August 15th, 2011 at 3:06 PM
It’s called being a god damn journalist.
August 15th, 2011 at 3:10 PM
I went to see Mr. Zombie and Slayer play here a few weeks ago. Pretty sure I had a few near death experiences in the crowd.
/only one with no tattos
//or a piercing
August 15th, 2011 at 3:16 PM
That’s the main reason I don’t see many shows (or at least, before I had a kid). I love metal music, but don’t really dig the scene.
August 15th, 2011 at 3:28 PM
Atlanta has some of the worst sports radio ever. EVER. I take no stock in anything any of them ever claim.