NCAA Doesn’t Appear Too Worried About Non-Miami Athletes Named In Probe

The only surprising part is that the NCAA is actually seeming for a change to move ahead quickly, decisively and, in the case of the non-Miami players and not letting the trivial, almost certainly "non-starter"-issues entangle what must and should be the real focus: the details and history in the "culture of abuse" at UM. Hell, the "holes in the net" that have shown in previous NCAA "investigations" made the idea of going after the eligibility of players who DIDN'T go to "da U", the ones that refused their offer(s) whatever form they took, absolutely absurd.
Meanwhile, all these scUM apologists disavowing Nevil Shapiro now have no leg to stand on; even y'all referring to him as "rogue agent" is ingenuous, a subtle adaption of apologists' rush to distance themselves. Shapiro was "one of their guys", for a while there he was THE GUY":
He has a student lounge named after him! For years the heart of that team was over at his houses, on his yacht, out at restaurants and openly receiving cash from he and (by witnessed accounts) some of the coaches...the Head Coaches of both the football and basketball teams rushed to his side in public, they and UM officials right up to the President fell over themselves getting their pictures taken with him. Don't tell us this was some "rogue agent" operating in the shadows. They are all going down, school and fans together, because it WAS out in the open--and in their arrogance they thought since no one had stopped them the last few times, it could and would just go on, getting bigger and better. The really sick part is that it might well HAVE, except the latest "little rich guy" who filled the necessary cash-vacuum such a gravy train always requires ended up getting popped, and rolled over. That's how "criminal conspiracies always get broken up these days--no surprise there, really. Jimmy Johnson and others like him oughta shut their pie-holes on this whole deal, too--that spotlight is going to be going back further and further into the past, and he could talk his way right off his OWN gravy train.

Wow, you are really thin skinned John. Just in this comment thread you've accused someone of not being able to read, and then followed that up by chastising someone for hurling an insult. Hypocrisy?

The people reading this site and commenting are paying your bills and growing your business. You need to freakin' relax.

I question your logic here John. I enjoy your site but sometimes your arrangement of facts and assumptions is puzzling. I don't follow EVERY team but I do know that rumors about at least one of the players you mentioned seeped out months ago. Naturally any rumored contact between a player and the NCAA will cause fans to assume the worst. Since nothing more came of it and people claimed the player was eligible, it died away. Now we know the true topic of the meeting.

What seems more plausible? That because the NCAA is a week or so away from a conference to streamline it's confusing bylaws so it is now a kindler, gentler NCAA that reacts to everything quicker and more efficiently (despite having the same staff issues) or that the eligibility issues of these players was already addressed during an ongoing investigation? I mean really, could those schools have found out Tuesday like the rest of us and even completed their OWN internal investigations to submit to the NCAA that quickly had they all not known about this previously? Think about it. They knew and they knew from the NCAA interviews of their respective player-athletes.

Stop being so sensitive John. It's a play on a famous movie quote by Sigourney Weaver . . . but that's irrelevant now.

So you're claiming that if the NCAA had talked to the players that the media would have known about it? Really? So the Georgia, Florida, etc SIDs would have all released a statement saying something like "The following players have all been interviewed by the NCAA regarding possible violations at a member institution. No further comment follows." Yeah, that's Standard Operating Procedure isn't it?

That's not how these athletic departments work . How long did you know about this 5 month ongoing investigation? I mean if it were going on this long . . . then clearly the media would have known about it. Since there was no warning from the media then does that mean the media members claiming that Shapiro talked to the NCAA back in April were lying!

Did IQs suddenly drop at this site while I was away? There needs not be a conspiracy theory or new way of doing business to explain why these players were cleared so quickly.

The NCAA has been investigating these allegations for over 5 months. These players have probably already been talked to by NCAA (rumors of such for certain players were swirling in the summer although the details weren't known) representatives in the conduct of the ongoing investigation as they had their names early on. Getting benefits from a school you DON'T attend is a violation by the school which offered the extra benefits but not towards the player who doesn't attend there. The only ineligible players are the ones who were named by Shapiro and WENT to UM.

Where's the confusion? Yahoo sports didn't suprise the NCAA with this story. The NCAA was already on the Miami campus when the story broke. And they all have the same source (Shapiro).

Where's Tennessee's statement. Kiffin is the one who signed Bryce Brown away from Miami. So why isn't UT saying anything?

Don't make this about Auburn. Its all about Miami and their recruiting not any other school.

"Those schools did nothing wrong aside from signing players who might have done something wrong while being recruited to another school"

That's a great point and it must be true except for when it's not. The four letter network and most football blog Perry Masons have told us for months Auburn cheated. Their logic? "Cecil asked for money at MSU so Auburn must have paid him".

I love the smell of exploding canards in the morning.

How can you not be worried about what the players may or may not have done? I find it completely hypocritical that the NCAA would not do its due diligence and investigate whether or not these players compromised their amature status by accepting thousands of dollars in illegal benefits. Enes Kanter tried to do everything he could to stay within the rules and was denied by the NCAA, but multiple players are discovered to have been part of a money pipeline from Miami and it is just swept under the rug????? Sour grapes?? Probably........but when is the American sporting public going to demand more out it's collegiate sports governing body. First Cecil Newton, then the handling of the Ohio State bowl "penalty" and now this. It would be comical if it weren't true.

"Those schools did nothing wrong aside from signing players who might have done something wrong while being recruited to another school several years ago."

Marve and AB were student athletes at Miami when their transgressions occured, not recruits. Shouldn't that make a difference? I'm not for blaming the kids, but this seems to open up a situation where football players would feel free to take whatever gifts are offered, then just transfer and sit out a year if the NCAA caught on.

Also, a serious LOL if you think UF, Georgia and so on did nothing wrong in pursuing these guys. They just haven't been caught. Shapiro himself said that UM didn't bother buying players because they couldn't compete with the "river of money" flowing from SEC schools.