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There have been three recent impermissible benefits rulings by the NCAA in just the past week.
But in one or more details they differ from the Bradley case of Patrick and Will receiving extra benefits.
BU's case involved between $600-$1200 in extra benefits paid to WF & POB inadvertently by a person who was not a booster to BU. Bradley self reported within 2 months of the violation and cooperated fully, and the players repaid the money. The players got 6 and 8 game suspensions, the investigation was concluded within a couple months, and the school got one year probation plus additional penalties. BU and the MVC both stated that they believed the penalties to be undeserved.
In the Oklahoma case, a booster who provides cars to the Oklahoma coaches for free use and also provides other substantial support to the programs gave almost $20,000 in extra benefits to athletes and the kids took the money with full knowledge that they had not done the work for it. The same auto dealership had previously come under fire for giving free use of cars to athletes in the past.
The students have still not repaid the money, the school self reported, it took over five months for the improper payments to come to light. The NCAA has penalized nobody, and actually haven't even investigated, and the players have been cut loose by OU hopefully to help save their hide.
In this case, neither the school, the conference, nor anyone is defending what the kids did.
In the NIU case, an official of the school itself provided the extra benefits. In this case the player who knowingly took what amounts to possibly thousands of dollars of extra benefits such as free food, housing, gifts, clothes, and cash was never penalized. Her identity was protected and only the press found it and revealed it.
The NCAA took 3 years to investigate and hand out a penalty to NIU who got one year probation and no other recruiting or other penalties.
In the Iowa State case, the kid got at least $1688 in extra benefits, although there could have been more as the kid lived with the Marshalltown, Iowa booster who gave the kid money, clothes, and a car. The investigation has been going on since 2004, the kid is only going to get 6 games suspension, and the school has not been penalized at all yet. The booster in this case lied when telling investigators he was not a booster and had never given money in the past to Iowa State.
In reality he has given substantial cash gifts to the school and presently holds season tickets for Iowa State.
This case definitely has the funniest line...
"if we were trying to hide something, do you think we'd give a 6'11" kid a car with Hawkeye license plates?"
And the Ohio State and Reggie Bush cases were also filled with crooked acts to funnel cash and freebies to players, that they aren't even in the same ball park.
The BU case was self reported, and yet the NCAA swooped in, did all their digging within weeks of the violations with BU cooperating fully, and handed down the swiftest and severest penalty of any of these cases to date...even though the other ones had been ongoing since as far back as 2003-2004 and the NCAA. I thought the NCAA treated schools the same?
But in one or more details they differ from the Bradley case of Patrick and Will receiving extra benefits.
BU's case involved between $600-$1200 in extra benefits paid to WF & POB inadvertently by a person who was not a booster to BU. Bradley self reported within 2 months of the violation and cooperated fully, and the players repaid the money. The players got 6 and 8 game suspensions, the investigation was concluded within a couple months, and the school got one year probation plus additional penalties. BU and the MVC both stated that they believed the penalties to be undeserved.
In the Oklahoma case, a booster who provides cars to the Oklahoma coaches for free use and also provides other substantial support to the programs gave almost $20,000 in extra benefits to athletes and the kids took the money with full knowledge that they had not done the work for it. The same auto dealership had previously come under fire for giving free use of cars to athletes in the past.
The students have still not repaid the money, the school self reported, it took over five months for the improper payments to come to light. The NCAA has penalized nobody, and actually haven't even investigated, and the players have been cut loose by OU hopefully to help save their hide.
In this case, neither the school, the conference, nor anyone is defending what the kids did.
In the NIU case, an official of the school itself provided the extra benefits. In this case the player who knowingly took what amounts to possibly thousands of dollars of extra benefits such as free food, housing, gifts, clothes, and cash was never penalized. Her identity was protected and only the press found it and revealed it.
The NCAA took 3 years to investigate and hand out a penalty to NIU who got one year probation and no other recruiting or other penalties.
In the Iowa State case, the kid got at least $1688 in extra benefits, although there could have been more as the kid lived with the Marshalltown, Iowa booster who gave the kid money, clothes, and a car. The investigation has been going on since 2004, the kid is only going to get 6 games suspension, and the school has not been penalized at all yet. The booster in this case lied when telling investigators he was not a booster and had never given money in the past to Iowa State.
In reality he has given substantial cash gifts to the school and presently holds season tickets for Iowa State.
This case definitely has the funniest line...
"if we were trying to hide something, do you think we'd give a 6'11" kid a car with Hawkeye license plates?"
And the Ohio State and Reggie Bush cases were also filled with crooked acts to funnel cash and freebies to players, that they aren't even in the same ball park.
The BU case was self reported, and yet the NCAA swooped in, did all their digging within weeks of the violations with BU cooperating fully, and handed down the swiftest and severest penalty of any of these cases to date...even though the other ones had been ongoing since as far back as 2003-2004 and the NCAA. I thought the NCAA treated schools the same?
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