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Numerous NCAA Violations Surface at South Florida
As is usually the case at the BCS schools, when NCAA violations are uncovered, the first step is to deny, deny, deny.
USF head Coach Stan Heath has denied the allegations, or says he had no knowledge of them. Heath, said, "You want to keep nickel and diming him. All this little [crap] ... I don't know what this is all about. It's stupid."
It sounds as if Heath is outraged that anyone would even question him. Imagine if this was the way Bradley, Ken Kavanagh and Jim les would have reacted to the NCAA. BU would have been slapped with the "failure to cooperate" charge, and probably the death penalty!
The violations involve Heath's hiring of a man, Terrelle Woody, as a "video coordinator and conditioning assistant. This was an artificially created, non-coaching position like a lot of bigger schools do to create paid positions for friends, family, or former coaches of highly coveted recruits to land them. Schools like Kentucky and Kansas have dozens of extra people on the payroll solely to attract key recruits. In this case, Heath hired this guy to land Gus Gilchrist, a transfer from Maryland. The allegations are that Woody provided transportation to student-athletes (he was Gus Gilchrist's personal valet), watched "open gyms," coached players and illegally worked out USF players. Terrelle Woody has a long history of a close relationship with Gilchrist that reaches back to his time at Maryland and before.
The article above details a lot of specific violations, but Coach Heath categorically denies each of them. There are are also allegations, confirmed by former USF players and their families that some of these violations occurred, and also allegations regarding criminal activity involving USF players that was covered up and never reported by Heath to protect his players.
As is usually the case at the BCS schools, when NCAA violations are uncovered, the first step is to deny, deny, deny.
USF head Coach Stan Heath has denied the allegations, or says he had no knowledge of them. Heath, said, "You want to keep nickel and diming him. All this little [crap] ... I don't know what this is all about. It's stupid."
It sounds as if Heath is outraged that anyone would even question him. Imagine if this was the way Bradley, Ken Kavanagh and Jim les would have reacted to the NCAA. BU would have been slapped with the "failure to cooperate" charge, and probably the death penalty!
The violations involve Heath's hiring of a man, Terrelle Woody, as a "video coordinator and conditioning assistant. This was an artificially created, non-coaching position like a lot of bigger schools do to create paid positions for friends, family, or former coaches of highly coveted recruits to land them. Schools like Kentucky and Kansas have dozens of extra people on the payroll solely to attract key recruits. In this case, Heath hired this guy to land Gus Gilchrist, a transfer from Maryland. The allegations are that Woody provided transportation to student-athletes (he was Gus Gilchrist's personal valet), watched "open gyms," coached players and illegally worked out USF players. Terrelle Woody has a long history of a close relationship with Gilchrist that reaches back to his time at Maryland and before.
The article above details a lot of specific violations, but Coach Heath categorically denies each of them. There are are also allegations, confirmed by former USF players and their families that some of these violations occurred, and also allegations regarding criminal activity involving USF players that was covered up and never reported by Heath to protect his players.
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