Miami booster has detailed ALL to the NCAA- Wow!

[ponyscott]

Finally the U will get its due....

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/b ... m=referral

By Matt Hinton

Attorney: Ponzi-scheming Miami booster has detailed largesse to the NCAA (and yes, there’s a yacht)



This morning, we brought you the smoke coming from Miami about the NCAA's ongoing inquiry into Nevin Shapiro, noted hurricane booster and convicted Ponzi-schemer. Now, via the Miami Herald, Shapiro's attorney brings us the fire:

[Maria Elena] Perez said Monday she has been in contact with the NCAA, on Shapiro's behalf, for several months and has conveyed Shapiro's claims that well over a dozen former or current UM players have received gifts and other benefits that would constitute a violation of NCAA rules. Shapiro also has spoken to the NCAA directly, she said.

University officials did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

Though there is reportedly a four-year statute of limitations on NCAA violations, Perez said some of the incidents occurred within the past four years, while others occurred before that.

"It's not about giving money — it's about giving favors," Perez said of Shapiro's allegations. "It's giving suits, giving jewelry, paying for entertainment, letting them use his boat twice a week."

Attorney: Ponzi-scheming Miami booster has detailed largesse to the NCAA (and yes, there’s a yacht)Perez said she hasn't tallied up the value of the alleged benefits to Miami players, specifically — Shapiro had to detail all of his financial dealings to federal investigators, which must have been a lot of fun for everyone — but "it's well over thousands of dollars. It took $2,000 just to fuel up the gas tank of the yacht at Riviera Club." She also claimed Shapiro has given NCAA snoops the names of "well over a dozen but less than 100" former 'Cane players who he says accepted gifts.

As for evidence, Perez said, "Absolutely. He has different photos, phone records, credit card statements and bills."

Shapiro, known around the program as "Little Luke," after legendary 'Cane sugar daddy Luther Campbell, once had a suite at Miami home games and a player lounge named in his honor before it was removed in 2008. Elsewhere, he's been called "Miami's Caligula" for his orgiastic lifestyle and is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for allegedly swindling investors out of $930 million — again, $930 million — in a massive scheme involving wholesale groceries.

To recap: A convicted Ponzi-schemer whose name was literally on the wall of a major program admits to lavishly subverting NCAA rules, and is willing to name names to investigators. Not to jump to conclusions, but that sounds kind of like a 10 out of 10 to me.

As such, Shapiro is not exactly the NCAA's ideal witness. He told the Miami Herald last year that he's shopping a tell-all book he wrote in prison, "The Real U: 2001 to 2010. Inside the Eye of the Hurricane," because players "turned their back" on him and treated him "like a used friend" after going pro. At the time, he also said he planned to use the proceeds to help pay back tens of millions he owes to jilted investors, if he ever found a publisher. (Perez also told the Herald Shapiro is "upset with UM" because "they took a negative position toward him for no reason" and "his contributions [to the program] were demonized.") This is a sketchy, dishonest character with strong incentive to lie for his personal benefit.

Then again, the NCAA has already proven itself more than willing to bring down a heavy-hitting program on the word of a convicted felon with an axe to grind, as it did last year when it sided with Reggie Bush's disgruntled business partner, Lloyd Lake, in order to drop killer sanctions on USC and effectively excommunicate former Trojan assistant Todd McNair from big-time college football. If it can do it then, it can do it again. And what they find in Mr. Shapiro's files should make for some very, very interesting reading.

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Matt Hinton is on Facebook and Twitter: Follow him @DrSaturday.

[RednBlue11]

Finally the U will get its due....

for what? they haven't mattered for a decade!

[RednBlue11]

She also claimed Shapiro has given NCAA snoops the names of "well over a dozen but less than 100" former 'Cane players who he says accepted gifts.

why is he doing this? there is not legal ramification for what he's done w/ the NCAA...

[RednBlue11]

He told the Miami Herald last year that he's shopping a tell-all book he wrote in prison, "The Real U: 2001 to 2010. Inside the Eye of the Hurricane," because players "turned their back" on him and treated him "like a used friend" after going pro.

never mind, i get it...he's a [deleted]

[EastStang]

Florida International should be very scared right now! The NCAA will have to punish somebody for this. The U has acted more like the SMU of the 1980's than SMU did with the added thug angle, but they'll get the customary wrist slap and be done with it. Although if they were part of the SEC lottery, the SEC will pass on them at this point in time.

[docabel]

I forsee the generic penalty given to BCS schools - forfeiture of wins from 4-5 years ago....

[skyscraper]

How will they compete after they lose 10 scholarships for the next two seasons?? Oh, the horror.

[Junior]

She also claimed Shapiro has given NCAA snoops the names of "well over a dozen but less than 100" former 'Cane players who he says accepted gifts.

why is he doing this? there is not legal ramification for what he's done w/ the NCAA...

i have to assume it's tied in with his ponzi scheme case defense. i'm guessing he's having to explain where the money went. maybe the feds were looking at him for money laundering or something else more serious? who knows his reasons.

[ponyscott]

Oh its gonna be big time problems for Miami U...pictures with Shapiro with coaches and recruits, thousands of dollars of receipts for everything from dinners to expensive hotel rooms, strip club receipts, multiple prostitutes, time on Shapiro's yacht, etc.

And I love the quote from DE Andrew Williams after many other U athletes have already confessed to the indiscretions:

'Williams denied receiving any gifts from Shapiro.

“Who, me?” Williams said. “Man, naw.”'

http://sports.yahoo.com/investigations/ ... its_081611

[NickSMU17]

Yahoo guy was on espn last night, they asked if this was death penalty material. He talked a lot about smu and how the NCAA will never do that again because of what it did to the program. Said no school deserves what happened to smu.

[One Trick Pony]

If you let a player borrow your kayak is it different than a yacht?

[Harry0569]

What a piece of scum this guy is. He preyed on these 18-22yr olds by offering entrances to MIA's hottest night clubs, and 1.6mm yachts with tons of hot models on it. Raise your hand if you wouldn't go along with that?

Unfortunately, the NCAA is too scared to drop the hammer, even though the U is considered a repeat offender.

[PonyKai]

Yahoo guy was on espn last night, they asked if this was death penalty material. He talked a lot about smu and how the NCAA will never do that again because of what it did to the program. Said no school deserves what happened to smu.

No school deserves to have its own administration cannibalize its revenue sports programs and then make phony promises for two decades?

[Mexmustang]

No school deserves the obligation to retain some of these same administrators.

[SMULaxer]

2% chance there is a death penalty ...

such bullsh