Cal Poly NCAA Suspension - Ridiculous!
  • movielover
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    Cal Coast News

    "By JOSH FRIEDMAN

    "The National Collegiate Athletic Association has penalized Cal Poly for providing student-athletes with excessive financial aid for textbook costs, a violation that has landed the university on probation and could possibly force it to vacate the records of its lone NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament appearance and a conference championship baseball season. [Cal Coast Times]

    "Between 2012-2013 and fall 2015, Cal Poly provided 265 student-athletes who competed in 18 sports an $800 stipend that did not equal the actual cost of course-related textbooks and supplies purchased, a violation of NCAA rules. The stipend exceeded the actual cost of books for 72 student athletes by a total of $16,180 and resulted in 30 student-athletes exceeding their individual financial aid limits, according to a report produced by the NCAA Committee on Infractions."

    https://calcoastnews.com/2019/04/ncaa-sanctions-cal-poly-for-overpaying-athletes-for-books/
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  • movielover
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    "Following the announcement of the sanctions, Cal Poly has gained some sympathy, including from USA Today sports columnist Dan Wolken.

    “Essentially the NCAA is punishing the school/kids because of a $200 per athlete accounting error. Absurd,” Wolken wrote in a tweet. “Cal Poly got more of a punishment for giving its athletes textbooks than North Carolina got for fake classes.” "
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  • AggieFinn
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    Holy Toledo - I'm hearing this was all self-reported to the NCAA.

    Mr. Wolken is right.
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  • BlueGoldAg
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    Why am I not surprised that Carolina cheated knowingly with the fake classes gets a slap on the wrist and Poly gets pounced upon for an honest, accounting error? The NCAA and the big time cheaters should be ashamed of this sham. But, hey, the rich and powerful can afford to be above the law...
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  • AggieFinn
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    Check the bribery trail! Arggggggghhhhh, big college sports business gets the breaks.
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  • fugawe09
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    The NCAA needs to get over themselves and their false rhetoric of purity, wasting resources on a blip this small, meanwhile business as usual at the SEC and ACC. The rules are so obscure, convoluted, and result in such disparate consequences, you’d think they were written by the postmaster general.
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  • movielover
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    Where's Michael Avenatti??
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  • 69aggie
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    Been a rough year for Poly. Seems every few months something pops up in the press about something bad happening there. i sure wouldn’t put them in same category as USC, but once the bad stories start coming they just do not seem to stop. Have to feel sorry for the kids there.
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