After Yahoo! Sports first broke the news of a renegade football booster in the University of Miami program back in August of 2011, the NCAA finally handed down a ruling on the Hurricanes/Nevin Shapiro case today.
According to multiple reports, Miami will lose nine scholarships over the course of the next three years but avoided any further postseason penalties after implementing their own two-year bowl ban. Furthermore the Hurricanes will be eligible for a bowl game this season and avoided the Death Penalty or any variety of it something the Wall Street Journal wondered about when this news first came to fruition.
Furthermore the Associated Press reported that the NCAA found a total of $173,330 substantiated from the Shapiro case which included Vince Wilfork and Antrel Rolle receiving $90,000 in extra benefits. In addition the NCAA also discovered DeVier Posey over paid in the sum of $728 for a summer job that should of seen him get roughly $3.07 an hour.
AP review of documents in this case show NCAA accounted for $173,330 in extra benefits. Of that, $90,000 went to Wilfork and Rolle.
— Tim Reynolds (@ByTimReynolds) October 21, 2013
Former Miami head basketball coach Frank Haith (who is now with Missouri) will also receive a five game suspension at the beginning of this season while former assistant basketball coach Jorge Fernandez will receiver a 2-year show cause penalty.
But what would a university athletic scandal be without the NCAA’s own misdeeds to the likes of trying to extort testimony, use bankruptcy hearings to obtain testimony and helping a convicted scumbag like Nevin Shapiro get a reduced prison sentence according to The Big Lead.
Either way you might believe that Miami received a lighter sentence given the time everything came to surface in conjunction with the Jerry Sandusky scandal at Penn State. It’s still perplexing though as to why it took so long for the NCAA to finalize everything with the Hurricanes.