Sandy
10-20-2017, 01:59 PM
It's just unbelievable the lengths that humans go to for winning. They're willing to sell their souls, their place in history.
In 1985, then-UNLV basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian claimed one of his recruits, Clifford Allen, was deserving of a full academic scholarship. If he was granted one by the school, it would free up an extra athletic scholarship for him to stock his roster.
His argument was based on Allen earning the academic distinction of “valedictorian.” At the time, UNLV gave the valedictorian of any school in America a full ride. The rub was, Allen wasn’t at a high school, but in a GED program. And the GED program operated out of the El Paso de Robles Youth Correctional Facility in California, where Clifford resided during what otherwise would have been his senior year of high school.
Tarkanian spent much of his Hall of Fame career concocting schemes like that, much of it rooted in the concept that the NCAA was essentially a sham. He lived in a state of bewilderment that others didn’t see it as he did, or pretended they were better than that – most often the blue-blood schools back East, particularly in the ACC.
https://sports.yahoo.com/north-carolina-blows-ncaa-smithereens-embarrassing-academic-fraud-defense-010926838.html
In 1985, then-UNLV basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian claimed one of his recruits, Clifford Allen, was deserving of a full academic scholarship. If he was granted one by the school, it would free up an extra athletic scholarship for him to stock his roster.
His argument was based on Allen earning the academic distinction of “valedictorian.” At the time, UNLV gave the valedictorian of any school in America a full ride. The rub was, Allen wasn’t at a high school, but in a GED program. And the GED program operated out of the El Paso de Robles Youth Correctional Facility in California, where Clifford resided during what otherwise would have been his senior year of high school.
Tarkanian spent much of his Hall of Fame career concocting schemes like that, much of it rooted in the concept that the NCAA was essentially a sham. He lived in a state of bewilderment that others didn’t see it as he did, or pretended they were better than that – most often the blue-blood schools back East, particularly in the ACC.
https://sports.yahoo.com/north-carolina-blows-ncaa-smithereens-embarrassing-academic-fraud-defense-010926838.html