You don’t like to read the thread you are posting on, so I will try to accumulate a few things in one place:
- Yes. McNair was required to report a violation to SC compliance and If he had done so Pete would have known. However, McNair Sid he didn’t know and that Lake, a convicted felon with a perjury conviction. was lying. The NCAA chose to believe Lake, McNair sued and was paid off by the NCAA. Also the California Court of Appeal found the investigation so flawed and biased that it met the legal standard for malice.
- Here is a summary of the preexisting rule determinations test
PRE-EXISTING RELATIONSHIP
FOUR-PART TEST
1. Did the relationship between the athlete (or athlete’s
parents) and the individual providing the benefit(s)
develop as a result of the athlete’s participation in
athletics or notoriety related thereto?
2. Did the relationship between the athlete (or the
athlete’s parents) and the individual providing the
benefit(s) predate the athlete’s status as a prospective
student-athlete?
3. Did the relationship between the athlete (or the
athlete’s parents) and the individual providing the
benefit(s) predate the athlete’s status achieved as a
result of his or her athletic ability and reputation?
4. Was the pattern of benefits provided by the individual
to the athlete (or athlete’s parents) prior to the athlete
attaining notoriety as a skilled athlete similar in nature to
those provided after attaining such stature?
If you answered NO to questions 1, and YES to
questions 2, 3, 4 then there is an established relationship
with the athlete.
However, if you answer differently for any of the four
questions, then by NCAA rules, there is NO pre-existing
relationship and thus it is impermissible for you to
provide any prefer
Note there is no boyfriend question. Dumbar clearly doesn’t met the test.
- “Like a weasel, You’re conflating issues again,”. Weasels don’t conflate.
- According to the Lincoln Star Journal at last count, more than 30 NCAA violations as coach
- Norte Dame, to its credit, did not dispute the findings including Holtz knowledge of Dunbar taking a players to Hawaii.
- Yes the NCAA place ND on probation and took away scholarships based on Lou’s actions:
The NCAA placed Notre Dame, college football's most legendary school, on probation for the first time yesterday, imposing light penalties that "fit the crime," said infraction committee chairman Jack Friedenthal.
The Irish received a two-year probation and will lose one scholarship for each of the next two football seasons. Notre Dame, the only major college football team with its own network television contract, remains eligible for postseason bowls and its multimillion-dollar deal with NBC is not affected.
The penalties originate from a relationship between Irish players and a former athletic booster. She gave them gifts, meals, money and trips financed by some of the $1.2 million she embezzled from her employer in South Bend, Ind., where Notre Dame is located.
The university said it would not appeal the NCAA ruling.
- "This is not a good day for Notre Dame," said the Rev. Edward A. Malloy, the university president, in a statement. "We are embarrassed by these incidents, troubled that they occurred, and we have taken action to deal with the issues involved. Whether these incidents are characterized as secondary or major, they happened, and that is unacceptable and a matter of the highest concern to us."
- The infractions committee called the violations major and "neither isolated nor inadvertent." The NCAA cited the length of time during which the violations occurred, the extravagant nature of the gifts and the competitive advantage gained by Notre Dame.
- Some of the allegations were uncovered by Notre Dame Coach Bob Davies last year, Malloy said. In addition to the allegations involving ex-booster Kimberly Dunbar, Notre Dame was found guilty of major violations concerning academic fraud, the sale of complimentary admissions by one player and a tutor providing meals, lodging and travel to four football players and three other Irish athletes.
- The academic fraud case involved a football player who paid a university tutor $20 to $30 to write a paper for him, according to the report.
- Dunbar, 30, who was released in October after serving more than a year in jail following her conviction for embezzlement, was dating Notre Dame players before she became a booster in June 1995 by joining the Quarterback Club. The violations occurred after that date.
- The fact that Dunbar had a dating relationship with players factored into the determination of penalties, said Friedenthal, a law professor at George Washington University. The NCAA ruled that benefits bestowed on the players Dunbar was dating did not violate rules but those given to other players and their friends did.
- A good portion of the committee's report addressed the issue of monitoring and accountability.
- In 1994, before Dunbar became a booster, then-coach Lou Holtz was aware of Dunbar taking Irish wide receiver Derrick Mayes on a weekend trip to Las Vegas. The university dropped the matter after finding out Mayes was dating Dunbar. A "more complete investigation at that time might have precluded what later became a significant problem," the committee said.
- Three years later, in the summer before Davies' first season as coach, Friedenthal said an assistant coach had a similar opportunity to uncover the violations after discovering that Dunbar had paid for a trip to Las Vegas for herself, two players and a player's girlfriend.
- Although this marked the first time the Irish had been placed on probation, rules violations have surfaced at the school.
In 1993, the NCAA ordered Notre Dame to forfeit two scholarships after Demetrius DuBose improperly accepted gifts from a booster. The following year, the university reported itself to the NCAA after two former players, Bryant Young and Jeff Burris, were found living rent-free in an alumnus's off-campus apartment. The NCAA ruled that the infractions were secondary. See part two below due to word limit.
