Renegade Miami football booster spells out illicit benefits to players

[Coach Hank Crisp]

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What will CNS do about this?

UA- New offensive line coach Jeff Stoutland, and UA Director of Football operations Joe Pannunzio named in article.

NCAA rule-breaking with coaches and staffers: Shapiro said he violated NCAA rules with the knowledge or direct participation of at least six coaches – Clint Hurtt, Jeff Stoutland and Aubrey Hill on the football staff, and Frank Haith, Jake Morton and Jorge Fernandez on the basketball staff. Multiple sources told Yahoo! Sports Shapiro also violated NCAA rules with football assistant Joe Pannunzio, although the booster refused to answer any questions about that relationship.

"Among the specific incidents, Shapiro or other sources say Hurtt, Hill, Stoutland, Pannunzio and Allen all delivered top-tier recruits to Shapiro’s home or luxury suite so the booster could make recruiting pitches to them. Among the players who were ushered to Shapiro while they were still in high school: Eventual Miami commitments Ray-Ray Armstrong, Dyron Dye and Olivier Vernon (prompted by Hurtt); eventual Florida commitments Andre Debose (Hurtt) and Matt Patchan (prompted by Stoutland and Pannunzio); eventual Georgia commitment Orson Charles (Pannunzio); and eventual Central Florida commitment Jeffrey Godfrey (Allen)".

The University of Alabama (Pannunzio and Soutland), University of Florida (Hill) and Louisville University (Hurtt) all declined to make the coaches available for interviews. Allen declined comment, calling all of Shapiro’s claims “egregious and false.”

Article:

KEARNEY, N.J. – A former University of Miami booster, incarcerated for his role in a $930 million Ponzi scheme, has told Yahoo! Sports he provided thousands of impermissible benefits to at least 72 athletes from 2002 through 2010.

In 100 hours of jailhouse interviews during Yahoo! Sports’ 11-month investigation, former Hurricanes booster Nevin Shapiro described a sustained, eight-year run of rampant NCAA rule-breaking, some of it with the knowledge or direct participation of at least seven coaches from the Miami football and basketball programs. At a cost that Shapiro estimates in the millions of dollars, he said his benefits to athletes included but were not limited to: cash, prostitutes, entertainment in his multimillion-dollar homes and yacht, paid trips to high-end restaurants and nightclubs, jewelry, bounties for on-field play (including bounties for injuring opposing players), travel and on one occasion, an abortion.

[SUPERCOACH]

I was about to post this.  Miami is toast.

On a related note, is Yahoo! Sports investigating the barn? 

[2Stater]

I'm with the NCAA. You rang?

[Reelvalue]

THAT SORRY SOB SHOULD BE TARRED AND FEATHERED..A REAL PIECE OF WORK..

[bamalum67]

IF   IF  IF  IF  this is all true and is proven to be true:  then CNS has a responsibility to fire these two mugs..ASAP.. We simply CANNOT afford to have two guys on staff with dirty hands!
I think there is enough smoke here to believe there is a fire....And I hope Miami dies a slow death..never liked em anyway.

Good Lord, does no one vet the coaches we hire?  I can't/won't believe CNS had any knowledge or else he would not have hired them. I just hope they have the decency to quit wo CNS having to fire them..and He SHOULD!

[bamalum67]

I have read it right, the NCAA has been investigating this for the past 2 yrs..that mean CNS had to know they were involved in a situation under investigation by the NCAA...How in the name of all that is Crimson could he then hire these two pukes? No one else better? BS!!!

I'm sorry but BAMA needs to be purer than the driven snow these days..with all the crap going on in college FB, we don't need even the hint of a scandal!

Don't you know the booger-eaters will have a field day with this! If just to get the heat off themselves.

College football HAS to be cleaned up or it will die.

When I check in tomorrow, I hope to see that these two pukes have been fired.

[McBaman]

Yea..lots of "ifs" but it does seem that either [1] CNS knew about these things when the two were hired and overlooked the evidence that he was aware of at the time, or, [2] the two didn't divulge this possibility in the interview process, which could be grounds for dismissal for misrepresentation or some such.  But if they didnt' divulge it and CNS knew nothing then there is at least some breach of trust which is a bad working situation.

Unless this story is substantually shot down, then just not a good situation.

[Jamos]

This statement that he gave is the one I liked most, seems like I've heard something similar to this before.


Some of those players – a lot of those players – we used to say we were a family,” Shapiro said. “Well, who do you go to for help when you need it? You go to your family. Why the hell wouldn’t I go to them

[ssmith general]

TUSCALOOSA, Alabama - A Yahoo! Sports report names two Alabama football staffers as participants in illegal recruiting practices during their employment at Miami in conjunction with a rogue booster.

Offensive line coach Jeff Stoutland and director of football operations Joe Pannunzio - both former Miami staff members - were named in a Yahoo! Sports report Tuesday after an 11-month investigation into thousands of impermissible benefits provided by Miami booster Nevin Shapiro.

Stoutland coached at Miami from 2007-10 before he left in January to coach Alabama's offensive line.

Pannunzio served as Miami's tight ends coach and special teams coordinator from 2006-10 before he was hired at Alabama as director of football operations. He also coached in 1999  at Auburn under Tommy Tuberville.

In an email response, Alabama spokesperson Doug Walker said the school would have "nothing to offer."

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[XBAMA]

this will never stick ... not one facebook picture to base the wrong doing on   
now if yahoo had a bunch of facebook pictures ? UM might should be worried ...
that's what the real journalist do , isn't it ?

[Jamos]

This is no big deal, if they are guilty, just fire them.

[Coach Hank Crisp]

Miami Vice Police Detectives Tubbs and Crocket should have arrested Nevin Shaprio before this got out of hand!

[2Stater]

Miami Vice Police Detectives Tubbs and Crocket should have arrested Nevin Shaprio before this got out of hand!

Couldn't. They were buds.

[Coach Hank Crisp]

Paid off? Not Tubbs and Crocket. Miami Vice was the first TV show that I can remember that had modern contemporary rock music playing during the episodes with Eagles band member Glenn Frey and a host of other bands.

[Marshal Dillon]

Folks, this could impact the entire Tide season this year. If the O-lne coach is guity, then his mind is not going to be on his job but on saving his butt from this mess and if he gets fired in the middle of the season, then we will have a huge problem. I think we need to be calling Chris Samuels right about now to see if he's available.

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