Throughout the entire BCS era the NCAA has had a set conduct that athletic programs and their student athletes have been required to follow. Among many challenges the NCAA faces is exacting appropriate punishment when individuals associated with a sports program violates NCAA rules. Oftentimes, punishment extends beyond the individual associated with the violation and impacts entire teams. Such examples include the famous “death penalty” SMU suffered in 1987, being ineligible for bowl play like the 2011 Ohio State Buckeyes, or being stripped of a national championship which happened to the 2004 USC Trojans. The severity of punishment enforced on these teams were absurd knowing that in each of these incidents very few of the athletes broke the
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The Southern Methodist University football team broke major NCAA rules over the course of the early eighties. This resulted in the crippling of the program for decades. It all started with the wrongful recruitment of players which landed SMU probation. During the years of 1985 and 1986, several players, including Sean Stopperich and David Stanley, came forward and said that they had received money to play football for SMU. Stanley claimed that he received twenty-five thousand dollars to sign with SMU and continued to receive monthly payments while he played for SMU. Stopperich also claimed that he and his family received several thousand dollars when he signed with SMU. The money Stanley and Stopperich received from athletic boosters and administrators was part of an “under the table” payment to players called the “slush fund”. After NCAA investigation it was found that 13 more players were involved. During 1985 and 1986 the NCAA concluded that those players involved received sixty-one thousand dollars from a booster, eight of those received an additional fourteen thousand dollars from September to December of …show more content…
The benefits received were from two groups of agents that were trying to convince Bush to sign with their agencies. Of these marketing agents were Mike Ornstein, Lloyd Lake, and Michael Michaels. Bush met Ornstein when he was given an internship at Ornstein’s agency. Ornstein tried to convince Bush to sign with his agency by giving Bush and his family thousands of dollars in benefits. Lloyd Lake was a friend of Bush and was the co-founder of a new marketing agency called New Era Sports and Entertainment. Michaels was approached by Lloyd Lake and LaMar Griffin, Bush’s stepfather, about starting New Era Sports and Entertainment with Reggie Bush as their main client. Over the next two years Ornstein gave Bush and his family benefits such as round trip airfare to away games, limousine rides, suits, and fifteen hundred dollar weekly payments to the Bush family. Lake and Michaels provided some of the same benefits as Ornstein did but gave the Bush family fifty four thousand dollars in rent free living at a seven hundred and fifty thousand dollar house in Spring Valley, California. Lake and Michaels also gave Bush’s parents twenty eight thousand dollars to help pay off pre-existing debt. This broke major NCAA laws including bylaw(s) 11.1.4 Representing Individuals in Marketing Athletics
The Southern Methodist University football team broke major NCAA rules over the course of the early eighties. This resulted in the crippling of the program for decades. It all started with the wrongful recruitment of players which landed SMU probation. During the years of 1985 and 1986, several players, including Sean Stopperich and David Stanley, came forward and said that they had received money to play football for SMU. Stanley claimed that he received twenty-five thousand dollars to sign with SMU and continued to receive monthly payments while he played for SMU. Stopperich also claimed that he and his family received several thousand dollars when he signed with SMU. The money Stanley and Stopperich received from athletic boosters and administrators was part of an “under the table” payment to players called the “slush fund”. After NCAA investigation it was found that 13 more players were involved. During 1985 and 1986 the NCAA concluded that those players involved received sixty-one thousand dollars from a booster, eight of those received an additional fourteen thousand dollars from September to December of …show more content…
The benefits received were from two groups of agents that were trying to convince Bush to sign with their agencies. Of these marketing agents were Mike Ornstein, Lloyd Lake, and Michael Michaels. Bush met Ornstein when he was given an internship at Ornstein’s agency. Ornstein tried to convince Bush to sign with his agency by giving Bush and his family thousands of dollars in benefits. Lloyd Lake was a friend of Bush and was the co-founder of a new marketing agency called New Era Sports and Entertainment. Michaels was approached by Lloyd Lake and LaMar Griffin, Bush’s stepfather, about starting New Era Sports and Entertainment with Reggie Bush as their main client. Over the next two years Ornstein gave Bush and his family benefits such as round trip airfare to away games, limousine rides, suits, and fifteen hundred dollar weekly payments to the Bush family. Lake and Michaels provided some of the same benefits as Ornstein did but gave the Bush family fifty four thousand dollars in rent free living at a seven hundred and fifty thousand dollar house in Spring Valley, California. Lake and Michaels also gave Bush’s parents twenty eight thousand dollars to help pay off pre-existing debt. This broke major NCAA laws including bylaw(s) 11.1.4 Representing Individuals in Marketing Athletics