Posted on 03/12/2019 1:57:30 PM PDT by C19fan
Nine college coaches and one administrator are among the dozens of individuals charged in a a widespread cheating scheme aimed at getting students into universities as recruited athletes.
According to court documents, the scheme, orchestrated by William Rick Singer was centered around cheating on college entrance exams to get the children of wealthy parents like actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin into the schools of their choice. In addition to cheating on tests, Singer enlisted coaches to help the prospective students gain admittance into school by any means necessary.
Below are the coaches facing charges and what they are accused of doing. There is big money involved.
(Excerpt) Read more at sports.yahoo.com ...
1: Yale: $450 K - $1.2 MM
2: Stanford: $500 K
3: Georgetown: $250 K
4: University of SoCal: $100 K
5: UCLA: $100 K
6: U Texas: $100 K
7: Wake Forest: $100 K
What is interesting the bribe price pretty much rank orders the perceived quality of the schools involved.
I bet this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Colleges have been using Athletics to fund their operations for decades.
Harvard $10 Million “donation” by some Arab (ODUNGO)
This has got to be much more widespread.
I read stuff where people who want their kids to get into the top schools, for example, Harvard, know they need to give seven figure donations to make it happen. A high percentage of acceptances are to children of alumni who were let us generous to the school.
Post of the Day!!!!!
Capitalism (even when practiced by the nefarious) seems to work well.
How do you think schools like Harvard, Yale and Princeton have endowments worth more than the GDP of many countries. It is a Pay to Play in this case admittance.
Jail all their sorry elitist butts.
Sailing?
I was on the varsity Driving Team.
LOL!
About 15 years ago, there was a retiring pubbie Princeton grad congresscritter that got his kids into his alma mater by getting the school a ~$5M Federal research grant.
What I find interesting is that most of these athletic scams involves women. Another indication that the entire Title IX program for women’s sports is bogus, especially in the boutique sports. Men’s sports is too competitive to support this sort of thing. Women’s sports, not so much.
Very good point (about competitiveness), and it could be that women’s athletics is not watched as finely as the men’s programs by the people who regulate these things.
Side note: I pity the fool who is too young to know about Faber College.
Yup, serious crime without question. Glad the Feds are right on too of it.
Lucky for Lois Lerner, Loretta Lynch, and Hillary.
This would be a good time to end athletic admissions preferences and scholarships, period. It is ridiculous for “universities” to pay people who do not meet the regular requirements for admission as a student to attend as a gladiator. There are probably thousands of knotheads paid to play at schools for every one in this bribery scam. (I’m not saying that all athletic scholarship recipients are substandard students — just that a great many are.)
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