Posted on 03/13/2019 12:45:35 PM PDT by Gamecock
BRADENTON, Fla. (FOX 13) - Celebrities, wealthy parents, and an administrator at an academy in Bradenton have all been accused of bribing, lying, and laundering money as part of an elaborate scheme to get students from rich families into elite universities.
The allegations are being made by the Federal Bureau of Investigation after an investigation - called Operation Varsity Blues - resulted in about 50 arrests.
An administrator at IMG Academy in Bradenton is accused of going to great lengths - for the past eight years - to help students cheat on college entrance exams like the ACT and SAT.
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Now the scandal spreading to college athletes. No big shock really.
I remember when what is now IMG was just a tennis academy run by Nick Bollettieri whose students included Agassi. Now it is has academies for football and other sports.
The irony of this is IMG suppose to put one into a position to go to college on an athletic scholarship or be accepted at a school based on the lower standards for athletes. These cheaters must have sucked at their sport and/or are so stupid they needed to cheat.
Yes, the Pittsburgh Pirates train in Bradenton and it’s become a major destination for Pittsburgh snowbirds. IMG’s baseball operations there are YUGE.
I think your going to the wrong areas. The athletes in this scam are women. NCAA Women’s athletics is a joke. Rowing for one is a sport that costs little money and is growing because schools with football teams can offset their male scholarships with cheap women athletes that quit the team just after it starts the year.
Coaches don’t need to win. Nobody watches so it does not matter. The whole reason for the team is Title 9. Most women don’t want to be on a sports team. They just want to get into a good school. So as long as they agree to show up for that first team meeting, a coach can essentially sell a spot in the school for a lot of money. Women’s coaches aren’t paid to win. They are paid to fill the team. This is true of rowing, golf, cross country and track as well as several other cheap women’s sports teams.
It’s like a big-time college program facility wise.
Kevin Wright, very successful hs coach from Indiana heads up the football.
I assure you, my daughter, who just completed 4 years of swimming at a D-1 school competed at a high level. The women’s program did not offset any men’s scholarships because there was a men’s swim team too.
There are a lot of valid women athletes. But not nearly as many as men athletes. My daughter was a national champion track runner with a closet full of NCAA all american trophies. But just because there are many real woman athletes does not mean that women’s teams aren’t left half empty by the end of seasons because women just used athletics to get into colleges. Title 9 forces schools to have teams that exist only to offset the boy’s teams. These teams are often the ones where they can have lots of members but few actually compete.
Most women don’t want to be on a sports team. They just want to get into a good school.
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