Goofball, but a goofball with some connections. Also Ark Senator "halfbright" was influential in advancing BJ's career.
Posted on 03/12/2019 12:26:08 PM PDT by bgill
Center is the head coach of the men’s tennis team at the University of Texas at Austin. According to court documents, a witness told investigators that in 2015, Center agreed to accept approximately $100,000 from the witness as a bribe, in exchange for Center to designate a student as a UT tennis team recruit, thereby facilitating his admission to UT. The documents said the student was a California resident who did not play competitive tennis... clients paid anywhere from $100,000 to $6.5 million... The University of Texas gave the following response to KVUE: “Federal authorities notified us this morning that we were victims of an organized criminal effort involving admissions. We have just become aware of charges against our Men’s Tennis Coach Michael Center and he will be placed on administrative leave until further notice while we gather information. We are cooperating fully with the investigation. Integrity in admissions is vital to the academic and ethical standards of our university.”
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Wonder if the Clintons and the Obamas made the schools pay them for the privilege of having their kids attend.
“...clients paid anywhere from $100,000 to $6.5 million...”
For TENNIS?
Collegiate tennis? This just ain’t passing the smell test.
How about the previous generation?
Some goofball from Arkansas gets into Oxford?
A foreign national from Kenya gets in to a bunch of high end schools? With a fake Birth Certificate?
UT Austin......... Did the money go for tix to SXSW?
I think the older one has been dating a white boy for a while.
Wonder if that irks obummer at all?
HE did love adulation from the white left so who knows?
She’s not a raving beauty but she’s a cut above mom.
We never did see Obama’s college records, things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
No. The coach was bribed by parents of bad grades children they wanted to enroll and being designated a sports recruit would help.
Heck, the Hollywood kids were purportedly rowing athletes!............anything to get them in. These other kids probably didn’t know a tennis ball from a bowling ball....................
why would someone pay $6.5 million for their darling to get into a state school?
Why not just give the kid 6.5 million and skip the whole work for a living thing?
I see. This all goes back to the story as found in the link at post 3.
Quite a scandal brewing here.
Goofball, but a goofball with some connections. Also Ark Senator "halfbright" was influential in advancing BJ's career.
Nothing to do with Tennis except the ability to bribe the Tennis coach to grease the skids for acceptance to the University of Texas.
The parents paid to get their kid admitted to a prestigious university. He had no intention of playing tennis and probably couldn’t have done it at college level. The scam called for the kid to quit the team or withdraw from athletic recruitment once they had been admitted.
They paid $100K for U of T. Those who paid more got into Ivy League schools.
Check the music departments, too!
It used to be that the number one way to get into an Ivy League School was to be a tuba player.
UT’s response is laughable. It has admitted hundreds of unqualified students whose parents were big donors or relatives of politically connected parents.
Isn’t this a CIVIL matter?
Where is the crime?
They bought their way in... geez THAT’S never happened before I guess
Use this on those idiot socialists- ask them if they want EVERYTHING susceptible to government bureaucrat bribes.
This is not a political scandal, it is a ridiculous scheme that involved some very greedy minor sport coaches at top colleges and a number of corrupt College Board employees (SAT test). The ringleader seems to be a schmuck in California with a non-profit foundation, with the help of IMG’s former College Prep specialist, who TOOK TESTS for high school students to help get them into colleges they probably wouldn’t qualify for. They utilized FAKE ATHLETIC PROFILES in a number of instances to give them a leg up.
Plus she doesnt have a penis
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