From: foerster@zman.rtp.dg.com (Mike Von Foerster)
Subject: NC State Fans
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 17:43:30 GMT
Reply-To: foerster@dg-rtp.dg.com
Organization: Data General Corp., Research Triangle Park, NC

In article <vanepps-111192154542@hair.engin.umich.edu>, vanepps@engin.umich.edu (Daniel Van Epps) writes:
|> from the U-M Athletic Dept. Public Relations press releases-

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|> NCAA RESTORES ELIGIBILITY OF MICHGAN BASKETBALL TEAM MEMBERS
|> 
|> OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS -  The NCAA eligibility staff has fully
|> restored the eligibility of five University of Michigan 
|> basketball student-athletes who had been declared ineligible
|> by Michigan late last summer.
|> 
|> The university declared three student-athletes ineligible after
|> discovering in late August that these student-athletes had received
|> excessive expenses for participating in a charity basketball 
|> tournament.  NCAA rules permit only reimbursement for actual
|> expenses in such events.  The university required repayment of
|> the excessive money, and the NCAA eligibility staff has
|> concluded that the actions of the university were sufficient.
|> 
|> In addition, Michigan later discovered that five of its men's
|> basketball players, including the three who participated in the
|> charity tournament, had received compensation for lecturing at
|> various high-school summer camps this year.  The NCAA 
|> Interpretations Committee has determined that NCAA legislation
|> does not permit compensation to student-athletes from such 
|> summer camps for lecturing or appearing for demonstration
|> purposes only.  A review of such arrangements involving student-
|> athletes at other institutions, however, indicates that coaches
|> and administrators commonly have believed that such lecturing is
|> permissible under NCAA legislation and have permitted student-athletes
|> to lecture at such camps and to receive compensation for that service.
|> 
|> The NCAA staff has determined that that compensation, although
|> impermissible under NCAA rules, has not been excessive in these
|> cases.
|> 
|> The NCAA eligibility staff, therefore, has determined that the
|> eligibility of the Michigan team members and student-athletes at
|> other institutions should not be affected under these circumstances.
|> The NCAA Interpretations Committee soon will provide to the NCAA
|> membership the appropriate application of NCAA rules in such
|> circumstances.
|> 
|> The issues of Michigan's permitting more than one student-athlete to
|> appear together at these camps and misapplying NCAA rules concerning
|> charity events will be treated as secondary violations by the NCAA
|> enforcement staff.  No decision on this matter has been reached.

Next time bball players at NC State go and sell sneakers make sure they
do it the NCAA way. 

First, go and tell the Athletic department that you plan on selling sneakers and 
you will grossly overcharge for the sneakers. See that way when the NCAA finds out, 
they'll only make you repay what you overcharge( of course no one is sure 
what "grossly overcharged" means so they won't be able to tell you how much to
refund) and the university, who has suspended the offenders (but do it in the summer 
when you gives a crap if you get suspended) will be exonerated because they 
handled it properly. 

I guess that beats 2-year suspensions doesn't it!!!!!!!

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