From: zcjm0f@wwnv67.hou.amoco.com (CJohn Mace)
Subject: Re: Texas A&M
Organization: Amoco Production
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:56:20 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.233121.2931@chpc.utexas.edu> boisseau@chpc.utexas.edu (John R. Boisseau (Jay)) writes:
>In article <1992Dec20.201803.24422@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> pfleming@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Patrick E Fleming) writes:
>>The Dallas Morning News reported this morning that the Texas A&M football 
>>program is involved in a fedral investigation of a university benifactor who 
>>allegedly has made payements of $400 twice a month to five football players.  
>>The payments were for services rendered as maintainace workers at HUD funded 
>>housing projects.
>>
>>If true, the allegations could spell prison for the booster (Uncle Sam doesn't 
>>take kindly to being bilked by non-congress types) and could subject the A&M 
>>football squad to the NCAA "death penalty."
>>
>>I hope for A&M's sake it all blows over.
>
>Well, I doubt anything as severe as the death penlty will come of this. 
>If the coaching staff were involved then A&M staff SHOULD get the death
>penalty, but I don't think RC Slocum is that kind of guy. I bet it was
>one booster acting on his own, and that's difficult to control. IF this
>really even happened, I wouldn't expect the death penalty. 

So far, all that is for certain is that the players were paid from an
improper fund.  This puts Gilbert into deep doo-doo with the feds.  The
DMN has sensationalized the story by getting someone to say that the 
players were paid year round with payroll checks.  Give me a break, not
even an Aggie would be stupid enough to pay players with payroll checks!

If they were paid year-round with payroll checks, put me in line to 
kneecap the guy!

If A&M is found guilty of *ANY* major violation, RC will be dismissed.
It is part of his contract.  He had it written in when he was hired.

>
>However, if I am wrong, and if A&M _does_ get the death penalty, can
>we have their players? ;-)  (For those who don't know the rules: when
>a program gets the death penalty, the players may transfer and play
>immdeiately--they do not have to sit out a year.)

I think the NCAA is going to be real hesitant to give the death penalty
to any school after seeing what happened to SMU.  

+++++++++++++++++++++++
unrelated side note:
+++++++++++++++++++++++

This brings up an interesting question...  Lets say I own a McDonalds,
and I go out and find a Div IA football player and hire him.  I get him
to set up a bank acct and I set his payroll for automatic deposit.  Lets
say I don't quit paying him when he goes back to school.  I wait 4 months
and then leak to the press that I have been paying a player for X
University..  What happens next?

The whole point of the question is, if you found extra money in YOUR
bank account, would you ask the bank why and take the chance of losing
it?  If you would, then imagine yourself being from South Dallas, and
your family's yearly income is about $12k for your folx and your six
siblings, then what you do?

(*time for me to go look for a Mcdonalds for sale in Tuscaloosa!*)   :-)

>
>Jay Boisseau
>
>-- 
>
>*********************************
>  John R. Boisseau ("Jay")       
>  Department of Astronomy        


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