As a die hard Miami Hurricane fan and a future student at
the University of Miami, it has been very difficult to deal with this
investigation by the NCAA. It all started when Nevin Shapiro started being
investigated in 2011 for his role in the Ponzi scheme. This is when after 100
hours of interviewing him from Yahoo; he spilled out the beans as some say. He
admitted that he made many donations to the school with money from the scheme
and gave actual and future players benefits in exchange for good play in their
perspective sports. He bought them cars, took them to high-class nightclubs,
bought escorts for them and everything.
As many may know that this is against NCAA regulations.
Since then they have launched an investigation against the school and it’s athletic
program. It has been a rollercoaster ever since they were launched. After the
football team had made it to the AAC Conference Championship game twice in a
row they decided to self impose a ban on them selves in order to lessen the
impact of the NCAA penalties. It has been the word around the league that these
penalties are going to be the worst that the NCAA has given in the history. The
University of Miami can even face the death penalty. Facing the death penalty
would mean that the school would be banned from the NCAA for life and will no
longer be able to participate in any event hosted by the NCAA.
The latest news in the investigation is that apparently the team
that was conducting the investigation recently went out of their jurisdiction
by hiring the bankruptcy attorney for Nevin Shapiro in order to get information
related to the investigation. Under the laws of the NCAA they are not permitted
to hire third parties to acquire information to go towards their
investigations. Due to this the NCAA has put the investigation on hold and
started a separate investigation on the team that did the investigation. We are
still waiting for those results.
