Suspended KSU player received wire transfer...

[alexd]

http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews...wire-transfer-receipt-found-in-trash-led.html

 

[Prezidint]

Holy F----g Morons Batman!

This reminds me of Ryan Boatright's mother.

Am I the only one who is particularly fond of cash?

Cash. Yellow envelope. Slide into coat pocket.

Have these people seen any movies?

Not rocket surgery people.

 

[61cygni]

Hell, you probably don't even need an envelope, the NCAA doesn't have spies hiding in cars with binoculars across the street.

 

[upstater]

"It was found, basically, it was found just on the floor, in the trash at the grocery store and it was brought to the compliance office," Currie said Tuesday. "I promise you, I wish it would have stayed in the trash."

Err, the athletic director really said this?

 

[HuskyBballFan]

The kid got $200. From somebody he apparently knew very well.

My parents sent me money here and there when I was in college to cover the essentials. If my parents were broke, or if I didn't have parents, hopefully I'd be lucky enough to have someone else in my life able and willing to help me out.

And if I was a Division 1 athlete, and that person helped me out, I'd be suspended for the most important game of my career.

 

[aceboon]

smh @ whoever brought that to the compliance office

 

[UCweCONN]

smh @ whoever brought that to the compliance office

Probably the same type of stalker that follows these kids on Twitter.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

The kid got $200. From somebody he apparently knew very well.

My parents sent me money here and there when I was in college to cover the essentials. If my parents were broke, or if I didn't have parents, hopefully I'd be lucky enough to have someone else in my life able and willing to help me out.

And if I was a Division 1 athlete, and that person helped me out, I'd be suspended for the most important game of my career.

And that's the rub right there. What a farce. Hey, it's all about the kids!

 

[zls44]

I love the AD saying he wishes this stayed hidden. Shameless.

 

[suzyq]

Err, the athletic director really said this?

I thought that was interesting too. He seems more upset that they receipt was discovered thatn that the kid took the cash ( or more correctly the wire transfer).

 

[Dogbreath2U]

I love the AD saying he wishes this stayed hidden. Shameless.

I thought it was refreshingly honest.

 

[UCweCONN]

I thought it was refreshingly honest.

Refreshingly honest is right. Most people want to stay employed. I guess he doesn't.

 

[HuskyBballFan]

Refreshingly honest is right. Most people want to stay employed. I guess he doesn't.

Because he spoke out against a ridiculous suspension? He's right.

 

[Dogbreath2U]

Refreshingly honest is right. Most people want to stay employed. I guess he doesn't.

It may have been politically stupid, but I am sick of the "outrage" that is generated by anyone not being perfectly politically correct.

 

[Fishy]

The kid had no money - someone he knew wired him $200. Not $1,000, not $5,000...just $200.

And some self-righteous dick fishes the receipt out of the can and gives it to K State.

And in this insane duck*ing world where any one of 20,000 kids on that campus can receive a wire from a friend, but a "privileged" 100 or so can't, KSU is forced to end a kid's career early.

The athletic director is so right.

 

[aceboon]

I thought that was interesting too. He seems more upset that they receipt was discovered thatn that the kid took the cash ( or more correctly the wire transfer).

He should be, you have to be a real dweeb to find that and say "oh, i must turn this in immediately". Whoever saw that should've gone about their day and minded their own business.

 

[upstater]

It may have been politically stupid, but I am sick of the "outrage" that is generated by anyone not being perfectly politically correct.

What outrage? I'm one of the people that has been for kid's getting paid by outside sources. I was just commenting that the AD had wished this violation had stayed hidden. This isn't a matter of PC stuff.

Can you imagine this board if Pendergast had said, "I wish the NCAA never found out about the money Boatright got from Rose?"

 

[Dogbreath2U]

What outrage? I'm one of the people that has been for kid's getting paid by outside sources. I was just commenting that the AD had wished this violation had stayed hidden. This isn't a matter of PC stuff.

Can you imagine this board if Pendergast had said, "I wish the NCAA never found out about the money Boatright got from Rose?"

I wasn't referencing anyone here, I was speaking about the feeding frenzy that starts up when anyone expresses a real opinion or feeling that could be construed in a politically incorrect way. I just understand his feeling that way without it meaning that he condones the breaking of significant rules.

 

[CL82]

And in this insane duck*ing world where any one of 20,000 kids on that campus can receive a wire from a friend, but a "privileged" 100 or so can't, KSU is forced to end a kid's career early.

I'm having a hard time working up my (self) righteous indignation here. If the kid was getting the cash from a family member, or family friend that isn't a booster, then he is in exactly the same place as "20,000 kids on that campus." If he is getting cash from a booster, well the rules are the rules. Certainly, we've been victimized enough by them. I don't see how his status as an athlete some how penalizes him.

 

[hoopsknowitall]

Thought I would give you one K State fans view of this whole incident which has a pretty unique twist to it. According to this fan who lives in Kansas and is a huge fan of K State, Frank Martin lost control of his team this year and six of his players had gone to their AD to complain about being physically and verbally abused by Martin. Its pretty common knowledge that Martin and his AD didnt get along to well and he had been chastised earlier in the year by the AD for his use of profanity during games and that it was a pretty tumultuous year for Martin and his players.

The fan claims that the player who got the cash was supposedly outed by a fellow KState player who hated Martin and hoped this would get him fired and that the AD made up the story about finding the receipt to cover the truth that it was one of KStates own that blew the cover off the cash being received. The whole receipt finding does sound pretty bogus but I don't know which story is weirder the receipt on the floor or the being turned in by your own player and the fact that the story came out the morning of the CUSE game is even weirder.

Seems to make sense that Martin was fleeing K State as quick as he could for what at best seems to be a lateral mood.

There you have it. Strange things happen in places other than just Storrs.

 

[61cygni]

You've got big issues if you have teammates stabbing each other in the back.

 

[NHUConnfan]

10 bucks it was a KU fan...

 

[Silk City]

This whole story is just sickening.

 

[Robertelamin]

I wonder how much money was transferred to him over his 4 year career. I mean either the guy has the worst luck in the world or he just didn't get caught previously. Martin is probably jumping ship like Haith did last year, South Carolina is a terrible job....