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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2128490, member: 199"] As a follow up - Watching Lou's father traveling back and forth between Lexington and Bridgeport this past weekend people talked about why some airline didn't get involved as a PR stunt. Parents and family of a student athlete also need to be very wary of accepting anything that could be construed as an improper benefit given because their child or family member was playing on an athletic scholarship. While an airline probably would not be in anyway connected to the University and therefore not a prohibited entity, one of their board might be a Uconn grad, or a senior VP, or _____, and a convoluted case might be made that discounted travel was in fact an improper benefit. NCAA rules are a minefield of things that have to be navigated with care, but realize that every rule was instituted because some sleazeball program or booster was using a supposed loophole to try and influence the balance of fair competition. [/QUOTE]