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Message: [QUOTE="SVCBeercats, post: 4333164, member: 7874"] [B]NIL aside: [/B]The NCAA has always worried about student athletes' getting money, no matter how trifling the amount. While I was at SVC we qualified for the NCAA National Championship Bowling tournament. Father Mo, our coach, received a letter from the NCAA saying we were disqualified because we had gambled. We were stunned. Gambling? Father Mo discovered after we won the regional tournament which qualified us; one of our teammates was asked how we remained so poised throughout the tournament? He disclosed we bowled in a men's scratch handicap league. It was a highly competitive league. To feel even more pressure during each game we would put 50 cents into the "pot." High game won the "pot." Gambling!!! The team that finished second to us called the NCAA. Epilog: The NAIA quickly invited us to play in their tournament. Our first series was against Univ. of Wisconsin who was rated as the best team in country. Their anchor bowler already had won the NCAA singles championship. He then went to Paris and won the world amateur championship. Why were they in NAIA tournament? Well they bowled in a highly competitive men's scratch league etc., etc., etc. True story! [/QUOTE]