WARRIORMIKE
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Aunt Becky though!!
They took athletic money out of the pockets of legitimate athletes. They disgraced the accommodations in place for college test taking for students who actually need it. And... not to mention the harm to their own kids. Heard national news say parents were embarrassed that their kids weren’t smart enough.
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Not really a recruiting scandal
A recruiting scandal would be where a school, it's coaches or it's boosters gave illegal benefits to a student athlete or their family in order for that student athlete to choose that school and it's athletic team over another school and it's athletic team.
What this is, is a guy here in Newport taking money from celebrities and the wealthy to fudge college admissions or bribe college coaches to give preferred walk-on status to undeserving students who otherwise wouldn't have been able to attend those schools. None of the students ever played on the colleges athletic programs or got any athletic scholarships out of this.
They also falsified test scores
Calling it a "recruiting scandal" is a bit of FAKE NEWS
100% its a recruiting scandal. Imagine your kid didn't get on the crew team at USC because 2 kids who never rowed a boat in their life were given spots that your dd deserved. What would you call it then? The difference is this scandal is purely about money in the coaches pockets and not for athletic advantage.
Do coaches have an unlimited number of recruits they can bring into the school? Is there a roster limit for preferred salmons at each school? I don’t know the answer. But if it’s yes at any of these schools then this affected athletes. And either yes or no it shows how little oversight there is from the university overseeing the recruits brought in.There's zero indication that kids admitted in this way ever took up any spots on a college team. If you read about this scam, it was about coaches being bribed to identify certain kids as "recruits" so that whatever academic allowances are made for athletes at a particular school would apply to them. They took up spots at the universities that should have gone to more academically qualified students, but from what's been reported, that didn't extend to actual spots on college athletic teams.