Alabama textbook scandal widens

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I couldn't figure it out last Saturday (didn't watch your game) but I gather that some of the students might have gotten books for classes they didn't have, or extra copies and then ... well, no one will say it, but one must assume that they sold them. Here's an ESPN article on it and apparently it may be worse than first thought.

ESPN - Bama widens textbook probe to include all athletes - College Sports

Oh, and I put this here because you just played them.
 
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I have to admit I'm not familiar with the way they get their books but this sounded odd:

Head coach Nick Saban said Monday the players used "poor judgment" but that the university's textbook distribution system for athletes also failed the players.

"No one at the university wants me to say it, but it's true," Saban said in a speech to the Monday Morning Quarterback Club.
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i figured at the time it was announced that it was just such an aberration for a bammer football player to possess a textbook, or have any other pretense of getting an education, that it was an automatic suspension from the team.
 
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So will that :furious3:eek:f a program get the death penalty since they have already been on probation what twice now HAHAHA sorry A$$ sons of :furious3:
 
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I will say this with complete confidence. If the 'AA decides to make this a priority issue in enforcement, more than half of the membership will be on probation within a year. There isn't a school I'm familiar with where players don't shade the textbook rules for spending cash.
 
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I'm interested in how this got out...this is just the icing on the cake for ways that athletes get a hold of some extra cash. Does anyone think that all those family/friends tickets they get each week are handed out free? How many of those giftbasket items from bowls go up on ebay?
 
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all i know is nothing would piss me off more than when a class i just took would switch books making mine only good for fire start.
 
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What's the big deal, I am sure the Bama players didn't get that much money selling their coloring books, er I mean text books.
 
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hatvol96 said:
I will say this with complete confidence. If the 'AA decides to make this a priority issue in enforcement, more than half of the membership will be on probation within a year. There isn't a school I'm familiar with where players don't shade the textbook rules for spending cash.
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...or the per diem money, or the meal money. There are degrees of violation, but I'd say every student athlete in the country has misused these benefits at some point. Unless there is something that kicks this way out of the realm of normal, selling free textbooks just isn't that big of a deal.
 
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cotton said:
...or the per diem money, or the meal money. There are degrees of violation, but I'd say every student athlete in the country has misused these benefits at some point. Unless there is something that kicks this way out of the realm of normal, selling free textbooks just isn't that big of a deal.
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or that they just did something glaringly stupid.......that couldn't be ignored.
 
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Just another example of Bama skirting NCAA regulations.

Hopefully it blows up, and Bama has to forfeit games.
 
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lawgator1 said:
I couldn't figure it out last Saturday (didn't watch your game) but I gather that some of the students might have gotten books for classes they didn't have, or extra copies and then ... well, no one will say it, but one must assume that they sold them. Here's an ESPN article on it and apparently it may be worse than first thought.

ESPN - Bama widens textbook probe to include all athletes - College Sports

Oh, and I put this here because you just played them.
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That sucks big time considering a lot of parents and students alike have to pay their hard earned money for textbooks.Hell, my 27 year old neice is a now an MD and first year intern at a UCLA Hospital and she is finally making some money but she worked her ass off and paid her own way all through school and now she has a huge student loan to pay off so screw them, the administration and I for one could care less if it does go on everywhere, it's 100% wrong.Hell she is taking care of very sick people not running around with a ball in her hand, the craziness of it all.
 
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utfantilidie said:
That sucks big time considering a lot of parents and students alike have to pay their hard earned money for textbooks.Hell, my 27 year old neice is a now an MD and first year intern at a UCLA Hospital and she is finally making some money but she worked her ass off and paid her own way all through school and now she has a huge student loan to pay off so screw them, the administration and I for one could care less if it does go on everywhere, it's 100% wrong.Hell she is taking care of very sick people not running around with a ball in her hand, the craziness of it all.
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Nobody's paying $50+ a ticket to watch your niece care for the sick.
 
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