Miami Didn't Seem to Care, But Should the NCAA?

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Revelations this week that University of Miami booster Nevin Shapiro claims to have lavished cash, gifts and sex parties on recruits and Hurricane players over the course of several years brought predictable reaction, with most directly implicated in the alleged contacts refusing to comment. At least one former coach expressed (through a spokesperson) his confidence and comfort in how he conducted himself at Miami, and one former recruit, who wound up at Nebraska and who had been photographed on Shapiro's $1.6 million yacht, said only that the booster was "cool" and "a nice guy."

University president Donna Shalala, who was captured next to Shapiro holding a $50,000 donation check in a photo accompanying Yahoo! Sports reporter Charles Robinson's exposé, published Tuesday, said in a statement the following day that she was "upset, disheartened and saddened by the recent allegations leveled against some current and past student-athletes and members of our Athletic Department." One of those past student-athletes, current Cleveland Indians pitcher Chris Perez, tweeted, "I'm not upset about the U allegations, I'm mad we didn't win anything while we were cheating."

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