this statement may get the NCAA in deep crap

[ImHurtinLinda]

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; ">“Our members have made it crystal clear that <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000">student-athletes</font> who receive impermissible benefits, either directly or indirectly, and <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000">who lie</font> to the NCAA must be held accountable,” stated Kevin Lennon, vice president for academic and membership affairs.</span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px;">
</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px;">Kevin Lennon is potentially an idiot (notice that I did not state it as fact), for making this statement. Sidney and others have said that if he gave them incorrect facts, it was due to the fact that the time period of the events were 5 years ago and that he did not recall them correctly. To state that he is a liar is very bold, and very unnecessary - let your report do the talking.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px;">
</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px;">Basketball playing aside, somebody calls me a liar in front of ESPN and the rest of the world, I'm going to make them prove it in court or pay me a whole lot of money for the damage to my reputation. Why would that potential idiot say that? - what does he gain?</span></font></div>

 

[windcrysmary]

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[MSUArrowCS]

at how argumentative the entire press release is. If it's supposed to be an official statement, it seems like all of that is unnecessary.<div>
</div><div>You've got the "players can't lie" with no proof of lying, and the "they took forever, but we responded quickly" directed at Don Jackson. Why bother with that unless you feel threatened in some way? If I were them, I wouldn't feel threatened. They have zero accountability. Of whom should they be afraid?</div>

 

[rufc05]

The real question with that statement is this. Is it ok to receive "impermissable" benefits as long as you don't lie about it?<div>
</div><div>I honestly wouldn't be able to remember what I paid for and didn't pay for 4-5 years ago either. And at that age, it is quite possible that Sidney had no idea who was paying for his meals, he could have assumed his parents were paying. And, according to Don Jackson, the NCAA is assuming that if there isn't a receipt for the meal, it had to be paid for by someone else. Whatever happened to paying in cash? And further, what's so wrong with getting meals? I received plenty of meals for free while I was still in college while interviewing for internships.</div><div>
</div><div>An entire year for "unethical conduct" is steep when you can't prove the unethical conduct and when the actual suspension is only 9 games. </div>