NCAA bans UNLV coach Dorian Scott for 10 years flying an international athlete home and giving them $500 to buy groceries

NCAA coaches literally use their daughters to attract players, which is way worse than paying.

NCAA probably supports it tho.

Asking them to lie about it is not ethical. A bit hard to get over that hurdle.

Of course he deserves to be fired/banned. How is this even a question? Not only did he violate the rules, but asked the athlete to lie about it. I don't know or care how many other NCAA coaches are doing similar. That's like asking if drunk driving should be legal just because so many people get away with it.

Why lie about it? Just say it’s a NIL deal. The NCAA allows paying student athletes now. No point to lie.

Even with NIL, college coaches probably shouldn't be making personal loans to their student-athletes; it seems like a really poor professional boundary.

Obviously, instructing the student-athlete to lie about it to investigators is a large part of why the ban was so harsh, if not the primary reason. Why would you omit that part in your thread title, Rojo?

The NCAA is completely over regulated

I support no limits on NIL at all - a normal student can create a startup and get fully compensated for it: why shouldn’t an athlete be able to be paid for their greatness on the field / track and/or their social media presence?

I can see that it's against NCAA rules and all but if SAs are getting paid thousands of dollars in what are absolutely pay for play situations, why do we have any rules around SAs receiving benefits?

Seems like a ridiculous double standard. Can't fly one kid home to see family but you can pay a hoops player 400k to transfer to play hoops for one year at another institution. Just drop all rules related to benefits received, what difference would it make?

He could have very slyly found someone outside the program to do this. He deserves to be suspended for not being very smart.

I love the "everyone does it" rationale.

The rules do not allow the schools or coaching staff to pay.

10 years seems pretty insane for that

Meanwhile at big D1 football and basketball schools, kids that lived with their impoverished families in housing projects and in dilapidated trailers just a few months ago are now driving brand new Range Rovers and lifted F-350 Super Duty pickups and the NCAA doesn't bat an eyelid about it.

Give a track kid a $25 gift card to Chipotle and a flying squad from Indianapolis rolls into town ready to impose major sanctions!

What is the point of going to college right now? Seems like some strange artifact of the past, and these institutions like "ethical school and enforcement staff" sound more like the Spanish Inquisition than anything useful. What are they protecting exactly? Really, at the root of it, what are they protecting? They're protecting the face of some institution for upper and upper middle class kids to delay adulthood by 5 years.

he should have just called the NCAA and explained the situation. they have hardship waivers for this very thing. I'm sure theres a lot of paperwork and red tape involved but at least he would still be coaching.

I just got off the coach with a very prominent D1 coach who had read my post. He or she said something along the lines of: "The funny thing is. Everything the guy did is allowed. He just has to claim hardship and get use the student assistance fund. They nailed him for lying."

I then sad, "But maybe they don't have money for that."

He said, "Well if he really wanted to, he could donate the money himself."

The NCAA is the equivalent of officials at meets who can't measure a bar height in HJ but will disqualify you for celebrating.

The cover-up is worse than the crime. If the coach felt it was imperative for the athlete to go home they should have paid for it and then not lied about it to the NCAA and falsified documents. I think very few coaches have done that.

Very unethical.

Surprised when pretty much it's pay to play now, the NCAA would bother investigating an athlete getting a plane ticket home.

Well deserved punishment.