Question: when can recruiting tactics become criminal acts?

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Example: Bribing a city official to get an area rezoned in order to make a profit is illegal. Correct??

What's the difference in using strippers/prostitutes and money to influence an athlete to sign? The university will make money off of those kids through ticket sales, merchandise, coaches receiving bonuses due to results, etc. It's business, people make a living off of this shit. So why should it not be a criminal offense?

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Accepting big sums of money and not reporting it to the IRS is criminal - ask Byron DeVinner.

The FBI asked questions about Cam Newton. They said they are interested when parents are selling kids services across state lines. That investigation might not be over - who knows. Anyway, that deal is criminal in the FBI's eyes.

The Sunday Nkemdiche job-for-recruit UMC scandal was almost a thing. I think Ethics said it couldn't be looked at because Sunday didn't yet have the job. Clearly the implication was that there could be an illegality there if Sunday got the UMC job in a quid pro quo for his son's recruitment.

Prostitution...well, obviously.

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Then should not the NCAA use the law for help in these investigations, subpoenas and such?

Hell, the U should get the death penalty and be shut down for no less then 5 years. Their case is absolute criminal.

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The NCAA can't enforce laws and has no subpoena power. But they have been known to sit back while things play out in court and then use public court records in their enforcement of NCAA rules. The court records could provide info that they could not have obtained on their own.

Yeah, Miami should burn. Unfortunately, the NCAA might have committed criminal acts of their own in obtaining info. Who'd have thunk the NCAA would have ever tried too hard to investigate anybody. Guess they wanted Miami bad.

I think the NCAA has a burning need to prove its worth as an enforcer of fairness in a world that would go out of control if left without the NCAA's existence.

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You are right, the NCAA needs to nut up and lower the boom on somebody. If for anything, just to show that they will punish programs for cheating, not slap their wrist.