Non GT Coaches Implicated In Admissions Fraud

[pianoman]

Pardon this is not directly GT or football and mods feel free to move...but pretty interesting breaking news:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/...dmissions-scam-alleged-exam-cheating-athletic

"bribing university athletic coaches and administrators—including coaches at Yale, Stanford, Georgetown, the University of Southern California, and the University of Texas—to facilitate the admission of students to elite universities under the guise of being recruited as athletes"
"Athletic coaches from Yale, Stanford, USC, Wake Forest and Georgetown, among others, are implicated"

 

[JJacket]

Lori Loughlin, 54, of Los Angeles, Calif., an actress;

Send me an Angel.....whoooo WHOOOO OOOOO.....send me an Angel.....right now.....

 

[JJacket]

Why would you bribe your way into USC (the real one) or Wake Forest?

 

[GTCrew]

Why would you bribe your way into USC (the real one) or Wake Forest?

Sometimes the kids of celebrities are quite the mouth breathers at best.

 

[18in32]

This is basically just worried parents trying to use the admissions advantage that being an athlete gives applicants, and because these students aren't actually athletes, all this happens in the non-revenue world. (One of the few times that the money coursing through the revenue sports actually insulated them from abuse, rather than exposing them to it.)

Long story short, this doesn't appear to have much to do with any GT sports, much less football or basketball. Not that forum boundaries are sacred or anything, but this might belong more in N&P than in any of the sports forums.

 

[originalwombat]

Why would you bribe your way into USC (the real one) or Wake Forest?

Because they are good schools?

 

[05GTCorndog]

Why would you bribe your way into USC (the real one) or Wake Forest?

Cuz they can’t all go to Southern Poly

 

[MEwreck02]

Just another example how vastly different those with money live versus you deportables

 

[JJacket]

Because they are good schools?

Good enough to bribe your way in?

 

[JJacket]

Cuz they can’t all go to Southern Poly

Nobody can now.

 

[Buzz_PhD]

versus you deportables

I see what you did there.

 

[gthog61]

Should we be offended that nobody wanted to pay their way into Tech?

course these parents may have known that was a bridge too far for their dumbshit kids

 

[beej67]

Should we be offended that nobody wanted to pay their way into Tech?

course these parents may have known that was a bridge too far for their dumbshit kids

Their kids don't actually need an education. They just need networking opportunities.

Hence the Ivys.

 

[cyptomcat]

Should we be offended that nobody wanted to pay their way into Tech?

course these parents may have known that was a bridge too far for their dumbshit kids

I was thinking USC really raised their profile today.

I mean if you are gonna drop that kind of cash, at least go for an Ivy League.

 

[GTCrew]

I think this is how Calvin Johnson got in.

 

[LeonardWood]

Lol someone dropped $100k in the hopes of spending more time in Winston Salem

 

[midatlantech]

USCe is a big popular private school.

 

[Dirty Jacket]

The wake forest thing is not like the others. Seriously wake forest? Is wake a good school?

 

[gtfan088]

The wake forest thing is not like the others. Seriously wake forest? Is wake a good school?

It's a fairly good school to get into legitimately (just really, really small). If you're aiming to bribe/cheat your way in, though, it's not aiming that high.

 

[BrentwoodJacket]

Wake should be easy to con. They do not require SAT or ACT with your application.