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A glance at NCAA allegations against the Alabama football
program:
In 1995 and early 1996, while Gene Stallings was head football
coach, a booster paid a recruit $20,000 to sign with Alabama. Of
that amount, $10,000 was handed over in a white plastic grocery
bag; the remainder came later in a large brown envelope.
On numerous occasions from 1995 through 1997, a booster bought
meals for a player's parents and told the father that someone could
"sponsor" the player if he attended Alabama.
A booster in summer 1998 provided loans of $55,000 and $1,600
to a then-assistant football coach. The coach denied receiving
anything and made no effort to repay the money until after the NCAA
learned of the loans.
In 1999, a then-assistant coach failed to disclose knowledge of
academic fraud by a prospective player. The player admitted to
investigators that someone took the ACT entrance examination for
him.
The university provided free meals and hotel rooms to a recruit
and his two high school coaches during a campus visit in October
1999 and January 2000.
A booster provided a football player with a 1994 Jeep Cherokee
from a dealership in June 1999. The player drove the vehicle until
he enrolled at another school that August. An assistant coach was
involved in the deal.
Two boosters improperly contacted a recruit in 1998. In one
instance, a man improperly introduced himself to a recruit walking
across campus with his high school coaches.
Recruits were entertained by strippers several times during
parties at university apartments during the 1997-98 and 1998-99
academic years.
A former assistant football coach violated ethical standards by
telling NCAA investigators he never heard rumors that a high school
coach was seeking cash or vehicles in return for a recruit.
A then-assistant football coach made improper visits to high
schools in Memphis, Tenn., eight times from September 1998 through
October 2000.
The university let an athlete play during the 2000-01 academic
year after his entrance exam score was canceled by the testing
service.
A player received $100 for requesting complimentary passes for
two people to a home game on Oct. 23, 1999, when Alabama played
Tennessee in Tuscaloosa.
A former assistant football coach got state troopers to dismiss
a speeding ticket for a player in January 1999. A coach also got a
staff member to drive a player to his home for rest in July 1999
after the player received over-the-counter medicine in the training
room.
Numerous players received extra meals from the university
dining service in 1999 after a request by the director of football
operations. Seventeen players both ate extra meals and received
money for those meals.
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