Lateralus Ag said:agnerd said:
These kids were only "on the team" for a very short period of time. They became recruits, submitted their applicants, were accepted, and then "gave up" their scholarships and just become a regular student. This could happen within a few days and you'd only have to get one secretary that doesn't follow sports to sign off on it. As long as it happened within a billing cycle, it would never show up on any financial audits.
It was brilliant until they set up fake charities to avoid paying taxes and started bribing test administrators for the schools that still require minimum test scores.
"One secretary"
Okay.
Really you need the coach in on it, but that was part of the scam. The point was that the people handling the paperwork aren't following obscure sports like crew or tennis or lacrosse, and these kinds of admits weren't coming across their desk with regularity.
As for how boosters didn't catch on, there aren't exactly a lot of recruiting services that follow sports where private, club play is somewhat the norm for developing the best players and there are many different leagues and competitions. It's entirely possible for boosters to not know of every top player in the country. A lot of these kids had faked pictures and other things to make their social n media look like they participated in these sports of anyone ever took a quick glance at them. If the occasional athlete is brought on and quits, the boosters aren't going to care as long as the team is winning and probably wouldn't even notice.