Frank Haith Named in Miami Scandal

[Downtowner]

Looks like bad news for Frank...the big ponzi donor has named him as being aware of a payment to get one of his players. From SBNation.com:

Former Miami Hurricanes basketball coach Frank Haith -- now at the head of the Missouri Tigers -- is implicated in the wide-ranging bombshell investigation published by Yahoo! Sports' Charles Robinson on Tuesday. In the report, prominent Miami booster Nevin Shapiro claims that in 2007 he paid $10,000 to help secure the commitment of DeQuan Jones, a five-star class of 2008 recruit entering his senior season at Miami. Shapiro said that though the transaction went through then-Miami assistant Jake Morton (now at Western Kentucky), Haith acknowledged the payment in a conversation with Shapiro.

Robinson reports that Haith denied Shapiro's claims through a spokesperson.

Jones is the only major basketball recruit mentioned in Robinson's penetrating report, which alleges thousands of NCAA violations from 2002 through 2010. Haith took the Miami job (his first as a head coach) in 2004, and just left last spring for Mizzou.

The majority of the violations documented in Robinson's report concern Miami's football program.

[kucer]

Good times.

[KCMax]

Wow. 

If even half the allegations are true, the NCAA should give Miami football the death penalty if they have any balls.

Doesn't look good for Haith either even if its just one incident.

Here's the Yahoo story:

http://sports.yahoo.com/investigations/ ... its_081611

[AllThingsKC]

If the rumors are true, does that mean that Mizzou now has the same quality basketball program as KU?

[NDTeve]

If the rumors are true, does that mean that Mizzou now has the same quality basketball program as KU?

Off the court Yes. On the court not even close.