Everyone knows that the SEC for many decades has had a great method for buying players. Alabama, Auburn, LSU, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Georgia, and others. We all know that Clemson on occasions engages in the Bag Game. Ohio State, Penn State, Texas, Oklahoma, and others also engage.
We get ****ed because everyone it seems tries to raid the State of Florida - and especially top talent in South Florida.
If a few well-to-do UM alumni and a couple key donors put together a couple million dollars - they'd be able to hire a forensic financial investigation team - and that two million dollars or so would finance the martialing costs as well as for a year or two. The Forensic Financial Investigation Team would pick up additional dollars as percentages of IRS dollars they'd find were not paid in taxes, but a reward for finding the additional IRS monies.
That's what they do. They find sudden money - sudden financial gains - sudden asset acquisitions (cars, homes), and once that's found on a few of them, a canny investigator can approach a recipient - lay out the penalties they're about to face, and get some to flip on the who, when, how, how much, and what -
A canny investigator would have some friends in the IRS to assist in making some deals to get further inside the process. In that couple million dollars, it's possible that a few kids and their families would be willing to participate in a reward for sharing what they were offered, and even take an offer under proper surveillance - again - working with the IRS - not local law enforcement. - You get a few of those - and you're cooking with gas.
It would take two or three recruiting cycles to really have some teeth sunk into the process - but once the who, what, when, where, how, and how much is presented - there would be much weeping and gnashing of teeth. Scores and scores of victories would be vacated - hard-to-ignore NCAA violations would require serious penalties - for the school, and possibly for the boosters that provided those funds.
Everyone wants to bi-tch about the bag problem, and wring their hands - but that's how to actually get something done about it. UM itself couldn't be blamed, as UM didn't initiate and pay for the investigation.
That's how you stop it.
Follow the money. Forwards. And backwards.
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