Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, October 29, 1995 TAG: 9510310028
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: C-5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: New York Times News Service
DATELINE: CORAL GABLES, FLA. LENGTH: Medium
The NCAA has been investigating allegations of extensive Pell Grant fraud, as well as a pay-for-performance plan involving the rap star Luther Campbell and a drug-testing program that was selectively enforced.
Yet to be determined are the sanctions to be leveled against the Hurricanes, who have won four national championships since 1983.
The university must face the NCAA's infractions committee. According to Miami president Edward T. Foote, who is mulling what part of the letter to make public, Miami would like to be added to the committee's Nov.10-12 meetings.
If Miami is not on the agenda, the committee next meets Feb.2-4. An announcement usually is made within three to four weeks after the meeting.
The charges, in which Miami has acknowledged that a former academic adviser, Tony Russell, falsified Pell Grant applications of 91 students, including 57 football players, have been lingering for four years now.
One source said Hurricane coach Butch Davis had little quibbling with the NCAA's findings, which could result in a reduction of scholarships, no television and/or no bowl game.
Davis told the source that the ``lack of institutional control'' issue was mentioned by the NCAA only regarding Miami's Pell Grant scandal, which occurred from 1989 to 1992.
When Alabama was cited by the infractions committee with a ``distressing failure of institutional control'' earlier this year, it was placed on three years' probation, banned from bowls for one year, forfeited 11 games from 1993 and still faces the loss of as many as 30 scholarships.
by CNB