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The Knight Time Wrote:CyberBull Wrote:That's okay b/c I am actually embarrassed that my University had to be in the same conference with a cheating sleezebag like John Calipari and a University that would support such activities. Please explain how your players can drive around Memphis in a brand new Cadillac? The first thing USF did when it learned that they were officially in the Big East was to take a long, hot shower to wash off the feeling of uncleanliness and dirtiness of being associated with Memphis State for 10 years.
Have a nice day....
Did you really just make this post while you are joyfully joining a conference with BOB HUGGINS?
You said you had to wipe the "dirt" off from Calipari?
Well that's nice. Enjoy wiping the blood and vodka off when Huggy Bear smashes through your house in a cadillac.
I also find it funny that YOU are commenting about other programs when your own football team is Thug-U. How many times does it exactly take for a player to receive discipline? 3-4 arrests? How many fathers on the USF team stiff the child support payment left and right with no punishment? Your boy Fischer FINALLY was given the boot.........after 4 charges.
You want to rip South Florida, rip Bob Huggins and call someone Thug U, explain this:
UCF has suspended eight players for disciplinary reasons in the last two weeks, including former starting QB Ryan Schneider.
Two more football players were suspended last week, apparent victims of the same violation of university policy that earlier caused two other players, including quarterback Ryan Schneider, to be booted for the season.
On Thursday, the team announced that senior defensive tackle DeMarcus Johnson's career is over following his suspension for the rest of the season. Redshirt freshman Dan Veenstra also was suspended, although the offensive guard received only a one-game punishment. Veenstra sat out Saturday's game against Eastern Michigan.
As with the suspensions of Schneider and center Cedric Gagne-Marcoux, both of which came down last Tuesday, no details were given, other than that each had violated team rules.
In an interview with the Orlando Sentinel, however, Johnson confirmed that his suspension had to do with slips from his teachers that were signed improperly. Johnson told the Sentinel he signed his own name in place of a professor's signature that was required for players to miss classes. People close to the other players involved said that some signatures on those forms had been forged.
The suspensions continued a rough week off the field for the Knights, who continue to struggle this season on the field as well. Junior cornerback Omar Laurence also was suspended indefinitely last week for an unrelated incident; he is awaiting the result of an investigation tied to pending criminal charges and a student conduct hearing for possessing two firearms.
And the fun didn't stop there for your "great" university!
U. of Central Florida students caught with hands in fund jar
by Colleen DeBaise
College Press Service
ORLANDO, Fla. -- The student president of the University of Central Florida admits "a few bad judgments" were made when he and other student-government leaders went on a $105,500 spending spree with student activity fees.
A state audit found that the student leaders spent $2,100 on tickets to the UCF-Florida State University football game for themselves and their friends; $41,311 on a dozen laptop computers; and several hundred dollars for catered food at a Citrus Bowl skybox used for student leaders and invited guests.
Student leaders also asked UCF officials to approve $16,400 on a series of self-promotional ads and $22,000 for a Ford Explorer, but those requests were refused before payment was made, said LeVester Tubbs, vice president for student affairs.
As a result, UCF President John Hitt announced in mid-March that "to benefit and safeguard the interests of all students," the student government would be suspended until the fall.
SG President Miguel E. Torregrosa, Vice President Frank Amoros and the entire Student Senate have been removed from office. Other student leaders will step in and govern the student body until elections in September.
Torregrosa, a 24-year-old graduate student, and Amoros, a 22-year-old business administration undergraduate, defended the student government purchases, saying they were handled according to established procedures. They said purchases -- such as leasing a bus to take students to a road football game and ads for elections -- benefited the entire student body as required by state law. They also stressed that UCF administrators signed off on the purchases.
"Now they're just leaving us out to hang," said Torregrosa, according to wire service reports.
But according to a draft report by the State Auditor General's Office, student leaders circumvented normal purchasing guidelines and spent money on things that primarily benefited student leaders.
"We cannot explain how the catered food benefited the student body in general," wrote Tubbs in response to the draft audit.
Administrators agree that they share some of the blame for letting the spending situation get out of hand, but they said a 1974 Florida law places the allotment of student activity fees -- usually distributed to intramural athletics and student groups -- into the hands of student government leaders.
That means the university president and administrators have no control over how student activity fees are spent, as long as student leaders don't do anything illegal and the spending benefits the student body.
At UCF, students pay a mandatory fee of $6.95 per credit-hour, which totals about $4.6 million a year. Of this, more than $120,000 can be spent at the discretion of the student government's executive branch.
Supporters of the university's current system argue that student fees are paid by students and should be spent by students.
But university officials said they would prefer a system similar to those already in place in other states, in which the student government is treated more like a campus club and the student activity fees are distributed by a faculty, student and staff committee.
Although the 1994 Florida law allows university presidents to set spending guidelines, some student governments still have "questionable spending habits," Tubbs said.
In 1991, Florida International University suspended its student government because of improper conduct by student officials. Two year later, numerous problems forced the student government of University of South Florida's Tampa campus to dissolve temporarily.
Ironically, Florida Leader magazine ranked the UCF student government as the state's best among public universities for the past three years.
For now, the administration of student fees will continue to be the job of student governments in Florida. The state legislature has not taken any action to rewrite the student-activity fee law.
You talk about the pot calling the kettle black! Smash that through your window @sshole! I think it's fitting Central Florida went 0-11 last year.
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