On Feb 17, 2012, at 8:17 AM, Shane Ford wrote: > The bulk of improper benefits come from 12 athletes staying at the Whitney > Hotel at $450 each for a two-bedroom suite. > The NCAA found the hotel a few miles off campus charged a rate of $14.95 per > athlete for two-bedroom suites. The NCAA said the rate should've been more > than $57 per night for each athlete. One football player who spent more than > year at the hotel, the NCAA said, received an extra benefit worth $19,280. > The NCAA said the school received $47,000 worth of improper benefits from the > rate reduction.
Color me confused. Is the NCAA saying that the Whitney rate was too low; too high, or that student-athletes shouldn't be allowed to stay in hotels? I'd be stunned to find a hotel that offered a rate of $14.95 per person for a two-bedroom suite. Not even on Priceline. If the rate should have been $57, the University got overcharged. How is that a benefit to the players (unless the football players happen to own the hotel)? -Zeb -- GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us
