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Post by tomclen on Apr 26, 2019 20:55:30 GMT -5
Many of us tend to put on appearances. Maybe her financial situation wasn't as good as some of us might imagine.
Perhaps, despite her somewhat lofty position in the world of college athletics, she may have been living beyond her means. Fancy house, restaurants, car, etc. Maybe that was why she felt the ruinous need to set up scams...she needed the money to fuel her habit.
IMO however, the real tragedy of her actions is the blemish on the end of Mick Haley's incredible coaching career. He may not have been your cup of tea, but you can't question his track record of success. And how Lynn Swann could allow this quagmire to fester right under his nose is a foul stench on him and his management team.
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Post by ironhammer on Apr 26, 2019 21:22:01 GMT -5
Perhaps, despite her somewhat lofty position in the world of college athletics, she may have been living beyond her means. Fancy house, restaurants, car, etc. Maybe that was why she felt the ruinous need to set up scams...she needed the money to fuel her habit. It's also possible even if she did have a decent income, she may not have good personal financial management ability. It may seem common sense for one to be take care of their own income and expenses, but that is not always the case. That's why you hear those stories about those Hollywood celebrities or ex-millionaire basketball players who spent all their money on unwise purchases or making poor investment decisions and ended up living under a bridge after they retire. In some cases they lacked education and knowledge on proper financial management. But in other cases it's an obsession with material gain, as you said, once they had a taste of the "good life", they may become addicted to it, even if they could no longer support that lifestyle. A 10,000 square foot mansion with a large private pool and tennis court. Driving around in a Rolls Royce or Ferrari. Cruising around in your private mega yacht. Those things become the "must-have" for the materially addicted.
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 26, 2019 21:28:01 GMT -5
What bridge?
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Post by ironhammer on Apr 26, 2019 21:29:50 GMT -5
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Post by Mocha on Apr 27, 2019 0:42:29 GMT -5
Man, if I was Mick Haley, I'd just be doing Lyft rides all day long hoping to get Donna as my driver. Then I'd give her the nastiest review. But Mick is a lot classier than I am...so probably not gonna happen. No, Mick would be questioning every turn and try to stall the pace.
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 27, 2019 11:33:50 GMT -5
How much do these Lyft and Uber drivers make?
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Post by volleyguy on Apr 27, 2019 11:41:45 GMT -5
How much do these Lyft and Uber drivers make? It depends on how much they are willing to drive, but it's not a lot. But the real point is, they are willing to take on someone who is under indictment.
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Post by hammer on Apr 30, 2019 15:35:11 GMT -5
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Post by hammer on Apr 30, 2019 18:57:03 GMT -5
So he's headed to Canada ... coaching job or retiring?
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Post by Mocha on Apr 30, 2019 20:12:48 GMT -5
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Post by Wolfgang on May 1, 2019 12:57:42 GMT -5
Wait, how does this work?
From the article:
The Isacksons worked to get their daughter into USC by claiming she was a soccer player, despite not playing at an elite level prior to college.
A clerical error was made however and the application accidentally went in with the general admission files, eliminating her chance of sneaking into that school.
That is when her files were sent by the USC soccer coach to UCLA, where she was admitted as a soccer player.
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So, due to some internal error, her application ended up in the general application pool at UCLA. But the USC soccer coach sent files to UCLA? How and why would this act take this application out of the general application pool? How does one school sending paperwork on an applicant to another school allow for that applicant to have special admissions rights at that other school? Someone explain to me what's going on here?
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Post by eazy on May 1, 2019 13:21:22 GMT -5
Wait, how does this work? From the article: The Isacksons worked to get their daughter into USC by claiming she was a soccer player, despite not playing at an elite level prior to college.
A clerical error was made however and the application accidentally went in with the general admission files, eliminating her chance of sneaking into that school.
That is when her files were sent by the USC soccer coach to UCLA, where she was admitted as a soccer player.--- So, due to some internal error, her application ended up in the general application pool at UCLA. But the USC soccer coach sent files to UCLA? How and why would this act take this application out of the general application pool? How does one school sending paperwork on an applicant to another school allow for that applicant to have special admissions rights at that other school? Someone explain to me what's going on here? It reads to me like her application ended up in the general pool at USC, not UCLA. Why the USC coach would send files on a fake player to a different school is beyond me unless they were getting paid. Sorry, jumped in late here.
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Post by mikegarrison on May 2, 2019 5:44:49 GMT -5
Bruce will likely spend somewhere between 37 and 46 months behind bars 46 months ... that's about the same amount of time their kid would have been in college.
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Post by Phaedrus on May 2, 2019 9:19:30 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/us/yusi-zhao-stanford-university.html?searchResultPosition=2The ultimate Tiger family. Aiyaaa!!! Chinese Family Reportedly Paid $6.5 Million for Spot at Stanford The family of a student admitted to Stanford University reportedly paid $6.5 million to try to secure her spot there. By Kate Taylor and Jennifer Medina May 1, 2019 From the day in March that prosecutors announced charges against 50 people in a sweeping college admissions fraud investigation, they have held out a tantalizing mystery: an unnamed family that they said had paid the college consultant at the center of the scheme $6.5 million — far more than any of the parents named in the case — to get their child into college. The student is Yusi Zhao, who was admitted to Stanford in 2017, according to a person with direct knowledge of the investigation. Neither she nor her parents, who live in Beijing, have been charged, and it is unclear whether they are currently being investigated. Stanford rescinded Ms. Zhao’s admission in April, and she is no longer a student there. The person with knowledge of the inquiry said that Ms. Zhao’s family was introduced to Mr. Singer by a financial adviser at Morgan Stanley based in Pasadena, named Michael Wu. A spokeswoman for Morgan Stanley said that Mr. Wu had been terminated for not cooperating with an internal investigation into the matter and that the firm was cooperating with the authorities. Mr. Wu did not respond to a phone call.
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Post by mikegarrison on May 2, 2019 11:58:32 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/us/yusi-zhao-stanford-university.html?searchResultPosition=2The ultimate Tiger family. Aiyaaa!!! Chinese Family Reportedly Paid $6.5 Million for Spot at Stanford The family of a student admitted to Stanford University reportedly paid $6.5 million to try to secure her spot there. By Kate Taylor and Jennifer Medina May 1, 2019 From the day in March that prosecutors announced charges against 50 people in a sweeping college admissions fraud investigation, they have held out a tantalizing mystery: an unnamed family that they said had paid the college consultant at the center of the scheme $6.5 million — far more than any of the parents named in the case — to get their child into college. The student is Yusi Zhao, who was admitted to Stanford in 2017, according to a person with direct knowledge of the investigation. Neither she nor her parents, who live in Beijing, have been charged, and it is unclear whether they are currently being investigated. Stanford rescinded Ms. Zhao’s admission in April, and she is no longer a student there. The person with knowledge of the inquiry said that Ms. Zhao’s family was introduced to Mr. Singer by a financial adviser at Morgan Stanley based in Pasadena, named Michael Wu. A spokeswoman for Morgan Stanley said that Mr. Wu had been terminated for not cooperating with an internal investigation into the matter and that the firm was cooperating with the authorities. Mr. Wu did not respond to a phone call. Probably not bothering to charge them because there is no way China would extradite.
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