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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BOOM! Georgetown coach took almost $900k! One kid never played tennis at all.

https://www.justice.gov/file/1142876/download[/quote]

Between 2012 and 2018, SINGER paid a Georgetown tennis coach bribes, falsely
labeled as "consulting" fees, totaling more than $2.7 million. SINGER typically made the
payments from one of the KWF charitable accounts and sent them to the coach via U.S. Mail,
including in several instances to the coach's residence in Falmouth, Massachusetts. ^
53. In exchange for the bribes, the Georgetown coach designated approximately 12
applicants as recruits for the Georgetown tennis team, [b]including some who did not play tennis[/b]
[b]competitively[/b], thereby facilitating their admission to the imiversity.[/quote]

I'm not from around here, so I wonder if someone can, please, enlighten me. Doesn't the coach report to the athletic director, and, most importantly, don't they need to produce results in their sport? If you admit kids who don't even play your game, who's going to compete on behalf of your school?
I can -- sorta -- see how in a team sport you can always claim so and so was injured and was benched/replaced. But for an individual sport, like tennis, in a preppy school like Georgetown? Plus, when you apply as an athlete, don't you have to submit proof of your athletic accomplishments (official tournament results, ratings, etc)?
Baffling. Utterly baffling.[/quote]

You are assuming the admission folks track the athletes after the athlete has been admitted. There is no system for that....the admission folks are on to the next year and really do not care about last years applicants. The coach/athletic department just flag/marks the application as someone they would like. Many times the bottom part of the team are not on scholarship and paying full price to attend school. This kids help the teams over GPA and graduation rates. Something that is tracked. [/quote]

Exactly. No one knows who is on the end of the bench in soccer, or tennis, or crew... Coach could keep on the team, or not, with probably zero effect on team success. I'd say it would just be to help GPA but maybe not if they needed a bribe to get into the school. 
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And also, these kids aren't getting scholarships.  After admission, they could just say, "You know, I've changed my mind, I'm going to focus on my studies, so I'm not playing after all."  I know kids who legitimately did that with football and lacrosse.  They don't get kicked out of school.  It's a perfectly plausible scam (as these things go).  [/quote]

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