Absurd Amounts of Awesome in Honor of Manti Te’o

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Of course, this is a potential NCAA violation, with the following statement from the university: Yours is not the first question our office has received regarding this issue. As you can see from the below e-mail communication from our assistant athletics director for compliance, Lisa Deibler to another student on-campus, you may not do anything that will publicize a prospective student-athlete’s visit to our campus. The wearing of lei’s, Hawaiian shirts, or the placement of signs welcoming a particular prospective student-athlete to a game/campus, is not permissible and could seriously jeopardize that prospective student-athlete’s opportunity to attend Notre Dame should he/she decide to do so. Bottom line, an institution may not permit any “publicity” of a prospect being on its campus. What you had planned to do would most definitely be considered publicity and could result in NCAA sanctions. As a result, you are advised to not move forward with your plans.

Thank you for contacting me. Protecting the eligibility of the prospect’s visiting our campus is of great importance and I wouldn’t want the actions of our students (or any other group) to cause problems.

Mike

Michael Karwoski

Associate Athletics Director

University of Notre Dame

Joyce Center

Notre Dame, IN 46556

David

Too bad the next week we play SC. They’ll of course have 20,000 lei’s (U know how easy Southern Cal girls are). Te’O has offers there too!

Great idea, but the violation and way it looks scare me, but not as much as the 4th quarter does.

David

Mark

This is no different than when LeSean McCoy checked the box on the sign at that Pitt game. If the students take these actions on their own the school would be in no trouble. What the lay person does not normally understand is that schools self-report violations all the time. Most penalties handed out by the NCAA are not taking away bowl games or limiting scholorships, but are minor penalties. The real mistake here was scrubbing it through the school first. Now no one can plead ignorance to the rule. Had someone just passed out lei’s, Hawaiian shirt’s, or made signs, and not known about this rule, the penalties would be little to none. However, now that the cat is out of the bag, the penalty could be more severe. Everyone comes down on the NCAA, but in cases such as this they are usually pretty level-headed. How many signs in how many towns do you see promoting a recruits visit to their school? In the words of Jim Rome: War smart students trying to abide by the rules.

Also, is Manti still coming? Thought I read something on Rivals about their state championship being this weekend.