NCAA Basketball Investigation/Lawsuit Thread (merged)

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

December 9th is fast approaching.......still hearing the worst case is that banners will be taken down, some money given back and maybe another scholie.

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Originally Posted by bucknuts44820

December 9th is fast approaching.......still hearing the worst case is that banners will be taken down, some money given back and maybe another scholie.

What do you mean by "another scholie"?
Have we already given some up with our self-imposed sanctions?
(yes, I am lazy and dont feel like digging around for it as I should be studying...)

[jimotis4heisman]

we are only playing with 10 scholies this year...

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Originally Posted by jimotis4heisman

we are only playing with 10 scholies this year...

Ah, I heard that but did not realize the reason for it

[jimotis4heisman]

to my knowledge the reason has not been announced, but...

[Steve19]

Matta does seem to have been rather efficient with those scholarships, eh?

[jimotis4heisman]

http://dispatch.com/bball/bball.php?...207-A1-00.html

KATHLEEN SALYERS CASE
Lawsuit with OSU ties ends in secret
Basketball program faces more scrutiny
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
Kathy Lynn Gray
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Kathleen Salyers provided care for Slobodan "Boban" Savovic. Web extras

• Who’s who
• Case timeline

A lawsuit that toppled an Ohio State University coach with its revelations and shed light on major infractions in the men’s basketball program has ended with a secret settlement.
The deal comes just three days before Ohio State goes before a National Collegiate Athletic Association panel in Indianapolis on a charge that it failed to adequately monitor its men’s basketball program from 1998 to 2002.
The settlement this week involves Kathleen Salyers, who was seeking more than $600,000 in a claim against Dan and Kim Roslovic.
Salyers said the couple never paid her the $1,000 a month they’d promised to provide a home and care for OSU basketball player Slobodan "Boban" Savovic.
Yesterday, Franklin County Court of Appeals administrator Jack Kullman confirmed that the parties settled.
No other information was available from the court; the parties would not reveal the terms. Lawyers informed the court of the deal less than 24 hours before the case was set for a 9 a.m. hearing today.
Salyers would not comment yesterday, but in a recent interview said she was considering giving up on the case so she could move forward.
"There comes a point in time when you just have to cut your losses," she said.
She also talked about her disappointment with the courts.
"Our justice system in my opinion only works if you have money. When you’re trying to fight something in court and the other side has the cash, they can appeal decisions, take it to the Supreme Court and tie things up for years."
Salyers’ involvement with Savovic began in July 1998. The Serbian moved to Columbus that summer before starting classes at Ohio State.
He lived with the Roslovics in Bexley but had to move when OSU learned that the arrangement broke NCAA rules because the couple were OSU boosters.
Savovic then moved in with the Salyers family in Gahanna. Salyers cleaned house and babysat for the Roslovics. They asked her to take the athlete in, as did Paul Biancardi, then an assistant coach for the men’s basketball program, according to Salyers.
Told that the Roslovics would pay her, Salyers went into debt caring for the player as she spent thousands on gifts, spending money, Savovic’s international taxes and trips he took, she said. She eventually lost her home because of the extra expenses, she added.
Salyers moved in with her daughter and sued the Roslovics, who by then were divorced.
OSU officials will appear before an NCAA panel Friday to face nine counts, including the charge that it didn’t sufficiently monitor the men’s basketball program when Savovic was playing there.
That charge and six others came as a result of Salyers’ lawsuit. OSU is not contesting the other six charges.
There also is one NCAA charge each against the OSU football and women’s basketball programs.
A second major public embarrassment for OSU begins Monday when former basketball coach Jim O’Brien argues in an Ohio Court of Claims trial that the school fired him prematurely June 8, 2004.
The firing came after depositions in Salyers’ lawsuit revealed that O’Brien had given recruit Aleksandar Radojevic $6,000 to $6,700 in late 1998 to help his family in Yugoslavia.
O’Brien admitted loaning Radojevic money, but he argues that under his contract he could be fired only after an NCAA investigation.
O’Brien is seeking $3.5 million from Ohio State.
Salyers’ lawsuit aired other dirty laundry from the OSU athletics department:

• Two OSU teachers admitted they changed grades for Savovic.

• A story in an OSU game-day program detailed how close Savovic was with the Salyers family, but OSU officials took no action to stop that relationship, which included living arrangements, spending money and gifts.

• O’Brien provided Salyers with men’s basketball tickets, which the NCAA said was an infraction because Salyers was an OSU booster.

• Salyers and others wrote college papers for Savovic, which the NCAA labeled academic fraud.

• At least one other OSU booster, Michael A. Sierawski, admitted giving Savovic cash.
Salyers filed her lawsuit against the Roslovics in 2003. Franklin County Common Pleas Court dismissed it in May, saying it was filed under the wrong section of the law. Salyers appealed, and it was that appeal that was to be heard this week.
kgray@dispatch.com