re: Capitol and Southern Lab fire FB coaches; LHSAA plans press conference

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Tigeralum2008

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I should have used better wording..

I will not spill my source as I swore to him I would not, but I can spill the information provided.

What happened had to do with financial payments to cover the tuition costs for the student-athletes in the football program. They offer financial help to kids who can't afford the tuition. Well, Southern University is supposedly involved with this and the books are kept for accounting purposes. This money never made it to the players to pay for their tuition. The money was "pocketed" by the coach that was fired from Capitol and Randall knew about it as they were best friends and did nothing.

So, what happened was the players went to school without ever paying for tuition whatsoever--a benefit that other 'normal' students did not receiver themselves (seeing they had to pay their way).

What I don't know:

I don't know if the student-athlete's pocketed any of this money or their families; I don't know if Randall pocketed any of the money either.

The technicality is that the players probably had no idea they were playing for free, but the infraction happened and had to be punished.

So, it was not really paperwork, but more accounting as it was noticed the money wasn't there. That is how Southern University got involved and investigated.

There is probably more to it than this and just scratches the surface, but it is enough to explain how it all started.