Miami Coach: "Players May Have Made Mistakes"

Miami coach Al Golden says his players may have made mistakes that caused the NCAA to investigate whether they accepted gifts from convicted Ponzi schemer Nevin Shapiro. Golden said today...

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"We're not going to let this knock us backward,"... "We have great kids on this team to the extent that they may have made a mistake. OK, that's fine. But that's also part of growing up. What we have to teach them now is if something did occur, let's be honest and move forward."

"It's hard for me to stand up here and defend something that occurred three, four, five, six years ago,"..."I don't know the extent of it. We're going to look at it. We're disappointed, but we're not discouraged."

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