Just several years ago MU put itself on multiyear probation and vacated a season's worth of victories because of internships that paid its participants $1,000. Not participants it was trying to recruit and persuade to go to MU, but participants who had already committed and enrolled at MU.
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Between approximately May 16 and 30, 2013, representative 1 (Tuley) employed two then men's basketball student-athletes (Jordan Clarkson and Tony Criswell, as well as team manager Ricky Bolton) as interns through his company and paid them each approximately $1,100 for work not performed. Representative 1 also provided student-athletes 2 and 3
with $25 each in cash as well as housing, use of
representative 1's personal vehicle, access to a local gym and at least two meals, all at no cost. The total
value of the impermissible benefits provided to student-athletes 2 and 3, including impermissible compensation, was approximately $5,444. Bolton's compensation and benefits are not included in this total, although he was the one permitted to drive the vehicle.
Between May 20 and 31, 2014, representative 1 (Tuley) employed another then men's basketball student-athlete (Cam Biedscheid, as well as student manager Patrick Holman) as an intern through his company and paid him approximately $1,000 for work not performed. Representative 1 also provided student-athlete 4 with housing, use of representative 1's personal vehicle, an iPad, access to a local gym and at least three meals, all at no cost. The total value of the impermissible benefits provided to student-athlete 4, including the impermissible compensation, was approximately $2,558. Holman's compensation and benefits are not included in this total.
Between May 25 and 31, 2014, representative 1 (Tuley) employed student-athlete 1 (Jakeenan Gant) as an intern through his company and paid him approximately $1,000 for work not performed. Representative 1 also provided student-athlete 1 with approximately $520 in cash as well as housing, use of representative 1's personal vehicle, an iPad, access to a local gym and at least three meals, all at no cost. The total value of the impermissible benefits provided to student-athlete 1, including the impermissible compensation, was approximately $2,434.