Doged
5/18/2007, 12:52 AM
Test your knowledge of the facts buried within the rumors! Each answer has appeared on one or more college team football forums.
Correct answers are worth 20 points each. If no answer is correct, choose the MOST correct answer. This quiz comprises 0% of your grade for this course. :mack: is not allowed to answer for you.
1. Which statement is most accurate?
a. Adrian Peterson (AD) was given a free car at the same time as the Sooner football staff were all given their free cars.
b. AD "test drove" a Lexus for 3 months.
c. Several high profile Sooner recruits are given free cars each season as part of their incentive to sign with OU. This is fact as it was reported by the room mate of one of the players and no one else close to the situation has disputed it.
d. AD signed a provisional contract to purchase a Lexus, then returned the car due to the high cost of financing it.
2. How did OU cheat this time?
a. Arranged for a booster to funnel several thousand "slush fund" dollars to key star players.
b. Arranged for several players to be placed in a position for a booster to pay them, then conspired to turn a blind eye to the arrangement and leave it up to the booster to either pay or not pay the players.
c. There are no NCAA allegations that the university cheated. The NCAA alleges that OU failed to properly monitor the players and, if proper procedures were followed, should have been able to detect the cheating in spite of falsified employment documents submitted by the cheating players.
d. Arranged for players to be placed in a position to receive money from a booster, then applied any amount paid them to the booster's recognized donation total for the year.
3. What were the NCAA's findings regarding "Lexus-gate" and what sanctions are likely to be levied for this blatant act of cheating?
a. The NCAA found that AD was given the car as compensation. He will be ruled retrospectively ineligible and OU will be forced to forfeit all games he played in.
b. The NCAA did not investigate "Lexus-gate", finding no cause after the results of the university's internal investigation were submitted.
c. The NCAA did not investigate "Lexus-gate" because OU is an elite program and is immune to NCAA sanctions.
d. The NCAA investigated "Lexus-gate" but were unable to prove anything wrong happened, but they are really mad and are "out to get" the Sooners now because they know OU was cheating they just can't prove it.
4. What prompted the NCAA to investigate the BRSI scandal?
a. An anonymous email was sent to the NCAA alerting them to the problem.
b. An anonymous email was sent to both the NCAA and the university, causing the NCAA to demand an investigation and immediate action by the university with results to be submitted for further review. The NCAA agreed with most, but not all, of the investigation's findings.
c. An anonymous email was sent to the university, causing an internal investigation to be conducted with the results submitted to the NCAA, which reviewed the findings and agreed with them in principle, but not in whole.
d. The NCAA read about the wrong-doings on Texags and immediately dispatched a crack team of investigators to Norman to look into the situation.
5. Bomar admitted to having made poor choices that resulted in his dismissal from the team. Quinn claimed he was a victim of scapegoating, was the cleanest player on the team and everyone else was smoking dope and "breaking laws" while he just took a couple of bucks to buy a burger. Which of the two is more credible?
a. Bomar.
b. Quinn.
c. They're both liars who are still being paid by OU to keep quiet about the real situation.
Bonus Question worth 10 points: How many Sooner players does the NCAA claim cheated by taking money?
a. 3
b. 4
c. 5
d. 17
e. 85
Correct answers are worth 20 points each. If no answer is correct, choose the MOST correct answer. This quiz comprises 0% of your grade for this course. :mack: is not allowed to answer for you.
1. Which statement is most accurate?
a. Adrian Peterson (AD) was given a free car at the same time as the Sooner football staff were all given their free cars.
b. AD "test drove" a Lexus for 3 months.
c. Several high profile Sooner recruits are given free cars each season as part of their incentive to sign with OU. This is fact as it was reported by the room mate of one of the players and no one else close to the situation has disputed it.
d. AD signed a provisional contract to purchase a Lexus, then returned the car due to the high cost of financing it.
2. How did OU cheat this time?
a. Arranged for a booster to funnel several thousand "slush fund" dollars to key star players.
b. Arranged for several players to be placed in a position for a booster to pay them, then conspired to turn a blind eye to the arrangement and leave it up to the booster to either pay or not pay the players.
c. There are no NCAA allegations that the university cheated. The NCAA alleges that OU failed to properly monitor the players and, if proper procedures were followed, should have been able to detect the cheating in spite of falsified employment documents submitted by the cheating players.
d. Arranged for players to be placed in a position to receive money from a booster, then applied any amount paid them to the booster's recognized donation total for the year.
3. What were the NCAA's findings regarding "Lexus-gate" and what sanctions are likely to be levied for this blatant act of cheating?
a. The NCAA found that AD was given the car as compensation. He will be ruled retrospectively ineligible and OU will be forced to forfeit all games he played in.
b. The NCAA did not investigate "Lexus-gate", finding no cause after the results of the university's internal investigation were submitted.
c. The NCAA did not investigate "Lexus-gate" because OU is an elite program and is immune to NCAA sanctions.
d. The NCAA investigated "Lexus-gate" but were unable to prove anything wrong happened, but they are really mad and are "out to get" the Sooners now because they know OU was cheating they just can't prove it.
4. What prompted the NCAA to investigate the BRSI scandal?
a. An anonymous email was sent to the NCAA alerting them to the problem.
b. An anonymous email was sent to both the NCAA and the university, causing the NCAA to demand an investigation and immediate action by the university with results to be submitted for further review. The NCAA agreed with most, but not all, of the investigation's findings.
c. An anonymous email was sent to the university, causing an internal investigation to be conducted with the results submitted to the NCAA, which reviewed the findings and agreed with them in principle, but not in whole.
d. The NCAA read about the wrong-doings on Texags and immediately dispatched a crack team of investigators to Norman to look into the situation.
5. Bomar admitted to having made poor choices that resulted in his dismissal from the team. Quinn claimed he was a victim of scapegoating, was the cleanest player on the team and everyone else was smoking dope and "breaking laws" while he just took a couple of bucks to buy a burger. Which of the two is more credible?
a. Bomar.
b. Quinn.
c. They're both liars who are still being paid by OU to keep quiet about the real situation.
Bonus Question worth 10 points: How many Sooner players does the NCAA claim cheated by taking money?
a. 3
b. 4
c. 5
d. 17
e. 85