ESPN's Joe Schad Reports Keller is N!

[TrueHuskerFan]

On the LJS blog it says he has applied, but not enrolled. This is getting to be too much.

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[tattooedhusker]

Wow, another prima donna

 

 

Eat it everyone not affiliated with NU

[TrueHuskerFan]

Awesome news! It looks like Schad is pretty lazy with his stories the way he cuts and pastes the new stuff in and leaves the exact same stuff from his previous report in.

I noticed that too. When I've read around six of his stories on this situation and one line changes each time, it gets a little annoying.

[tattooedhusker]

he should probably just wait until he has enough NEW info built up...

[zoogs]

Well, most likely the new stories replace the old stories. Not *everyone* is dedicated enough to this cause to seek out and cling on to every little bit of news that comes out, as it comes out.

 

I'm tempted to join in the hurrahs, but the LJS blog link says he's still considering OU, despite having applied here.

[BIGREDFAN_in_OMAHA]

LJS link

 

As pointed out in this bit don't forget the financial burden on Keller's parent's with Keller walking on to an out-of-state school. I know he was originally from California but was on scholarship at ASU.

 

Keller's dad says transfer not quick, easy

BY BRIAN ROSENTHAL / Lincoln Journal Star

Wednesday, Aug 23, 2006 - 12:27:38 am CDT

 

The father of Arizona State quarterback Sam Keller tried cooling talk Tuesday night that his son is indeed headed to Nebraska, saying a transfer to any school can’t happen as quickly and easily as some may think.

 

“(It’s like) people want him and we pull the trigger. That isn’t the case,” Mike Keller told the Arizona Republic. “It’s been an emotional, stressful … financially and everything else. It’s put us in a tremendous bind.

 

“We’re getting closer to a resolution one way or the other. We’ve had an outpouring of unbelievable interest from top programs in the country.”

 

Keller told the newspaper that the family has talked to Oklahoma, Colorado, UTEP and Louisville, but also said the timing of the matter is poor.

[Washusker]

A word of caution, folks. While he is a student at UN, he has not yet enrolled in any classes. He could very well rescind his application/acceptance and go to another school before tomorrow.

 

 

 

In other words, we are not out of the woods yet...

[ttheKid1*18]

If he is here then great, if not, what the hell is going on. Accept him!!

[tattooedhusker]

[CENTEXHUSKER]

I heard on CNN headline news that Keller was planning on coming....I guess that gives a little (not much more at all) credibility to the story. Wait and see.

The "We" channel has just annouced he will start for UNO this year......

[tattooedhusker]

actually the disney channel AND the GOLF channel say he is going to Iowa Western

[BIGREDFAN_in_OMAHA]

I feel like a pirana chomping at the next informational piece of meat!!

[GSG]

With a laser attached to your head??

[coyeote]

Right now my money would be on OU. History shows there are a lot of perks down there............if you don't get caught that is. Besides as much as we love the Huskers Stoops has a much more "proven" program.

[NU fan in Denver]

Right now my money would be on OU. History shows there are a lot of perks down there............if you don't get caught that is. Besides as much as we love the Huskers Stoops has a much more "proven" program.

But they can't get any more perks from Big Red Sports and Imports anymore.

 

Denver Channel

 

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Oklahoma has banned its athletes from working at a car dealership where two football players -- including the team's starting quarterback -- broke NCAA rules by accepting payment for more work than they performed.

 

The university, in a report to the NCAA released Tuesday following an open records request by The Associated Press, said it banned athletes from working at Big Red Sports and Imports after Oklahoma's compliance staff received "poor and inappropriate treatment" from the dealership's previous management.

 

Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops dismissed starting quarterback Rhett Bomar and his roommate, offensive lineman J.D. Quinn, on Aug. 2 after the university's compliance staff uncovered the violations.

 

 

After the dismissals, Stoops said that Bomar and Quinn "knowingly" broke the rules.

 

The dealership is under new management, and the current owners cooperated with the university's investigation, according to the report.

 

In the report, the university said it compared athletes' time cards with class schedules, summer workouts, practice schedules and other time commitments and found no evidence that other athletes were "paid for working during practice or class times."

 

Seven athletes worked at the dealership during one summer -- four washing and detailing cars, and three moving cars around Big Red's lots. For Bomar and Quinn, whose names are redacted from the report, the university found "substantially more hours" claimed on W-2 forms than were listed on a time card report.

 

The university report states "the employment records maintained and provided by Big Red for temporary summer employment were also at times incomplete or in conflict with other records they maintained on the same employee."

 

The report indicates some athletes did not know how to use the dealership's time card system and did not have time card records for several weeks at the beginning of their employment. It also shows that the time card reports "frequently" would have a clock-in time but no clock-out time.

 

The amount of the extra benefit received by the players was redacted from the report, but it indicates athletes generally were paid $10 per hour or $70 per day.

 

Bomar's father, Jerry Bomar, told The Oklahoman on Tuesday that the overpayment was "between $5,000-7,000."

 

In an interview with Oklahoma investigators, Stoops said he called Big Red manager Brad McRae in 2004 or 2005 to make sure his players were there and "doing the right things, make sure they're working hard, um, and to make sure things were done right."

 

"I had specifically asked to make sure, um, that they're working the hours they're supposed to work, that they're getting paid as they should, that they're treating them like you would your other employees," Stoops said in the interview.

 

Stoops also said he declined McRae's offer to meet privately this February.

 

Oklahoma's internal investigation was sparked by an anonymous e-mail to university President David Boren on March 3. The university previously had investigated the circumstances by which tailback Adrian Peterson bought a car and then returned it to the dealership several weeks later, determining the arrangement did not violate NCAA regulations.

 

The dismissals of Bomar and Quinn came 3½ months after Oklahoma appeared before the NCAA Committee on Infractions for violations that occurred under former men's basketball coach Kelvin Sampson.

 

While additional limits were placed on Sampson's recruiting at Indiana, the NCAA accepted Oklahoma's self-imposed probation on the basketball program and its limits on recruiting trips and scholarships following the investigation into 577 impermissible phone calls by Sampson and his staff.

 

The school also avoided a severe "lack of institutional control finding," although the NCAA also found secondary violations by Oklahoma's softball and men's gymnastics teams.