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  1. Say we're in Fargo and I offer you $100 to drive me by car to Grand Forks and have me there in the next 90 minutes. Reasonable work; good pay.

    But say I spice it with this: if you get us there by car in under 45 minutes there's an extra $100 in it for you.

    Now, you're driving us at a rate to get the bonus $100 and get pulled over by NDHP.

    Who gets the speeding ticket?

    Not me. ;)

    My bonus offer may have been illegal but you didn't have to take it. You could've totally declined (not taken the job) or you could've driven a legal pace and made the $100.

    You control your actions.

  2. Not sure if I missed this on the first reading or if it's an update, but it doesn't leave much wiggle room:

    Also, documents obtained by The Associated Press show the company required petition circulators to sign a code of conduct promising not to engage in illegal activity while gathering signatures.

    http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/373568/group/homepage/

    So they were told not to engage in illegal activity and given a statement saying that and they signed it. Now how they signed it is left to Answer Guy to speculate upon. ;):D

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  3. Ojuri and Williams, based on Forum reporting of what is in the documents, have admitted what they are accused of, namely faking names on a petition.

    Bohl said he'll wait to do something until after his players get their day in court.

    How many days are they going to get in court? The possible answers are from 0 to 365*.

    *In North Dakota, Class A misdemeanors carry a potential sentence of up to 1 year in jail and $2,000 in fines.

  4. Good question. Who's picking up the legal tabs for the defendants? The taxpayers?

    Part of the problem for the Griz in Missoula is the allegations that UM coaches took players with legal issues to "friendly" local attorneys and then the coaches offered the lawyers a quid-pro-quo benefit from the team later if the lawyer took the case "pro bono" now.

    A coach can offer a player advice like "I use ScottM as sheister and consigliere" but that's as far as they can go under NCAA rules.

  5. Another angle to this would be maybe it would be better to cut these guys now before it really blows up and all the wins get erased from the record books for lack of institutional control. They really need to grab this by the horns before it really bites them.

    IF (<-- note the big IF) it came to the point of "wins get erased" I don't believe it'd be from LOIC but more likely from the eligibility status of those players based on this:

    Someone sent me some light reading, some homework, if you will.

    Interesting document: http://fs.ncaa.org/D...e=REFERENCES_R7

    Section 2.d is quite a compelling read:

    That begs two questions:

    - Were those lads hired because they were NDSU FB players, namely, recognizable figures due to athletic ability?

    - Did they perform the work they were paid for (meaning collect signatures)?

    I don't know the answers because the NCAA would be the ones who would have the answers and I can't figure those NCAA folks out.

    The NCAA's version (the only version that matters) of the answers to those two questions could go either way.

    And all it takes is using one ineligible player to void a game.

  6. Doesn't Bresciani realize the entire way this issue has been handled has been a public relations disaster? And what worse time for it to happen, four months ahead of legislative session.

    Rob Port and Al Carlson (and their mission to lay waste to the ND SBoHE and the concept of local control) will latch onto this issue in ... three, two, uh, too late.

  7. Fargo Forum: "Did no one in the company advise the petition carriers that faking signatures and addresses is illegal?"

    I wonder if Best Buy took the time to explain that stealing TV's was illegal or if one is just supposed to know better?

    Does West Acres have signs up notifying people to keep their junk in their pants??

    Sounds to me like a potential new remedial class at NDSU.

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