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Message: [QUOTE="Whitey23, post: 318287, member: 216"] [SIZE=14px][FONT=Georgia][COLOR=#000000]Less than one week after the University of Miami hired Al Golden as coach, members of Golden's coaching staff began using Sean "Pee Wee" Allen – a then-equipment manager and onetime right-hand man of convicted Ponzi schemer Nevin Shapiro – to circumvent NCAA rules in the recruiting of multiple Miami-area players, Yahoo! Sports has learned.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=14px][FONT=Georgia][COLOR=#000000]Golden, hired by Miami in mid-December 2010, had direct knowledge of Allen's improper involvement with Miami recruits, according to a former Hurricanes athletic department staffer and federal testimony given by Allen in Shapiro's bankruptcy case. Additionally, multiple sources interviewed by NCAA investigators have told Yahoo! Sports that Allen has become a focal point in the association's probe into Miami athletics. The sources said investigators focused on Allen's role in providing impermissible benefits to Hurricanes players, as well as his contact with Miami recruits.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=14px][FONT=Georgia][COLOR=#000000][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=14px][FONT=Georgia][COLOR=#000000]----[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=14px][FONT=Georgia][COLOR=#000000]After 11 p.m. that same evening, Barrow called Allen's cell again for six minutes. Following that call, Allen placed a call to an unlisted number, and then a second call to Durell Eskridge, a prep recruit who was known to be a close friend of Freeman's and also his teammate at Miami Central High School. Allen was connected with Eskridge for six minutes, then called Barrow again. Before the night was over, he would speak to Eskridge one more time, then immediately to Barrow, before placing a final one-minute call to Freeman.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=14px][FONT=Georgia][COLOR=#000000]A spokesperson for the Seminoles and Freeman declined comment, standing on the school's policy that players aren't currently available to the media. Eskridge, who plays football at Syracuse, did not return a message left on his cell phone voicemail.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [URL='http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf--hurricanes-coach-al-golden-s-staff-used-booster-s-associate-in-potential-recruiting-violations.html']Yahoo Sports[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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