Dogs fans show heart, but . . .
NCAA won't let them pay for dad's trip to game
By CHIP TOWERS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 08/11/05
ATHENS — A group of Georgia football fans took up a collection to pay
for a Boise State player's father to fly from Baghdad to see his son
play against the Bulldogs in Athens.
But the NCAA rule book got in the way.
Dan Miller, father of Broncos sophomore guard Tad Miller, is a retired
police lieutenant who is training Iraqi police officers.
When Sam Hendrix of Signal Mountain, Tenn. — "suthndawg" to his fellow
Georgia fans on the Dawgvent, an Internet message board — read a story
in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution about the Millers, he started an
online movement to raise the $2,700 it will cost Dad to make it to
Sanford Stadium to see his son play in the home opener Sept. 3.
"Within moments of suthndawg's post, there were 25 to 50 people who
offered to pledge money," said Ryan Crowe, a 25-year-old legal
assistant from Atlanta who offered to collect and distribute the funds.
"It just took off from there."
But when Crowe checked with the two schools, he was told the UGA fans'
generosity would be a violation of NCAA bylaws regarding extra benefits
and expenses for student athletes and their families.
"Ironically, by providing this money, these [Georgia] fans would in
effect become Boise State boosters," said Amy Chisholm, UGA's assistant
athletics director for compliance. The NCAA defines a booster as "a
representative of an institution's athletics interests."
Yet somebody in Mobile with all kinds of ties to UcheaT can send cash to
Tee Martin and Roy Adams can blab all over the place about money he's
provided
to kids from "other" schools and they're not considered boosters....
NCAA spokeswoman Gail Dent did not have an immediate response to
questions about the situation Wednesday.
Well of course not
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