Razor
10-25-2014, 21:01
Since bad news doesn't get better with age (something the school leadership needs to get "reblued" on):
http://gazette.com/report-west-point-football-team-recruited-high-school-athletes-with-booze-women/article/1540172
Report: West Point football team recruited high school athletes with booze, women
The Army football team wooed recruits this year with an alcohol-fueled party, a dinner date with female cadets, cash from boosters and VIP treatment on a party bus complete with cheerleaders and a police escort, documents obtained by The Gazette show.
The U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., which acknowledged the misconduct to The Gazette, disciplined 20 cadets for promoting underage drinking and other misdeeds and self-reported a recruiting violation to the NCAA. Two officers were reprimanded along with a pair of coaches. Those involved, though, avoided more serious punishments, including dismissal from the academy for cadets and courts-martial for officers.
The football players involved, including Army starting quarterback Angel Santiago, are expected to be on the field at West Point's Michie Stadium when Army takes on the Air Force Academy on Nov. 1.
The nation's oldest military academy said that it dealt with the cadets involved harshly.
"Although seen as a minor infraction by the NCAA, the U.S. Military Academy takes this very seriously and adjudicated this at the highest level of the disciplinary code," West Point said in a statement. "We adjudicated this under Article 10 of the Cadet Disciplinary Code and all cadets appeared before the Commandant's Disciplinary Board."
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http://gazette.com/report-west-point-football-team-recruited-high-school-athletes-with-booze-women/article/1540172
Report: West Point football team recruited high school athletes with booze, women
The Army football team wooed recruits this year with an alcohol-fueled party, a dinner date with female cadets, cash from boosters and VIP treatment on a party bus complete with cheerleaders and a police escort, documents obtained by The Gazette show.
The U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., which acknowledged the misconduct to The Gazette, disciplined 20 cadets for promoting underage drinking and other misdeeds and self-reported a recruiting violation to the NCAA. Two officers were reprimanded along with a pair of coaches. Those involved, though, avoided more serious punishments, including dismissal from the academy for cadets and courts-martial for officers.
The football players involved, including Army starting quarterback Angel Santiago, are expected to be on the field at West Point's Michie Stadium when Army takes on the Air Force Academy on Nov. 1.
The nation's oldest military academy said that it dealt with the cadets involved harshly.
"Although seen as a minor infraction by the NCAA, the U.S. Military Academy takes this very seriously and adjudicated this at the highest level of the disciplinary code," West Point said in a statement. "We adjudicated this under Article 10 of the Cadet Disciplinary Code and all cadets appeared before the Commandant's Disciplinary Board."
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