Yahoo! Sports Report On Miami Contains SEC Names

by Year2 on Aug 16, 2025 6:59 PM EDT in SEC Football

Charles Robinson's promised "10 out of 10" story definitely dropped today, with an unimaginably large amount of allegations leveled at the University of Miami by disgraced booster and Ponzi schemer Nevin Shapiro. We in the media/blogosphere overuse terms like "bombshell" to describe investigative reports, but holy cow, does this one qualify.

The issue in SEC land is that the mess is not solely contained in Coral Gables.

First up are former assistant coaches who Shapiro says knew about his largess towards players and recruits. On that front, he names current UF wide receivers coach Aubrey Hill (allegations), current Alabama offensive line coach Jeff Stoutland (allegations), and current Alabama director of football operations Joe Pannunzio (allegations). All three were hired last winter after Miami fired Randy Shannon and new coach Al Golden chose to not retain many staff members. Alabama and Florida did not make anyone available for comment.

Shapiro also said that he provided some recruits with impermissible benefits who went on to sign with SEC schools. Namely, those guys are Bryce Brown of Tennessee (allegations), Orson Charles of Georgia (allegations), Andre Debose of Florida(allegations) and Matt Patchan of Florida(allegations). Shapiro has been working with the NCAA since April, so they've received a lot, if not all, of his copious documentation. It goes without saying that these guys' past and present eligibility could be in question.

We'll follow this story as it develops, but it's a really big mess for college football.

UPDATE

The University of Florida released a statement regarding Hill:

"While we declined comment for Yahoo’s request, Coach Hill indicated he was very comfortable with, and very confident in how he conducted himself while at the University of Miami."

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You guys have been killing it the past couple of weeks. Great job getting on this “The U” story when it relates to the SEC…

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by ecuamerican on Aug 16, 2025 7:07 PM EDT reply actions

Seconded.

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by The Bull Gator on Aug 16, 2025 8:42 PM EDT up reply actions

This whole thing is insane.

It seems to cross the entire landscape of college football.

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by The Bull Gator on Aug 16, 2025 8:43 PM EDT reply actions

As for the coaches....

What could happen to those assistant coaches if this is all proven? Specifically wondering about the Bama connections in Stoutland and Pannunzio?

Does the NCAA have authority to do anything to them?

by AllTideUp on Aug 16, 2025 9:35 PM EDT reply actions

I wish I knew for sure, given that there’s a new UF assistant who’s included there too.

The worst the NCAA can do is level a show cause penalty, which essentially makes a coach un-employable. I don’t know if anything these guys are alleged to have done is that serious though. That’s the nuclear option for NCAA coaching penalties, and I don’t know if taking a handful of recruits to a booster’s house is enough.

Suspensions, fines and recruiting restrictions are certainly on the table. It’s going to take forever to sort all this out though, so we’re certainly not going to get any clarity before the season starts.

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by Year2 on Aug 16, 2025 9:41 PM EDT up reply actions

McNair got show of cause

because the NCAA claimed he knew about Bush and didn’t tell the school. I guess if the coach knew and didn’t need to tell the school since they knew too, the NCAA might go out of their way and see it differently (or not).

by ev on Aug 16, 2025 10:13 PM EDT up reply actions

Infractions will not follow a coach to the school

but there are good possibilities they will never coach again in the NCAA. I for one hope to see Stoutland and Pannunzio’s contract terminated before day break. If what this guy is saying is true, and it looks very convincing, none of these guys deserve to be coaching any school in the NCAA.

To answer your question AllTideUp, no the infractions committee cannot come after Bama for what coaches have done at another school. What they can do is put investigators on the ground in Tuscaloosa asking questions. A lot of questions. Lets hope they are dealt with swiftly by Saban and Coach Moore.

by davidstory on Aug 16, 2025 9:53 PM EDT up reply actions

Let me just speak for all Georgia fans across the world when I say (re: Orson Charles)...

by vineyarddawg on Aug 16, 2025 9:43 PM EDT reply actions

I don't think Orson Charles deserves anything worse than a two game suspension.

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by GwinnettGamecock on Aug 16, 2025 9:45 PM EDT up reply actions

I say make it 6

and we won’t use Bryce Brown

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by Incipient_Senescence on Aug 16, 2025 11:49 PM EDT up reply actions

I don't see anything in there

Nothing on Charles’ allegations page implies he himself did anything wrong. Looks like Miami could get in trouble for impermissible contact with a boaster, but nowhere does it say he took money or benefits. Looks like he met with him, which is bad (but let’s be serious, not even remotely comparable to most of the charges they’ll face) but he didn’t do anything.

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by blackertai on Aug 17, 2025 2:22 AM EDT up reply actions

I think it could take a while for the NCAA to get to the players outside of Miami.

They’ll want to focus on the issue at home (Miami) first, so it may be some time before they get to those like Charles…if they even go that route. They’ll want to get the most bang for their buck and we all know how long these things take anyway. In the end, they may not get around to doing much to these outside players.

Unless of course there’s a quick “you sit while we figure this out” thing, but that would have to happen across a lot of different programs in a matter of only a couple of days at this point.

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by The Bull Gator on Aug 17, 2025 7:38 AM EDT up reply actions

School

UGA does have responsibility, just like every other school, to make sure that they are playing players the are eligible. I have no idea if Orson Charles or any other of the players named would be eligible or not, but the schools would have to do their due diligence and make sure the individual athletes are eligible. If a school plays a player that they should have known was ineligible, that is where the trouble comes from.

by Kenny483 on Aug 17, 2025 10:29 AM EDT up reply actions

True.

I was thinking from the NCAA standpoint, but from the school side, you are 100% correct.

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by The Bull Gator on Aug 17, 2025 10:45 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions

Can anyone say "Death Penalty"

It’s about to get ugly at the U

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by rocket8188 on Aug 16, 2025 11:07 PM EDT via mobile reply actions

This stuff looks worse than....

what SMU did. If anyone ever deserved the “death penalty” then it’s Miami. I’m not necessarily rooting for them to get it, but it should be bad one way or the other.

by AllTideUp on Aug 19, 2025 3:01 AM EDT up reply actions