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Report: Harrick's players paid at URI Posted: Sunday March 09, 2003 1:55 PMUpdated: Sunday March 09, 2003 4:54 PM SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (SI.com) -- New details surfaced Saturday about Georgia coach Jim Harrick and the NCAA violations he may have committed while he was the head coach at Rhode Island, according to a report in the Providence Journal. Court records from a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by a former employee of Harrick’s detail a sexual assault cover up, where Harrick allegedly paid a member of the women’s program to keep quiet about an assault on her by one of Harrick’s players. The records also indicate that Harrick allegedly committed academic fraud and player payment, according to the newspaper. Christine King, who worked for Harrick from 1997-98 and settled a lawsuit against URI for $45,000, accused Harrick of changing his players’ grades, arranging for players to receive automobiles, cash and housing from boosters, falsifying expense reports and arranging for players’ term papers to be written by other students. The university is currently investigating the charges. Harrick, along with his son, Jim Harrick Jr., has been accused by former Georgia player Tony Cole of academic fraud and player payment. Most of Cole’s accusations focus on Harrick Jr., but Cole did accuse Harrick Sr. of loaning him a credit card so Cole could purchase a television. Harrick was the head coach at URI from 1997-99 before taking the head-coaching job at Georgia in 1999. Before he went to Rhode Island, Harrick was dismissed as UCLA’s head coach for lying about expense reports after winning a national championship for the Bruins in 1995. |
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