CORRECTION
Edited by Gay Flood
April 15, 1985
In the story A Troubled Star Begins To Shine (April 1), it was reported that Jacksonville Bulls running back Mike Rozier had confessed that he received payments of $200 a month from Nebraska alumni while playing for the Cornhuskers. That is erroneous. Rozier had been quoted by a Pittsburgh newspaper in early 1984 as saying, "I had some people send me money. Some alumni helped me out." But he subsequently explained that he had meant that only people from his hometown of Camden, N.J. had sent him money and that alums had, on occasion, invited him to dinner. Rozier did receive $206 from Nebraska in monthly expense money for housing and meals, but these payments, which other Husker scholarship athletes also received, were permissible under NCAA rules.
In the story A Troubled Star Begins To Shine (April 1), it was reported that Jacksonville Bulls running back Mike Rozier had confessed that he received payments of $200 a month from Nebraska alumni while playing for the Cornhuskers. That is erroneous. Rozier had been quoted by a Pittsburgh newspaper in early 1984 as saying, "I had some people send me money. Some alumni helped me out." But he subsequently explained that he had meant that only people from his hometown of Camden, N.J. had sent him money and that alums had, on occasion, invited him to dinner. Rozier did receive $206 from Nebraska in monthly expense money for housing and meals, but these payments, which other Husker scholarship athletes also received, were permissible under NCAA rules.