Talk:Stevenson Field

Disputed edit

To explain a recent edit (by a Brown alum and soccer player): It was never officially acknowledged at the time by Brown University, but it was well known among players and among at least some faculty that Cliff Stevenson was engaging in some form(s) of corruption beginning at least in the 1970s. He pushed the Admissions Office hard to admit students he recruited, portraying them as top talents even though some of those turned out to be barely capable of playing the sport at all. It was speculated at the time that Stevenson may have been engaged in something similar to what in 2019 was exposed by Operation Varsity Blues. He was known for consistently rejecting walk-ons during tryouts, turning those tryouts in a foregone travesty. Varsity players joked about the absurdity of Stevenson's transparent corruption in the process. Stevenson also dressed ringers on a regular basis, sending them into games with the instruction to shore up the team defense while making sure to stay off the scoresheet. At least some of those ringers worked for the University as grounds staff, and were relatively young looking immigrant former pro soccer players. Stevenson would dress these ringers in place of the more incompetent players (whom he would nominally keep on his roster for all 4 years, apparently to disguise the fraud in getting them admitted as top soccer prospects). I witnessed much of this myself, and others connected to the faculty/administration at Brown filled in the gaps before, during, and after my undergrad years. One of my close relatives was highly placed in the administration in the 1970s. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.86.138.101 (talk) 20:03, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

Not a single bit of that meets our WP:RS standard. DMacks (talk) 20:14, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

Stevenson was crooked. I was there and witnessed it.72.86.133.106 (talk) 05:26, 7 April 2020 (UTC)