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2. I've read about the student manager, who got blamed

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Soon after, the school came out with a statement saying the still-unknown student manager “immediately” admitted he deflated the footballs “without the knowledge of, or instruction from, any USC student-athlete, coach, staff member or administrator.”

In the school’s view, that settled it. The student manager had acted alone.

“The compliance department obviously did a very thorough check and research of everything involved to make sure that there was no knowledge of any coaches or players knowing anything about this,” then-head coach Lane Kiffin said at the time.

That’s right. The school said the student manager just randomly decided to deflate the team’s footballs without indication from anyone else that the team might prefer them that way. The student manager was promptly fired. The football program was handed a $25,000 fine.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/28/usc-deflategate_n_6562964.html