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NCAA Hoops corruption, fbi, oh my....

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  • vintagefunvintagefun Posts: 1,974 ✭✭✭

    52-90 All Sports, Mostly Topps, Mostly HOF, and some assorted wax.
  • DrBusterDrBuster Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Didn't Nick Nolte and Shaq basically make a movie about this like 25 years ago.

  • LarkinCollectorLarkinCollector Posts: 8,975 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Does this shock anyone?

  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @LarkinCollector said:
    Does this shock anyone?

    Nope.

    M

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  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Louisville might be reaping the death penalty if these charges prove true. Pitino a life time ban

    Mark

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  • TNP777TNP777 Posts: 5,710 ✭✭✭

    Other people named in the documents include:

    • James Gatto, director of global sports marketing at Adidas; (OUCH!)

    • Merl Code, who recently left Nike for Adidas;

    • Christian Dawkins, an NBA agent who was fired in May from ASM Sports for charging approximately $42,000 in Uber charges on a player's credit card; (dumbass)

    • Jonathan Brad Augustine, president of The League Initiative and program director of the Adidas-sponsored 1 Family AAU program;

    • Munish Sood, a financial adviser;

    • Rashan Michel, a former NBA official who founded Thompson Bespoke Clothing, a custom clothier for athletes.

  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 26, 2017 4:37PM

    Arizona assistant coach Book Richardson charged.

    Wonder if Sean Miller will be next...

  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Five million dollar coach and unpaid players. Corruption is bound to fill the vacuum.

  • bronco2078bronco2078 Posts: 10,201 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Now this is a crusade of yours I can get behind. These college sports need to be shut down ( except for the women's volleyball obviously).

  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Arizona is a quality school. After Lute's departure they decided that it was important to return the basketball program to a top ten level. I still scratch my head at the quasi secret alumni fund that vests the head coaches with "shares" worth multiple millions of dollars.

    The shakeout will be interesting.

  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Pitino and Louiseville AD gone.

    There is a God

    mark

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  • TNP777TNP777 Posts: 5,710 ✭✭✭

    This could get ugly. I’ve got to imagine that there are a LOT of nervous programs right now and lots of people are lawyering up.

    I’m not going to rejoice that Pitino is gone, but I’m not sad, either. I personally think he’s about as slimy as they come and am surprised he’s lasted this long.

  • bronco2078bronco2078 Posts: 10,201 ✭✭✭✭✭

    U of A basketball is yuuggggeeeeeeeee> @Justacommeman said:

    Pitino and Louiseville AD gone.

    There is a God

    mark

    Wasn't Pitino providing prostitutes for players a while back? Its no wonder he couldn't handle the NBA , if the players can afford their own hookers and blow what do they need him for ?

  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

    so there's a reason why some of these schools are historically the best, it's called cheating.

  • SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 12,098 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yawn.

    This has been going on since high schools and colleges chose to field bastletball teams. It also happens at the middle school and even at the elementary school levels. Kids as young as 6 years old who play hoops and stand out above their peers talentwise get noticed. Grown ups latch on to these kids in the hope that one of them will make it big and become a meal ticket.

    I am sure this happens world wide. Talent gets noticed and when talent earns money, many people will be doing whatever they can to get some of the money.

    In the 60's and 70's the star players on UCLA'steams lived very well.

  • dbtunrdbtunr Posts: 614 ✭✭✭

    @keets said:
    so there's a reason why some of these schools are historically the best, it's called cheating.

    Now if we can tie all this cheating to the Red Sox and Patriots it will be a glorious day ;)

  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The homer talk radio airheads are trying to convince themselves that Sean Miller is in no way involved with the Arizona scandal. Assistant Richardson came with him from Xavier. For 10 years these guys are essentially bunk mates for 6 or 7 months a year and no way would Miller wonder why all these 4 and 5 star recruits are showing up at his doorstep?

    Yeesh.

  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Agree Mark. All the assistants are going to roll over. At the very least the coaches knew

    m

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  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

    for decades I have looked at organized sports like this:
    High School --- Amateurs.
    College --- Professionals.
    Pro Sports --- Entertainers.

    everyone pretty much knows that College recruits are given enticements and taken care of, things like this only serve to remove the pretense. the NCAA should just put some regulating body in place and allow it to happen in plain sight so things might be a little more fair for all member schools.

  • larryallen73larryallen73 Posts: 6,061 ✭✭✭

    @SanctionII said:

    ....

    In the 60's and 70's the star players on UCLA'steams lived very well.

    Yes, Sam Gilbert was a UCLA dropout, turned contractor, who paid the players while saintly Wooden played dumb. I am a big UCLA fan but there is no doubt UCLA won 10 championships in 12 years with some cheating... but presumably everybody else was cheating too they just did it better!?

  • galaxy27galaxy27 Posts: 7,767 ✭✭✭✭✭

    a slug dipped in a bucket of snot is less slimy than rick pitino

    you'll never be able to outrun a bad diet

  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I predict that Sean Miller is gone by next Friday.

  • larryallen73larryallen73 Posts: 6,061 ✭✭✭

    What other head coaches might go down?

  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 8,997 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Not much new here. As always follow the $$$ for your answers.

    Successful transactions:Tookybandit. "Everyone is equal, some are more equal than others".
  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Local press keeps harping how Miller is innocent. I get that they are beholden to the University but at the very least, he's benefitted immensely from the corruption of his hired hands.

    Sean is paid $100,000 a week and 5 days in has not uttered a word.

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