NCAA BASKETBALL CORRUPTION SCHEME

cyputz

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Welll .... FBI can sure track message boards. Interesting how that comes out. Will not be first time.
 
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jbindm

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Just hit me what this story is missing so far: A loud public denial by a prominent coach. Something angry, intense, maybe with finger-pointing and definitely tons of self-righteous references to decades of building a reputation.

Someone needs to get out there and make this happen.


Sounds like a job for Coach K.
 
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Just hit me what this story is missing so far: A loud public denial by a prominent coach. Something angry, intense, maybe with finger-pointing and definitely tons of self-righteous references to decades of building a reputation.

Someone needs to get out there and make this happen.
The first coach who does that is the next person the FBI look at.
 

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Incredibly, Jay Williams today was heaping all the blame for the corruption scandal on the NCAA. His take is that it's their fault for allowing the shoe companies on campus and cutting deals/increasing salaries with coaches. I LOL when he said you shouldn't even call this a "scandal".
 

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Incredibly, Jay Williams today was heaping all the blame for the corruption scandal on the NCAA. His take is that it's their fault for allowing the shoe companies on campus and cutting deals/increasing salaries with coaches. I LOL when he said you shouldn't even call this a "scandal".

Yet for years the Oregon & Nike relationship has been celebrated....
 

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Incredibly, Jay Williams today was heaping all the blame for the corruption scandal on the NCAA. His take is that it's their fault for allowing the shoe companies on campus and cutting deals/increasing salaries with coaches. I LOL when he said you shouldn't even call this a "scandal".

interesting.
 
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Clonefan32

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Incredibly, Jay Williams today was heaping all the blame for the corruption scandal on the NCAA. His take is that it's their fault for allowing the shoe companies on campus and cutting deals/increasing salaries with coaches. I LOL when he said you shouldn't even call this a "scandal".

I do blame NCAA amateurism for a lot of this. You take kids who have extraordinary talent that in any other aspect of life they'd be able to cash in on monetarily, and you force them into amateur status. Couple that with many kids coming from relatively poor families and being one knee injury away from never cashing in on that talent, you can see the desire to "strike why the iron is hot." Couple that with the big money involved in coaching and this was all bound to happen.
 
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My son has a cross country meet in Louisville this Saturday...town might be a tad somber this weekend. I can attest that cross country is not a sport where recruits can expect big checks and visits by shoe reps...

I don't know, I hear ISU has payed the dad of a cross country recruit millions of dollars.
 

rholtgraves

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Don't know if anyone else say this, but saw a tweet that said Illini officials very much aware that Underwood could be impacted by this because of Lamont Evans. And that there is a new rule where sanctions follow a coach and that a head coach is responsible for his assistants.
 

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I do blame NCAA amateurism for a lot of this. You take kids who have extraordinary talent that in any other aspect of life they'd be able to cash in on monetarily, and you force them into amateur status. Couple that with many kids coming from relatively poor families and being one knee injury away from never cashing in on that talent, you can see the desire to "strike why the iron is hot." Couple that with the big money involved in coaching and this was all bound to happen.

Is it the NCAA's fault that the NFL and NBA don't let kids go professional immediately out of high school?