FBI arrests Assistant Basketball Coaches in Corruption Scheme

[orangezen]

hope this blows up the NCAA

 

[Cusesky8214]

This is unreal! Talk about entertainment! Sure does explain alot.

 

[AZOrange]

He's made multiple deposits in her...account. Giggity.

Oh dude

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[TexanMark]

I wonder how much jail time these coaches might get, if any, and if they'll be slapped with a show-cause by the NCAA.

The NCAA announced the coaches at Oklahoma A+M, Pacific and Troy will be going to jail as punishment so these big programs never do anything like this again.

 

[Knicks411]

*dumb comment incoming*

what exactly is wire fraud?

18 U.S. Code § 1343 - Fraud by wire, radio, or television

That's the actual law they're being charged with violating, so I suppose the fraud is in paying people to eventually sign with Adidas, right? That's my guess

 

[orangezen]

soon to be an HBO movie

 

[AirForceOrange]

FBI: It's better for to call us, then us to call you when we are ready to charge you...

 

[Frozen]

The FBI gave out a hotline number where you can give the FBI tips about cheating. I'd like to call them to report NC State and Julius Hodge 16 years ago.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[orangezen]

thank the lord we are Nike at this point

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[Madbiker]

The big sneaker companies have been paying off recruits for years to go to their sponsored schools. Pitino howled about this years ago saying he lost out on recruits because of his sneaker affiliation. Finally maybe this will blow this up. I doubt Nike ever paid a kid to go specifically to SU. These are probably top 15-20 kids and we don't get hardly any of those. Apparently they did pay kids to go to Arizona and Book Richardson their top asst recruiter got caught in the dragnet.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[RF2044]

It really makes you wonder about the NCAA - with the nonsense that we were penalized over compared to this. I mean, how does activity like this on a large scale go on under their noses not detected? I can't imagine that there hasn't been a single complaint to the NCAA about this type of activity.

Nope, Joe Blow can get paid $150k to go to school X but we don't know anything about it, but if some Syracuse player gets paid $50 to coach at the Y then blammo!

I sincerely hope the NCAA gets implicated.

Me too. As an enforcement agency, the NCAA is a complete sham. They selectively choose what to enforce and who to go after, and their penalties are arbitrary, capricious, and out of whack with precedent in terms of severity.

Would love to see that fool, Mark Emmert, perish in flames over this. This snake needs it's head cut off.

 

[Knicks411]

18 U.S. Code § 1343 - Fraud by wire, radio, or television

That's the actual law they're being charged with violating, so I suppose the fraud is in paying people to eventually sign with Adidas, right? That's my guess

I'll respond to my own post, assuming this is true (which I have no idea if I'm right or not) it's kind of funny if paying the kids to go to a specific school wasn't the issue as much as them later signing with adidas.

I did some more reading; in fact, the FBI is alleging that in part, the schools were being defrauded! Basically, the asst coaches who set up the payments and hiding them from the schools were allowing the schools to giver scholarships to ineligible players.

 

[Fly Rodder]

I don't understand the desire to see kids paid. If we go to a true free market system, I think SU is dead athletically. We don't have the money that the large public institutions can generate. And we know we dont have the heavy hitter "angel" boosters.

You're right, but there are two parts to this, I think. I don't think college sports should continue to be the minor league system of the NBA and NFL. The system as it is right now is terrible because players don't get properly compensated for the ability and labor and it leads to shady shenanigans like these or giving a college freshman a $100k line of credit at a jewelry store. The value of some exceptionally talented players far exceeds the actual (not nominal) value of a 4-year scholarship. However, the value of most college basketball players isn't all that much (e.g., some players getting bought off for $100k versus some for $5k). RIght now all the revenue, which has sky-rocketed over the last few decades, generated from high end college sports is funneled to administrators and coaches. Ultimately, all players should share in some sort of actual compensation for their labor, but where college sports gets befuddled is when they're all fighting over the top-25 kids (Top-100 football) who could/can make an immediate impact to a team. Get rid of the one-and-dones or high end recruits and more teams that are built and coached over the long-term will be on an even footing.

 

[JDubbin]

Man this is just crazy! Morbidly entertaining to say the least. Just think, after Hopkins left there was a many a poster wanting to pick up Book Richardson to fill the spots... glad we went with Griffin! I think this vindicates JB to some extent for some of the recruiting decisions he's been lambasted for, there's just so much the average poster is completely unaware and uninformed in.

 

[Toga]

NCAA announces they are going after Jerry Tarkanian.

 

[Frozen]

Statement from PONY CEO:

"PONY has not paid any college athletes. We are innocent. Please buy more PONY sneakers."

 

[pearl31]

 

[RF2044]

NCAA announces they are going after Jerry Tarkanian.

I'd be sweating bullets if I were Pacific.

 

[Fly Rodder]

Holy hell, I'd like to be able to eavesdrop at a whole slew of offices right now.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[SUMBA]

*dumb comment incoming*

what exactly is wire fraud?

When you go to the hardware store and pay for 6 gauge wire and they sell you 10 gauge wire.