FBI arrests Assistant Basketball Coaches in Corruption Scheme

[Sherman20]

Latest scandal smells like prosecutorial overreach
Charlie Pierce is one of the few media guys that get it. Apparently Joe Nocera too. But most CBB reporters outside of Jay Bilas just continue to peddle the NCAA's amateurism BS and spout pious platitudes about their shock at the rampant cheating going on in CBB. Dicky V has been so overcome he's practically been calling for the smelling salts and fainting couch. I'm most irritated by all the faux outrage emanating from the offices of the college presidents, conference commissioners, ADs, and NCAA pencilnecks. They are well aware of the existence of this black market/ underground economy in college football and basketball and that the shoe companies and TV networks are their real overlords. But of course they see any talk of ending their amateurism charade and instituting real reform and finally paying players as threatening their own profits.

 

[pearl31]

Latest scandal smells like prosecutorial overreach
Charlie Pierce is one of the few media guys that get it. Apparently Joe Nocera too. But most CBB reporters outside of Jay Bilas just continue to peddle the NCAA's amateurism BS and spout pious platitudes about their shock at the rampant cheating going on in CBB. Dicky V has been so overcome he's practically been calling for the smelling salts and fainting couch. I'm most irritated by all the faux outrage emanating from the offices of the college presidents, conference commissioners, ADs, and NCAA pencilnecks. They are well aware of the existence of this black market/ underground economy in college football and basketball and that the shoe companies and TV networks are their real overlords. But of course they see any talk of ending their amateurism charade and instituting real reform and finally paying players as threatening their own profits.

well said (and, yes, that's a good article)

 

[Zelda Zonk]

Shocked you say? well here is the DEFIBRILLATOR

might help

Why are there vegetables on it? Fail.

 

[texascpa]

Latest scandal smells like prosecutorial overreach
Charlie Pierce is one of the few media guys that get it. Apparently Joe Nocera too. But most CBB reporters outside of Jay Bilas just continue to peddle the NCAA's amateurism BS and spout pious platitudes about their shock at the rampant cheating going on in CBB. Dicky V has been so overcome he's practically been calling for the smelling salts and fainting couch. I'm most irritated by all the faux outrage emanating from the offices of the college presidents, conference commissioners, ADs, and NCAA pencilnecks. They are well aware of the existence of this black market/ underground economy in college football and basketball and that the shoe companies and TV networks are their real overlords. But of course they see any talk of ending their amateurism charade and instituting real reform and finally paying players as threatening their own profits.

hmmm...I went into reading this article with some level of skepticism, but he makes some compelling arguments. it's probably why I'd never make for a good judge, I can be easily swayed.

 

[billsin01]

you should be. in the end, the power is ours.

True but I get what he's saying. If I were innocent and had to rely on a jury of my peers to determine my fate, I'd be terrified.

 

[billsin01]

hmmm...I went into reading this article with some level of skepticism, but he makes some compelling arguments. it's probably why I'd never make for a good judge, I can be easily swayed.

I think being open to alternative viewpoints is a good thing. Although maybe that's because I'm easily swayed also. Lol.

 

[retro44]

The two men who could bring down college basketball

 

[retro44]

Why are there vegetables on it? Fail.

They're fake...

 

[Hoo's That]

Shocked you say? well here is the DEFIBRILLATOR

might help

I felt several capillaries clog up just looking at it.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[Sherman20]

The two men who could bring down college basketball

This story should scare the pants off of every CBB fan. Sounds like Gatto and especially Merl Code know where all the bodies are buried at Adidas and Nike and at schools across the country. I really hope JB and our assistants stayed out of any shady $ dealings happening with players we recruited here.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

This story should scare the pants off of every CBB fan. Sounds like Gatto and especially Merl Code know where all the bodies are buried at Adidas and Nike and at schools across the country. I really hope JB and our assistants stayed out of any shady $ dealings happening with players we recruited here.

I'm not even worried about it. If it comes tumbling down, it's happening to everyone.

 

[Hoo's That]

The only way that the HS coaches get power back is for the NCAA to ban all traveling teams in all sports that are played at the local school. You either play for your school or you will not be eligible to play in the NCAA. The NCAA has not had much love for the big AAU for a long, long time. If you look at who's won the Sullivan Award, given to the "best amateur athlete" of the year, none of the winners got the award for what they did in an NCAA sport. Jim Ryun didn't win it for his track meets at Kansas.

 

[cuseinseattle]

The two men who could bring down college basketball

This is a Thames article. You made me click it. How dare you.

 

[moqui]

i was thinking about this today . . . back in 2011, us govt agents raided bernie fine's house, seized his computer and thousands of pages of documents. bernie was the bookkeeper - if there was any evidence of su playing the sneaker money game, it would have been in those documents or on that computer. of course that doesn't cover the six years since bernie was fired, but su was under investigation and/or probation for all that time and was likely being scrupulously clean anyway. this memory made me much more confident that su will remain in the clear as further details emerge from the federal investigation

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

The only way that the HS coaches get power back is for the NCAA to ban all traveling teams in all sports that are played at the local school. You either play for your school or you will not be eligible to play in the NCAA. The NCAA has not had much love for the big AAU for a long, long time. If you look at who's won the Sullivan Award, given to the "best amateur athlete" of the year, none of the winners got the award for what they did in an NCAA sport. Jim Ryun didn't win it for his track meets at Kansas.

By and large, HS coaches are not very good, compared to full time coaches. Our HS soccer coach wins, because of the players that have been developed by clubs, not because of his coaching. The goalie coach is useless. College coaches go see club tournaments, because HS soccer stinks.

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

i was thinking about this today . . . back in 2011, us govt agents raided bernie fine's house, seized his computer and thousands of pages of documents. bernie was the bookkeeper - if there was any evidence of su playing the sneaker money game, it would have been in those documents or on that computer. of course that doesn't cover the six years since bernie was fired, but su was under investigation and/or probation for all that time and was likely being scrupulously clean anyway. this memory made me much more confident that su will remain in the clear as further details emerge from the federal investigation

If he didn't keep his porn on the computer, he would not have kept track of the money there.

Too soon?

 

[cuseinseattle]

By and large, HS coaches are not very good, compared to full time coaches. Our HS soccer coach wins, because of the players that have been developed by clubs, not because of his coaching. The goalie coach is useless. College coaches go see club tournaments, because HS soccer stinks.

Good players make the difference. Welcome to sports on any level. Players matter that is why coaches are paying them 100k.

 

[NYCSUGrad]

I am a lawyer.

It's not entrapment.

This is why lawyers are terrified of juries.

I'm a court clerk. I've sat in on hundreds of voir dires and yes, there's a reason why jury experts get the big bucks for high profile cases. And even then, they're only guessing the outcome, albeit with a good deal of intelligence.

One time I served as a juror was very instructive. It was a NYPD officer suing the MTA for an injury during a blackout. The cop was so unlikable that it's a good thing in NYS civil jurors can be 5-1 because one woman hated him so much she gave him zero bucks. The rest of us gave him a little more than a million, which was much lower than he asked for, basically because the MTA had been extremely negligent in providing for equipment and whatnot during the blackout. But I know I WOULD have liked to have given him zero!

 

[OburgOrange]

http://nypost.com/2017/09/30/father-of-ex-louisville-star-my-son-was-offered-100k-from-rival/

 

[Cheriehoop]

By and large, HS coaches are not very good, compared to full time coaches. Our HS soccer coach wins, because of the players that have been developed by clubs, not because of his coaching. The goalie coach is useless. College coaches go see club tournaments, because HS soccer stinks.

I doubt the issue is Club or AAU sports in itself but how they are financed by the sneaker companies. Many of these kids have 'handlers' well before college. The problem is that a player's relationships with agents and shoe companies doesn't start in college - it just continues into college.

 

[AlaskaSU]

http://nypost.com/2017/09/30/father-of-ex-louisville-star-my-son-was-offered-100k-from-rival/

Except that Pitino was caught talking to Adidas at very suspicious times.

 

[AlaskaSU]

Latest scandal smells like prosecutorial overreach
Charlie Pierce is one of the few media guys that get it. Apparently Joe Nocera too. But most CBB reporters outside of Jay Bilas just continue to peddle the NCAA's amateurism BS and spout pious platitudes about their shock at the rampant cheating going on in CBB. Dicky V has been so overcome he's practically been calling for the smelling salts and fainting couch. I'm most irritated by all the faux outrage emanating from the offices of the college presidents, conference commissioners, ADs, and NCAA pencilnecks. They are well aware of the existence of this black market/ underground economy in college football and basketball and that the shoe companies and TV networks are their real overlords. But of course they see any talk of ending their amateurism charade and instituting real reform and finally paying players as threatening their own profits.

Stupid article, save your time. Simply argues that everyone does it so it is not a crime. The author did not learn anything in kindergarten.

 

[pearl31]

Stupid article, save your time. Simply argues that everyone does it so it is not a crime. The author did not learn anything in kindergarten.

lol ok