Col. Bleep
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Basically no one involved with the Wall Street fraud that crashed the economy in 2007-08 has ever seen a jail cell, but Tony Bland may lose six months of his life for taking $4100.
While that of course is true, it isn’t really a reason to feel sorry for Tony Bland, Book Richardson or anyone else caught up in this prosecution. Bland wasn’t some poor kid with no money. USC hired him in 2013 for $250k a year. Unfortunately that wasn’t enough and he chose to take money for something he should have been doing for free with the kids interests, and not his, as his primary motivation.
I’m not saying I necessarily feel sorry for Bland. He knew what the rules were and he broke them. I just think there is fundamentally wrong with using God knows how much taxpayer money to investigate and try this case, all for what? To make sure college athletes don’t get a piece of the pie. I would rather that same money go toward something real, like combating human trafficking.
While that of course is true, it isn’t really a reason to feel sorry for Tony Bland, Book Richardson or anyone else caught up in this prosecution. Bland wasn’t some poor kid with no money. USC hired him in 2013 for $250k a year. Unfortunately that wasn’t enough and he chose to take money for something he should have been doing for free with the kids interests, and not his, as his primary motivation.
While that of course is true, it isn’t really a reason to feel sorry for Tony Bland, Book Richardson or anyone else caught up in this prosecution. Bland wasn’t some poor kid with no money. USC hired him in 2013 for $250k a year. Unfortunately that wasn’t enough and he chose to take money for something he should have been doing for free with the kids interests, and not his, as his primary motivation.
tony bland is expected to get probation and no jail time.
even though, i still feel bad for him. he got caught in a corrupt system for $4100 and lost his livelihood.
so this is the big scalp of that investigation?
Exactly. I don't care much about shoe companies slipping money to kids to play at specific colleges. But coaches shouldn't be taking money to steer unaware kids toward financial advisors.Prosecuting this and prosecuting human traffickers are not mutually exclusive, the government isn’t resource poor.
And this prosecution isn’t about preventing college kids from getting a piece of the pie. It’s about college coaches selling their players to the highest bidder. Not much different than AAU coaches taking cash to deliver players to a particular school. The kids aren’t benefiting, they are being taken advantage of.