Posted on 09/26/2017 9:45:17 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
The worst-kept secret in college basketball is how coaches, sneaker executives, sports agents, travel-team coaches and financial advisers, often through under-the-table payments, steer top high school talent first to NCAA programs and later to apparel brands and professional representation once they enter the NBA.
Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York blew this shadowy world open in ways that have never before been seen, indicting 10 men, including active assistant basketball coaches at Arizona, Auburn, Oklahoma State and USC, plus an executive for adidas, in a widespread case that is sure to rock college basketball to its core.
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In no sport is the willingness to cheat so closely associated with success as in college basketball. It is a shame because the NCAA tournament should be the greatest month of sports in the country.
Jerry Tarkanian said something about the NCAA being so mad at Kentucky they gave Cleveland State an extra year of probation.
How is any of this a “crime”? Yes, the NCAA has rules that allow them to exploit college students, making big money for schools at the expense of the freedom of the players to market themselves.
But how did we get to where the government has laws that HELP the NCAA do this? Why is it a CRIME for a college student to sell their name to a shoe company?
When I got into my 300-level econ classes, college finally began to be a challenge to me. I never understood how the “student-athletes” could show up to class once per week, at best, and still pass.
I ended up rooming with a basketball player and he had an attractive “TA” assigned to him. She did his homework. What a scam...
I’m sure there are rules - but also laws, federal laws even? I would’ve thought this would be more of a civil matter rather than a federal criminal case that the FBI need allocate their stretched resources to (WHAT ISLAMIC TERRORISM?).
The bad new is that, because he was one of about 40 black Ph.D. econ grads that year, he had offers everywhere, from coast-to-coast, at high caliber schools. He picked a well-known school in FL and the rest of us were stunned, since there were so many other better schools with offers. We asked him: Why FL? His answer: Because it's in the South. On the positive side, that chip on his shoulder didn't let him play the race card hard enough as he failed to keep either of his first two teaching positions for longer than two years and disappeared after that.
AG Sessions was at Georgetown Law School today, giving a talk about how bad it is that free speech is being extinguished in colleges and universities.
I'm one of the Freepers who's unequivocally a supporter of AG Sessions. He's very careful and methodical with legal matters, leading to things moving too slowly and too carefully for some people's taste. But I like that, a lot. President Trump has so many enemies in the DC Sewer (swamp is too kind). The only way to move things forward is if they're very carefully researched and laid out. Who but AG Sessions has that deep respect and knowledge of the law?
I respect your opinion and your stance on this. But is this really the biggest fish the foremost law enforcement agency in the US has to fry at this point in time? Is their primary purview policing a degeneration of the rules governing “youths” trying to throw a ball through a hoop? That won’t change the attitude of said “youths” in any way at all, IMHO.
Nothing will happen, unless they don’t know how to play the game.
I mean, they let Penn State keep their football program, what can they do to NC State?
Did you keep your job?
Heck, my wife got that line at a local high school. She just laughed and said “I will make you famous if you keep this up!”
I did. In fact, I was made department chairman two years later, mainly because I could talk to the "old school" and "young bucks" in the department. After four years, I asked to be promoted to associate. The Dean's question: "How old are you?" I said: "Twenty-nine. Why?" He said: "I didn't make associate until I was 32. Neither will you." That's when I left.
The NCAA is in collusion I think as well. They’ve let this go on for decades.
I am the most uninterested person in the world when it comes to sports. But even I have been aware of this corruption for decades. I think there’ve been TV movies made about it.
Maybe we’ll see a resurgence in baseball considering all that’s out there about basketball and football now.
Apples don’t fall far them the tree: from link: “2017 was a banner year for the NFL with three times as many arrests as last year.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3589168/posts
Along with the usual drunk driving and disorderly conduct arrests, there were 7 arrests for assault/battery, 6 for drugs and 5 for domestic violence.
The Seattle Seahawks announced that they weren’t going to “participate in the national anthem” because of the “injustice that has plagued people of color in this country”. While they lost that game, they are one of the top ranked teams in arrests. Alongside the Los Angeles Rams, the Green Bay Packers and the New York Jets, all of whom showed some solidarity with the anti-American protests, these top NFL criminal teams have racked up arrests for domestic violence, drugs, DUI and assault and battery.
Is it any wonder they think the justice system is unfair? They’re criminals.
Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall was one of the early players to reject the Anthem. The Broncos supported his actions. As his teams have supported him during nine domestic violence accusations.
Did any of the women he stabbed, punched or choked have any choice about taking a knee?
It’s no wonder that so many of the NFL’s millionaire scumbags are eager to join Colin Kaepernick’s protests against the justice system by degrading our anthem.
It’s because they’re criminals.”
Maybe the NCAA will investigate Hillary’s emails or Loretta lynch.
Pitino fired from Louisville.
Is Calipari next?
“I predict that University of North Carolina basketball will be exonerated.”
LOL! You’re probably correct about that.
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