Posted on 05/11/2020 2:57:04 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
The lawsuit against Zion Williamson is an L for Duke and yet another one for major college hoops.
Let’s be real, hardly anyone cares if Zion received anything from Duke. But on the other end, there are plenty of people who are probably salivating at crushing the Blue Devils, if only so they can rub it in Coach K’s face to say he isn’t as pristine as his reputation.
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Zion went to high school right next to where my parents lived. I have been following his career for years. I do not at all begrudge him making money from his basketball ability. In fact, I hope he makes plenty.
However, if the schools who are successfully recruiting all the top athletes are cheating, they must be exposed and the penalties must be harsh enough to make the cheating schools, if they exist, want to become honest.
Name another school that would allow the "degree" program UNCheat ran, get caught and nothing happen to them.
Duke has long been paying their players and openly doing so.
This isn't breaking news.
Add KU and UK to that group.
College Division 1 sports have got a curruption factor. I go back to Tree Rollins at Clemson. Got paid 40,000 dollars to play at Clemson and what is the big deal about that? And that was long long ago. And there is the story from Irv Brown and Joe Williams from a radio show in Denver. College basketball player is loosing at a game of chance. Makes a phone call. Needs a new pair of shoes. 20 minutes a new shoe box with a new pair of shoes arrives. 20,000$ is in the shoe box. Big money is big money. 20% of the College Teams go to the playoffs and the other 80% are running honest programs.
The problem with paying players and hiding it is they can now be blackmailed into throwing games or shaving points. I would bet my house it is happening already.
But nothing will happen regarding NC’s Roy Williams’ and Duke’s cheating.
UK, I don't know about. I know Cal's rep and UK's past.
I think if anyone had dirt on them it'd be out by now.
UNCheat....preach it.
Us rednecks who dun went to skool in Raleigh been fuming about that for years.
GO WOLFPACK! ChE ‘85
Puke on Duke! And UNCheat.
UMD MSME ‘92.
UNC got busted for having no-show, no-work classes for athletes.
Their defense: Hey, we’re just a crappy school!
And it worked.
We used to say two things at NC State:
What’s the first thing a Carolina girl does in the morning? Walk home from Raleigh.
And....Better Ag than phag.
And Dean Smith was venerated...
Right up there with John Wooden.
I graduated from Tucson High School in 1955. We had a substitute teacher who had played on the University of Arizona basketball team. He told us about a time when CCNY was a big basketball powerhouse and they got caught throwing a game to the UA. He showed us a film of that game and it was funny to watch. A CCNY player would start to dribble and then just throw the ball to an Arizona player.
UK doesn’t have to cheat. Kids know they only have play one year, and will be assured to be a top draft pick.
My guess is that Gonzaga is one of the few clean programs. They don’t need to cheat. They get top-quality recruits and transfers because they know the coaching and environment are great. Over the past 5-6 years, they’ve put a lot of players in the NBA, a few of them All-Stars.
Remember, it was Dook, under the leadership of Dick Broadhead, that allowed their lacrosse team to be indicted by a crooked prosecutor after absurd rape accusations were made by a drunk prostitute. They fired the coach. Students and community rabble-rousers rallied and held marches brandishing signs with slogans like “Castrate Them!” Al Sharpton came down.Corporate media had a field day. Broadhead threw the accused students out.
Eventually the players were exonerated and sued the college. Dook quickly settled out of court and they speculate the deal was up to 20 million for each player, but the coach never got his job back.
There’s a book about it. I don’t’ recall the author but the title was “It’s not About the Truth.” Broadhead hated sports and wanted to use this as a pretext for ending that program. Evidently he adjusted his position to accommodate the more lucrative ones.
Whenever you hear of that place, remember this.
Wasn't the catalyst for all this investigation the word on the street that Oregon had really upped the ante for Brian Bowen, Jr. and the others were responding to this apparently credible news? How come Oregon has seemingly gotten a pass on this? The dirty programs know who the other dirty ones are. Wasn't that long ago that Chip Kelly was the sacrificial lamb when their football program got caught using street agents to steer players to Eugene at a time when Oregon was already under probation for violations in other programs.
Wooden cheated as well. Remember Sam Gilbert?
Yes I do. To bad the ncaa doesn’t.
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