Zimbra Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 Marvin Bagley, the #1 recruit in the class of 2018, reclassified to class of 2017 and committed to Duke. Sounds like he might never actually play in college as his eligibility is in question and this move was just to get him in the draft a year earlier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zimbra Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Rollie Massimino, who coached Villanova to their first title in 1985, has died at the age of 82. I'm glad he hung around long enough to see them win it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 The University of North Carolina will not visit the White House to celebrate their national championship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zimbra Posted September 26, 2017 Share Posted September 26, 2017 Well that's a hell of a thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Zimbra Posted September 26, 2017 Share Posted September 26, 2017 Sounds like there are two corruption issues: the coaches taking bribes to funnel players to financial advisers and the coaches using apparel companies to funnel bribes to prep athletes to steer them to their schools. So shit could get real bad for these schools. I think a lot of coaches and ADs are about to figure out the difference between an NCAA "investigation" and a real-ass FBI investigation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.K.o.S. Posted September 26, 2017 Share Posted September 26, 2017 Rashan Michel is... a former NCAA and NBA referee, and the founder and operator of a clothing store in Atlanta? OK Zimbra cleared it up a little. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zimbra Posted September 26, 2017 Share Posted September 26, 2017 It was apparently Adidas giving money to HS players to funnel them to Adidas schools. One player's family allegedly got $100K. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supremebve Posted September 26, 2017 Share Posted September 26, 2017 You know what could solve this problem right? Just pay the players. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted September 26, 2017 Share Posted September 26, 2017 Jeez, I remember when the Bradley coaches had to give me a stack of bumper stickers from Nike to hand around to the players.... they literally couldn't do it themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greggulator Posted September 26, 2017 Share Posted September 26, 2017 Louisville's tied into it. Money was funneled to one of their "surprise" recruits. Pitino still somehow has a job despite paying a mistress to have an abortion after they had sex at an Italian restaurant (in an encounter that lasted "less than 15 seconds" as he put it) AND running a team where one of his assistants was paying prostitutes and strippers to party with recruits. Pitino's denying allegations, which is code for "you pay me to leave or I'll sue you and you'll pay me then." College sports are so absurdly sleazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supremebve Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 51 minutes ago, Greggulator said: Louisville's tied into it. Money was funneled to one of their "surprise" recruits. Pitino still somehow has a job despite paying a mistress to have an abortion after they had sex at an Italian restaurant (in an encounter that lasted "less than 15 seconds" as he put it) AND running a team where one of his assistants was paying prostitutes and strippers to party with recruits. Pitino's denying allegations, which is code for "you pay me to leave or I'll sue you and you'll pay me then." College sports are so absurdly sleazy. The prostitutes were paid by the coaching staff and the parties were in the player's dorm. I'll never understand how he survived that one, because that is SLEAZY to the highest degree. Jim Tressel didn't snitch on his players for selling property that belonged to them, and he got ran off after winning a National Championship. That dude had coaches on his staff running hoes in the player's dorm, and he still has a job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greggulator Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 The NCAA is utterly worthless. Like... does it get more disturbing than Penn State? They intentionally looked the other way for decades from a serial child sex abuser. The only real thing that happened was they couldn't go to the San Diego Federal Credit Union Bowl for a few years and lost a few scholarships (eventually restored). Now they're back to number four in the county! Baylor in the course of a decade had a basketball player kill a teammate, which resulted in the head coach trying to get players to lie about the situation in order to prevent a look at his nonsense in getting kids to play for him. (Of course, the assistant he had who was scared to death who taped the conversation as a means of protection was blackmailed.) That was followed a few years later by a string of sexual assaults committed by football players who were allowed to do pretty much whatever they wanted on campus. Like... how does that school possibly justify having sports? The NCAA gave UNC a slap on the wrist for its "academic issues" and then looked really bad after Rashad McCants broke the omerta code and dimed out how the players either enrolled in fake classes or were just given rubber-stamped A's in the major they were steered to. Nothing's been done about any of that. It's a terrible organization. Just friggin' pay players already. They're already getting paid. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 Assistant coaches but the head coaches didn't know what was going on? Come the fuck on.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 Pat Forde: Give Louisville the death penalty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greggulator Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 6 hours ago, Niners Fan in CT said: Assistant coaches but the head coaches didn't know what was going on? Come the fuck on.. I think there's sort of an omerta thing going on. Once you're a head coach, you're above the day-to-day recruiting fray. You show up when you need to close on a player, but there's no talk about money or anything. The assistants act as a bag man but don't keep any of the head coaches in the "This kid needs $100,000 to come here" conversation. And then an assistant will become a head coach at some mid-major, hope they get lucky and have a 20-win season and a first round scalp, and then get to a Power 6 job where they can then look the other way themselves. Some of the college message boards have some really interesting takes as to why some of the blue blood programs (especially Kansas) weren't pegged in this. Andrew Wiggins was probably hooked up by a shoe company and agreed to sign w/ Adidas well before he even agreed to a college. And being that Kansas is a flagship Adidas school, that's where he was going to end up no matter what. I could see the same thing with Coach Cal and Nike (and Worldwide Wes). Cal's a total scumbag (see Camby, Marcus) and can't coach (see New Jersey Nets) but the best AAU programs tend to be Nike affiliated and Kentucky's the brand name for one-and-done kids. And, if a kid needs a little more of a taste, there's always a booster floating about who knows the drill. Duke is in the same boat. They recruit a lot of rich kids who don't need the money. Kyrie Irving's from my hometown and his dad is a big stockbroker. He went to this real preppy high school for a while before moving to St. Patrick's when everyone realized how good he was. And if you want a shot at the NBA, Duke's one of the schools to go to (especially since Coach K is also plugged into USA basketball). And Duke is also a Nike school, and has that pipeline. If you're a Top 20 player, and you're hooked in with Nike, you're going to either Kentucky or Duke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 A person inside the #Louisville athletic department tells me there's an expectation that Pitino (and likely Jurich) will be fired today. — Michael Eaves (@michaeleaves) September 27, 2017 EDIT: Jurich has been FE'd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted September 27, 2017 Author Share Posted September 27, 2017 The ESPN app says Pitino is gone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 Nice to know there's a line for getting fired in College. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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supremebve Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 58 minutes ago, Raziel403 said: Nice to know there's a line for getting fired in College. ...and it isn't running hoes in the dorm. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubbymark Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 So who's going to be stupid enough to hire Rick Pitino, now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabremike Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 3 hours ago, Pete said: Pat Forde: Give Louisville the death penalty. Not defending them (and I know they've done other things), but let me get this straight: Academic fraud (NC): slap on the wrist Knowingly letting a sexual preditor run riot (Ped State): relatively minor penalty. Paying players: DEATH PENALTY!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 To be fair, the death penalty was very much on the table for Penn State. And from what I've seen so far, Louisville was engaging in SMU-level egregious rulebreaking. (That said, just pay these kids already. Christ.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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