Arrests coming to NCAA BB programs and apparel firm!!
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Arrests coming to NCAA BB programs and apparel firm!!
From the Wall Street Journal:
Federal law-enforcement officials are expected to arrest at least a half-dozen people and unseal charges Tuesday as part of a wide-ranging investigation into alleged bribery and kickback schemes at several of the country’s top-tier college basketball programs, people familiar with the matter said.
Investigators have been looking at whether coaches at these schools have been paid by outside entities—such as financial advisers, agents, and apparel compa-nies—in exchange for pressur-ing players to associate with those entities, people famil-iar with the investigation said. Executives at at least one apparel company are expected to be among those arrested, a person familiar with the matter said.
The investigation is being led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Manhat-tan U.S. Attorney’s office.
Broadly, the investigation has shed light on the highly competitive recruiting pipeline that brings elite high-school basketball players through Division I college programs and into the professional leagues, and the role played by assistant coaches in that process, the people said.
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http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basket ... corruption
Coaches from Arizona, USC, Auburn and OK St
involved.
Coaches from Arizona, USC, Auburn and OK St
involved.
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Hmmm... I can think of a couple suspect commitments
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Coaches at Arizona, USC, OK State and Auburn. I believe the first three are Nike and Auburn is Under Armour but an Adidas exec was arrested. Interesting.
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Brian Bowen at UL is being involved with Pitino ... maybe a reason Oregon cooled on him?
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$100K in four $25k installments but Pitino was “lucky”.justducky0 wrote:Brian Bowen at UL is being involved with Pitino ... maybe a reason Oregon cooled on him?
Not sure why sports media/fans are acting so surprised. Have they had their heads buried in the sand for the past 10 years? Why do they think sports apparel companies are sponsoring top flight AAU teams, dropping hundreds of thousands of dollars?
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Nike looped into this as well. Head of Youth Basketball a part of the Adidas exec’s indictment. Yikes.
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I have just seen on twitter but I think this is going to be pretty big. Hopefully Oregon has kept out of it.
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and we thought guys like Sonny Vaccaro were bad for the game.Duck24 wrote:$100K in four $25k installments but Pitino was “lucky”.justducky0 wrote:Brian Bowen at UL is being involved with Pitino ... maybe a reason Oregon cooled on him?
Not sure why sports media/fans are acting so surprised. Have they had their heads buried in the sand for the past 10 years? Why do they think sports apparel companies are sponsoring top flight AAU teams, dropping hundreds of thousands of dollars?
I really think the answer to this, especially for basketball, is to simply create Elite Global Academies to pay these kids to play ball against other international talent and place the education emphasis on more personalized teaching. In essence, expand what Brandon Jennings did by bypassing college and allow them a more structured system that caters to teaching the game. Digital Broadcasting platforms are becoming so vast that there a lots of ways to capitalize on the games and pay them. Like Menudo for basketball players, once you're 19/20 you can't be in the band anymore.
The whole "student-athlete" narrative for some sports is such an utter joke that it's not even worth trying to argue for anymore so something new is probably the best way to go.
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Lol so good.justducky0 wrote:
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So some more Prime Time Prep and IMG Academies. Cardale wasn’t wrong, they didn’t go to college to “play school” so why make them?Duck07 wrote:and we thought guys like Sonny Vaccaro were bad for the game.Duck24 wrote:$100K in four $25k installments but Pitino was “lucky”.justducky0 wrote:Brian Bowen at UL is being involved with Pitino ... maybe a reason Oregon cooled on him?
Not sure why sports media/fans are acting so surprised. Have they had their heads buried in the sand for the past 10 years? Why do they think sports apparel companies are sponsoring top flight AAU teams, dropping hundreds of thousands of dollars?
I really think the answer to this, especially for basketball, is to simply create Elite Global Academies to pay these kids to play ball against other international talent and place the education emphasis on more personalized teaching. In essence, expand what Brandon Jennings did by bypassing college and allow them a more structured system that caters to teaching the game. Digital Broadcasting platforms are becoming so vast that there a lots of ways to capitalize on the games and pay them. Like Menudo for basketball players, once you're 19/20 you can't be in the band anymore.
The whole "student-athlete" narrative for some sports is such an utter joke that it's not even worth trying to argue for anymore so something new is probably the best way to go.
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So far mostly in the sense that this involves the sudden change of Bowenjustducky0 wrote:I have just seen on twitter but I think this is going to be pretty big. Hopefully Oregon has kept out of it.
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It’s still an evolving case it seems. Lots of college coaches are changing their underwear right now.Zyme wrote:So far mostly in the sense that this involves the sudden change of Bowenjustducky0 wrote:I have just seen on twitter but I think this is going to be pretty big. Hopefully Oregon has kept out of it.
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It's an interesting notion to think that we believe in Liberty yet we demand that young athletes NOT be allowed to make any money whatsoever when others are profiting off of their playing a game. Why do we believe in consent for some issues but not for others? Hopefully it'd start driving down some of the exorbitant coaching salaries as well. Just about every state's highest paid public employee is a sports coach. The states don't need to be in this business, let private industry take care of it.