on corruption as well as others associated with them? Presser supposedly scheduled for noon today
Anyone hearing anything on FBI arresting several assistant ncaa basketball coaches
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Just saw a headline about it. But of course the NCAA will declare this a legal matter that will be handled by courts and they will see no reason to hand down additional punishment. I say that partly TIC, but nothing those bozos do would actually surprise me.
Corruption in NCAA basketball?? That would be shocking to me. 
Press conference in NYC at noon is what I'm reading. Will Emmert show his face or will he be at Indy hiding in the NCAA bunker?
Press conference in NYC at noon is what I'm reading. Will Emmert show his face or will he be at Indy hiding in the NCAA bunker?
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fraud and corruption probe. Hope it involves Craig Carton
It's Emanuel Richardson from Arizona, Lamont Evans from OK State (formerly of South Carolina), Tony Bland from USC, and Chuck Person from Auburn. And a bunch of guys from Adidas, including their Director of Global Marketing for basketball.
This is going to be a huge deal.
This is going to be a huge deal.
That looks like a list of schools with inexplicable recruiting success that are often rumored (except Auburn...See Cam Newton) to offer .............supermax book allowances.
Money-six figure payouts went to high school player's families per reports. Adidas involved.
Events like these are always a great time to remind all of PSU's culture problem.
Events like these are always a great time to remind all of PSU's culture problem.
Yeah, the most severe allegations IMO are that Adidas was directly paying recruits upwards of $100,000 to commit and play for Adidas-affiliated schools. It seems like the primary allegations against the coaches are that they were taking money from agents to either give the agents access to their players or to encourage players to use those agents when they go pro.
Will be interesting to see if the whole AAU thing plays into this. Looks like Miami and Louisville will be involved as well.
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Adidas does appear to have paid a Florida AAU coach affiliated with Adidas to steer a couple specific kids to Adidas schools - specifically, Louisville and Miami. Neither school is named, but the context makes it pretty easy to figure out.
I am fairly certain they are talking about Kentucky, not Louisville, as the University with the surprise recruit. The quotes about the "surprise commitment" and "recruiting coup" in May 2017 certainly seem to suggest pretty clearly who the recruit is that they are talking about. A simple google search will reveal who it is. This is going to go so much deeper.
Corruption in NCAA basketball?? That would be shocking to me.
Press conference in NYC at noon is what I'm reading. Will Emmert show his face or will he be at Indy hiding in the NCAA bunker?
Kentucky is a Nike school; Louisville is Adidas. All the allegations surrounding the Adidas execs involve them getting kids to go to Adidas schools.
In August, Louisville got a commitment late in the cycle from five star Brian Bowen and Pitino called it "the luckiest I've ever gotten." That's a separate allegation from the ones surrounding the Florida AAU coach.
The NCAA as we know it is dead if this blows up. It's Federal proof of what a joke that org is.
It would be quite naïve to think that this wouldn't spill over into football either. Granted, maybe no football coaches get implicated at all in this particular investigation. It just would be in different clothes given NFL draft requirements.
I'll do it for you.
These guys are in deep sh!t.
Sorry to be dense, but what law is broken by a private company paying a private kid to go to a certain school? Isn't that, like, a scholarship?
That's really interesting. When they defined the school in the complaint it really matched UK.
There are articles regarding a UK commit in May 2017 that literally have the exact quotes from the criminal complaint against the Adidas guys.
This is going to get crazy.
"The FBI arrested 10 people on charges of fraud and corruption in men's college basketball on Tuesday."
Wasn't that long ago, Pitt was an Adidas school, then suddenly switched to Nike. Coincidentally about that time, they started to tank in basketball.
I call bullshit on this. I highly doubt that Adidas has a corporate fraud program. It does sound like NCAA rules were broken, but last time I checked, those aren't actual "laws" and Mark Emmert isn't the department of justice notwithstanding whatever he might think about himself.
This $ corruption won't stop until the IRS gets involved. FBI is a good start, however if the IRS ever have their auditors do their work, then it will open eyes.
Having seen a good friend of mine take on the government, I can say they rarely prosecute a case they don't feel very strong about winning a conviction. Just a thought as IMHO they would not have spent this kinda of money on surveillance and doing all the investigations, and now look to prosecute if they didn't feel they have a very strong case.
Geez! Who would run the country? All politicians, corporate people and millions of others would be in prison.
In a nutshell, the parties charged are committing fraud against the school because they're knowingly making the player ineligible to compete at that school when they pay him money to go there or when the coaches take money to make players ineligible by setting them up with agents while they're in school. It's a federal crime because all the schools take federal grant money.
Edit: In other words, the school is defrauded because the individuals who are charged engaged in a scheme where the school spends money giving the player a scholarship without knowing that the defendants have made the player ineligible to compete.
I'm shocked that a program led by Bruce Pearl could have someone on the staff with questionable integrity or morals...
I didn't know Pearl was back in coaching. Makes sense that the FBI began their operation when he came back. That guy is the slimiest of slime.
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I think the Feds lose maybe 5% of the cases that go to trial, and a great many wins never are tried. They follow the money and get the goods.
Here's a report about the investigation. Interesting that Nike's name never appears.
Bruce Pearl is so crooked the crows won't fly over him.
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