Posted on 09/26/2017 9:36:04 AM PDT by abb
Why is this breaking today. Who's narrative is it pushing? Who will benefit from this timing and news? Who benefits from Adidas's pain?
In short, the news isn't that this is going on. It is that the charges are being filed today, and who they are being charged against. Such things are so common in college sports that it should just be assumed.
Anytime there’s that much money - college or pro - circulating around, there’s going to be corruption. They’re ALL fixed. ALL of them.
Of course they are.
To assume they wouldn’t be, with the amount of money riding around, is insane.
But you can only fix so much. That is why upsets happen.
LOL. So you're saying there are occasions where the proper payoff wasn't done?
When a college team goes into the tank with a long odds game, Vegas smiles, and an assistant coach buys a bass boat...
“The United States attorney for the Southern District of New York said in a statement that since 2015 the F.B.I. and federal prosecutors have been investigating “the criminal influence of money on coaches and student-athletes who participate in intercollegiate basketball governed by the N.C.A.A.”
Maybe they shouldn’t be doing that, although I don’t really see the moral offense, but should the federal gummint be spending buckets and buckets of our money investigating the college basketball business?
More like the script wasn’t followed.
The refs are under pressure to let the big name win. However, you are not going to to let the 19 year old kid know that.
Iowa came with in a play of beating Penn State. The refs tried to hand the game to Penn a few times, and the Iowa team played their hearts out. You can only do so much.
Hmmmm. Plausible logic you have there. Perhaps the term “managed,” rather than “fixed” is more apt, generally speaking.
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