Posted on 02/24/2018 3:46:14 AM PST by C19fan
NCAA college div 1 basketball is now a farce. Just another distraction. Suggest working on ones own jumpshot.
The one and done situation almost ruined college basketball for me, with the huge turnover in top teams’ personnel every year. Now this further diminishes my already diminished interest in the sport.
And this story contains further evidence that almost no communication is ever confidential any more.
The College Administrations didn't care they just counted the money.
Yes. Grow the endowment. Build more buildings. Get more donors. Put uber wealthy connected people on the board. Then teach about the ‘virtues’ of Marxism.
The College Administrations didn't care they just counted the money.
College administrations don't get rich when their star players leave for the NBA. They get rich by winning, getting high rankings, and subsequently higher TV rights contracts.
It’s OK if Hillary gets away with pay-for-play and the mishandling of confidential e-mail communications, as long as we are keeping college sports honest.
Glad the FBI has their priorities straight.
Since when is sports a National Security Issue?
Will anything be done in the current scandal? Who knows. North Carolina should have received the death penalty (and forfeited all its championships) due to the Dean Smith era revelations, but .... The current scandal apparently involves both North Carolina and Duke. I have no doubt that the NCAA would enforce sanctions against, say, Louisville, but clearly there's a double standard involving some teams.
But the bigger underlying truth is that the whole system is rotten. I'm not naïve enough to think that college sports didn't always have a shabby underside, but I think it was the slow but steadily growing addiction to television dollars that has finally done them in. Television seems to corrupt everything it touches. When a sport starts prostituting its rules to defer to television networks, it's on the path to perdition.
“basketball is now a farce”.......
Just figure that out did you? Been like that for a long time and not only in basketball. Finally something good came out of the FBI.
Dating back at least to when they had sports players testifying under oath about performance enhancing drugs.
But Hitlerly Rotten Clinton doesn’t “need” to be put under oath so she can lie lie lie lie lie
Interesting to see the cases the FBI are heavily involved in, when disregarding tips about a potential mass shooter.
This is sort of a pull through operation the sports agent had going and there will probably be varying degrees of involvement by college basketball coaching personnel, from a lot to maybe no involvement in some cases. The main goal was to obligate one and done pro prospects to the sports agency and make money off them one year later by signing them to be represented by the agency.
Some college coaching personnel seem to have gotten pulled into the scheme, or they jumped in the scheme, to increase their chances of landing a top prospect.
Why is this a crime?
You think the basketball program should have received the death penalty because of sham classes that any student could take (half weren’t athletic students) and the vast majority were football players of the ones that were athletes? You really think AA studies programs are much more vigorous at other schools even without athletics? Lmao
Brilliant.
It’s the “fans” that make this happen, that and greed.
As Josh Rosen said before they shut him up, make scholarship athletes meet the median SAT score of the entering class and then see how many championships Alabama wins.
True dat.
“This story was dormant for a few months but now good stuff is coming out. Looks like Sean Miller is toast”
It will a lot higher than Miller at Arizona, like the Clowns that gave him a 10 million dollar buyout EVEN IF FIRED FOR CAUSE.
“go” a lot higher....
The fbi: school shooters, internal corruption, a coup against the president is nothing compared to college athletics recruiting.
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