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NCAA Coaches: Bribing Players

This is a massive pandora's box. I understand the FEELING behind it, but if it goes wrong you could destroy the game's popularity entirely. If it stops drawing fans the money dries up and then all of those thousands of kids getting scholarships are now out of luck. Worries me where this well intentioned road may lead us.
If college sports can't survive without the way things are set up currently then so be it. Personally I don't think much of anything would change at all. If anything it'll allow schools like Ohio State to quit handicapping themselves in the recruiting game.
I've already seen about 4 reports from players' parents saying whatever was in the report didn't actually happen. Glad to see straight up denial is still the best play to run.
Best part about this scandal is that DENY DENY DENY doesn't work quite so well when the FBI is involved.
 
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I'm hoping that Gene Smith's investigation showing no involvement was accurate. I'd hate to see the program tied up with this crap right as it's coming back to life.

Oh and TEXAS! That can't be. I've spent time on the shag, and if there's one thing I learned on the shag it's that Texas runs the absolute most pristine athletic department in the country. It's Success With Honor Without The Buggery down in Austin.
 
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If this brings down that ratfaced scumbag and Cal, I'm gonna have to take a few days off of work to walk-off a perpetual, hulking erection.

One down (Pitino), three to go, in my eyes. That is/was the triad of scumfuckery.

I can't tell you how many times I've posted here that the ratfaced one just had to be dirty to continually get top players out of the Chicago Public League. As many a disgraced Illini coach has learned, live by the Chicago Public League; die by the Chicago Public League.
 
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If this brings down that ratfaced scumbag and Cal, I'm gonna have to take a few days off of work to walk-off a perpetual, hulking erection.

One down (Pitino), three to go, in my eyes. That is/was the triad of scumfuckery.
Coach K, Calipari, Self, and Roy Williams all need to go. Sean Miller is another shady character. That would clean college basketball up a lot
 
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I've already seen about 4 reports from players' parents saying whatever was in the report didn't actually happen. Glad to see straight up denial is still the best play to run.

as @Systems_id said above, that works with the no-subpoena powered NCAA

not so much with the wire-tap-evidence-in-hand FBI
 
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The NCAA has to come down hard on everyone so long as they intend to preserve the facade of amateurism. Maybe eventually enough schools will be facing punishment that the schools decide to change the system rather than continue with the joke that they have.
 
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The NCAA has to come down hard on everyone so long as they intend to preserve the facade of amateurism. Maybe eventually enough schools will be facing punishment that the schools decide to change the system rather than continue with the joke that they have.
Guys like Bruce Pearl and Calipari shouldn't even be allowed to coach in college. They jump from program to program after destroying them
 
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Guys like Bruce Pearl and Calipari shouldn't even be allowed to coach in college. They jump from program to program after destroying them
Pearl, at least, had a few year show-cause following Tennessee. The fact that he's right back at it in his next job should earn him a lifetime ban. Cal, somehow/someway has kept himself far enough removed at UMass and Memphis to escape formal punishment. Hopefully that changes this time, but something tells me he's smart enough to put fail-safes in place. He's a shady ape, but he's a smart shady ape.
 
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This is a massive pandora's box. I understand the FEELING behind it, but if it goes wrong you could destroy the game's popularity entirely. If it stops drawing fans the money dries up and then all of those thousands of kids getting scholarships are now out of luck. Worries me where this well intentioned road may lead us.
So you don't want to let collegiate athletes benefit from their popularity because, in so doing, they might lose their popularity.

I understand your desire to retain the status quo, but this isn't a logical argument.
 
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