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NCAA Coaches: Bribing Players

https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...ools-fire-coaches-who-break-rules/3770116002/

Mike Brey asks why don't university leaders fire coaches (such as Sean Miller and Will Wade) where there is already public evidence that they shouldn't be coaching. Well unfortunately these universities I am sure saw Jim O'Brien weasel his way into getting paid his contract remainder in spite of committing recruiting violations, and university leaders don't want to put the cart before the horse and potentially cost themselves millions. The NCAA may also be so inept that these guys are not found to have committed violations, which is another reason to let the process play out. The NCAA enforcement system is broken.
 
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...ools-fire-coaches-who-break-rules/3770116002/

Mike Brey asks why don't university leaders fire coaches (such as Sean Miller and Will Wade) where there is already public evidence that they shouldn't be coaching. Well unfortunately these universities I am sure saw Jim O'Brien weasel his way into getting paid his contract remainder in spite of committing recruiting violations, and university leaders don't want to put the cart before the horse and potentially cost themselves millions. The NCAA may also be so inept that these guys are not found to have committed violations, which is another reason to let the process play out. The NCAA enforcement system is broken.

No enforcement system is going to work if the voluntary members of an organization don't really want to enforce anything.

I am generalizing a bit here but this reminds me of the steroid scandal in MLB. The powers that be know, and have known, damn good and well what's going on. They choose to turn a blind eye because it's good for business.

The schools run a lucrative entertainment business that requires exceptionally talented athletes to make it go. Unfortunately for them the AAU/high school feeder system set up a toll booth in front of their business. If you want the talent then you have to pay the toll. Don't feel like paying the toll? Then you risk being left behind by the competition.

To me these college coaches are like the baseball players, they really don't have much of a choice if they want to be competitive and they are being vilified for it while the bosses get to have it both ways. Things get too bad the bosses join in the outrage, hide behind plausible deniability and fire the coach but if things stay pretty much status quo, then they keep on benefiting from the coach running a big money maker for them.

Do away with amateurism concept, give all college athletes a "G.I. Bill" type of credit for school in the future when playing days are done. It's the only logical way forward IF the intent is really to clean any of this up (I don't think it is).
 
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College basketball bribery trial: Ex-Arizona assistant coach sentenced to three months in prison

Former Wildcats assistant Emanuel 'Book' Richardson is the first college coach to be incarcerated for recruiting-related activity


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Former Arizona assistant men's basketball coach Emanuel "Book" Richardson was sentenced to three months in prison and two years of supervised release on Thursday after pleading guilty in January to a federal bribery charge.

The sentencing, handed down on the sixth floor of the Thurgood Marshall Courthouse by U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos, is history-making. Never before had there been a college basketball coach who served prison time for involvement in NCAA violations -- which in turn were prosecuted to the level of federal lawbreaking.

Upon leaving the courthouse, Richardson spoke briefly about his sentencing.

"I'm extremely happy this is over," Richardson told CBS Sports. "Again, want to thank the University of Arizona, want to thank President (Robert) Robbins. I also want to apologize to them, to the University of Arizona and to President Robbins for everything that's happened. Just knowing who I am, and again, as a mistake that happened -- because it was a mistake, it wasn't a conduct that's natural and normal -- and I think my former players and I think my family will attest to that. Again, any student-athlete I hurt, any student-athlete I put in a bad way, I apologize sincerely. I'm always going to be their coach, I'm always going to be their uncle. To some, I'll be their dad. Unfortunately this happened and hopefully we can build something positive from it."

Entire article: https://www.cbssports.com/college-b...nt-coach-sentenced-to-three-months-in-prison/
 
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3 months in prison? I didn't think that was possible, considering you need to be incarcerated for a year or more to go to prison. Many in the media act like prison and jail are the exact same thing and ignore very basic distinctions.
Yeah but this was a federal conviction, which means you do the time in a federal prison. Jails are generally for local jurisdictions.
 
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College basketball bribery trial: As another coach is sentenced to prison, it's time for the NCAA to act

Former Oklahoma State and South Carolina assistant Lamont Evans was sentenced Friday to three months in prison

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On Friday in Lower Manhattan, former South Carolina and Oklahoma State assistant men's basketball coach Lamont Evans was sentenced to three months behind bars. He'll serve that time later this year, just as former Arizona assistant Book Richardson will. Richardson was delivered an identical sentencing fate on Wednesday.

What's potentially scarier for Evans: since he was not born in the United States, he could be deported upon his release from lockup in the fall.

Think about that: Evans' side-hustle greed, that he in all likelihood never imagined would be federally unlawful, might wind up with him being taken out of the country. That is a most extreme portrait of how severe this situation got with college basketball and the United States government. There are skeptics and cynics over whether Evans even deserved prison time for taking money to steer players to Christian Dawkins' sports management company. Deportation, be it for letter-of-the-law reasons or otherwise, is an unwarranted, malicious demise.

U.S. Court District Judge Edgardo Ramos handed down Evans and Richardson's sentences, the effects of which will no doubt reverberate throughout college basketball and be remembered for decades.

"I do believe punishment in this case is important," Ramos said from the bench Thursday.

Entire article: https://www.cbssports.com/college-b...enced-to-prison-its-time-for-the-ncaa-to-act/

Lamont Evans sentenced, still may be deported

A former assistant basketball coach at Oklahoma State and the University of South Carolina was sentenced to three months in prison Friday for accepting bribes to link top players with bribe-paying managers and financial advisers.

U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos said actions by Lamont Evans were "perhaps more egregious" than those of two other ex-assistant basketball coaches he sentenced earlier in the week. He also ordered him to forfeit $22,000 and work 100 hours of community service.
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His guilty plea in January to bribery conspiracy also could lead to his deportation from the country where he has lived since age 2. He is a citizen of Barbados.
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On Wednesday, Tony Bland, former assistant basketball coach for the University of Southern California, was sentenced to 100 hours of community service but no prison time.

On Thursday, Emanuel "Book" Richardson, formerly an assistant basketball coach at the University of Arizona, was sentenced to three months in prison.

Chuck Person, a former assistant coach at Auburn University, is awaiting sentencing.

Entire article: https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/26921190/lamont-evans-sentenced-deported
 
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You could be wrong.....

At least six college basketball programs will be notified of major NCAA violations by this summer

An NCAA official tells CBS Sports two high-profile programs will receive a notice of allegations by early July


At least six Division I men's basketball programs will receive notices of allegations for Level I violations from the NCAA by the summer, stemming from the federal government's recently completed investigation of the sport, a top NCAA official told CBS Sports.

Stan Wilcox, NCAA vice president for regulatory affairs, said two high-profile programs would receive notices of allegations by early July.

The remaining four would be rolled out later in the summer in what was described as a wave of NCAA investigations meant to clean up major-college basketball.

"There's even another group of cases that we're still working on," Wilcox said. "The main thing is that we're up and ready. We're moving forward and you'll see consequences."

Level I violations are considered the most serious by the NCAA. They carry the strongest punishments that can include scholarship reductions, postseason bans and show-cause orders against coaches. According to the NCAA, a notice of allegations is sent after an investigation has closed.

It has previously been reported that at least Kansas, Arizona and Louisville had been under NCAA investigation.

At least 20 schools were mentioned during the course of the FBI's investigation. Among others were Oklahoma State, USC, Auburn and LSU.

He would not name any of the schools involved.

"I would just say that it's clear when you look at the number of cases that were listed by the Southern District of New York, those numbers are more than likely be reflected in the number of cases that are going to be moving forward," said Wilcox, a former Florida State athletic director and Notre Dame basketball player.

When the original FBI indictments were handed down in September 2017, there were reports that top head coaches would be implicated in wrongdoing.

NCAA rules now make head coaches responsible for wrongdoing within their program.

"Those top coaches that were mentioned in the trials where the information shows what was being said was a violation of NCAA rules, yes. They will be all part of these notices of allegations," Wilcox said.

The NCAA had held off on investigations, he said, at the request of the government until the trials were concluded.

"So now that's it over, we're going to be moving forward with a number of Level I cases that will help people realize that, 'Yeah, the enforcement staff was in a position to move forward,'" Wilcox said.

These new cases will be subject to new NCAA policies adopted through the recommendations made by the Rice Commission, Wilcox said.

Entire article: https://www.cbssports.com/college-b...fied-of-major-ncaa-violations-by-this-summer/
 
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