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NCAA Coaches: Bribing Players

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Hilarious that Louisville AD and Petrino (close to Paterno no?) Insisted on big buyouts because of his past and Louisville was dumb enough to OK it...

Fuck those two they should lose every penny, put in jail, and come out broke.

Could you imagine telling your current employer "I may or may not have been accused of a few felonies so I want a buyout of 8 million dollars so that when I do fucked up shit i get paid"...

I sincerely hope they had language in those two fucks contracts that voids everything If there was infractions
 
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Laugh at Louisville and Rick Pitino if you want, but your school could be next

The FBI investigation has crippled schools like Louisville, Auburn and Arizona, but there will be more



If you think Pitino and the four arrested assistant coaches are the only heads that will roll in college basketball over this, well, you've got another think coming.
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There are plenty of coaches who slept well on Tuesday night, knowing that they have always followed the rules to the letter of the law. There are plenty more who didn't sleep a wink, knowing that their name could be easily be the next one linked to this scandal.

Entire article: https://www.cbssports.com/college-b...no-if-you-want-but-your-school-could-be-next/

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I choose to laugh since I believe that the current coaches in THE Ohio State University athletic department slept pretty well this week.

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OSUK said:
My uncle lives in Lexington and is a big Kentucky fan. When Cal was hired, he asked me, "How long until the program is on probation?" Everyone (with a brain) has known what is going on since Cal got there. You sign half of the top 10 players every stinking year, and they are all coming because UK offers a great degree in accounting? No, they have been steered there because Cal pays World Wide Wes to steer them there. WWW makes sure the player, family, AAU coach, and shoe company are all on the same page, Cal gets them for a year or two, and gets them to the NBA - and everyone gets their benefit from the deal.

Cal isn't stupid. He separates himself 8 degrees from it, and has a bunch of buffers between him and the corruption. Unless Wes, or someone directly connected to him, implicates Cal, there is no way any of this touches him. But we know what Cal is doing because of the players that are going there. You have to pay to get one of those elite players. What do you have to do to get 5 or 6 of them? I was born at night, but it wasn't last night.
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I hope they have been investigating Cal and this first round is a way to beat the bushes to get someone in the family to either slip up or come forward to save their skins.
 
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Systems_id said:
Looks like the FBI visited Kansas today as well.
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I wonder if that visit had anything to do with Carlton Bragg, whose AAU team was the Ohio Basketball Club, who is sponsored by Adidas, a senior executive of which has been indicted in the scandal...

I "strongly suspect" that Carlton did not go to Ohio State because Ohio State was not an Adidas school.
 
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LordJeffBuck said:
I wonder if that visit had anything to do with Carlton Bragg, whose AAU team was the Ohio Basketball Club, who is sponsored by Adidas, a senior executive of which has been indicted in the scandal...

I "strongly suspect" that Carlton did not go to Ohio State because Ohio State was not an Adidas school.
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Just sayin': The problems that Thad Matta had with recruiting the 5 star/"top prospects" becomes a lot clearer now.
 
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LordJeffBuck said:
I wonder if that visit had anything to do with Carlton Bragg, whose AAU team was the Ohio Basketball Club, who is sponsored by Adidas, a senior executive of which has been indicted in the scandal...

I "strongly suspect" that Carlton did not go to Ohio State because Ohio State was not an Adidas school.
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And who transferred to another Adidas school, Arizona State. Got to keep it in network.
 
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ScriptOhio said:
Just sayin': The problems that Thad Matta had with recruiting the 5 star/"top prospects" becomes a lot clearer now.
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I also wonder if this mess has anything to do with the players that he did get that, although they may not have gotten the payoff, had people in their ears that they listened to more than the coaching staff. Many players the last few years certainly didn't seem to listen to coaching as evidenced by their play on the floor, as well as many of them having been shown the door.
 
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LordJeffBuck said:
I wonder if that visit had anything to do with Carlton Bragg, whose AAU team was the Ohio Basketball Club, who is sponsored by Adidas, a senior executive of which has been indicted in the scandal...

I "strongly suspect" that Carlton did not go to Ohio State because Ohio State was not an Adidas school.
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I said it before but, if this gets to be as big as we think, Matta has to be feeling pretty smug right now. His decline, especially in recruiting, was so rapid that you know something else had to be in play. He didn't just stop being a good coach overnight.
 
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ScriptOhio said:
Just sayin': The problems that Thad Matta had with recruiting the 5 star/"top prospects" becomes a lot clearer now.
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It is easy to act all righteous in this, but we as fans played a role as well.

All spring folks were calling for Matta's head, and one of the reasons was this very failure to land those prime recruits - particularly the ones from Ohio. And if he had magically started pulling them in from all over the country we would have chalked it up to his brilliance with no interest in what was behind the curtain.
 
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To be fair, Matta's decline wasn't solely because he stopped landing "blue-chip" recruits. While not up to par with what he was landing his first 7-8 years in C-bus, he was still pulling in pretty solid recruits until the last class or two. The failure to develop those recruits was as big a culprit as the decline in recruiting. I think as his back issues compounded, he relied more heavily on his assistants, and unlike his first 7-9 years, I think his choice in assistants the past few years was subpar.

I said when he was let go that I (and many others) felt his distaste for the seedy AAU circuit was a big factor in his steep decline. I always have and always will appreciate the way Thad conducted himself and ran his program. Not a sniff of a scandal in a dozen plus years. He's one of the good guys and we were unbelievably lucky to have him, despite the way it ended. He should have a statue one day.
 
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HabaneroBuck said:
I'll be honest; I never did understand why D'Angelo came to Columbus.
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a. nobody offered him $100.000
b. they offered but he declined as it would be a NCAA violation
c. he thought Ohio State would be his best bet for a stepping stone to the NBA
d. a and c
e. b and c

Regardless, he definitely made the RIGHT decision to come to Ohio State. He couldn't have done any better at any other school. One and done, #2 in the 2015 NBA draft, and 3-year (guaranteed) $15,998,280 contract.
 
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