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NCAA Coaches: Bribing Players

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And if Pitino is removed from the Hall of Fame.

I wonder what it feels like to love a sport and reach such heights and then to become a junkie needing that next high to get by. I mean, I wonder what these guys think when they walk by a playground and kids are playing for the love of the game and they realize that they have stopped feeling anything.
 
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Steve19 said:
And if Pitino is removed from the Hall of Fame.

I wonder what it feels like to love a sport and reach such heights and then to become a junkie needing that next high to get by. I mean, I wonder what these guys think when they walk by a playground and kids are playing for the love of the game and they realize that they have stopped feeling anything.
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You're assuming he didn't reach those heights by cheating the whole damn time. The entire sport is just sleaze on top of sleaze.
 
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http://kfor.com/2017/09/28/osu-assi...-involvement-in-ncaa-fraud-corruption-scheme/

STILLWATER, Okla. – Oklahoma State University said Lamont Evans, the OSU assistant basketball coach, was fired Thursday.

Evans and several others are facing criminal charges in an NCAA corruption scheme.
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According to court documents, Evans is accused of receiving at least $22,000 in bribes in exchange for his agreement to exert his official influence over certain student-athletes.
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Systems_id said:
For real though, this fuckery is top quality entertainment. Only thing that would make it better is if Duke and Kentucky burn for this too.
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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.

We saw a similar thing with Ole Miss football. The Rebs don't get recruits like they were getting. Freeze tells us it is all on the up and up, but facts increasingly tell us something different. Eventually, the truth comes out about the corruption, top to bottom, in that program. But football will never mirror what is going on in basketball. You can't identify elite talent early enough in football, there is no AAU equivalent (although 7on7 football is trying), the shoe companies aren't willing to gamble on a HS football star, and the supply of superior football players is more in line with the demand. 5 star players either play close to home or they go to OSU, Bama, USC, scUM, Clemson, or a few other schools. But a 5 star football player still has to prove himself for 3 years on the collegiate level, so everyone waits and sees, so a 5 star football player develops his worth way after the recruitment process. Because of those factors, I think this is a uniquely basketball problem.
 
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dragurd said:
Lol Alabama's response is even better. We did an internal review and he resigned but there are no NCAA or SEC rules violations... I'm sure you had him resign cause he was doing everything perfect Alabama surely....
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Did Bama honestly say there was no violation? Snitch says Bama DOBO was present at meeting when $25K was paid to a recruit. How much does it take to be a violation?
 
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Urban Meyer says coaches intentionally lying about violations should be done

Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer said Thursday he's in favor of simple and severe penalties for anyone caught lying to the NCAA.

"If you intentionally lie about committing violations, your career is over," Meyer said during a call-in radio show on 97.1 The Fan in Columbus. "You're not suspended for two games (or) some of the silly penalties you have, you can't talk to a recruit for a week and a half or something like that. No. You're finished. That will clean up some things."

Entire article: http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...eyer-wants-simple-severe-penalties-lying-ncaa

Think about it, if Gene Smith didn't believe in this policy (above), Jim Tressel would probably still be the Ohio State football coach and Urban Meyer would probably still be working at ESPN (or worse, the scUM or Penn State coach.....:sick1:).

:oh:....:io:
 
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OSU_Buckguy said:
louisville, miami, usc, arizona, oksu, south carolina, and auburn.

acc, pac 12, big 12, sec.

surprise, surprise, surprise.
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a poster on reddit tabulated all offers from "the 7" over the last 5 years and ranked the players based on the number of offers from those 7. for example, markelle fultz tops the list with 5 offers from the 7 programs. he ultimately chose to play for washington, though. ayala has been offered by 4.

the poster then looked at the players with at least 3 offers and noted all the programs that offered them as a way to determine other possibly "suspicious" programs. the top 4 are among the 7, with a&m, uconn, and south carolina tying for 5th.

i took that list and noted the conference affiliations:

programs by conference affiliation

acc - 10
sec - 6
big 12 - 5
pac 12 - 4
be - 3
aac - 1
b1g - 1


surprise, surprise, surprise.


note: sure, none of this proves anything. someone may respond that the big ten doesn't recruit as many top players as the other conferences. top players are the most "fought over," if you will. my respond would be, well, no wonder...
 
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