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Rick Pitino (HC St. John's)

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billmac91 said:
This whole situation literally makes me laugh out loud, but also frustrates me.

If you just let the kid profit off his "likeness" Adidas could've offered him $100,000 above the table to go to Louisville. Or a local car dealership could've given him a $100,000 endorsement deal.

You have people breaking laws to circumvent archaic NCAA rules that prevent kids like Brian Bowen from making what would be life changing money for his family.

It's absurd.
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I'm hoping that the Deparment of Justice hits the NCAA with a lack of institutional control charge, and gives it the death penalty.
 
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Oh, I fully agree the system is broken. But what you are suggested fixes nothing and risks making it far worse. First rule change they should implement is a 0 or 3 rule. Either skip college entirely or spend 3 years. This will remove the biggest draws from the pool anyway. If they are so good they are ready to go pro, or semi-pro. Let them. They can get as many endorsements as they want and Joe endowment fund cant just pay all the best players to go to his school. Further, the NCAA needs to have its charter entirely re-written to include language giving it FAR more power and causing ALL schools even private ones who want to compete to be forced to hand over any and all information upon request or guilt will be assumed.

billmac91 said:
What parity?

UNC, Duke, Kentucky, Arizona, Kansas are generally getting top 5 classes every year.

It's not a coincidence.

It should be a fair market. And if a local business wants the endorsement of a Maya Moore or Candice Parker more power to them. It absolves the NCAA of Title IX because the free market is dictating endorsement money, and allows the kids to make what market price is on them. It's so simple it drives me crazy.....
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https://sports.yahoo.com/signs-indi...mid-college-basketball-scandal-144838841.html

Signs indicate Louisville's Rick Pitino, Tom Jurich could be fired amid college basketball scandal

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Signs indicate that the tenures of Rick Pitino and Tom Jurich, the two greatest architects of Louisville’s 21st century athletic success, are nearing an end.

Pitino, the Hall of Fame basketball coach who guided the Cardinals to the 2013 national championship and two other Final Fours, is in jeopardy of being forced out after the second major scandal of the past two years enveloped his program. In June, an NCAA investigation culminated in a ruling that forced Louisville to vacate that national title as punishment for a stripper scandal funded by a staffer on behalf of players and recruits. And on Tuesday, an announcement of a federal investigation into massive college basketball corruption ensnared Louisville basketball in a web of potential broken laws and broken NCAA rules.

Jurich, the athletic director who hired Pitino in 2001 as part of a sweeping department upgrade that ultimately earned the school membership in the prestigious Atlantic Coast Conference, is also in jeopardy. Wednesday morning Jurich was seen walking into the University of Louisville administration building alone. He exited about 10 minutes later without comment. The 20-year Louisville AD had backed Pitino through the previous scandal and a personal drama that implicated the coach publicly in an affair with a woman who was sentenced to prison for trying to blackmail Pitino. Jurich also further stretched the program’s ethical credibility by rehiring football coach Bobby Petrino in 2014 after a scandal cost him his job at Arkansas.

Interim University of Louisville President Greg Postel sent an email late Wednesday morning, canceling a previously scheduled meeting of the school’s board of overseers.

The cumulative weight of that baggage appears to have become too much for the university to bear.

This latest scandal comes at a time of increased tension between the university board of trustees and athletic program. In addition to the stripper scandal, trustees have been critical of athletic spending and the general oversight of Jurich — among the most critical being Papa John’s Pizza magnate John Schnatter. The school also was coerced by the city into agreeing to a new lease in July on its debt-saddled downtown basketball arena, the KFC Yum! Center. University officials were sharply criticized for the terms of the original lease, which shifted much of the financial burden to the city and left the arena in danger of defaulting on its huge loans.

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