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Kibner posted:I mean, it's college sports. Fair enough. It seems like the fact that it's not just like, SMU getting busted makes it seem more important tho.
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Louisville and Miami are implicated from the details, but I don't see any news about arrests having been made at either program.
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pathetic little tramp posted:Louisville and Miami are implicated from the details, but I don't see any news about arrests having been made at either program. Yeah, specific allegations of players paid to attend both of those schools
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Sep 26, 2017 15:17
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disgusting to think that in TYOOL 2017 athletes were adding value to the institutions they play for and being monetarily compensated for that work
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Sep 26, 2017 15:17
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Welp, looks like USC is gonna suck again for another decade 
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Sep 26, 2017 15:56
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Pitino discussing the recruitment of the player that was paid $100k to come to Louisville.
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Sep 26, 2017 15:57
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quote:As for the case against Chuck Person, the FBI says he collected about $91,500 in bribes in exchange for funneling Auburn players to a particular financial advisor and a high-end suit maker, Rashan Michel.
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Sep 26, 2017 15:59
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I would be pissed if I were an Auburn fan who has a team that is both corrupt and bad. But they have Bruce Pearl as their coach, so it's kinda on them.
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Sep 26, 2017 15:59
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Looks like Mike Alden was playing the long game in hiring Kim Anderson baby
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Sep 26, 2017 16:06
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Very angry that players may have actually made some money and glad the FBI is taking a stand here
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Sep 26, 2017 16:09
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I wonder how sweaty Sean Miller's shirt is atm?
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Sep 26, 2017 16:11
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oh cool Illinois's new coach is gonna get fired before he even starts isn't he
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Sep 26, 2017 16:30
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Bowen's recruitment was super weird, I just remember because State was a finalist, though they were never getting him. It seemed though like he was headed to Michigan State or maybe Arizona (hmm) but Louisville just came out of nowhere and snagged him.
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Sep 26, 2017 16:31
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How bad at business are you if you're thinking "hey man, please take my money in exchange for access to these Auburn Men's Basketball players as it pertains to their professional future"
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Sep 26, 2017 16:37
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Auburn is an Under Armour school, too, isn't it?
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Sep 26, 2017 16:51
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gvibes posted:Pitino discussing the recruitment of the player that was paid $100k to come to Louisville. edit: https://twitter.com/JasonRileyWDRB/status/912706814931865600 shyduck fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Sep 26, 2017 |
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Sep 26, 2017 16:52
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Khagan posted:I wonder how sweaty Sean Miller's shirt is atm? - Has Sean Miller been wearing a shirt for more than 10 minutes? - The shirt is now a liquid
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Sep 26, 2017 16:56
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lol at all the morons on twitter blaming adidas and not the coaches
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Sep 26, 2017 17:17
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Jesus Christ This was supposed to be the year too, two borderline first round guys, everyone returning
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Sep 26, 2017 17:22
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EvanTH posted:- Has Sean Miller been wearing a shirt for more than 10 minutes? 
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Sep 26, 2017 17:23
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So are these all Adidas schools?
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SamuraiFoochs posted:So are these all Adidas schools? I think these are two separate schemes, because Auburn is sponsored by Under Armour. Some coaches were taking bribes to push financial managers on athletes, and the managers were also paying players under the table. The Adidas guy was paying players to go to schools sponsored by them to boost the brand.
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SamuraiFoochs posted:So are these all Adidas schools? no, seems like two separate cases. One is some managers of Adidas trying to get players to play at their sponsored schools (Louisville). The other is agents bribing assistant coaches so they will pay players to use them as their agent.
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Apparently 10 people are being charged. 4 coaches at programs, 3 ÀAU guys I think it was, an Adidas exec, and ???
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SamuraiFoochs posted:Apparently 10 people are being charged. 4 coaches at programs, 3 ÀAU guys I think it was, an Adidas exec, and ??? I think only 8 have been arrested so far
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Sep 26, 2017 17:36
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Yeah the Adidas guy is the director of global marketing lol.
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Sep 26, 2017 17:36
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Louisville also implicated. They're an Adidas school though.
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SamuraiFoochs posted:Apparently 10 people are being charged. 4 coaches at programs, 3 ÀAU guys I think it was, an Adidas exec, and ??? quote:Also charged for their roles in attempting to steer young players to specific schools or agencies for personal gain were Munish Sood, the chief investment officer for a financial advisory group; Christian Dawkins, a former NBA agent; Rashan Michel, a founder and operator of a clothing company in Atlanta; Merl Code, an Adidas employee; Jonathan Brad Augustine, an AAU director with ties to Adidas; and Jim Gatto, director of global sports marketing for basketball at Adidas. Couple fun facts: Dawkins was fired from his agent job because he racked up $42,000 in Uber bills on some NBA player's credit card, and Michel once tried to beat up Dominique Wilkins over money he claimed he was owed for suits. Michel also used to be an NBA ref.
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Sep 26, 2017 17:38
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If I heard correctly, this all started because an initial corroborating witness was indicted for an SEC violation and just happened to have some info on all of this other stuff going on.
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Sep 26, 2017 17:40
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Apparently the FBI is saying that in some cases they consider the schools victims?
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Sep 26, 2017 17:44
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Players who received money under the table technically committed fraud when they signed declarations of amateurism in order to get scholarships. Edit: Apparently two Auburn players got paid by the financial adviser in exchange for agreeing to sign with them when they declared for the draft. It looks like they both will lose eligibility and Auburn will be without two of their best players. Duckaerobics fucked around with this message at 17:52 on Sep 26, 2017 |
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Sep 26, 2017 17:47
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quote:US Atty for SDNY: "For the defendants charged today, the madness of college basketball went well beyond the Big Dance in March" "Your honor, i think you will agree that this was not one shining moment for amateur sports."
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Sep 26, 2017 17:54
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gvibes posted:Pitino discussing the recruitment of the player that was paid $100k to come to Louisville. Pitino gets "lucky" alot.
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Sep 26, 2017 17:55
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So who is the highest ranked recruit to get caught for this? I'm guessing they're from Arizona or Louisville. So maybe DeAndre Ayton and Jahvon Quinerly from the former, and from the latter Brian Bowen and Anfernee Simons. Khagan fucked around with this message at 18:00 on Sep 26, 2017 |
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Sep 26, 2017 17:58
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Amateur sports is an exploitative sham, highlights at 11. Seriously though, we as a country brutalize entire communities through generational poverty and intractable despair and then hold out the one above-board lottery ticket of big-time sports, only to snatch it away if the students and families involve dare to reach for that money? And the system will only ever act when its illusions of virtue and self-betterment threaten to get crushed under the sheer mass of money the whole system is hemorraghing to make sure the athletes can't get paid a second too soon? gently caress this whole thing.
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Duckaerobics posted:It looks like they both will lose eligibility and Auburn will be without two of their best players.
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Sep 26, 2017 18:14
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Could someone who's a good law knower explain exactly what illegal thing happened here besides Player Paying in the First Degree
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Sep 26, 2017 18:18
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sum posted:Could someone who's a good law knower explain exactly what illegal thing happened here besides Player Paying in the First Degree You can't bribe coaches at public or private schools because private schools still get funding from the government. The coaches were paid to steer the kids towards certain financial advisers, including one who had recently been arrested for stealing money from his NBA clients. Both accepting and giving the bribes would be illegal. I'm not following as clearly how the Adidas guy paying athletes was illegal (as opposed to just a violation of NCAA rules) yet.
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sum posted:Could someone who's a good law knower explain exactly what illegal thing happened here besides Player Paying in the First Degree Ain't the crime, it's the cover up. In short they absolutely did illegal poo poo, but it was more to avoid the NCAA. It's not quite that simple but this is kinda some war on drugs poo poo.
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Artic Puma posted:You can't bribe coaches at public or private schools because private schools still get funding from the government. The coaches were paid to steer the kids towards certain financial advisers, including one who had recently been arrested for stealing money from his NBA clients. Both accepting and giving the bribes would be illegal. I believe he created fake purchase orders so the cash could be accounted for.
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