🏀 CBB coaches arrested in FBS corruption investigation (AU, UL, USC, AZ, and Miami among teams cited)

[TerryP]

I just listened to about a three minute segment from the NY Atty Gen. in charge of this investigation. I'd swear I heard Person's name more than a dozen times.

"If you are a person engaged in this conduct, I would also encourage you to call us. It would be a lot better to contact us than if we have to contact you."

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[Max]

"If you are a person engaged in this conduct, I would also encourage you to call us. It would be a lot better to contact us than if we have to contact you."

 

[JoshB]

Damn, they're screwed.

 

[TerryP]

Who do you think these African kids are playing AAU basketball with? Why those programs? What schools they're going to? Why are they going there?

 

[TerryP]

Missing the point here, stalker. It has nothing to do with the NCAA today.



It will.

 

[TerryP]

Oh crap! :rolf:

 

[Max]

 

[BamaFan334]

Sadly this will doom some programs while the cheating scandal at North Carolina of fake classes, fake grades, resulting in fake diplomas has been essentially dismissed. The whole premise of college athletics has been compromised, yet it's money that gets the bigger discipline than faked education. No wonder this country is going to shit, we undermine the things in life that matter to create a healthy base.

 

[alagator]

Sadly this will doom some programs while the cheating scandal at North Carolina of fake classes, fake grades, resulting in fake diplomas has been essentially dismissed.

No, it hasn't. UNC filed its third appeal recently. It's still in front of the committee.

@TerryP Feeling a case of schadenfreude?

 

[alagator]

From the press conference with US Atty.

Kim is U.S. Attorney. CW-1 Is Cooperating Witness1

Kim digs at Person for lying to players' mothers about not being paid to connect her with CW-1's firm and for lying about CW-1's firm association with Charles Barkley. Kim says both statements were lies.

One of the mothers asked Chuck if he was being paid to hook her up with CW-1's firm. He said no — five days after taking $10,000 to hook her up.

* Kim notes that the coaches never asked the CW-1 about his background. "A simple Google search," Kim said, would have shown that CW-1 had been busted by the Securities and Exchange Commission just a few months earlier.

 

[Tidestalker]

Sadly this will doom some programs while the cheating scandal at North Carolina of fake classes, fake grades, resulting in fake diplomas has been essentially dismissed. The whole premise of college athletics has been compromised, yet it's money that gets the bigger discipline than faked education. No wonder this country is going to shit, we undermine the things in life that matter to create a healthy base.

A lot of truth to that.... Great point

 

[BamaFan334]

No, it hasn't. UNC filed its third appeal recently. It's still in front of the committee.

@TerryP Feeling a case of schadenfreude?

With the dying down of attention, the committee is not looking to make an example, only pop them on the wrist. Pretty sure Rashaan McCants laid it out there to make it a slam dunk case, but there is no indication they will be properly punished.

 

[TerryP]

@TerryP Feeling a case of schadenfreude?

Waxing a bit in the "I told you so" arena.

You remember, Pearl fired a long time assistant, Tony Jones, to hire Person. We all knew what his story/history was at the hire. In fact, we discussed about how he was bringing in a "Dye-man" harkening back to the days of Ellis and Smith.

In a sense it's just like the Ole Miss saga. I've pointed to their recruiting for several years urging people to wait and watch. Here, we've waited and today we're watching.

 

[TerryP]

From yesterday ... and, the irony is palatable.

 

[TerryP]

 

[TerryP]

With the dying down of attention, the committee is not looking to make an example, only pop them on the wrist. Pretty sure Rashaan McCants laid it out there to make it a slam dunk case, but there is no indication they will be properly punished.

Exchange the characters with those from USC and tell me how this is different?

You say, "dying down." It took almost 1200 days for the case to make it to the NCAA Committee on Infractions. As mentioned earlier, they just filed their third appeal to the NCAA. That appeal wasn't heard until the third week of August--literally, a bit over a month ago.

If history is indication, we'll hear more in about five or six weeks.

 

[alagator]

Oh crap! :rolf:

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Like sands throuh the hour glass.....

 

[JoshB]

Wow, this is nuts. Just read everything and listened to the DA's press conference. Auburn's head coach MAY have legit not actually known (or anyone else in the program honestly) and the program could still get absolutely crucified for this.

 

[17BAMA]

Jacobs, who led the search alone and promised to conduct the search for a new basketball coach quickly, has now remade his top sports, landing Gus Malzahn for the football program, stealing Sunny Golloway away from Oklahoma for baseball, hiring two-time national champion Clint Myers for softball and now landing Pearl, a proven coach coming off of a show-cause.

Auburn hires Bruce Pearl as men's basketball coach