Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. - Winston Churchill
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Here's a really good column from the Arizona Republic previewing what is at stake in the April trial.
You need a tracking party to find any amount of institutional control Arizona has exhibited.
Through it all, Miller has remained on the job, and the Wildcats (16-12, 7-8 in the Pac-12) are enduring their worst season since 1983-84, Olson’s first year.
But help is on the way, which can explain while Miller has a job.
Miller signed one of the nation’s top recruiting classes for 2019, including a potential dynamic backcourt of Nico Mannion from Pinnacle High and Josh Green from IMG Academy in Florida. Both are five-star recruits.
So far, those players at sticking to their commitments to Arizona.
But that and so much else will be at stake in April.
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I vote for sending Buzzy Williams to Tucson. Along with his vests.
Nothing incites bodily violence quicker than a Duke fan turning in your direction and saying 'scoreboard.'
There is exactly zero doubt in my mind that Wade is dirty. I've been around the VCU program enough to at least have conversations with each coach since Shaka took over. Shaka is charming and personable. Rhoades is friendly and salt-of-the-earth. Wade has no discernible personality. Now he's got a top 5 class his first year of recruiting at the P5 level. He'd landed a couple of top-50-type kids at VCU before he bailed. There's no evidence that he's a big-time coach, but he's punching way above his weight recruiting-wise. He's like Lorenzo Romar when he was at Washington.
You could see why Shaka got players. He had a lot of personality and ran an attractive system at a school with essentially no academic hurdles to clear. He could recruit anyone he wanted. He could JUCO, take transfers, do whatever. Havoc and tons of 3s in a wild home-court environment is pretty appealing for a lot of kids. Then he went to a Final Four. His recruiting made sense. Wade's doesn't. It's not difficult to figure out who the outliers are.
You just don't seem to understand.
This is the classic unc example of why they were justified in having make believe classes for players! You DON'T learn the real world lessons about payoffs and graft in the classroom! You need real world experiences with a guy named Fats and expensive rental cars.
This is pretty disgusting: https://www.cbssports.com/college-ba...ruption-trial/
Reminds of the old joke about someone who kills his parents and then pleads the court for mercy because he's an orphan!
I know that the Govt. had to go through the motions of adopting the fiction that Kansas, Louisville, etc. were the "victims" of the conspiracy to defraud them by the shoe companies/agents undermining the amateur status of players.
But, who the hell is Kansas kidding by pretending that it had no culpability in this, when its assistant coaches were knee-deep in it, and Bill Self is also directly implicated?
Kansas has alot of nerve to expect everyone to forget the text exchange between Self and Adidas' Gassnola reported on below (https://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...=.04306ce83d79) regarding the school's $ 191 million contract with Adidas:
"In August 2017, as lawyers for Kansas and Adidas were finishing work on a 12-year, $191-million extension of the apparel company’s sponsorship contract with the school, Coach Bill Self got a text message from a friend in Adidas’s youth basketball division. 'Hall of famer. Thank you for help with Getting this extension done. Thx brotha,' wrote T.J. Gassnola, a top consultant for Adidas basketball who traveled the country trying to convince elite teenagers to play for the shoe company’s youth, or grass-roots, league.
[B]'I’m happy with adidas,' Self replied. 'Just got to get a couple real guys.”'/B]
'In my mind it’s KU bill self . . . that’s what’s right for adidas Basketball . . . the more you win, have lottery pics. And you happy,' Gassnola wrote. 'I promise you. I got this, I have never let you down Except (Dyondre) lol.'”
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As far as the NCAA goes, couldn’t the coaches and/or schools say they were just joking or misspoke if they say anything against regulations during the trial?
"Mis-remembering" worked fairly well for a certain MLB pitcher !
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-bas...scussing-offer
Pretty damning evidence against LSU and Coach Wade, who have had a pretty productive year.
Later on in the wiretaps, Will Wade says the player is going to make more than the NBA rookie minimum to play at LSU. The player being discussed is LSU freshman guard Javonte Smart, who is averaging 11.5ppg for the Tigers."Dude," Wade continued during the call, "I went to [the handler] with a [expletive] strong-I'm a real wanker for saying this.I'm a real wanker for saying this.I'm a real wanker for saying this. offer about a month ago. [Expletive] strong.
"The problem was, I know why he didn't take it now. It was [expletive] tilted toward the family a little bit. It was tilted toward taking care of the mom, taking care of the kid. Like it was tilted towards that. Now I know for a fact he didn't explain everything to the mom. I know now, he didn't get enough of the piece of the pie in the deal."
-Jason "I suspect Will Wade may not be the coach at LSU (or anywhere) for much longer. Unless he is going to argue that it is not his voice on the tapes, he's cooked" Evans
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Reports coming out on the Twitters that assistants at Creighton and TCU were involved with Dawkins as well.
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From the above link...
While this is bad and wrong and (if true) these men should be fired, I don't see this crime as being one that brings the integrity of the program into question. I have a much bigger problem with the guys who were asking Adidas to help them in recruiting by paying tens/hundreds of thousands to recruits to get them to play for a specific program (which is what is alleged about Arizona, Kansas, and LSU).College basketball’s fraud scandal has expanded by two schools after federal prosecutors alleged Thursday that basketball middleman Christian Dawkins paid a pair of $6,000 bribes to assistant coaches at unnamed schools located in Nebraska and Texas in order for them to later steer future NBA players to him.
Sources told Yahoo Sports the assistant coaches involved are Preston Murphy of Creighton and Corey Barker of TCU.
-Jason "I wonder how LSU was able to convince Ben Simmons to play there..." Evans
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^ I thought about Ben Simmons too, but also recalled that he basically quit on his team towards the end of the season. Seems like if he had been paid to go there, that would have sparked a scene similar to the one in Blue Chips where Penny Hardaway is unhappy and Nick Nolte makes a phone call and then tells him “you better be in practice tomorrow.”
Exactly what leverage did LSU have over Ben Simmons when he quit to prepare for the draft? He was clearly going #1 and seemed like a future all-star who would make a boatload of money very soon.
Let's pretend that we know Adidas did pay Simmons to go to LSU. When Simmons said he was shutting it down, it is not like LSU could ask for the Adidas money to be returned because Adidas hoped to sign Simmons to a shoe deal (Simmons ended up signing with Nike). Plus, how public could LSU be in all this seeing as no one can find out they paid him to play there? I don't see it like Blue Chips at all... the kid had all the cards. LSU really could do very little.
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Wade suspended indefinitely: http://www.espn.com/mens-college-bas...amid-fbi-probe
Wonder how this will affect LSU's seeding?