FBI has arrested a bunch of coaches at different programs for corruption with regards to college basketball and recruiting. College basketball is a great sport I love to watch it but starting early these kids are exposed to big time financial deals with shoe companies sponsoring teams, with AAU coaches having connnections with shoe companies and getting paid to direct their best players to certain schools. They got 10 coaches, I'll bet there are a lot more than that out there. http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/20824193/ncaa-basketball-coaches-10-charged-fraud-corruption
Terry , That was my first thought as well after reading the news posting. There has to be more individuals involved out there than just the ten mentioned.
I wonder if there has ever been any investigations of NCAA officials. There seems to be a lot of money moving around and a lot of opportunities to take kickbacks or bribes. Just wondering.
When I first read a sport apparel company was involved, Adidas was not the first company that came to my mind. I'm also surprised that Syracuse isn't involved. And then there's Lynn Swann's statement I wonder if Reggie Bush wrote that for him. :lol:
Speculation was rampant yesterday that Rick Pitino would be fired today. His lawyer issued a statement that Louisville will not be firing Pitino without a bare knuckles fight. I think I read that buying out Pitino would cost them 44M, so that's not likely to happen. It's fire him and get into a big fight or let it ride and see if the Feds can indict him and then they can fire him.
:roll: "Kind of surprised that Louisville is involved.... " ...or USC...or Auburn.... The only surprise to me was that Arizona got caught. I thought they were smarter than that...
Reportedly the Louisville AD, Tom Jurich and Rick Pitino have been fired and there will be a press conference this afternoon. Jurich has been like Huey Long for the Louisville program it seems, he's built everything up in their Ath Dept and wasn't that long ago that he was considered maybe the best AD in America. But now he's gone.
You had to figure the Louisville was up to their eyeballs in this cheating scandal. This sounds pre-emptive. I wonder about Calipari....... :?:
Looks like Pitino is on his way out at Louisville: https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/louisville-puts-rick-pitino-on-unpaid-leave-is-effectively-fired-his-lawyer-says/
Since they were already on probation for past violations Louisville may be up for a lack of institutional control penalty. They're obviously throwing Pitino and their AD under the bus in the hopes of not getting the ultimate spanking.
in what wacky world do we live in, when Louisville is the dirty program and Kentucky is the clean program??
KP, I don't doubt it. I just find it incredible that Louisville got brought down, but the home of the one and done isn't?? Something is just off about that.