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According to Bobby Knight. I am not a fan of Knight the person, but he is correct here.
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Bradley 72 - Illini 68 Final
???It??™s awful hard,??™??™ said Illini freshman guard D.J. Richardson, the former Central High School guard who played prep school ball a few miles from here and fought back tears outside the locker room. ???It??™s a hometown thing. It??™s bragging rights.??™ -
It has been a cesspool for a long time. I have heard stories about illegal benefits and negative recruiting that most here would not believe. Some of Bradley's recent recruits had to be dropped because they or their families expected to receive "illegal benefits". So it is easy to see which schools must have been willing to pay those benefits, since those recruits ended up at other D1 schools.
Here is an article about schools using negative recruiting against St. John's coach Steve Lavin who was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer.
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Give the kids a bigger piece of the pie!Comment
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Would this really help or just cost the school more money up front bucause imo it might make it even worse. The schools and boosters that are paying off students are not going to be deterred by giving the students spending money. The cash up front is to get the student to come to that school.Originally posted by Bradleyfan1 View Post
Anyone watch the JP memorial service the other day and hear one of the speakers say that he was offered lots of money by many different schools. He went on to say that one thing Jpa would never offer him was money or a guarantee of playing time or even what position he would play.
I heard that and thought the NCAA wont even call him in to find out what schools they were because he was a big time bcs recruit.Comment
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College Basketball should be turned into Minor League (D League) Basketball, just like Baseball. You can still have college basketball and it will remain exciting, just at a lower level than it is today, just like baseball.
Kids who want the money and will never want/earn a college degree, go pro just like baseball. If they are good enough they go to NBA...If not, NBA development league right out of high school Kids who want an education and develop their basketball skills can go to college and compete....
Never happen given the $$$ to colleges...but it should.
Sad....BUilding for the Future
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what an absolute hypocrite...in the end Bobby sums it all up by saying...
"But I think severe penalties for recruiting violations would be almost the only way that you could curb it.???
....duh ...haven't we ALWAYS had such severe penalties....the rules have always been there to catch and penalize those who break the rule..
the problem is that NCAA chooses NOT to puirsue violations nor penalize those who get caught...
I won't waste anyone's time repeated again and again all the BIG schools who commit CLEAR violations - only to have the NCAA ignore it until YahooSports finds the violations and exposes them - then the NCAA hands down softball penalities unless you are SEMO..
Bobby knows this - so why is he pretending that there are no rules nor penalties??
If anyone deserved the "severe penalties" Bobby is talking about - it would be Indiana - who hired a cheater, then allowed and enabled him to cheat all the more (on recruiting) continually while at IU - never bothering to monitor him.
And yet NCAA gave IU virtually nothing -- one year of a lost scholarship...Comment
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penalties
I think what Bobby meant was severely penalize the coaches first then the University!! I also think this would curb it somewhat, but you will never clean it all up IMO......Comment
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