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Originally posted by Da Coach
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It said in the ESPN story that the universities did not know about the payments. That is a crock of crap!!!! The coaches know what is going on with their recruits. They know what is making them to decide or not decide. You mean to tell me Addidas steered recruits to sign with certain schools without the coaches knowing why a recruit signed with them....Give me a break!!!! -
I also have a hard time believing the coaches were unaware of any of these illegal payments. Maybe if a kid was getting $20 or even $100 at a time from a booster, I could believe it. But when massive amounts of money change hands, and in some cases there is pretty strong evidence that the assistant coaches were involved in handling the actual payments to the recruits (several assistants have already been indicted), then it seems impossible to believe the head coaches were completely unaware it was happening.Originally posted by bradleyfan124 View PostComment
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everyone's defense will be "BUT I didn't know a thing..."
That will be hard to prove but one of the most obviously guilty defendants is saying some of the head coaches definitely knew about the payments to players-
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more woes for Louisville
the Athletic Department was ... "a culture of "misogynism, sexism, lying, cover-up, and bullying"Comment
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it appears that the FBI has bought themselves a stool pigeon
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In the paper today it said Dan Gavitt of the NCAA was going to go to the coaches and AD's of the schools and get their feedback. Really!!!!!!! Why don't we ask the New York Police Dept to go to the Mafia and ask if it is ok to investigate them. The NCAA needs to also be investigated and all personnel replaced with an independent group pf peopleComment
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While head coach at Louisville, Rick Pitino apparently....
had known professional AGENT Christian Dawkins was at his practices multiple times....
The school has evidence and wants Pitino to admit it, but Pitino won't...
"As someone known to have acted as an 'agent' for athletes (Dawkins), the basketball staff should have notified Athletics Compliance,"
(that he was on campus, at practice and having contact with the student-athletes) -- "No notification was provided."
...(Pitino's lawyer) Steve Pence says Pitino did not know Dawkins was working as an agent. (
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Federal investigators said Dawkins and others, including Adidas executive James Gatto, former Adidas consultant Merl Code, financial advisor Munish Sood
and former AAU program director Jonathan Brad Augustine, worked together in attempts to funnel money to the families of two Louisville recruits
to ensure the athletes would sign with the school and later as pros hire certain advisers and sign endorsement deals with Adidas."Comment
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If there is ever a case for the Death Penalty this is it!!!!!Originally posted by tornado View PostWhile head coach at Louisville, Rick Pitino apparently....
had known professional AGENT Christian Dawkins was at his practices multiple times....
The school has evidence and wants Pitino to admit it, but Pitino won't...
"As someone known to have acted as an 'agent' for athletes (Dawkins), the basketball staff should have notified Athletics Compliance,"
(that he was on campus, at practice and having contact with the student-athletes) -- "No notification was provided."
...(Pitino's lawyer) Steve Pence says Pitino did not know Dawkins was working as an agent. ( )
Federal investigators said Dawkins and others, including Adidas executive James Gatto, former Adidas consultant Merl Code, financial advisor Munish Sood
and former AAU program director Jonathan Brad Augustine, worked together in attempts to funnel money to the families of two Louisville recruits
to ensure the athletes would sign with the school and later as pros hire certain advisers and sign endorsement deals with Adidas."
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New cheating allegations....
the former Ron Artest (Metta World Peace) claims he was offered $35,000 while in college - to alter the outcome of games
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disgraced & fired Louisville AD Tom Jurich probably won't be forced to eat ramen noodles to get by....Originally posted by Da Coach View Post
Louisville just settled with Jurich for $4.5 million for him to go away and stay silent ...
Of course he goes off claiming he's totally innocent & did noting wrong...but he was at the helm of arguably the worst athletic department series of scandals & disasters in all of history - surely it's fair to heap a little of the responsibility & blame on him.Comment
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Brian Bowen was the 5-star recruit at the center of the FBI investigation into players getting paid to attend certain schools. He was initially committed to Louisville, but after the FBI found evidence he was paid $100,000 to go to Louisville, Rick Pitino was fired, and Bowen pulled out and eventually decided to go to South Carolina.Originally posted by tornado View Post
Well, Bowen and South Caroline got some bad news today. The NCAA, which has reluctantly been forced to do their own investigation, ruled today that Bowen will be penalized and will not be eligible to play this coming season. With that news, Bowen has withdrawn from South Carolina, and plans to enter the 2018 NBA draft.
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Rick Pitino writing a tell-all book - his version of events - due out this fall...
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You will be able to find this book in the fiction section.Originally posted by tornado View Post
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or at adult stores everywhereComment
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Uh oh - bad news for UConn.......
The Hartford (CT) Courant (newspaper) just published some of the pages of the testimony that the FBI got when interviewing one of the UConn assistant coaches (Glen Miller) - the Courant got the pages via FOIA from UConn. The FBI had kept the pages secret but they had forwarded them to UConn to let them know what they were investigating and then UConn released the pages under a Freedom of Information legal request by the Courant.
Miller tells the FBI that then UConn head coach Kevin Ollie gave $30,000 to the mother of a recruit so that she would be able to move to Connecticut to watch her kid play.
The papers also show that the assistant told the FBI that Kevin Ollie was relying on his own personal agent to funnel players to him - and that he even fired his agent for NOT REFERRING ENOUGH RECRUITS HIS WAY!!
The professional agent said "the main reason he got let go (as personal agent for UConn's head coach Kevin Ollie) was for not assisting and helping players get to UConn."
Immediately- UConn runs for cover and produces this laughable denial in which it says the worst thing Kevin Ollie ever did was to unknowingly allow a couple of his players to attend unsanctioned workouts....
the official UConn response totally ignores this more damaging stuff about paying players and paying his agent to refer recruits.
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