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FBI and US Justice Dept. charge several college basketball coaches with corruption
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In all these cases, NCAA gave a slap, acted like they did not know anything more was going on and closed the books on this pervasive scandal.
This investigation has been a long time coming and just maybe it will clean up the scandals and level the playing field.
Yes, this whole case is nothing more than an example of the US Justice Dept. and the FBI doing what the NCAA is supposed to do for itself, but didn't bother to do.
Louisville has received notice from the FBI that they are under investigation-
If the NCAA had done their job properly, they would be facing a decision to hammer Louisville with the death penalty for these illegal activities while just being placed on probation for some pretty severe violations, and we all know they don't want to have to do that. So it's easier to spend their time investigating low-Division I schools like Grambling, and non-Division I schools like Lyndon State, and hammering them with severe sanctions.
Unlike the NCAA, the FBI doesn't give a flip about an athlete maybe getting a free hamburger, free cab fare, or getting overpaid on a summer job...
they know real fraud when they see it - cuz it will always involve substantial sums of money
Thus, I think no small school or midmajor will be nailed in this since who would have that kind of money to throw around?
Auburn, coached by proven NCAA cheat Bruce Pearl, is the first school involved to take any action. They just announced per press release that they are suspending assistant coach Chuck Person without pay indefinitely. Looks like The Rifleman will be their fall guy.
And the name of the cooperating informant/financial adviser has emerged-
that informant, Marty Blazer, was one of the crooked agents caught up in the UNC scandal providing improper benefits - LINK - LINK
...who then was discovered to be even deeper in scandal and fraud - LINK
Maybe traded his testimony for immunity?
-another play name has been revealed...
5-Star Jahvon Quinerly who is committed to Arizona (University-4) is the player referred to as "Player-5" in court documents and is said to have been paid $150,000!
University-7 is Miami so Player-10 is thought to be recruit Nassir Little or current freshman Lonnie Walker who would have also gotten $150,000
Auburn, coached by proven NCAA cheat Bruce Pearl, is the first school involved to take any action. They just announced per press release that they are suspending assistant coach Chuck Person without pay indefinitely. Looks like The Rifleman will be their fall guy.
More damage control, as some of the big boys of the NCAA get caught with their pants down.
USC "was surprised to learn of the FBI investigation and arrest of USC assistant basketball coach Tony Bland".
They have placed Tony Bland on "administrative leave"-
And to try to protect themselves from possible NCAA sanctions, they have hired a legal team to conduct an investigation, and they pledge their full cooperation with the NCAA and the FBI.
This is what the NCAA has been turning a blind eye to for years. They gave slaps on the wrist for hints this was going on and did nothing else. The only way to stop this crap is put these coaches in jail and the death penalty to the schools. It goes against the whole concept of what student/athletes and Colleges stand for. If they are to regain any kind of respect from this corruption they need to come down hard
Still waiting on Oklahoma State to make a move regarding their arrested assistant coach Lamont Evans, who appears to be accused of taking $22,000 in bribes, as compared with $20,000 in bribes by Emanuel Richardson, at least $13,000 in bribes by Tony Bland, and over $91,000 in bribes by Chuck Person, as well as charges involving hundreds of thousands of dollars more funnelled to recruits and players.
OK State officials have been strangely silent since this news broke.
damage control and scapegoating will be top priorities....
Here's the line you will hear the most... "we knew nothing whatsoever about this - it is just the action of one rogue employee who we have already distanced ourselves from..
otherwise there will be no further comment (or this will be handled internally) until the review is concluded."
That is essentially the line that Pitino used the last time around with the hooker scandal
But I wonder if those assistants wanna go to jail for something they were told to do....this will get more interesting..
Who will be the first school to step forward voluntarily and admit they also dealt with these slimy agents & shoe execs - in order to hopefully avoid jail time?
And on just the prospect that these five schools are gonna get nailed- which recruits will reopen their recruitment?
Arizona: five-star point guard Jahvon Quinerly, five-star power forward Shareef O’Neal, four-star point guard Brandon Williams
USC: four-star prospects Taeshon Cherry from San Diego, and Kevin Porter and J’Raan Brook from Seattle
Auburn: five-star prospect E.J. Montgomery
Oklahoma State: four-star shooting guard Antwann Jones
Louisville: five-star wing Brian Bowen, four-star pg Courtney Ramey and four-star pg Anfernee Simons, they also have 2019 4-star pg David Johnson
Of the 20-25 separate coaches, agents, execs, and recruits thus far indicted, implicated or named, only three are not minorities (Gatto, Pitino, Augustine)-
how long before someone plays the race card?
... people have been warning for years that shoe company money was corrupting the recruiting process but NCAA looked the other way and did nothing since the results paid off by getting the best players to the top schools to increase TV revenue...
Now it is coming back to haunt them - they should have done something about it 20 years ago...
...the line you will hear the most... "we knew nothing whatsoever about this - it is just the action of one rogue employee who we have already distanced ourselves from..
otherwise there will be no further comment (or this will be handled internally) until the review is concluded."....
bingo
The US Attorney don't expect to come across evidence of head coach involvement...
From the documents released....
"The path to securing commitments from college athletes was through assistant coaches
because head coaches aren’t willing to take bribes, Dawkins said, according to the complaint.
“They’re making too much money. And it’s too risky,” the complaint quoted Dawkins as saying.""
Satirical Rick Pitino quote: "I didn't know anything about this, just like I never knew anything about the tens of thousands of dollars I authorized to be spent on prostitutes for our players and recruits. We have always run a clean program and I fully support law enforcement going after these sleazy, real bad 3rd party people who committed this fraud on poor little us, because we are totally innocent despite the evidence that our recruit was paid a $100,000 bribe to attend Louisville"
One reason the bribe-bidding war for recruit Brian Bowen reached $100,000 was because a "rival athletic company" was also bidding to get Bowen to a school they sponsored. It is of interest that Bowen did make official visits to Michigan State and Texas, which are both Nike schools.
So this revelation might mean that this investigation could drag Nike and others into it as well.
And one other update- Late this afternoon, Oklahoma State announced that they have now suspended assistant coach Lamont Evans, the final coach included in today's fraud charges and arrests.
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