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Posted: **Tue Feb 20, 2018 3:12 pm**

"I cannot say this strongly enough: We believe the NCAA is simply wrong,"

There was a whore house on campus. Go fuck yourself.

Also, you might want to wait and see what happens with the impending recruiting violations for 50+ schools. I have a feeling Louisville will be in there as well. You know, considering they already are...

Posted: **Wed Feb 21, 2018 3:54 pm**

Who really has a shot at the title.

We made the list...but not that list. We're right where I think we should be (this year), acknowledged for being good, but also for not having a realistic chance of winning it all.

Interesting article about Grand Canyon University.

They're a for-profit school with a basketball program.

Posted: **Wed Feb 21, 2018 4:06 pm**

I would not have Arizona, Texas Tech, or Wichita State on my list.

Posted: **Fri Feb 23, 2018 10:04 am**

The story is breaking.

Posted: **Fri Feb 23, 2018 10:43 am**

Oh snap.

Posted: **Fri Feb 23, 2018 10:56 am**

So it looks like they gave money directly to students, but not necessarily to sway them to schools, or in conjunction with schools, if I'm reading this right. It was more about agents providing $

Posted: **Fri Feb 23, 2018 10:57 am**

The only UNC name I recognized was Brendan Haywood who got about $350.

Posted: **Fri Feb 23, 2018 11:28 am**

Tony Bradley, who I cannot remember, was from UNC and on the list. His dad claims to have only met with an agent after declaring.

Another player who has committed to UNC was apparently approached to be steered to Miami

According to the FBI indictments, families of college basketball recruits were paid $100,000 and more.

UNC does have a commitment from Orlando high school senior Nassir Little, who appears to have been referenced in the FBI report on the recruiting scandal.

An athlete matching Little’s description was mentioned in the initial FBI report as a recruit whose AAU coach was paid by two adidas executives to steer Little to an adidas-sponsored school. Miami, also an ACC school, is described in the FBI report as the school that tried to bribe Little’s coach. UNC has a sneaker and apparel contract with Nike

But still sounds like UNC is relatively clean.

Brice Johnson received a $100 meal. $0.19 above NCAA guidelines at the time.

Former UNC All-American Brice Johnson is also mentioned in an expense report attachment of the Yahoo! Sports article as having dinner with Dawkins and Dion Bethea, the head coach at Gray Collegiate Academy in Columbia, S.C., at a Carrabas on March 1, 2016. The meal was billed at $100.09.

In January, the NCAA increased its restitution allowance for impermissible benefits from $100 to $200. Bylaw 16.01.1.1 states “the eligibility of the student-athlete shall not be affected conditioned upon the student-athlete repaying the value of the benefit to a charity of his or her choice” if the impermissible benefit is $200 or less.

Posted: **Fri Feb 23, 2018 12:42 pm**

TheCatt wrote: Brice Johnson received a $100 meal. $0.19 above NCAA guidelines at the time.

OSU had this same issue many years ago. A coach bought a recruit a Big Mac and Cincinnati (when Bob Huggins was there) reported it as a violation. We had to stop recruiting the kid.

Posted: **Fri Feb 23, 2018 3:50 pm**

More details

Schools with active players implicated
Alabama (Collin Sexton), Duke (Wendell Carter), Kentucky (Kevin Knox), Michigan State (Miles Bridges), South Carolina (Brian Bowen), Texas (Eric Davis Jr.), USC (Bennie Boatwright)

Those players have to quit playing immediately, maybe?

I dunno... I see agents reaching out to players. I don't see the programs themselves being guilty, so far, outside of the original set of assistants who were invovled.

Posted: **Fri Feb 23, 2018 11:11 pm**

Sean Miller and Arizona are fucked.

Posted: **Sat Feb 24, 2018 7:36 am**

Goodbye, Sean Miller!

Also, feeling pretty confident about this prediction...

I would not have Arizona, Texas Tech, or Wichita State on my list [of teams to win the tournament].

Posted: **Sat Feb 24, 2018 2:39 pm**

Is anyone more incompetent than Mark Emmert?

Posted: **Sat Feb 24, 2018 5:25 pm**

Leisher wrote: Is anyone more incompetent than Mark Emmert?

Isn't that how the NCAA works, though? They cannot pro-actively say "Don't do these things" per se, they have to investigate after the fact?

Posted: **Sun Feb 25, 2018 1:53 am**

Shaq's kid decommits from Zona.

Posted: **Tue Feb 27, 2018 8:52 am**

The sweeping under the rug has begun.

Posted: **Tue Feb 27, 2018 9:34 am**

Leisher wrote: The sweeping under the rug has begun.

Aside from Arizona, there just isn't much there (yet, proven)

Posted: **Tue Feb 27, 2018 2:43 pm**

Are you really Mark Emmert?

The whole world knows your college basketball programs are as dirty as them come, but you're just wringing your hands waiting to see all the evidence before you launch any investigations or anything?

Mark Titus addresses why nothing has been done yet.

Posted: **Tue Feb 27, 2018 3:15 pm**

There's very little here, and Titus says the same.

Posted: **Tue Feb 27, 2018 4:08 pm**

There's a LOT here, just what has come out so far is little.