Arrests coming due to college bball kickbacks

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BTW...after what recently occurred at Louisville, and how they are front and center in this investigation now, not sure how Pitino and Louisville basketball are still standing after this hits the floor. You can't tell me Pitino has no clue what's going on, and Louisville should get the hammer on principal no matter how "Oh, it's just rogue coaches, we're innocent..." they want to play this.
 

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A couple of other notes.
one of the people arrested is the Merl Code, the head of Nike's EYBL program.
Also, part of the indictment includes conversations with a coach from a FL school (believed to be Miami) telling the Adidas guy that a prospect needs $150K to outbid another apparel manufacturer (likely Nike) and not attend another school.

The 4 coaches represent schools that have contracts with Nike (AZ, OK ST) , Under Armour (AUB, USC).

Especially since this is a criminal indictment, this could get really messy and maybe change a few things over the long run.

No wonder why GT had problems attracting players with Russell.
 
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RamblinRed said:
A couple of other notes.
one of the people arrested is the Merl Code, the head of Nike's EYBL program.
Also, part of the indictment includes conversations with a coach from a FL school (believed to be Miami) telling the Adidas guy that a prospect needs $150K to outbid another apparel manufacturer (likely Nike) and not attend another school.

The 4 coaches represent schools that have contracts with Nike (AZ, OK ST) , Under Armour (AUB, USC).

Especially since this is a criminal indictment, this could get really messy and maybe change a few things over the long run.

No wonder why GT had problems attracting players with Russell.
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You said a mouthful there. Perhaps this kerfuffle will scale the corruption back, at least a bit, considering we're 2-feet in it now as an adidas school.
 
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Techster said:
I wonder if Nike or UA played a role in this given Adidas meteoric comeback in recent years. No better way to hinder a competitor than to rat them out in a game you know everyone is playing. The shoe business at the high school and college level is dirty at times. If you read Shoe Dog, Phil Knight's memoir on starting Nike, it gives you a glimpse at the things shoe companies do to each other.

This is an interesting article. Moreso for the coaches that were left off or not even mentioned than who made the lists:

https://www.cbssports.com/college-b...high-major-coaches-who-dont-break-ncaa-rules/
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Another good read is "Raw Recruits" by Armen Keteyan (I am sure I butchered the spelling). It is about 30 years old, but it does detail the seediness of recruiting and how shoe companies were starting to play a role.
 
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Does anyone understand what the charges actually are before the press conference? I don't understand what would be illegal about paying players or recruits. I don't understand what would be illegal about paying a coach to talk to a current player about signing with a shoe company. All would be against NCAA rules, but NCAA rules are not law.
 
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I just read one of the complaints. It appears that the main argument is that: The parties "bribed" high-school athletes to sign with certain schools. The "bribes" made the athletes ineligible to play. The accused are guilty of fraud because they set up a situation in which the school paid scholarship money for the athlete that the accused knew was ineligible because of their "bribes". The main case of fraud is then amended to include conspiracy(since there were multiple parties involved) and money laundering(since the "bribes" used for the "fraud" were run through systems to obscure them).
 
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