Arrests coming due to college bball kickbacks
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Taking Pat Forde's word on anything related to Duke, Kansas or UNC is questionable. The man has been Kentucky's mouthpiece for at least a decade. He consistently says Kentucky doesn't cheat, Calipari is clean, etc.
No clue what K was thinking with his bizarre denial of the obvious, but I've had Forde on ignore for years
No clue what K was thinking with his bizarre denial of the obvious, but I've had Forde on ignore for years
I don't necessarily disagree with you on Forde, however, none of what is in his tweet is "his word". That's all stuff other folks have reported or has been testified to.
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About 25-30 years ago, I got an award in High School that I can't remember the name of anymore (it was the Phil Houston award or some such as that), and Coach K was the keynote speaker. He has always had this aura about him that the real him is different than the public him. Whether it was the nice polite hard working guy, and then you see him curse vile filth during games, or whether it was this squeaky clean image that is refuted by all the Grayson Allen type incidents that hold no repurcussions. Folks need to realize Roy Williams, Rick Pitino, Coach K, Calipari - they are the Lance Armstrongs of College Basketball. They are very good at avoiding trouble, but they are NOT clean.
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Final day as both sides rested
https://sports.yahoo.com/zion-williamsons-kansas-recruitment-comes-hoop-scandal-trial-234727916.html
Judge kept things tight. Didn't allow the defense to use the everyone does it so it is ok defense. That limited what was actually allowed in court.
Today Zion Williamson got some serious play in regards to Kansas. Also, the texts between Pitino and his asst where it is discussed that DePaul was offering Bowen $200K and Pitino said it would be alright is quite interesting.
it will be interesting to see what happens. Matt Norlander had an interesting report the other day about how things are very different inside the courtroom than outside of it. The judge has kept the focus on what the defendants are being accused of, not what it means about college basketball. He specifically did not allow the defense to mount the type of defense where you would get to hear alot of the tapes, most of them stayed sealed.
Norlander mentioned that the jurors were often seen rolling their eyes when the defense attorney spoke. We are all looking at this from a college basketball fan standpoint, but the 12 jurors are not. They are looking at it from a perspective of whether the defendant broke federal laws. It was mentioned that none of the jurors were big college basketball fans, they had to explain to them what things like March Madness meant.
What the judge did helped alot of coaches in the short term as he kept tapes and texts out of court as not relevant to the charges. If those are eventually turned over to the NCAA though, I suspect there are fireable offenses in there.
https://sports.yahoo.com/zion-williamsons-kansas-recruitment-comes-hoop-scandal-trial-234727916.html
Judge kept things tight. Didn't allow the defense to use the everyone does it so it is ok defense. That limited what was actually allowed in court.
Today Zion Williamson got some serious play in regards to Kansas. Also, the texts between Pitino and his asst where it is discussed that DePaul was offering Bowen $200K and Pitino said it would be alright is quite interesting.
it will be interesting to see what happens. Matt Norlander had an interesting report the other day about how things are very different inside the courtroom than outside of it. The judge has kept the focus on what the defendants are being accused of, not what it means about college basketball. He specifically did not allow the defense to mount the type of defense where you would get to hear alot of the tapes, most of them stayed sealed.
Norlander mentioned that the jurors were often seen rolling their eyes when the defense attorney spoke. We are all looking at this from a college basketball fan standpoint, but the 12 jurors are not. They are looking at it from a perspective of whether the defendant broke federal laws. It was mentioned that none of the jurors were big college basketball fans, they had to explain to them what things like March Madness meant.
What the judge did helped alot of coaches in the short term as he kept tapes and texts out of court as not relevant to the charges. If those are eventually turned over to the NCAA though, I suspect there are fireable offenses in there.
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Yup. The country is full of big fat cheaters and the NCAA could care less. It’s on full display and the only thing out of the NCAA is a big fat yawn. But hey - they dropped the hammer in Charleston Southern University today. That will teach them!
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I would love to see major changes in how college basketball and football recruiting is done. So, I am hoping something comes down that scares people in the sport.
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I really want to hear all the tapes.
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The SEC is scum. He gets caught in a cheating scandal, refuses to cooperate with his own investigation, and they give him a contract extension. Hilarious. The SEC is a joke.
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That's auburn, as long as they win they don't mind cheating. Football, basketball.....
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Only surprised Arizona hasn’t been more prominently involved
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http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/unc-scandal/article15573599.html
Yep uncheats squeaky clean history, arranging a nice cushy job for a players mom. Yep just a blip.
Yep uncheats squeaky clean history, arranging a nice cushy job for a players mom. Yep just a blip.