Decommitments

[HuskyBandDad]

Seriously? The fact you would even question this is laughable. Louisville just two Saturdays ago played on ABC's Primetime game of the week against Clemson. That one game makes millions of dollars for the network. They have appeared in a featured game on ABC in the last 3 years no less than 5 times. Sorry, but we would have been lucky to have been on that game once during Diaco's tenure.

Furthermore, their stadium has a capacity of 55,000 - and they sell out or come within a couple thousand seats of selling out for every game. The capacity for the Rent is just over 40K (40,642) and we have not had a sellout in years. Ok, maybe we would have sold out a few games here or there, but with the way Diaco teams were, and as boring as his offense was, the results would not have been that much different.

As for basketball, the Yum! Center has a capacity of 22,090, and Louisville sells it out for the majority of its games. 2016-2017 for example: they came in #3 in the country. 17 home games, with a total attendance of 354,390 and a per game home attendance of 20,846. We can not touch those numbers. That is a fact.

Here is a column from last year that tells you how the Tallahassee, Florida area feels about Louisville:

Clark: Louisville is exactly what the ACC needed

On the basketball side, Louisville has been the No. 1 most profitable program in the NCAA for 5 YEARS RUNNING...

College Basketball's Most Valuable Teams 2016: Louisville, Kansas, Kentucky On Top Again

So, in the two sports that make the most money for most universities and certainly for those in the P5, Louisville generates millions more dollars than we do.

I think you are a really good poster here CL82, but you are over your skis with wanting to even debate this fact. On other levels, like academic prestige, you absolute have an argument, and in fact I am standing right next to you. But on money that the two schools could generate for the ACC... the facts are what they are. Louisville beats us, and by a significant margin.

Agree with this. But they are on top because they cheat. No?

 

[Jaybo]

With bowen out. Two gone for next year already. I'm hoping a couple more current players transfer out.

 

[WrenchFan69]

Here is to hoping that V.J. King decides to de-commit from that scummy program and become a Husky for a year... or two (like he should have done before $$$ came his way)!

If he received money from Louisville he would be ineligible as he is no longer an amateur.

 

[MadDogRevival]

... when our country goes the way of Greece and Rome (which is happening in front of all of our eyes).

. . . at a breathtaking rate.

 

[huskyrob1]

Kids involved will have to be ineligible. Going forward, This has to be the final nail in the NCAA refusal to let kids earn some coin. There is so much money involved some if it gets passed under the table in suit cases. End the charade, pay the kids.

How about just end the charade and not pay the kids? Just give them an honest free education at a major University? I personally would not want to watch games under the auspices of an NBA and NCAA farm system. I want to watch real amateur athletics. Unless it becomes that I probably would not watch college sports anymore. The recruiting process needs to be heavily monitored and policed, both on the recruit and his-her family and on the schools involved for a particular kid.

 

[UCweCONN]

If he received money from Louisville he would be ineligible as he is no longer an amateur.

But he has $100k that they can't make him return, he sits this year or goes overseas for a year and then enters the NBA Draft where he'll be a sure first rounder. I think I could handle no longer being an amateur. He actually makes out better than if he actually went to college.

 

[Hoophound]

UL didn't make the ACC more money, however, they did help revive the credibility of the league by adding another strong football team. That combined with big improvements by FSU and Clemson on the field solved the week football perception issues the conference was facing.

The issue now is that UL is likely to have serious issues going forward both competing and in ever being taken seriously as a university. UL is a renegade school with renegade programs and lousy academics. This reinforces that thinking. A UL that isn't cheating, is a worthless member of the ACC. UConn offers more in terms of market and academic reputation. With P5 money and a great AD in place, UConn would be a far better member.

 

[Padutch5]

I am not sure Louisville will get the death penalty. But anyone sure one way or another is a fool.



Did you read your own link?

"One quoter said it wouldn't happen because: 'I guess you could come up with a scenario, but there’s not going to be another SMU case. People are more careful. They’re not as brazen anymore. They’re more aware of the consequences.'"

As you mentioned above, this case IS the SMU case, and assistant coaches were caught being even more brazen.

“'I don’t think the death penalty will happen again,' said Scott Tompsett, a veteran attorney with experience in several high-profile cases. “What kind of case would it have to be?"

The kind where FBI investigates a school already on major probation?

"'I think if [the NCAA] has a similar set of circumstances, I think they would do it again,' said Danny Robbins, the former Dallas Times Herald investigative reporter who wrote some of the most compelling stories on the case."

Yeah, in your own link.



Baylor was on probation for Men's Tennis, not the same sport then convicted of the same infraction. The act was worse, but the impact on the sport was not as harsh; it did not affect the competitive balance of the sport the NCAA was overseeing directly.

Penn State was not a repeater and the NCAA overstepped its bounds at it was.

We'll see, but yeah probably not on UNC.



If this scandal spreads wide, I don't think the P5 will have much power to hamstring the NCAA in imposing penalties. They may even encourage it for PR reasons.

Actually if the public outrage continues and even intensifies the great NCAA may not have much choice to apply the death sentence if it wants to save itself.

 

[upstater]

Ah yes. Stuff like this can go on forever without interference from the FBI and not ruin college basketball, but if they get sliver of the 20 billion dollar pie, well that will ruin college basketball forever.

They got $5k in the last couple years. Schools like UConn are already $30m in the red and looking at a state slashing. Let the boosters and everyone pay up, and you'll see a handful of good teams, at best, while the public has to then decide if they even want to watch a poor man's G-league. The luster will be gone.

 

[upstater]

I didn't know that. Any links?

Big Ten Football: If Kicking Out Penn State Is on the Table, Put It to a Vote

 

[Fishy]

Try to stay on topic here.

 

[NEforceUConn]

Try to stay on topic here.

1,2,3 eyes on me.

 

[UConnSwag11]

EJ Montgomery

Romeo Langford

Anfernee Simons

Courtney Ramey

 

[KingAG]

To bad we don't have an open scholly

 

[UConnSwag11]

To bad we don't have an open scholly

no way do we want any kids from these schools

 

[Stinger92860]

no way do we want any kids from these schools

We cannot afford them anyway. That's 500k of players at a minimum.

 

[nomar]

We cannot afford them anyway. That's 500k of players at a minimum.

We can't pay them AND the ghost of Enzo Patoni.

 

[BlueMAB]

We should be extremely careful recruiting any of the decommits as there's a real chance they could be ineligible.

I'll still be watching what we do and hoping some 4/5 star kid ends up at UConn

 

[CL82]

Since my point has already been proven, I have no desire to expend the time or energy to dig up the minutiae of each number. Feel free to do it on your own if it means that much to you (which I am pretty sure it doesn't). Like I said... on most every other point, and particularly the point of ethics, you would have to say that we beat Louisville by any objective measure quite handily. Ahhhh, if that were only the most important point though.

And to get this back inline with the original point of this thread...

Here is to hoping that V.J. King decides to de-commit from that scummy program and become a Husky for a year... or two (like he should have done before $$$ came his way)!

If you actually thought about the questions, you'd realize that none of the points you made actually result in income to the ACC. None of those things can be used to support your statement that Louisville made the ACC much more money that UConn would have.

 

[CL82]

Big Ten Football: If Kicking Out Penn State Is on the Table, Put It to a Vote

It doesn't say that a vote happened but it does say that they considered it. Interesting.

 

[Doctor Hoop]

If you actually thought about the questions, you'd realize that none of the points you made actually result in income to the ACC. None of those things can be used to support your statement that Louisville made the ACC much more money that UConn would have.

Probably only Bowl games added to the ACC coffers. And now that's probably enough of this.

 

[Chief00]

I would take the kids if they're clear and cleanly recruited. I doubt any of them would try this again.

That’s a big if - cleanly recruited.

 

[HooperScooper]

Louisville loses another one. David Johnson, 6-5 SG who is a four star recruit in the 2019 class.

Four-star wing David Johnson backs off Louisville commitment

 

[Danzz]

That won't stop a thing.

It would take away the desperation factor and help quite a bit but graft will never totally disappear. If the FBI ever investigates football it would make the basketball investigation insignificant.
Payoffs have been going on a long time. I knew a man who played football at Florida in the 50's and he was getting $125 week back then.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Louisville loses another one. David Johnson, 6-5 SG who is a four star recruit in the 2019 class.

Four-star wing David Johnson backs off Louisville commitment

Wow. They really had a good class didn't they? In hindsight, that should have told us something (not that we didn't always think they were shady).