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UConnRock said:
Can't see how Petino stays given the past and the facts presented. Whether Jurich also takes a fall is the big question.
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Well, you created a Pitino-Petrino hybrid of sorts. However, given the facts past and the facts presented similar charges likely apply to Louisville's gridiron program as much as its' hoops program. Yup, both overseen by the increasingly apparent not so holier than thou Jurich.
 
upstater said:
Just listened to Seth Greenberg excuse the assistant coaches who are involved in this mess. Says they're good people. Also says that in many cases it's their job to do it, AND you need to decide if you want to stick your toe over the line. How far do you want to go? Seemed to excuse it all, which to me showed how pervasive it all is.
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Seth Greenberg is a terrible terrible college hoops analyst/"expert". I wouldn't form any assumptions based on a single thing he says.
 
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Yeah I mean I could see Cincinnati taking a stab - I just don't see them as a fit. We kind of check all the boxes. Literally all of them.
 
LStudfellow said:
For a guy with the power that Pitino has, I am absolutely amazed that he never seems to have any idea of what ANY of his assistants are doing.
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Yeah, you'd almost think Pitino might be guilty of failing to monitor his own program, coaches, players, himself, his hookers, his restaurant table top bimbo ... But, alas no. An innocent angel!
 
UConnRock said:
No basketball staff, no AD and the threat of a lengthy ban or death penalty.
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... and, an Interim President left with only one option in the face of Pitino's and Jurich's programs' (plural in waiting) latest unethical practices
 
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Da_Aisijimo_Gou said:
Yeah, you'd almost think Pitino might be guilty of failing to monitor his own program, coaches, players, himself, his hookers, his restaurant table top bimbo ... But, alas no. An innocent angel!
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Not surprising at all given his woeful track record, but today's denials from Tricky Ricky are now at least approaching, if not surpassing Pete Rose heights (or is it more accurately depths?) on the muck-o-meter.
 
Da_Aisijimo_Gou said:
Yeah, you'd almost think Pitino might be guilty of failing to monitor his own program, coaches, players, himself, his hookers, his restaurant table top bimbo ... But, alas no. An innocent angel!
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List not complete w/o including his sperm.
 
Fishy said:
Reasonably sincere. One black mark. He borrowed the sports section of my USA Today in a hotel lobby about 15 years ago and walked away with it.
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So, Fraschilla was relatively clean, even somewhat sincere, and he did you a massive favor. Hope you thanked him for the latter @Fishy Thanks for sharing.
 
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Not sure if this has been discussed yet, but what happens to any player who took money to play at one of these schools. I assume their college career is over...right?
 
NDakotaHusky said:
Not sure if this has been discussed yet, but what happens to any player who took money to play at one of these schools. I assume their college career is over...right?
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Yeah, they're all likely to be ineligible.
 
NDakotaHusky said:
Not sure if this has been discussed yet, but what happens to any player who took money to play at one of these schools. I assume their college career is over...right?
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My guess is if the took money they were one and done, and long gone at this point.
 
temery said:
My guess is if the took money they were one and done, and long gone at this point.
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The Louisville thing is about Brian Bowen. He's on this year's roster.

Other class of 17 and beyond players are included as well.
 
NDakotaHusky said:
Not sure if this has been discussed yet, but what happens to any player who took money to play at one of these schools. I assume their college career is over...right?
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Bowen’s options are bad and worse.

Depending on how much he knows, his best bet might have been to call the NCAA and offer up everything about everyone in exchange for immunity. But that’s in a normal world where the FBI isn’t involved - I don’t know if he could get any sort of deal at the moment.

But if I’m the Bowen family, I’m looking to talk to anyone for a deal.
 
The FBI involvement is interesting. It definitely makes the NCAA look inept. The FBI actually did real investigating. What was the NCAA's involvement. I assume nothing. I suspect they were just sitting in their office waiting for all these schools to self-report the infractions.
 
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NDakotaHusky said:
The FBI involvement is interesting. It definitely makes the NCAA look inept. The FBI actually did real investigating. What was the NCAA's involvement. I assume nothing. I suspect they were just sitting in their office waiting for all these schools to self-report the infractions.
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Considering that the NCAA can't wiretap people or subpoena or indict people, they're not exactly working on the same level of investigation resources.
 
Kinda saddens me, don't like to see widespread corruption and I don't wish such harm on any fan-base

If these bribes are being offered to top recruits, how can the programs that land ALL the top players NOT be involved?

When people say "UConn cheats", I always point out we're NOT the program landing multiple top ten recruits year in and year out. Hell we only land a handful of top 50 recruits, we must not be paying enough. And no, I'm not complaining about our recruits, I love our system.

As a mitigating factor, if bribes truly are being offered to players, how can more players have NOT come forward outing some schools over the years? Especially those who need money now.
 
Leebo said:
Considering that the NCAA can't wiretap people or subpoena or indict people, they're not exactly working on the same level of investigation resources.
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That's fair
 
Fishy said:
Bowen’s options are bad and worse.

Depending on how much he knows, his best bet might have been to call the NCAA and offer up everything about everyone in exchange for immunity. But that’s in a normal world where the FBI isn’t involved - I don’t know if he could get any sort of deal at the moment.

But if I’m the Bowen family, I’m looking to talk to anyone for a deal.
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Apparently they have set up a tip line and are suggesting it's in a person's best interest to turn themselves in.
 
Bowen has less leverage than most, since we already know about his incident. It's the people who haven't been publicly listed (because the FBI doesn't have enough evidence yet, presumably) that stand to be able to take advantage of the tip line.
 
Leebo said:
Bowen has less leverage than most, since we already know about his incident. It's the people who haven't been publicly listed (because the FBI doesn't have enough evidence yet, presumably) that stand to be able to take advantage of the tip line.
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It wouldn't be about what he did, it'd be about what he knows.
 
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