OT: FBI has reportedly arrested several NCAA basketball assistant coaches.

[TRest]

Is Forde a UK honk or Lville honk? I forget which one it is

I think they spit roast him.

 

[August_West]

 

[UConnCat]

When Forde says this about Louisville, it's serious.

 

[freescooter]

I thought he chose Louisville because of the hookers the school provided. I guess with $100 grand he can buy his own.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[TopDogs]

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Checking out a Louisville board, they are resigned to the death penalty, and several of the posters want the death penalty they are so disgusted by the school. Louisville is busted on a wiretap discussing a payment to a player, less than a month after being put on probation.

I hope Swofford's phone is ringing off the hook with reporters asking him why he selected such a renegade program.

 

[mauconnfan]

Is that a Gigantor or are you just happy to see this report?

 

[Chin Diesel]

Best lunch ever. And that includes well done nooners.

Catching up.

1. Of course the FBI kept this from the NCAA. The NCAA would have messed up the whole investigation.
2. I'd wager a decent sum that the FBI had agents undercover. No way was this all external electronic comms being tapped.
3. This a classic nerds vs. geeks. I'd bet a decent portion of the FBI team couldn't name the coaches of any of these schools.
4. More rats than an abandoned farm will be coming out.
5. This will be a great movie.
6. It's got to involve all the shoe companies and you'd have to think this bleeds over in to football. Altough truth be told, there isn't much money made from shoe endorsement in the NFL. Probably less than 5 players can actually push merchandise. It's all about the logo. No need to invest young when the big pro pay day isn't coming.
7. NCAA is dying for an everybody did it so they don't have to do their job as hatchet men on the dirty programs.

 

[The Funster]

FBI sting has Louisville in its crosshairs
http://nypost.com/2017/09/26/fbi-sting-has-louisville-in-its-crosshairs/

FROM THAT ARTICLE:

The investigation revealed that the $100,000 was paid in four installments from “University-6” (Louisville) and funneled through “Company-1,” which is Adidas, to “Player-10.” Louisville has an endorsement deal with Adidas. FBI agent John Vourderis said in a sworn statement, “Shortly after the agreement with the family of Player-10 was reached in late May or early June, Player-10 publicly committed to University-6.”

There is also a second incident involving what appears to be a Louisville coach being videotaped in a Las Vegas hotel room negotiating a payout for a high school player who will graduate in 2019, according to WDRB.com.

 

[Chuck]

Checking out a Louisville board, they are resigned to the death penalty, and several of the posters want the death penalty they are so disgusted by the school. Louisville is busted on a wiretap discussing a payment to a player, less than a month after being put on probation.

I hope Swofford's phone is ringing off the hook with reporters asking him why he selected such a renegade program.

Add Miami to the questions for Swofford. A Miami board is equally nervous and pissed that many assume they are another unnamed team. Louisville is getting more of the publicity, probably because they had just received their hooker penalty. Yet it's good for the ACC that they didn't take a school that had an APR issue which resulted from not gaming the system / lying.

 

[Vancat]

I bet all those people nervous they gonna have to give it back.

 

[Husky1964]

Tony Bland played 2 yrs. at Cuse before going home to the West Coast

 

[SECONN]

FROM THAT ARTICLE:

The investigation revealed that the $100,000 was paid in four installments from “University-6” (Louisville) and funneled through “Company-1,” which is Adidas, to “Player-10.” Louisville has an endorsement deal with Adidas. FBI agent John Vourderis said in a sworn statement, “Shortly after the agreement with the family of Player-10 was reached in late May or early June, Player-10 publicly committed to University-6.”

There is also a second incident involving what appears to be a Louisville coach being videotaped in a Las Vegas hotel room negotiating a payout for a high school player who will graduate in 2019, according to WDRB.com.

Louisville acknowledged they are the subject of an FBI investigation......too bad USC got Freeh first for investigation

 

[mauconnfan]

Hey Chuck Person and Tony Bland:

 

[UConnJim]

I bet all those people nervous they gonna have to give it back.

The bigger problem for the cash recipients is not paying taxes on the cash payments as that is income tax fraud. This is part of the reason that many people will talk to the FBI and why the FBI is saying you had better call us before we call you.

 

[freescooter]

Tony Bland played 2 yrs. at Cuse before going home to the West Coast

Maybe they'll send him to prison in upstate New York. Like a homecoming of sorts.

 

[polycom]

USC just put an assistant coach on administrate leave

 

[Jimdish255]

Apparently the NCAA had no knowledge of the investigation until today. What I would give to have been a fly on the wall when Emmert got the news.

Awesome! Yeah I speculated earlier. Our former disgruntled employee could never be trusted with any aspect of this other than sweeping it under the rug.

 

[arch]

I know I'm in the minority in both cases, but I couldn't understand why the point shaving thing was a crime either. The tax angle mentioned previously would have been, but cheating to win or cheating to lose is just that - cheating. Gambling was illegal, so the injured parties had a reason to be pissed, but that's about it.

Bilas on Finebaum 30 mins ago mentioned wire fraud, mail fraud, bribery and conspiracy as potential charges. Not sure whether he was being flip or not, but it didn't appear that he had spent a great deal of energy in coming up with the list.

 

[freescooter]

Miami and Louisville have both got a long history of slimey activity. in a perfect world the ACC won't have enough teams to play its season and BCU will be declared league champs!

 

[nomar]

FBI videos of Louisville recruiting:

l figure a white. blue-chip athlete like myself deserves something extra.
l told them l need a new tractor. Look at that thing over there.
But you did authorize the friends of the program to do what had to be done.
Butch's mother has got a new job and a new house with a lawn.
What they've done is untraceable. What l've done is unprovable.
They are well-coached by Rick Pitino.

 

[mauconnfan]

Bilas on Finebaum 30 mins ago mentioned wire fraud, mail fraud, bribery and conspiracy as potential charges. Not sure whether he was being flip or not, but it didn't appear that he had spent a great deal of energy in coming up with the list.

Finebaum is an a**wipe not sure how this Mickey Mouse dude even has any idea of what's going on. He's in his own little SEC fairly tale world.

 

[mauconnfan]

Curious on Miami if Laranaga just turned away from it and allowed it or if this happens to go hack to Haith who Fishy seems to have nailed for many years?

 

[Stinger92860]

That's 13-14 years of illegal activities, this could go on for a while.

 

[OkaForPrez]

While Thomas noted that a head coach can't know everything that goes on around him, he said, "Look, you had over 2,000 phone calls between his staff with the booster during the time frame the recruiting started to commence with the prospective student-athlete. The head coach has to bear responsibility for that."

The NCAA said the case involved more than $6,000 of inducements from a booster (Nochimson) to a prospective student-athlete (Miles). Impermissible benefits allegedly provided to Miles by Nochimson were at least partial payment for a foot surgery, the cost of enrollment at a basketball academy and a registration fee for the SAT.

I'll never forget what Calhoun said about Nate Miles - I know what we did and I know what we didn't do.

 

[temery]

Oh Tom did you have to say that? Dooommmeeeddd.

Good point. I'm deleting the post. The last thing I need is Prankster bringing back a pair of South American nuts to undo any bad mojo my post may cause.

 

[Guapo]

Goes on to say it'll make headlines and that it isn't just about Pitino

 

[Danzz]

I wonder If Enoch received money to transfer to Vile? It was an odd transfer at the time.

Enoch isn't good enough to pay for.

 

[Jimdish255]

I'm hoping the NCAA was notified last night to preserve all communications and financial documents under a wide ranging umbrella. Disappointed if they didn't figure out a pretext to march in with a search warrant.