FBI College Basketball Corruption Investigation

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Greensboro
whovous said:
This story started out sounding like the indictments were for assistant coaches taking bribes to steer college players to particular agents when they turned pro. It might be difficult to implicate a head coach for that, given that the team reaps no direct benefit from having a player leave the team for the pros.

Were any of these indictments for paying players to attend these schools? Note, I am NOT asking if HS players or their families ever get paid for a player to go to a particular school. I am asking if any of these indictments involve specific allegations of specific players going to specific schools for cash payments.

I ask this question because institutional control, or lack thereof, is much more directly implicated in the second scenario than in the first.
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This is along my line of thinking as well. Personal money to steer players to agents seems a bit more a personal action than a university action and I could see where that could be unattached to the university.

The money steering recruits to programs scares me more as far as to where that goes,

The caveat here though is Evans is in big trouble & will get drilled by FBI investigators, and he doesn't appear to be a choir boy at this point...so what else has he done and will he say to save his butt.
 
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mattcoldagelli said:
Lookin' good, NCAA.
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exactly what I thought. Cue the Bruce Weber gif.

Also, going to be hearing a lot of this in the months ahead:

"I don't know anything about that," Bowen's mother, Carrie Malecke, told the Louisville Courier-Journal on Tuesday. "I don't know anything about that. I'm not aware of anything like that. Not me. I had no idea."
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#157      
NJILLINI
Kajagoogoo said:
4 sentences. 4 denials. Impressive work, ma'am. Haha! :thumb:
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Did she say that to the reporter on the phone? Or did she just roll down the window of her new Mercedes and speak to her directly?
 
#160      
SescIllini
OldGreg said:
Am I literally the only one here who thinks this is not going to affect us in the slightest? Where was Underwood mentioned in these briefings? The heavy scrutiny is going to lie with these asst coaches and where they are currently. We're good
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I agree, too many folks that don't live in reality. You have to have strong evidence in today's world to pursue action.
 
#161      
mhuml32
SescIllini said:
I agree, too many folks that don't live in reality. You have to have strong evidence in today's world to pursue action.
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Again, NCAA changed legislation to make head coaches liable for actions of their assistant coaches. There are multiple comments in this thread highlighting that change. Illinois is likely not going to be involved in the FBI investigation, NCAA is a different story.
 
#167      
USAFILLINI
FBI wouldn't involve the NCAA for the same reason the DEA didn't work with Cali cops to bring down the cartel
 
#169      
skyIdub
EJ33 said:
Yes, a writer is probably doing her job. Are you suggesting this is media bias against Illinois?
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#170      
ILL in IA
Illwinsagain said:
What????? $2500, for someone making six figures???? To throw away a career for that is ridiculous!
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Cash gives you the ability to do things that people or wives cant trace. Not implying anything on Evans, but no matter how much money you make, a bag of cash that cant be traced allows you to do anything you want.
 
#171      
Qwiksilvur
EJ33 said:
This from Brian Hamilton, BTN analyst:



$2500
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That seems wrong. Unless I'm reading it wrong, on page 34 he gets $2,000 and then says "That's two for February." That implies one of two things...either he is saying that because earlier the document states they agreed to pay him $2,000 a month and that was ONLY February's payment. Or because he was paid twice in February (unlikely the other payment was $500)
 
#172      
AttentionDeficit
These amounts are what the FBI has evidence of, not the amount that coach has raked in off the books in their careers. Once again, tip of the iceberg.
 
#175      
PNWIllini
http://wvmetronews.com/2017/09/26/osu-coach-allegedly-took-bribe-for-player-intro-in-morgantown/

Oklahoma State upset then-No. 7 West Virginia 82-75 on Feb. 4 at the WVU Coliseum, a victory that ultimately helped the Cowboys earn an NCAA at-large bid. The day before, inside a hotel in Morgantown, a cooperating witness from the Justice Department allegedly paid Evans to arrange an introduction with one of OSU’s pro prospects. (The player’s name was redacted from the indictment.)


The meeting would have occurred around the same time then-OSU head coach Brad Underwood was appearing at Bob Huggins’ charity fish fry.
 
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