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Fact or conjecture?
. And I'd hope that, as an attorney, you'd be all over this in an attempt to protect your clients standing in a court of law, if such allegations were leveled against them.
A Kentucky tv station just tweeted that a big announcement is expected this morning regarding Rick Pitino.
My guess is he's gone.
A Kentucky tv station just tweeted that a big announcement is expected this morning regarding Rick Pitino.
My guess is he's gone.
Contract extension.
Now the decision to team up with Nike--despite the dumb shield etc--is looking pretty good...unless Nike was doing the same thing. I'd like to think that there are people who decided that they "weren't going there," even if was only to avoid the eventual blowup once they were caught.
My guess is that the FBI won't be able to do squat about the payoffs that recruits are getting.
It takes very little time and effort to research the fact that out of the 4 assistant coaches charged, 3 of them were at Nike schools (Lamont Evans/Ok. State, Emanuel Richardson/Arizona, and Tony Bland/USC) and one at an Under Armour school (Chuck Person/Auburn). If people think this is just an Adidas school thing, involving Adidas coaches and schools, think again.
Or turns out that he himself is in fact an FBI agent working deep undercover for the last 40 years to infiltrate and ultimately bring down the organized criminal underworld of college bball recruiting. This would actually explain a lot come to think of it..
As an attorney you should also know that this is not a fact at this point in time. Based on the information known at this point in time there is nothing to suggest that anything illegal occurred during BU's one year stint at OSU. It is a fact though that Evans activities occured in the year prior to BU's arrival. And I'd hope that, as an attorney, you'd be all over this in an attempt to protect your clients standing in a court of law, if such allegations were leveled against them.
I'm an attorney, too, but you don't have to be an attorney to find and read the criminal complaint against Lamont Evans. You do have to read between the lines a bit, though, because most of the actors in this drama are unnamed.
As I read it, Lamont Evans received $2,500 (one installment of $500, followed by $2,000 later) in exchange for introducing Jawun Evans to a "financial adviser". This took place in West Virginia while OSU was there to play (and defeat) WVU.
This did not happen in the year prior to BU's arrival at OSU. Brad Underwood was the OSU coach when all of this happened.
It is alleged that Lamont Evans did the same sort of thing while an assistant at S Carolina. He got about $20K for "introductions" during that time. BU has zero connection to those payments.
BU's link to any of this is tenuous in the extreme. It amounts to "guilt by association" and nothing more. But the link does exist.
I think the Illinois statement is the right thing here. They are "monitoring" the situation. What else can they do?
I think the Illinois statement is the right thing here. They are "monitoring" the situation. What else can they do?
I agree with your statement. I think the NCAA better have more than their bylaws to go after BU. If they go after BU they better go after a lot more people first and universities.
I have managed people the last 6-7 years, I provide training and re-enforce the rules. Those people who want to live in the gray or break the rules/law will do it. The only way you find out is when they get caught. All you can do is set the culture, provide supervision/training and discipline employees. So I see no benefit to BU in what Evans is alleged to have done and the incoming recruits at OKST seem pretty average to below average for a power6 school(no top 100s).