FBI College Basketball Corruption Investigation

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RichBradIllini
PlayAZ said:
Which coach is most likely ending up at Louisville? Also should the Ville get a sanctioned shut down for say 2/3-5 years to clean up? All players not implicated could transfer for immediate playing time. Any players implicated are no longer student/athletes, but retain student abilities, and any coach implicated is banned x amount of time from any athletic position involving recruiting of any type on campus or off...cannot meet/greet/be involved with recruiting?
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Dan Dakich
 
#678      
PJD86
The U has been informed they are under investigation, involving a student athlete and assistant coach
 
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Ryllini
PlayAZ said:
Which coach is most likely ending up at Louisville? Also should the Ville get a sanctioned shut down for say 2/3-5 years to clean up? All players not implicated could transfer for immediate playing time. Any players implicated are no longer student/athletes, but retain student abilities, and any coach implicated is banned x amount of time from any athletic position involving recruiting of any type on campus or off...cannot meet/greet/be involved with recruiting?
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I say Mack from Xavier, if he won't Crean is available right now.
 
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PJD86
why in the world would Mack do that? Probably 5 years of being a non factor. Crean I could see
 
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WhiteRhino
basementcheetos said:
Most ridiculous statement of the day belongs to Dan Dakich just now on ESPN 1000: "The only program I know for a fact is clean is Michigan because my son plays there so I know." Unreal, now I want Michigan to get caught up in this so badly. Like Dakich would know, I'm sure his kid would just run to daddy if he ever saw anything shady going on, because that's what college athletes do in those situations.
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Now it all makes sense! LuckyLefty8 = Dan Dakich :)
 
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Smacko
RichBradIllini said:
Woulda been nice to have a denial.
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Pitino came out with a wonderful denial, and look where that got him. A denial is essentially worthless, especially when no one has made any concrete accusations against you.
 
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westvilleillini
Ok, I was in favor of the first release and am of the opinion that BU probably has nothing to worry about, but something about his statement stinks a little bit. He's had plenty of time to carefully put this together and yet it just doesn't ring quite right. Probably reading way too much into it.
 
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FC Illiniman
whovous said:
You need charges before you can deny them.
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Exactly, this is a simple statement, admitting nothing. What else should he do, he made a statement, all he needs to say. More questions going to be asked, of course. Saying nothing let's media make there own assumptions., Glad he made so form of a response, it says nothing, but he has to speak, he is in charge of our program, and knew Evans.

I noticed several lawyers make posts today, they agreed that a basic statement is only to head off media saying he's hiding something. The statement addresses that his boss and his self are in agreement. Hopefully in days to come, that continues.
 
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OldGreg
westvilleillini said:
Ok, I was in favor of the first release and am of the opinion that BU probably has nothing to worry about, but something about his statement stinks a little bit. He's had plenty of time to carefully put this together and yet it just doesn't ring quite right. Probably reading way too much into it.
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You are
 
#698      
skyIdub
Oh good, here we go again.:deadhorse:
 
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mattcoldagelli
Hard as it is to believe, "completely assuage the nerves of paranoid superfans" is not the strategic North Star for these statements.
 
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Obelix
BRucks said:
If (and I say if) Underwood was complicit in what was going on at OSU, do you think that stopped cold turkey when he crossed the Mississippi?
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No, neither do I prescribe to the popular belief that all coaches who were ever employed at Illinois all of a sudden became saints during their tenure here. :)

But Underwood has been at Illinois for a very short time, had to assemble a staff from scratch without previous ties, and currently has no 2018 recruiting commitment. So by timing alone, chances that he already got in trouble (at UI) are extremely low, especially given that he was not named on the federal indictment despite one of his assistants being in close surveillance for some time. Even if the FBI uncovers some improprieties during investigation, chances that it is from his very short time at UI are extremely low, really non-existent.

Now moving forward, even schools and coaches who were regularly cheating, will all of a sudden be extremely careful knowing what just happened. This is not the helpless NCAA, nobody expected the FBI. This is a game-changer IMO.
 
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