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- the Front Range
Fred Van Vleet on the list for just over 1,000. That one surprised me.
Sounds like they gave Bridges mom an advancement of $400? In the grand scheme of things, that's not much.
Also of note, Demetrius Jackson of Notre Dame is listed as having had lunch with the agents. Nothing that he has done that is listed yet is illegal though.
Is this a comprehensive list? If so, I'm surprised there aren't more big names on this list. There were actually a lot of players on there I had never heard of, I expected a lot more top 10 type players.
The espn take: http://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...n-reveals-basketball-powers-broken-ncaa-rules
At least six players were identified in the documents as receiving payments exceeding $10,000. They include Dallas Mavericks point guard Dennis Smith Jr., who received $73,500 in loans from ASM before he played for NC State; Brooklyn Nets shooting guard Isaiah Whitehead, who received more than $37,000 around the time he was a freshman at Seton Hall; and 2017 No. 1 NBA draft pick Markelle Fultz, who received $10,000.
Other teams with current or former players who allegedly received payments were South Carolina, Louisville, Utah, Xavier, Wichita State, Clemson and Alabama. Other players named include former LSU guard Tim Quarterman, former Maryland center Diamond Stone and former Kentucky center Edrice "Bam" Adebayo.
The sport we love has such a seedy underbelly. ... We need a hard reset.
Agree. But still feel that between the lawyers, the money & some sealed documents in exchange for this or that. Only a small percentage will take the wrap for all of this & nothing will change.
While I am generally an optimist. There are just too many dirty hands involved for a clean outcome.
That's my fear as well, especially because the NCAA has no incentive to properly clean this up. Any work they do to expose what has been going on will only prove how negligent they've been for years (likely decades). Players, coaches, college programs, shoe companies, agents, and AAU programs all bear responsibility for allowing this to go on for so long.
My honest hope is that the FBI eventually charges the NCAA with the equivalent of "lack of institutional control".
With respect to bribes and the various programs...it is pretty well known that most of the blue chips really dont get their hands dirty when recruiting - the program sells itself. The smaller schools have coaches and assistants that are trying to move up the ladder...with everything to gain and very little to lose...and will sometimes do whatever it takes....where the big boys already sit atop the ladder and have everything to lose......
Wait, North Carolina is on the list??? I thought high and mighty Roy Williams said there is no way his program would end up on the FBI's list
$400 is like 80 little cesars hot and readys. So much pizza.
That's my fear as well, especially because the NCAA has no incentive to properly clean this up. Any work they do to expose what has been going on will only prove how negligent they've been for years (likely decades). Players, coaches, college programs, shoe companies, agents, and AAU programs all bear responsibility for allowing this to go on for so long.
My honest hope is that the FBI eventually charges the NCAA with the equivalent of "lack of institutional control".
Yep. No way a sanctioning body of this caliber has a clean house.
An analyst the other night rhetorically asked the question that if Louisville has to vacate their championship & pay back or give up certain dollars associated. Does the NCAA have to give up dollars they made off of their run
in television rights or even in just the simple things like purchasing licensed gear?
We need a hard reset.
Water is wet.
NCAA will give them all wrist slaps.
This kind of thing happens at every program with big time recruits. EVERY program.
And the overall numbers are even bigger in football, I'd bet.
Fans should be turning this crap off.
The FBI has done more in a year vs. what the NCAA has ever done. I recall several senators outraged when the initial FBI report came out. Maybe Congress should drag NCAA leadership in for a special session and ridicule them publically for lack of discipline.
Check it out:
This is going to be a big s$$$ sandwich and all the big programs are going to take a big bite. Players attending or who attended Maryland, MSU, Duke,Kentucky, etc etc are on the ledger.
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/exclus...g-high-profile-players-schools-103338484.html