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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Sept 26, 2017 9:32:23 GMT -5
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Post by rgs318 on Sept 26, 2017 9:35:42 GMT -5
Ouch...well, I can't believe they didn't understand the risks. Now will anything actually be done to change things?
(When I first looked at he headline, I assumed we were dealing with another point-shaving scandal.)
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Sept 26, 2017 9:52:40 GMT -5
Why leave a paper trail? Don't these guys know it's always "straight cash, homie" with stuff like this?
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Sept 26, 2017 10:10:20 GMT -5
The irony is just too rich with Pitino on this one. Louisville landed Brian Bowen this past summer, which came as a big surprise.
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Post by hchoops on Sept 26, 2017 10:28:42 GMT -5
Fr Brooks made errors, but calling major college sports a cesspool was accurate
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Post by td128 on Sept 26, 2017 11:07:11 GMT -5
Fresh red meat . . . this story broke this morning . . . any real surprise??
Bribery, Kickbacks Alleged at Top NCAA Basketball Programs
Federal charges center on alleged scheme in which agents, financial advisers and apparel executives bribed college coaches to direct players to them
By Rebecca Davis O’Brien
Updated Sept. 26, 2017 11:59 a.m. ET
Federal authorities brought fraud charges against an Adidas executive and coaches at some of the nation’s premier college-basketball programs, including the University of Arizona, following a probe of alleged corruption in college sports.
Prosecutors from the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office unsealed three separate criminal complaints Tuesday, alleging schemes in which agents, financial advisers and apparel executives bribed college coaches to direct players to them.
Among those charged were the executive from Adidas, a financial adviser and a sports agent. Chuck Person, a former star with the National Basketball Association who works as an associate coach for the men’s basketball team at Auburn, his alma mater, was charged with accepting tens of thousands of dollars in exchange for steering student-athletes to a financial adviser.
In one alleged scheme, Emanuel Richardson, an assistant coach at the University of Arizona, Anthony Bland, a coach at the University of Southern California, and Lamont Evans, an associate coach at Oklahoma State University, were charged with accepting cash bribes from a sports agent and a financial adviser.
Mr. Evans, until March, coached at the University of South Carolina, and the charges stem from his work there.
“We are gathering information and will have something to say later today. We are cooperating with officials,” said a spokesman for Oklahoma State.
None of the other schools allegedly involved immediately returned requests for comment.
In another alleged scheme, James “Jim” Gatto—identified in the complaint as a basketball marketing executive at a global athletic company—worked with another sports-marketing executive to funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars from Mr. Gatto’s employer to high-school basketball players and/or their families in exchange for the players’ commitment to play for NCAA schools sponsored by the company.
Jim Gatto is the director of basketball global sports marketing at Adidas, according to his LinkedIn profile. “Today, we became aware that federal investigators arrested an Adidas employee,” said an Adidas spokesman. ”We are learning more about the situation. We’re unaware of any misconduct and will fully cooperate with authorities to understand more.”
Mr. Gatto is accused of getting $100,000 to a player so that he would attend a university that has an apparel contract with Adidas. The description in the complaint of the university—a public research institution in Kentucky with 22,640 students—matches the University of Louisville. A spokesperson for the school said it was unaware of the allegations.
The complaints provide a window into the world of big-time college sports that has long been troubled by whispers that underground intermediaries have gained outsize power to steer high-school recruits to colleges in exchange for kickbacks from agents, financial advisers and powerful sneaker companies.
As the governing body of college athletics, the NCAA has the broad jurisdiction to investigate such alleged pay-for-play activity, which is illegal under its rules of amateurism. But the fraud allegations unsealed Tuesday stretch beyond any violations the NCAA has ever uncovered.
Among the schools implicated are the country’s top college-basketball teams with proud histories and expectations to compete for the national championship every season.
Louisville has already been tarnished by recent allegations of misconduct. Hall of Fame coach Rick Pitino was suspended in June and the school was punished with four years of probation and risked losing its 2013 title for its involvement in a sex scandal that included charges of coaches lavishing adult entertainment on basketball players and recruits.
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Post by nhteamer on Sept 26, 2017 11:22:38 GMT -5
His actions subsequent to that statement was IDIOCY.
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Post by rickii on Sept 26, 2017 11:25:17 GMT -5
Appears HC sure picked a doozy in Adidas !!
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Sept 26, 2017 11:28:26 GMT -5
Who in this sad affair will play the race card?
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Post by hchoops on Sept 26, 2017 11:30:47 GMT -5
Maybe pitino
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Post by td128 on Sept 26, 2017 11:37:19 GMT -5
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Post by hchoops on Sept 26, 2017 11:40:46 GMT -5
Trump ?
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Post by southernsader on Sept 26, 2017 11:43:35 GMT -5
Shocked. Shocked, I tell you.The cesspool known as Louisville does the seemingly impossible - gets even scummier.
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Post by bison137 on Sept 26, 2017 12:31:18 GMT -5
Louisville's involvement is apparently much deeper than first reported. According to a local TV station, "In another case, a coach for a university that matches U of L's description was caught on an undercover FBI video negotiating payments in a Las Vegas hotel room for a second recruit, prosecutors claim. The coach, who is not named, acknowledged that his school was on probation at the time and said, 'we gotta be very low key," according to court documents." Note that this is not the original reported case involving Bowen but rather a different recruit. www.wdrb.com/story/36454113/update-second-u-of-l-coach-recruit-appear-linked-to-federal-bribery-investigation
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Sept 26, 2017 12:51:57 GMT -5
This might be final nail in both Pitino and Jurich's coffins.
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Post by rgs318 on Sept 26, 2017 12:56:08 GMT -5
I try not to wish ill on anyone, but Pitino has been getting away with so much for so long that I would like to see him finally have to pay.
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Post by bison137 on Sept 26, 2017 13:05:31 GMT -5
I try not to wish ill on anyone, but Pitino has been getting away with so much for so long that I would like to see him finally have to pay. Agree 100%. His unethical behavior goes back to at least when he was 19 years-old, likely much longer.
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Post by rickii on Sept 26, 2017 13:32:38 GMT -5
Sorry KY but between Pitino and Petrino, Louisville has succeeded in totally re-defining the meanings of dirtbag and gutterball.
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Post by Ray on Sept 26, 2017 13:41:09 GMT -5
Nothing sticks to Pitino... but this might be what finally finishes him at the Ville.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Sept 26, 2017 13:56:28 GMT -5
Sorry KY but between Pitino and Petrino, Louisville has succeeded in totally re-defining the meanings of dirtbag and gutterball. Rick and I share a birthday--he is 1 year older--but we don't hang around a lot. I follow U of L and UK a little bit because they are teams covered in the local press (Indiana U is 3rd), but I have nothing invested in the teams emotionally. I like to see the universities themselves do well (big scandal at U of L with the greedy president Dr. Ramsey getting whacked) as my taxes pay for them.
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Post by hc811215 on Sept 26, 2017 14:23:55 GMT -5
I'm sure Pitino knew nothing about this. It was just one of those darn assistants who he has no control over and barely knows.
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Post by hchoops on Sept 26, 2017 14:27:55 GMT -5
I try not to wish ill on anyone, but Pitino has been getting away with so much for so long that I would like to see him finally have to pay. Agree 100%. His unethical behavior goes back to at least when he was 19 years-old, likely much longer.
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Post by hchoops on Sept 26, 2017 14:29:07 GMT -5
IT does go back before that
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Post by bison137 on Sept 26, 2017 15:33:23 GMT -5
IT does go back before that That doesn't surprise me - although I only know of things he did in college.
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Post by bison137 on Sept 26, 2017 15:41:24 GMT -5
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