Just pay the players an hourly rate and let them sell their likeness and make appearances and be done with it.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I know a lot of people at Illinois expected Lamont Evans to become an assistant there after Underwood was hired.

Is that the Pacers Chuck Person?

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

This could be a big problem for Illinois.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Looks like a big problem for Louisville. I think this might be Pitino's swan song.

Illinois is not an Adidas school. They should be okay.

Underwood will probably get off clean, too, because of how this scheme went down without head coach or school knowledge.

Until the assistant coach saves himself from jail time by talking.

At a minimum, it puts a lot of eyes in a negative way on the head coaches involved. Anyone with a brain knows that they weren't completely in the dark.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

True. I don't think Arizona has any assistant coaches left.

Basketball players getting 100k to sign? Shocking

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The only shocking thing is that it took this long to know this happens. Let me know when they finally get the great coach K.

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Elections have consequences.

There is a zero percent chance the head coaches did not know. Proving that may be difficult.

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Louisville is on probation. This is a death penalty

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

This is an almost yearly event for Auburn.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

And Bruce Pearl.

Yeah, big surprise Auburn and Ok. State were mentioned....

I still don't know what constitutes corruption in the cesspool of college sports.

Or who is surprised or cares?

Otherwise than the U.S. attorney's who are doing their usual grandstanding. Pointless

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Why would that be pointless?

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

It's par for the course and has been since the $100 handshake in the Wooden era. This is also imo a victimless crime.

I wish that the time and effort was spent on all the mini Bernie Madoffs or the thousands of money launderers still running rampant and doing real harm, protected by a veneer of acceptability

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Big announcement coming out of Louisville tomorrow. Speculation is that Pitino is getting fired!


Chuck Person suspended by Auburn. he could be looking at jail time. FBI has some pretty damning evidence against him.

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Rick Pitino on getting Bowen (who he bribed $100,000):

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"We got lucky on this one," Pitino told Terry Meiners of News Radio 840. "I had an AAU director call me and ask me if I'd be interested in a player (Bowen). I saw him against another great player from Indiana. I said 'Yeah, I'd be really interested.' They had to come in unofficially, pay for their hotel, pay for their meals. We spent zero dollars recruiting a five-star athlete who I loved when I saw him play. In my 40 years of coaching this is the luckiest I've been."

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

At the least I assume the recipients are up for tax evasion.

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Elections have consequences.

Can't wait for the Coaches Arrested on Corruption preseason tournament . The CAC always has some good teams.

I like how they all wear ankle monitors with their suits.

I'm just hoping IU gets snagged in this. They are an Adidas school

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

Louisville cleaning house. AD gone and Pitino almost certainly is too.

Not a shock as they need to scramble to not get the death penalty as these things happened while on probation.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I think it's too late to avoid death penalty.

This scandal caught NCAA off guard and they look really bad. The FBI didn't trust them enough to include them so the NCAA will have to act harshly to regain any shred of credibility. They found out about this when we did.

Just wait until Adidas execs sing to save some jail time. Other Adidas schools will be involved when all of this is settled. Once again, I'm really hoping IU is one of them. We all know Crean was a dirtbag.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

Penn State didn't get the death penalty.

They will never enforce the death penalty again.

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A few reasons why, the coach involved was off the staff for over a decade at the time and it was not related to issues of competition (which the NCAA has jurisdiction over).

What happened at Penn State was the worst thing to happen in college sports, but it happened in an area outside of NCAA jurisdiction. Besides, NCAA rules for the death penalty have the repeat offenders clause. Only a 2nd major violation within 5 years of the 1st can trigger the death penalty.

That is why only Louisville is being talked about as a death penalty school while others were involved.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson