Looks like its about to get real now.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/ear ... stigation/

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Can't wait to see the signing bonuses.

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I guess if the FBI is involved, it must be pretty bad, but the NCAA has survived this before (for better or for worse).

Of course, if they start taking teams down, the Illini just may sneak into that tournament and go on a feel-good run that stuns a nation . . .

Nothing matters anymore

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

It's time for the universities to just say "fuck it" and leave the NCAA and go pro as a set of intertwined U23 leagues with a salary cap, tuition waivers, and some kind of promotion and relegation system. Let the Madison Badgers play the Lansing Spartans.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

CBS & TNT won't like that for their $8.1 billion.

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

They wont want to pay the taxes on all the profits they currently make and signing bonuses they have been handing out.

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1. Virginia
2. Villanova
3. Xavier
4. Purdue
5. Auburn
6. Kansas
7. Duke
8. Cincinnati
9. Clemson
10. Texas Tech
11. Michigan State
12. North Carolina
13. Tennessee
14. Ohio State
15. Arizona
16. Oklahoma

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Whenever everything and what teams are affected comes out, going to be interesting to see what happens because of it or does anything happen.

No thanks. Make the educational connection stronger. Don't remove it.

Pay the players as employees for sports related activities. Have stricter education requirements. Punish academic fraud harder.

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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!

Your 2010 and 2011 NCAA Champion Butler Bulldogs!

Drop down to D3 then. Very few people care or will care about education in big time D1 athletics.

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That's the point. Return to the point of college athletics rather than make the Lansing Spartans.

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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!

Way too much money involved at this point to turn back.

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Sad that the FBI is wasting time on this. Should've paid attention to Florida teen gunman!

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It goes away with the Lansing Spartans too.

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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!

Graduate students are furious that their tuition waivers for research or teaching assistants are going to possibly be considered taxable. Wouldn't the same go for athletes?

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

Good thing the FBI has spent so much time looking in to college basketball recruiting violations and not tips received on possible school shooters

1) guarantee every scholarship until graduation, irrespective of time frame
2) relax in season academic requirements to only 1-2 classes per semester
3) return to mandatory freshman red shirt for all

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

Woo hoo IU may make the tournament yet!

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

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Miles Bridges getting dragged since his mom took $400 and his parents were taken out to a $70 dinner.

players would need 10-15 years to graduate. Even if you limit it to when actual games are being played (not practice only), basketball is both semesters. Might as well just go all the way and have make actual school optional.

You need t o pass two classes to be eligible as Freshmen at the end of first semester. You can take Bowling and PE, then not go to class second semester and play. Now if you plan on staying longer than a year it gets harder.

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Freshmen used to have to red shirt, didn't they?

until about 1970, I think.....

The kids genuinely interested in education load up in the summer and then drop down to nine/twelve hours per semester during the year.

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

I always love the story of how Kareem's frosh team routinely beat the hell out of the defending(& soon to repeat) natl champs in practice

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

Peanut Tillman now an FBI agent. He probably knows the back channels of college sports.

Or maybe he will investigate Trump or not investigate reports of possible school shooters.

Adios, Sean Miller and Deandre Ayton.