Corruption in College Basketball

[Deserthoozier]

Final argument in the case wrapped up today. Attorneys out there, why was the defense not able to call the undercover FBI agents involved to testify?  Defense argument was that the FBI agent, not Dawkins - pushed the bribe the coaches scheme. Also, the primary FBI agent was apparently removed from the case for his own impropriety (lotsa govt cash in bags in Vegas hotel room - temptation city!)

How/why would the defense be precluded from being able to call them to testify?

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

-Christian Dawkins found guilty on 2 of 6 charges (conspiracy to commit bribery and bribery)

-Merl Code guilty on 1 of 4 (conspiracy to commit bribery )

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

Thank you Mike Brey for taking a public stand.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2019/05/22/mike-brey-calls-on-schools-fire-coaches-who-break-rules/3770116002/

[Brass Cannon]

1 minute ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Thank you Mike Brey for taking a public stand.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2019/05/22/mike-brey-calls-on-schools-fire-coaches-who-break-rules/3770116002/

Wow the refs aren’t going to be kind to him. 

[JSHoosier]

1 hour ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Thank you Mike Brey for taking a public stand.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2019/05/22/mike-brey-calls-on-schools-fire-coaches-who-break-rules/3770116002/

"Will you shut up?"- NCAA

"What are these 'rules' you speak of?"- SEC

"Too many text messages, blow up the program"- IU

[HoosierAloha]

Thank you Mike Brey for taking a public stand.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2019/05/22/mike-brey-calls-on-schools-fire-coaches-who-break-rules/3770116002/

Deep don Mikey knows the game and knows it’s not going to change. Wayyyyy too much money for it to be clean.


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[ElectricBoogaloo]

15 hours ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Thank you Mike Brey for taking a public stand.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2019/05/22/mike-brey-calls-on-schools-fire-coaches-who-break-rules/3770116002/

"And I know I am totally in the minority, but I just think this time around it’s going to happen.”

[woodenshoemanHoosierfan]

https://www.si.com/college-basketball/2019/05/22/ncaa-corruption-fbi-investigation-scandal-arizona-kansas-nc-state-louisville

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[HoosierAloha]

https://www.si.com/college-basketball/2019/05/22/ncaa-corruption-fbi-investigation-scandal-arizona-kansas-nc-state-louisville

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Haha

They’re hoping it goes away quickly after all the FBI stuff is now completed. It’ll be interesting to see if the spots media brings it up much. I highly doubt much will be done besides a school or two being “hammered” and the rest of the cheating bastards get the wink wink nod nod from the ncaa.


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[woodenshoemanHoosierfan]

Haha

They’re hoping it goes away quickly after all the FBI stuff is now completed. It’ll be interesting to see if the spots media brings it up much. I highly doubt much will be done besides a school or two being “hammered” and the rest of the cheating bastards get the wink wink nod nod from the ncaa.


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I agree. Just sharing an article

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[schoosier]

On 5/22/2019 at 6:02 PM, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Thank you Mike Brey for taking a public stand.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2019/05/22/mike-brey-calls-on-schools-fire-coaches-who-break-rules/3770116002/

The NABC or whatever they’re called is about as important as the ncaa. I would be willing to wager some of the biggest cheaters hold lofty positions in this organization. Didn’t Brey have a little moral dust up just a couple years ago with local reporter? Low morals and rules breaking unfortunately go hand in hand with coaching big time college b-ball. 

[woodenshoemanHoosierfan]

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[Class of '66 Old Fart]

You naughty little boy.  Now go stand in the corner.

CBSSports Breaking News:  Former USC assistant Tony Bland receives two years probation and 100 hours community service. No jail time.

Book Richardson will be sentenced tomorrow.  Lamont Evans Friday.  Chuck Person later this summer.

 

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

https://tucson.com/sports/arizonawildcats/basketball/pascoe/ua-facing-potential-significant-sanctions-and-penalties-from-ncaa-general/article_5e7f8120-87c7-11e9-a579-1bf157c52df3.html#tracking-source=home-top-story-1

The lead paragraph of the article:  In a victim impact statement filed in federal court in advance of Book Richardson's upcoming sentencing, University of Arizona general counsel Laura Todd Johnson said the school is "facing the prospect of potentially significant sanctions and penalties from the NCAA flowing from the unlawful actions involved in this case." 

[bigrod]

16 hours ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

https://tucson.com/sports/arizonawildcats/basketball/pascoe/ua-facing-potential-significant-sanctions-and-penalties-from-ncaa-general/article_5e7f8120-87c7-11e9-a579-1bf157c52df3.html#tracking-source=home-top-story-1

The lead paragraph of the article:  In a victim impact statement filed in federal court in advance of Book Richardson's upcoming sentencing, University of Arizona general counsel Laura Todd Johnson said the school is "facing the prospect of potentially significant sanctions and penalties from the NCAA flowing from the unlawful actions involved in this case." 

I will be totally shocked if anything significant comes from any of this. I think the NCAA's record in these manners is pretty well proven: Unless you're stupid enough to self-sanction, or are a small school that doesn't bring give them million$ of rea$on$ to leave you alone, nothing will happen except maybe a show to make it appear that they still care.

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

Various sources -

Book Richardson sentenced to three months in prison and two years of supervised release thereafter.  Judge Ramos said the sentence ‘merits some degree of leniency because of the largely good life that he has led.

The judge explained the biggest difference wasn’t just that Book took 20K in bribes vs. Bland’s ~4K, but that he sought out the money and did this on multiple occasions. Gov't prosecutors were asking for 18-24 months for Richardson. The judge went way under.

Judge Ramos: "I do believe that the University of Arizona was victimized by the crime. It caused several athletes to decommit from the University" and it led to "an additional (NCAA) investigation that may have some implications for the University."

[Brass Cannon]

12 minutes ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Various sources -

Book Richardson sentenced to three months in prison and two years of supervised release thereafter.  Judge Ramos said the sentence ‘merits some degree of leniency because of the largely good life that he has led.

The judge explained the biggest difference wasn’t just that Book took 20K in bribes vs. Bland’s ~4K, but that he sought out the money and did this on multiple occasions. Gov't prosecutors were asking for 18-24 months for Richardson. The judge went way under.

Judge Ramos: "I do believe that the University of Arizona was victimized by the crime. It caused several athletes to decommit from the University" and it led to "an additional (NCAA) investigation that may have some implications for the University."

Oh what a crock. Is that judge an Alumni or something. 

[LIHoosier]

It appears the book that is being thrown at these defendants is a 2 page pamphlet entitled 'Tsk Tsk'.

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[Brass Cannon]

2 hours ago, LIHoosier said:

It appears the book that is being thrown at these defendants is a 2 page pamphlet entitled 'Tsk Tsk'.

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Probably 3 pages, a full page ad for burner phones 

[LIHoosier]

Today in "That'll teach you", Lamont Evans was sentenced to a THREE month prison sentence. However, he still stands the chance of being deported to a tropical island(Evans is a Barbados citizen).

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/26921190/lamont-evans-sentenced-deported