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Corruption in College Basketball

By Stuhoo, in Indiana Men's Basketball

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LIHoosier    27,666

LIHoosier
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8 hours ago, Stromboli said:

Holy smokes. Rick Pitino received 98% of the cash from Louisville's contract with Adidas. Unbelievable.

 

http://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/college/louisville/2017/10/05/university-louisville-college-basketball-adidas-tom-jurich-rick-pitinio-money/730771001/

"In 2015-16, for example, $1.5 million went to Pitino under his personal services agreement with the apparel company while just $25,000 went to the program, according to a contract obtained by the Courier-Journal under the state public records act.

The year before, Pitino also got $1.5 million, while the department banked just $10,000."

So Slick's mistress and the prostitutes likely received more Adidas money than the athletic program/university. 

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Bailey7878    2,506

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Had Archie been here a couple of years I would be worried. As it is he is likely to early to have already paid someone-no 5 star commitments yet.




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I'm not worried. I get the feeling Sean Miller will skate anyway. These assistants take the sword for head coaches and I'm sure his Richardsons lawyer is telling him not to talk about sean.You got Arizona's president fully behind Sean. They know the money at stake and are happy to throw Richardson under the bus. Even if he says miller knew the ncaa will do nothing. I guarantee the assitant will take the fall.



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reconmkd    4,741

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7 hours ago, LIHoosier said:

"In 2015-16, for example, $1.5 million went to Pitino under his personal services agreement with the apparel company while just $25,000 went to the program, according to a contract obtained by the Courier-Journal under the state public records act.

The year before, Pitino also got $1.5 million, while the department banked just $10,000."

So Slick's mistress and the prostitutes likely received more Adidas money than the athletic program/university. 

You should hear the Cards fans down here, its laughable! "You need to check the sources, Courier Journal is full of it, CJ is trash don't waste your money, no way that is true...."

To top off the Pitino money, Jurich is paid twice as much as the next highest paid AD in the country ($5.4 million taxable income). The school also pays his bar/food tab, 3 golf course membership (one is $25K, another $27K a year)! I honestly think this school is in need of a cleansing from the top to bottom.  His listed income last year was more than the university budgeted for its departments of Biology ($3.3 million), English ($4 million), History ($2.4 million) or Mathematics ($3.5 million). That's pretty sad considering the school is at risk of losing its accreditation!

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bigrod    3,110

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I get that none of this is proof in a courtroom, but logic would tell you that if this is proven to go on at Louisville, it had to be going on at other places that make a habit of collecting one-and-done players. Especially places that seem to collect multiple players year after year. You can't convince me that these players are going to University X, Y, or Z because the coach is such a great guy or he is going to get them to the league. Let's face it, they could go to Indiana State and still get in the league.

Yes, there are a certain number who have morals and aren't interested, but as has been stated here before, if you come from a background of limited resources and someone is willing to give your family a few hundred K, it would be pretty tough to turn down.

So there is just no way you can convince me that Adidas has to pay kids to come to their schools, but kids just love Nike so much they want to go there. It doesn't pass the logic test. So, if the NCAA is really interested in being fair and not just profiting off of all of this, they HAVE to investigate. Right? Am I right??  ...no, probably not.

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HooHooHoo22    3,927

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I get that none of this is proof in a courtroom, but logic would tell you that if this is proven to go on at Louisville, it had to be going on at other places that make a habit of collecting one-and-done players. Especially places that seem to collect multiple players year after year. You can't convince me that these players are going to University X, Y, or Z because the coach is such a great guy or he is going to get them to the league. Let's face it, they could go to Indiana State and still get in the league.
Yes, there are a certain number who have morals and aren't interested, but as has been stated here before, if you come from a background of limited resources and someone is willing to give your family a few hundred K, it would be pretty tough to turn down.
So there is just no way you can convince me that Adidas has to pay kids to come to their schools, but kids just love Nike so much they want to go there. It doesn't pass the logic test. So, if the NCAA is really interested in being fair and not just profiting off of all of this, they HAVE to investigate. Right? Am I right??  ...no, probably not.

That’s what I’ve been saying. There’s no way it was just those schools cheating. He has to be all the top schools in recruiting. But does the NCAA wanna open up a can of worms they big? They already look bad enough. No doubt in my mind UNC, Duke, Kentucky, Kansas even Missouri now and places like that are cheating.


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mark1981    1,429

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5 minutes ago, HooHooHoo22 said:


That’s what I’ve been saying. There’s no way it was just those schools cheating. He has to be all the top schools in recruiting. But does the NCAA wanna open up a can of worms they big? They already look bad enough. No doubt in my mind UNC, Duke, Kentucky, Kansas even Missouri now and places like that are cheating.


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Yep.  Wasn't one of the Louisville coaches saying that they had to outbid another apparel company to get Bowen?

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mdn82    26,344

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From Fox Sports 1's college basketball writer. Should be good fun, if ya' asks me!
 
Bruce Feldman‏Verified account @BruceFeldmanCFB

Hearing more indictments are coming in college hoops. Expected to happen within the next two weeks, I'm told.


I imagine more assistants go down and/or we are waiting for people to flip and provide documents other than he/she said.


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mdn82    26,344

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Just hoping there's no Kenny Johnson blowback on our program. 

When's the last time you saw a criminal snitch on themselves to get more charges? You really think he is going to dive into all of his transgressions?


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