What’s with German Cos cheating??
So far–Arizona, USC, Okie State and Auburn. Louisville on deck.
I think Louisville deserves it. They have troubles with the AD, with coaches from several sports, with basketball. Nine of their sophomore and junior lacrosse players transferred this year. NINE. That’s a huge number. The only nice thing I can say about the coach is that she released them so they can play at other schools immediately.
The NCAA is considering Death Penalties.
FBI is in; this is serious stuff.
Bet you see other schools pulled into this - maybe a whole bunch of them. Sounds like this could be business as usual in the recruiting wars. One of the big reasons Gary Williams retired as basketball coach at UMD when he did was because he refused to deal with the AAU teams/culture and it was really hurting his recruiting. Prescient…
How much money do these assistant coaches make? Interesting that no head coaches have been implicated…yet. Of course, at these big programs, some of them make more than the college president, right?
I can see poor or struggling families taking money. It’s hard to blame them.
Yet more illustration of why some college players should just be paid a salary or stipend or whatever you want to call it openly.
Maybe its time that colleges stop being farm teams for the NBA and NFL, and to a lesser extent the NHL.
ESPN was reporting last night that Miami has also been implicated in the case, though not yet officially named.
@barrons Why do you single out German companies? Doesn’t Nike keep a stable of endorsement deals, too?
If the allegations are true, Chuck Person should be ashamed of himself. This guy was a top-level player in the NBA for more than 10 years! What, he’s broke now so he scams nearly 100 grand and then offers a high school player’s parents 10K of that 100 grand? Let there be no further doubts; college athletics are corrupt. I cannot imagine what it is like to be a 17-year old star athlete today, when nearly everyone you meet whom has an interest in your future, is shady. That includes some parents, too.
Incidentally, regarding Barron’s comment; until very very recently, bribery was de riguer in business circles in Germany and widely viewed as “the ordinary of course of business.” Bribery or incentive payments were not made illegal until the government of Germany signed on to an international agreement to prevent it. Even after adoption of said standards, illicit payments, gifts, etc. continued to be exchanged for business contracts. Even German conglomerates like Siemens AG has struggled with adopting the new and better business ethics standards.
How likely is it that this is only happening in basketball? Football is just as big if not bigger. Money, money, money.
Everybody makes money in college sports except the actual athletes. The entire system is really messed up; it’s practically designed to encourage cheating and corruption.
Rick Pitino and Louisville’s AD are out. http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/20834710/louisville-head-coach-rick-pitino-athletic-director-tom-jurich-out
There are very ethical programs. I am a big fan of one in particular. Louisville is no surprise. Neither is Auburn.
Volkswagen/Audi, Bosch, Adidas, Deutsche Bank–I saw a recent pattern. And they always get props for economic “superiority”.
Wow. This IS huge.
I’m not surprised at all. Only surprised that there aren’t more big names caught up in this (but the night is still young).
Some friends I know have wondered if any programs will get the death penalty. I don’t think an imposed one has happened in a long time in Division I.
I’ll speculate that Pitino is not directly involved in the bribery. He and other head coaches at power schools make too much money to risk it all by taking the word of underpaid coaching assistant. Plus, why would a basketball power like Louisville need to bribe parents? Then again, some very good coaches have resorted to ethically murky strategies. Larry Brown infamously hired the father of an All-Star high schooler he was recruiting. To give coach Brown the benefit of the doubt, Ed Manning was a friend and former teammate of Brown’s back in the old A.B.A., but the whole situation had a bit of odor to it.
There has been no ‘death penalty’ since SMU football back in the 1980s. There was a very good news feature on SMU and the death penalty a few years back. The author opined that the NCAA will never again impose that punishment because the rule absolutely blew up the football program at SMU to a point that it has never recovered from the penalty. SMU football was a regular member of the nation’s top ranked teams back then. Hasn’t been the same since. Of course SMU deserved it because the school was a repeat offender.