The Official "FBI Investigation" Thread

[jeebs9]

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The beginning.....

https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/sports/projected-top-10-draft-pick-make-leap-high-school-g-league-193725979.html

[phenom1990]

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The beginning.....
https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/sports...193725979.html

Latavious Williams did the same thing about 7 or 8 years ago. I think he originally committed to Memphis and then decided to go pro.

I bring that up for 2 reasons:

1. The article makes it sound like it never happened before.

2. G League aka D-League has teams more committed to an actual process now so we'll see if this works out better.

[l3ulvl]

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Latavious Williams did the same thing about 7 or 8 years ago. I think he originally committed to Memphis and then decided to go pro.

I bring that up for 2 reasons:

1. The article makes it sound like it never happened before.

2. G League aka D-League has teams more committed to an actual process now so we'll see if this works out better.

I remember picking him up as a transfer in CH2k8 haha (must've been OS rosters), instantly made my piddly school the best in the conference

[Junior Moe]

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The beginning.....
https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/sports...193725979.html

Kudos to this guy. He wants to ball and get paid. Go pro! Europe isn't for everyone. Especially not an 18 year old. Now he can focus on his chosen profession here in the states closer to family and friends without worrying about class or the NCAA rules.

I love collegiate sports, but I hate the NCAAs hypocrisy. The NCAA and some universities bring it on themselves. Still, my stomach turned a little watching that Ben Simmons documentary and how he made a complete mock of college. Guys like that just want to be, and should be allowed, to be pros. I still think that the spirit of amateurism can be preserved while allowing these men and women (just read about Katie Ledecky) to profit off themselves.

Williams will be able to play and train like a pro. The GLeague pay is about 30k but if an agent wants to give him 100k or a million that's cool. I'm watching this development and I hope he ends up a high pick next year if for no other reason than show that players can stay stateside and still realize their NBA dream.

[jeebs9]

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Kudos to this guy. He wants to ball and get paid. Go pro! Europe isn't for everyone. Especially not an 18 year old. Now he can focus on his chosen profession here in the states closer to family and friends without worrying about class or the NCAA rules.

I love collegiate sports, but I hate the NCAAs hypocrisy. The NCAA and some universities bring it on themselves. Still, my stomach turned a little watching that Ben Simmons documentary and how he made a complete mock of college. Guys like that just want to be, and should be allowed, to be pros. I still think that the spirit of amateurism can be preserved while allowing these men and women (just read about Katie Ledecky) to profit off themselves.

Williams will be able to play and train like a pro. The GLeague pay is about 30k but if an agent wants to give him 100k or a million that's cool. I'm watching this development and I hope he ends up a high pick next year if for no other reason than show that players can stay stateside and still realize their NBA dream.

100% agree with you!!

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[jeebs9]

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Not that this matters...

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2768786-sean-miller-contract-has-1m-fine-for-major-ncaa-violation-added-amid-fbi-probe

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[l3ulvl]

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Not that this matters...

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2768786-sean-miller-contract-has-1m-fine-for-major-ncaa-violation-added-amid-fbi-probe

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surprised he agreed to that

[Junior Moe]

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No one is shocked or surprised that NC State and especially Kansas are now linked to this. Once the dust settles I think the vast majority of college basketball bluebloods are gonna be implicated. The NCAA isn't going to kill itself. Remember how North Carolina skated with the paper classes? So I'm going to out on a limb and say that the NCAA adopts something similar to the Olympic Model and makes it retroactive. Slaps the teams involved with a few reduces scholarships and move on.

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[jasontoddwhitt]

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For someone that had nothing to do with any of this, Rick Pitino sure knows a ton of information that he's willing to share with absolutely anybody who is willing to hear him.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/before-romeo-langford-chose-indiana-adidas-made-sure-he-stayed-under-its-tent/2018/05/16/2c77d384-539e-11e8-a551-5b648abe29ef_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d86e53beb61e

“The way they phrased it, it was whoever [shoe company] was going to pay the dad’s AAU program the most money, gets it,” said Pitino in a recent phone interview. A few days later, Adidas’s league added a new team: Twenty Two Vision, featuring Romeo Langford on the court and Tim Langford as team director. Shoe company sponsorships can reach $100,000 to $150,000, and team directors who limit expenses can pay themselves salaries from those amounts.

“That’s the way that world works,” Pitino said. “Which is completely legal, by the way.”

“Kansas, it pushed it out for me (talking about the scandal”, Tim Langford said. “Just having the name on your school. I didn’t take them out of the three verbally, but in my mind we just didn’t want him going there and anybody asking him that type of question. So, we don’t want him going to school there, we don’t care how good the basketball is.”

Louisville was a front-runner in his recruitment until the FBI scandal broke and Pitino was ousted. Then he went to Indiana...another Adidas school. Wonder if those questions that his father was talking about will follow him with this story breaking?

“(Adidas) knew that Nike and Under Armour were going to make a run for him,” Pitino said. “I didn’t want him going to Nike or Under Armour .?.?. because then, he would’ve gone to Kentucky or somewhere else. .?.?. I would’ve had no chance.”

This past season, the NCAA found no problems with the relationship between Nike and Marvin Bagley Jr., father of likely 2018 NBA draft lottery pick Marvin Bagley III. When Bagley III was 16 and establishing himself as one of the top prospects in the country, Nike agreed to sponsor his youth team, coached and managed by Bagley’s father. In 2016, Bagley Jr. acknowledged in an interview with Sports Illustrated that the Nike sponsorship was the family’s main source of income. This past school year, Bagley III played his only college season at Duke, a Nike-sponsored school, and he is widely expected to sign an endorsement deal with the company.

In 2010, however, the NCAA suspended Renardo Sidney, a Mississippi State player, in part because his father couldn’t properly account for money spent from a Reebok-sponsored foundation connected to his youth team.

The NCAA declined a request to clarify its rules pertaining to shoe company money and summer league teams run by parents of top recruits.

“They’re not going to give you a definitive answer, because they don’t have one. There’s no difference, fundamentally, between what Renardo Sidney was suspended over . . . and what happened with Bagley,” said Don Jackson, the Alabama attorney who represented Sidney.

The only difference being....it's Duke. The NCAA doesn't care about suspending a player from Mississippi State, but we can't make Coach K look bad.

[Sinner]

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Saw that story on Bagley III a couple months or so ago, that's not the first time something has come up crazy with Duke but nothing will get done about it. I remember seeing something about a young girl (fan) posting a pick of Bagely III and herself saying and he let me sit in his Ferrari.

[jeebs9]

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Yo.... court docs show Pitino knew schools were trying to play Brian Bowen. Got all the text messages. Man.... text don't lie smh.

[jeebs9]

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This just in!! Undrafted player can return to school!!!

https://twitter.com/NCAA/status/1027224729319628800

https://twitter.com/DanWolken/status/1027227683233652736/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1027227683233652736&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbleacherreport.com%2F

[Jeffx]

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Kudos to this guy. He wants to ball and get paid. Go pro! Europe isn't for everyone. Especially not an 18 year old. Now he can focus on his chosen profession here in the states closer to family and friends without worrying about class or the NCAA rules.

I love collegiate sports, but I hate the NCAAs hypocrisy. The NCAA and some universities bring it on themselves. Still, my stomach turned a little watching that Ben Simmons documentary and how he made a complete mock of college. Guys like that just want to be, and should be allowed, to be pros. I still think that the spirit of amateurism can be preserved while allowing these men and women (just read about Katie Ledecky) to profit off themselves.

Williams will be able to play and train like a pro. The GLeague pay is about 30k but if an agent wants to give him 100k or a million that's cool. I'm watching this development and I hope he ends up a high pick next year if for no other reason than show that players can stay stateside and still realize their NBA dream.

Great post!

https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/ncaa-college-athletes-sports-endorsement-deals-1203387044/

Of course the NCAA wants to make sure players don't get paid for their performance - they want to keep those billions to themselves.

[The_TanMan]

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Interesting

[mnooloks]

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To go off of what I said there, I expect Louisville to fire Pitino and Jurich if for nothing else to save themselves as repeat offenders.