Starting an pool on forthcoming arrests

[domedays]

From a story on ESPN.com - "These allegations come as a complete shock to me," Pitino said in a statement Tuesday night. "If true, I agree with the U.S. Attorneys Office that these third-party schemes, initiated by a few bad actors, operated to commit a fraud on the impacted universities and their basketball programs, including the University of Louisville. Our fans and supporters deserve better and I am committed to taking whatever steps are needed to ensure those responsible are held accountable."

I personally feel much better now that Pitino is on board with holding "a few bad actors" accountable. This along with the fact that OJ must be closing in on the real killers by now will help me sleep much more soundly tonight.

[sevelev711]

From a story on ESPN.com - "These allegations come as a complete shock to me," Pitino said in a statement Tuesday night. "If true, I agree with the U.S. Attorneys Office that these third-party schemes, initiated by a few bad actors, operated to commit a fraud on the impacted universities and their basketball programs, including the University of Louisville. Our fans and supporters deserve better and I am committed to taking whatever steps are needed to ensure those responsible are held accountable."

I personally feel much better now that Pitino is on board with holding "a few bad actors" accountable. This along with the fact that OJ must be closing in on the real killers by now will help me sleep much more soundly tonight.

If I Paid Them - Confessions of a Briber

[CincyPanther88]

I can't imagine any head coaches would not know what is going on, it just doesn't make sense. I also have a hard time seeing the NCAA just collapsing. I've never really looked at how realistic it is, but there are so many other sports, I can't imagine the NCAA would let schools leave in certain sports, but still compete in others. If they want to create a new league, is that really possible? We've seen league's like the USFL and XFL fair miserably. I don't see how any other league, whether football or basketball (the only two that could realistically be considered) having a chance to survive. Throw in all the realignment and stuff from past years, and I really don't get it, maybe I'm way off base though.

These big time coaches are control freaks. There is nothing that they don't know about. Now they may not know about every minute detail but on something like recruiting players, they know what is going on. But when the NCAA comes to town, they have no idea that there was any wrongdoing. Now if you buy that, I have some ocean front property I'd like to sell you up by Waterloo.

It's going to be different now. You lie to the NCAA, no biggie. They can't prove anything. You lie to the FBI, that's a felony. Assistant coaches who don't roll over on their superiors may get fired but they'll get another gig because they didn't squeal. Assistant coaches who don't roll over on their superiors to the FBI, wind up in prison.

[CyCarp]

From a story on ESPN.com - "These allegations come as a complete shock to me," Pitino said in a statement Tuesday night. "If true, I agree with the U.S. Attorneys Office that these third-party schemes, initiated by a few bad actors, operated to commit a fraud on the impacted universities and their basketball programs, including the University of Louisville. Our fans and supporters deserve better and I am committed to taking whatever steps are needed to ensure those responsible are held accountable."

I personally feel much better now that Pitino is on board with holding "a few bad actors" accountable. This along with the fact that OJ must be closing in on the real killers by now will help me sleep much more soundly tonight.

It's interesting to note that Pitinos statement came out through his attorney, not the school. He knows they got him, he's just trying to squirm out of yet another ugly situation. If he survives this, there is really something wrong

[BCPanther]

Several reports on Twitter this morning that Pitino and the AD are out.

[Khan4Cats]

It's interesting to see the FBI and Justice Department involved. Hopefully, there will be some house cleaning. I have no confidence that the NCAA will take any actions to try and clean things up, however.

[95UNIGRAD]

Several reports on Twitter this morning that Pitino and the AD are out.

Nice to see that the school that stood in our way (twice) in the NCAA tournament was so on the up-and-up while doing it. Bastards.

[run&blade]

The key to all of this, something that never seems to happen, is if they can get this stuff to stick to some head coaches.

Roy Williams, Pitino, and countless others always seem to have plausible deniability. Maybe if some of these executives and assistant coaches are staring at 10 years in Federal Prison they will start to sing.

I am sure we all have our coaches that we would love to see go down. Roy Williams is at the top of mine, the fake classes and him acting like he had no clue is an insult to everybody with a brain.

[UNIGrainer]

Don't get too comfortable guys. Sure we landed Robert Knar, Max Martino, and Chip Rank......but at what cost?

[BCPanther]

Don't get too comfortable guys. Sure we landed Robert Knar, Max Martino, and Chip Rank......but at what cost?

I'm way more worried about the ramifications of Matt Morrison and Kerwin Dunham. Shoe execs swarming around those guys...

In all seriousness, however, the Iowa Barnstormers just signed with Adidas last spring. I can't imagine there's anything with AJ but what about the high profile out of state kids (Joey Hauser and Ed Chang) that all of a sudden started playing with them (especially Chang)....

[Trapped in California]

Do I win the pool for bringing up Pitino's name first? I feel like I've already won.

[Blue42]

Wondering if our friends in Ames might be a little anxious this week.

A whole lotta transfers found there way to that remote country outpost over the last 10 years.

Others on my short list...Minnesota, Oklahoma.

[sevelev711]

Wondering if our friends in Ames might be a little anxious this week.

A whole lotta transfers found there way to that remote country outpost over the last 10 years.

Others on my short list...Minnesota, Oklahoma.

Probably not, ISU is a Nike school, and it's Adidas schools that are getting caught right now. Only Adidas school in Iowa is Drake, and I'm 99% sure they're not bribing kids for recruitment. If so, they're doing a piss poor job at it.

[CyCarp]

I don't remember where I saw it, but I did read today that the FBI got a subpeona for Nike records as well. The fact that they're Nike doesn't mean too much right now imo.

[vbfan19]

Only Adidas school in Iowa is Drake, and I'm 99% sure they're not bribing kids for recruitment. If so, they're doing a piss poor job at it.

or at least a D+ effort