• Follow us on Twitter @buckeyeplanet and @bp_recruiting, like us on Facebook! Enjoy a post or article, recommend it to others! BP is only as strong as its community, and we only promote by word of mouth, so share away!
  • Consider registering! Fewer and higher quality ads, no emails you don't want, access to all the forums, download game torrents, private messages, polls, Sportsbook, etc. Even if you just want to lurk, there are a lot of good reasons to register!

NCAA Coaches: Bribing Players

Jump to latest Follow Reply
Sort by date Sort by votes
Jaxbuck said:
I am really going to enjoy the theater of these parents and coaches using the standard "deny everything" NCAA investigation playbook when the FBI shows them the rules of the game they have actually been playing.

Faux outraged parent: "We never did it"
FBI: "wiretaps"
FOP: **crickets**
Click to expand...
I honestly can't imagine anyone being dumb enough to actually lie to the FBI like that.
 
Upvote 0
Systems_id said:
I honestly can't imagine anyone being dumb enough to actually lie to the FBI like that.
Click to expand...

I don't think the parents statement is lying so much.

If you think about it all they are saying is their teenage son was smarter than Sean Miller, proven by the fact he didn't get on the phone and talk money directly.
 
Upvote 0
Sparty: We spent 20 minutes thoroughly investigating ourselves and found ourselves innocent.

NCAA:

04d.jpg
 
Upvote 0
Jake said:
Sparty: We spent 20 minutes thoroughly investigating ourselves and found ourselves innocent.

NCAA:

04d.jpg
Click to expand...
Lol Duke, UK, and USC did the same thing. Yet to hear about the others.

I honestly can't figure out how Arizona can rationalize hey let's sit our coach cause he talked about paying a kid 100k to come here but not the kid that came here. I mean if he went somewhere else you could at least try to argue he turned down the money.
 
Upvote 0
OhioState001 said:
Hmm why did they move to Arizona 2 years into his high school career?
Click to expand...

i nearly moved to arizona before my senior yr in high school strictly to play baseball and i wasn't getting paid shit. no family there or anything, just ball, bc i wanted to play at ASU. met coaches, toured schools, whole 9. then didn't do it. (but would have if i were getting paid! heh)

it looks shady now, and almost certainly is obviously, but the alternative is still possible lol
 
Upvote 0
Buck33Eye11 said:
i nearly moved to arizona before my senior yr in high school strictly to play baseball and i wasn't getting paid shit. no family there or anything, just ball, bc i wanted to play at ASU. met coaches, toured schools, whole 9. then didn't do it. (but would have if i were getting paid! heh)

it looks shady now, and almost certainly is obviously, but the alternative is still possible lol
Click to expand...
Were you moving from San Diego like Ayton or some miserable frozen wasteland?
 
Upvote 0
colobuck79 said:
Some guy on ESPN radio saying that this is another reason why we need to let them pay players.
Click to expand...

NBA needs to get rid of this one and done shit. Let them come in straight out of high school, they can even put a rule that they must go to the D league for x years if that makes them feel better. If they don't like that then make it 3 years giving the players have a real choice between going to europe and going to college. Currently europe is off the table because they aren't going to take a 17-18 year old kid to babysit for a year like college will. They would have to sign a 3-4 year contract and forgo the NBA for longer. The pay the players thing will end, and the players that know they might not make it in the NBA and want a degree will go to college and make use of their 'payment'. Take the top 20 players out of college every year and I would guess college actually get's better. Imagine if the norm was players stuck around for 3-4 years. The product may be a little less talented, but it would be more mature and consistent, and top teams wouldn't have to replace half their team every year, leveling things out a little bit.

I'm just so sick of the 'pay the players' being used as a scapegoat for cheating. Give them an opportunity to get paid OR get an education. Players or coaches that exchange money aren't allowed back, at all, be it $100 or $100,000. Coaches may have to actually think about their actions. I would imagine the NBA doesn't want their top draft picks coming out of college with a controversy. Compared to football the basketball problem is easy.
 
Upvote 0
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top