NCAA Coaches: Bribing Players

[LordJeffBuck]

 

[lvbuckeye]

I thought Papa John was going to be the new AD..?

 

[ScriptOhio]

 

[Systems_id]

It's kind of nice to have actual confirmation that basketball recruiting is shady as fuck. It makes the job Thad did consistently getting Top 5-10 classes at a non-basketball school all the more incredible. Somewhere Thad is probably cracking a beer at this news.

 

[bigdog3300]

So since this happened under the nose of the NCAA, does the NCAA get hit with the lack of institutional control and get a show/cause put on them? Then we can have an interim NCAA and get our College Football games back....

 

[starBUCKS]

 

[LordJeffBuck]

 

[bigdog3300]

Lol, UK just bought out all the petroleum jelly like a hurricane was coming

 

[OHSportsFan]

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[Dryden]

Nobody at the publisher looked at the cover and said, "Hey, I know this is supposed to be a diagram of a lane, but it looks like a penis coming out of coach's left ear with 'black pressure' scribbled over it. Think we should Photoshop that?"

 

[lvbuckeye]

Lol, UK just bought out all the petroleum jelly like a hurricane was coming

And KU.
And UNC.
And, hope upon hope, Duke.

 

[OSU_Buckguy]

it's interesting that bazley played for an under armour aau team for at least a year leading up to his decommitment and then switched to a nike aau team shortly before committing to nike-affiliated syracuse, which has at least a couple alums represented by asm sports agency. sure, osu is sponsored by nike, too, but bazley didn't switch from osu to osu, did he?

i'm sure all of that means nothing, though.

 

[OSU_Buckguy]

because self-reflection is important...

osu's 2017 class (prior to decommitments): 1 for nike aau team, 2 for under armour
2016 class: 2 for nike, 1 for adidas
2015 class: 5/5 or nike
2014 class: 1 for nike/adidas, 1 for under armour, 1 for nike, 1 for adidas
2013 class: 2 for nike
2012 class: can't locate for adv
2011 class: 2 for adidas, 3 for nike

14 for nike, 2 for under armour, 2 for adidas, 1 for team switch

14/22 (64%) for nike
45/65 (69%) of "power 5" programs are nike-affiliated (link)

(will update)

 

[HabaneroBuck]

And, it wouldn't surprise me if the investigation ends up targeting Montverde, Oak Hill, La Lumiere, IMG, Prolific Prep, Sierra Canyon, Findlay Prep, etc..etc...etc...all of these basketball factories have to be just as dirty.

 

[OHSportsFan]

I will say on breaking the law aspect- I'm guessing when sums of money get this large it's hard to transfer to someone without breaking some sort of law and also keeping it away from the NCAA. But yeah, this seems pretty bad with corporations directly [indirectly] doing it so close to active assistant coaches.