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College basketball bribery scandal

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http://www.businessinsider.com/college-basketball-bribery-scandal-arrests-2017-9

The FBI arrested 10 people on charges of charges of fraud and corruption in college basketball on Tuesday.

The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that four college basketball coaches at Auburn and Oklahoma State University and had been arrested, as well as managers, financial advisors, and representatives of a major international sportswear company.

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BREAKING: Lamont Evans of Oklahoma State and Chuck Person of Auburn University are two of the coaches charged in corruption scheme.


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The other two assistant coaches facing charges are Arizona’s Book Richardson and USC’s Tony Bland.
 
Here are the charges against Person.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/998746/download

Some excerpts

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Who knew a Bruce Pearl staffer would do something like this?!!!
 
Auburn hasn't produced a #1 NBA draft pick in 17 years. Not sure the money given to Chuck Person was well spent.
 
hearing this is mostly around Adidas is that correct if so what are the "Addidas" teams in the ACC? TMZ reporting Louisville involved, too --- what a surprise :rolleyes:
 
Great.

More programs that will now receive NCAA penalties before UNC-CH.

Wonder if the death penalty would be on the table for Auburn basketball (not that their fanbase would mind).
 
hearing this is mostly around Adidas is that correct if so what are the "Addidas" teams in the ACC? TMZ reporting Louisville involved, too --- what a surprise :rolleyes:
NC State is adidas. GT just went with adidas.

From the looks of it, the preliminary accusations are based on bribes to get players to choose a sponsor when going pro so it's not limited to adidas schools but they're the most likely targets of attempted bribes. Plus, if adidas people are pushing bribes aimed at current student athletes, I'd imagine there is some unsavory stuff going on behind the scenes illegally pushing players to adidas schools with high school recruiting as well.

ETA: Just saw the post above with the recruiting implications so yeah.
 
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Great.

More programs that will now receive NCAA penalties before UNC-CH.

Wonder if the death penalty would be on the table for Auburn basketball (not that their fanbase would mind).

No one would notice. Auburn would use the money saved to install a bigger jumbotron at Jordan-Hare. Fans would see it as the biggest win for Auburn Basketball, probably ever.
 
Baylor basketball is/was an Adidas school. Where there is a major scandal, got to think Baylor will play some sort of role.
 
Just way too much money involved to talk about amateurism and academics with a straight face.

Least surprising scandal ever.
 
Just way too much money involved to talk about amateurism and academics with a straight face.

Least surprising scandal ever.

Agreed. It's coming out now because the FBI actually decided to look into it, apparently starting in 2015. This is great news for any school doing things the right way. Shame on the ACC for letting UL in, or ever giving them the benefit of the doubt.
 
Agreed. It's coming out now because the FBI actually decided to look into it, apparently starting in 2015. This is great news for any school doing things the right way. Shame on the ACC for letting UL in, or ever giving them the benefit of the doubt.

It's just a reminder that a school that takes and develops 3 star talent into reigning national champions does so amidst a sea of unseemly characters and blatant cheating. All the more impressive.
 
Glad they're going after the crooked adults for once instead of lowering the boom on poor "student athletes" who took some scraps of money while the coaches, as usual, got $$paid$$.
 
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