Most dangerous man in college basketball
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This is, an excellent article - here's one highlight:
"Some or even all of those recruitments may have been by the book. Talking to Augustine is not against the rules. Yet, some may have not. Even then, what many in college basketball would consider a “clean” recruitment (say the absence of a sensational five- or six-figure payment) can still feature numerous NCAA violations. A dinner bought for a recruit’s family. Gas money for a campus visit. Extra gear provided for free. A plane ticket so a mom can come along on a recruiting trip.
“I don’t even know all the rules, but they all get broken,” one AAU coach from the Northeast told Yahoo Sports on the condition he wouldn’t be named. “Assistants are always paranoid, ‘Don’t mention this, don’t tell about this.’ I’m like, ‘That isn’t getting you the player anyway.'”
"Some or even all of those recruitments may have been by the book. Talking to Augustine is not against the rules. Yet, some may have not. Even then, what many in college basketball would consider a “clean” recruitment (say the absence of a sensational five- or six-figure payment) can still feature numerous NCAA violations. A dinner bought for a recruit’s family. Gas money for a campus visit. Extra gear provided for free. A plane ticket so a mom can come along on a recruiting trip.
“I don’t even know all the rules, but they all get broken,” one AAU coach from the Northeast told Yahoo Sports on the condition he wouldn’t be named. “Assistants are always paranoid, ‘Don’t mention this, don’t tell about this.’ I’m like, ‘That isn’t getting you the player anyway.'”
This ain't going to change a thing still going to be cheating FBI is just as weak as the NCAA. This investigation came out like a category 6 hurricane now it's just downgraded to a rainstorm.
The problem I have with this article is it assumes the NCAA has an interest in punishing those who break its rules and the only thing stopping them is a lack of cooperating witnesses or evidence. I just don't believe that is the case.
My brother was a HS hoops coach for 41 years, 21 in South Chicago and 20 in the Hammond region. Most corrupt by far are the AAU coaches. They don't really care if they win or lose, their foremost concern is "marketing" their top players.
You can clean up the shoe companies and flush out some Pitino-caliber college coaches and hope the HS coaches have some integrity, but unless the AAU gets cleaned up, nothing will change.
You can clean up the shoe companies and flush out some Pitino-caliber college coaches and hope the HS coaches have some integrity, but unless the AAU gets cleaned up, nothing will change.
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