Bear Down Wildcats

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.

Jim Gatto, director of global sports marketing for basketball at Adidas, is also named a defendant.

pc in NM wrote:Count 10 - "...making and concealing bribe payments to current and prospective student athletes...." in 2016 through September 2017

Arizona basketball is over.

pc in NM wrote:Prediction: Miller resigns; Romar becomes (acting?) Head Coach

97cats wrote:Book has been a loose cannon the entire time at AZ, this is no secret to anyone.

the only baffeling part in any of this is the fact that Sean Miller didn't part ways with Richardson after his leave of absence.

Alieberman wrote:Floods, Fires, Hurricanes, Trump, Possible Nuclear War, and the end of Arizona Basketball.

The End of The World is here.

....EVANS, RICHARDSON, BLAND, DAWKINS, and SOOD, and others known and unknown, participated in a scheme to defraud University-2, University-3, University-4, and University-5 by facilitating and concealing bribe payments to prospective and current student-athletes at those universities, and/or their families, including by telephone, email, and wire transfers of funds, among other means, thereby causing University-2, University-3, University-4, and University-5 to provide athletic scholarships to student­ athletes who, in truth and in fact, were ineligible to compete as a result of the bribe payments.

SCCats wrote:All we have to do is look to Louisville. Book resigns, Miller puts it all on him, we cut one scholarship a year for two years preemptively, fight any consideration of this case (much less resolution of it) into next year, deny into oblivion that any of it ever occurred and threaten to sue anyone who even looks at our program with an askance eye (including the NCAA) for lost profits and punitive damages.

SCCats wrote:All we have to do is look to Louisville. Book resigns, Miller puts it all on him, we cut one scholarship a year for two years preemptively, fight any consideration of this case (much less resolution of it) into next year, deny into oblivion that any of it ever occurred and threaten to sue anyone who even looks at our program with an askance eye (including the NCAA) for lost profits and punitive damages.

I turned to my co-worker and said “I’m going to wait to make fun of these guys” and then I opened the complaint from DOJ and one of our coaches was named

EDIT: Reading the complaint now and it looks like Richardson is also accused of giving money to a high school recruit to play for Arizona

EDIT2: Page 46 of this complaint is where the real juicy stuff is, all recorded via wiretap

"DAWKINS made reference to one basketball player at [Arizona] who already had recieved payments "so we got no expenses there," and told RICHARDSON that "you use that money that you get from him to help you recruit, do whatever or fucking just go on vacation with it."
And it's hard to read this next paragraph, from a June 20 wiretap, without thinking it's about DeAndre Ayton. If someone can track down if Ayton visited campus in late June, that would all but confirm it. see latest edit

DAWKINS and RICHARDSON then discussed a high school basketball player, Player-5, that RICHARDSON was paying to recruit to [Arizona]. DAWKINS told RICHARDSON he could "use that shit towards that" – i.e., funnel part of the bribe money to Player-5 – adding "it's multiple ways to skin a cat, you basically tell them how you need your shit structured and I think they'll come through for you." RICHARDSON then told DAWKINS that Player-5 would be "on campus" that weekend and was likely to commit to play basketball at [Arizona], "so, you know what I'm saying, like, now, would I be out of bounds to try to get five from him?" DAWKINS replied, "I told them to have some money for you to make you feel good about yourself . . . but if not, five for [Player-5], is done."

EDIT3: Jahvon Quinerley visited Tucson from June 24-26

SCCats wrote:

Alieberman wrote:Floods, Fires, Hurricanes, Trump, Possible Nuclear War, and the end of Arizona Basketball.

The End of The World is here.

There was a multi decade academic cheating scandal. What came of that?

There was a multi decade institutional kiddie rape scandal. What came of that? Last I checked that team was ranked in the top 5.

We need to have some patience.

UAtrue wrote:No current/future players named. Wonder when that list is going to come out?

pc in NM wrote:Here's the actual wording from Count 10

....EVANS, RICHARDSON, BLAND, DAWKINS, and SOOD, and others known and unknown, participated in a scheme to defraud University-2, University-3, University-4, and University-5 by facilitating and concealing bribe payments to prospective and current student-athletes at those universities, and/or their families, including by telephone, email, and wire transfers of funds, among other means, thereby causing University-2, University-3, University-4, and University-5 to provide athletic scholarships to student­ athletes who, in truth and in fact, were ineligible to compete as a result of the bribe payments.

"student­ athletes who, in truth and in fact, were ineligible to compete as a result of the bribe payments."

gumby wrote:

SCCats wrote:All we have to do is look to Louisville. Book resigns, Miller puts it all on him, we cut one scholarship a year for two years preemptively, fight any consideration of this case (much less resolution of it) into next year, deny into oblivion that any of it ever occurred and threaten to sue anyone who even looks at our program with an askance eye (including the NCAA) for lost profits and punitive damages.

This best-case scenario sounds like fun!

Puerco wrote:

pc in NM wrote:Here's the actual wording from Count 10

....EVANS, RICHARDSON, BLAND, DAWKINS, and SOOD, and others known and unknown, participated in a scheme to defraud University-2, University-3, University-4, and University-5 by facilitating and concealing bribe payments to prospective and current student-athletes at those universities, and/or their families, including by telephone, email, and wire transfers of funds, among other means, thereby causing University-2, University-3, University-4, and University-5 to provide athletic scholarships to student­ athletes who, in truth and in fact, were ineligible to compete as a result of the bribe payments.

"student­ athletes who, in truth and in fact, were ineligible to compete as a result of the bribe payments."

This reads almost as if the case would be the University of Arizona vs. Book Richardson. Or the state vs. Book with UofA as the victim.

Chicat wrote:I always said that I knew we bent rules here or there but that I'd be downright shocked if we were out and out cheating such as by paying players.

I am beyond shocked. I am literally sick to my stomach.

Hank of sb wrote: Forget about Book's alcohol issues, he was the guy who was giving information to PGU....now we can surmise that was for money. I mean really. What was Sean thinking?

Chicat wrote:I always said that I knew we bent rules here or there but that I'd be downright shocked if we were out and out cheating such as by paying players.

I am beyond shocked. I am literally sick to my stomach.

Merkin wrote:

Hank of sb wrote: Forget about Book's alcohol issues, he was the guy who was giving information to PGU....now we can surmise that was for money. I mean really. What was Sean thinking?

20-20 hindsight is a great thing, but should have fired his ass right then instead of forcing him to take a leave of absence.

Wonder how this all ties in with Ace's death? Rumors about of Ace and LV mob ties, although just speculating out loud.

Olsondogg wrote:The FBI wiretapped conversations. There will be no ambiguity, it’s the FBI.