Bear Down Wildcats

Bangkok Wildcat wrote:

Merkin wrote:

Bangkok Wildcat wrote:Sorry if this has been discussed already but remember a few years back when Book was suspended? Or took leave from the program for a bit if I am recalling that correctly....anyone know the backstory on that?

Thanks in advance.

Believe Miller found out that Book was Ace's (PGU) inside guy in the program.

Aww, thanks Merkin...that sounds credible and I now recall speculation as such. Looking back and with how sleazy Ace was/is....in hindsight that now looks more ominous . Man, yet again, this thread is sooo depressing yet needed.

Bear Down and thanks again Merkin.

NEW YORK -- NCAA president Mark Emmert said that the college athletics community is "disgusted and embarrassed" by the FBI investigation into alleged corruption in college basketball and must address several areas to clean up the sport.

Speaking Wednesday at the Learfield Intercollegiate Athletics Forum, Emmert outlined five areas of focus for the newly formed Commission on College Basketball: the NBA, shoe companies, agents, youth and summer basketball competition, and the involvement of the NCAA's national office to enforce greater accountability in the sport. In October, Emmert appointed former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to chair the committee, which also includes former college and NBA stars David Robinson and Grant Hill.

The committee began to meet last month and will deliver recommendations for change at the NCAA's Division I board of directors meeting in April.

"The worst possible outcome," Emmert said, "is that, confronted with these kinds of facts, the association, the member universities and colleges say, 'Nah, that's OK' and [move] on."

The FBI probe in late September targeted shoe company executives, agents and four assistant basketball coaches accused of taking bribes to push players toward certain agents. Auburn's Chuck Person, Oklahoma State's Lamont Evans, Arizona's Emanuel "Book" Richardson and USC's Anthony Bland were all arrested in September, along with James Gatto, director of global sports marketing for Adidas.

"We all in higher ed enjoy good, constructive relationships with the shoe companies," Emmert said. "We become important for their marketing model and vice versa, but at the same time, there's obviously some things that have gone awry. We've got to fix that.

"The shoe companies are some of the most creative marketeers in the world. I've got to believe you can sell shoes without bribing people to do it."

Emmert said the commission is meeting monthly and bringing in experts to address all five issues as they formulate recommendations for the board, which is "fully committed to taking action" at its April meeting. He wants the commission's proposals to be "as concrete as possible," which then can be turned into legislation the NCAA can incorporate.

Emmert reiterated his support for a system where NBA-ready basketball players could enter the league right out of high school rather than spend a mandatory year in college, as current NBA rules state, while adding that the NCAA has no legal right to enforce such a policy.

Asked later for his opinion on LaVar Ball, the father of former UCLA basketball players Lonzo and LiAngelo, Emmert declined to comment on the Ball family but said if players view college basketball as simply a platform to prepare them for a professional sports career, they should go elsewhere.

"If you don't want to, and you don't think you should, and you don't think that's right for your family, then don't come," Emmert said. "Don't be a part of this. Don't muck around in the system. Just go."

Emmert addressed other issues, including how the possible legalization of sports gambling in states other than Nevada could impact the NCAA. He said the NCAA board is examining whether to change the rule prohibiting NCAA events from taking place in Nevada.

Asked about Tennessee's messy football coaching search, Emmert referred to remarks made earlier Wednesday by several Power 5 athletic directors about the need for agreement in leadership when making key personnel decisions.

"When you don't have the board, the senior administration, president, chancellor, the AD in alignment of why are we doing this? Why do we play football? What are we trying to achieve here? What are our goals and aspirations? And we all agree on it. And by the way, when we make this personnel decision, it's because we're being consistent, then you get Tennessee," he said.

catgrad97 wrote:"We all in higher ed enjoy good, constructive relationships with the shoe companies," Emmert said. "We become important for their marketing model and vice versa, but at the same time, there's obviously some things that have gone awry. We've got to fix that.

"The shoe companies are some of the most creative marketeers in the world. I've got to believe you can sell shoes without bribing people to do it."

Mark Emmert is the Mike Pence of college sports administrators. He's "got to believe" that the NCAA can totally "clean up" bribery without pulling billions of shoe company dollars out of basketball and football?

Who is he trying to kid? Himself? Talk a little bit more about other SEC schools besides Tennessee--with some degree of honesty--and then the public might believe you're really trying to confront the problem.

Bowen explained he didn't commit to Louisville until early June of this past year because he had previously told Arizona head coach Sean Miller that he was coming to Tucson -- as long as either Allonzo Trier or Rawle Alkins left early for the NBA. Trier opted to return, and then Alkins announced he was coming back to Arizona in late-May.

"I had pretty much told Sean Miller that I was going to come if one of those guys leave," Bowen said. "It didn't happen."

"My biggest thing is that I want to play college basketball," Bowen said. "There are other routes I can go. I could go play in Spain or Australia or in Lithuania with the Ball brothers. But my dream was to play college basketball.

"I feel like I'm a victim because of greedy adults."

Jefe wrote:http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basket ... ery-scheme

Brian Bowen, player tied to Rick Pitino's firing, says he was in dark

Bowen explained he didn't commit to Louisville until early June of this past year because he had previously told Arizona head coach Sean Miller that he was coming to Tucson -- as long as either Allonzo Trier or Rawle Alkins left early for the NBA. Trier opted to return, and then Alkins announced he was coming back to Arizona in late-May.

"I had pretty much told Sean Miller that I was going to come if one of those guys leave," Bowen said. "It didn't happen."

"My biggest thing is that I want to play college basketball," Bowen said. "There are other routes I can go. I could go play in Spain or Australia or in Lithuania with the Ball brothers. But my dream was to play college basketball.

"I feel like I'm a victim because of greedy adults."

throwing his Dad under the bus...

enfuego wrote:Found this blurb interesting. I didn't realize Arizona was the only school in the FBI probe who isn't sitting anyone.

10. Arizona hasn't officially suspended a player. Subscribers to our CBS college hoops pod are familiar with a discussion Gary Parrish and I had back in November. We suspected that Arizona would do what Auburn, USC and Oklahoma State did: suspend a player, or players, who were under suspicion for ineligibility. Auburn continues to sit Purifoy and Wiley. Oklahoma State's Jeffrey Carroll had to miss games for the Cowboys. USC's De'Anthony Melton still has not played for the Trojans. Yet Arizona has not a thing. Rawle Alkins missed the first nine games of the season due to what has only been attributed as something injury-induced, but otherwise? Nothing from Sean Miller. This was eyebrow-raising to many, and if the NCAA or FBI comes to find players were on the court despite having broken laws or bylaws, then it could retroactively put Arizona's 2017-18 season in jeopardy.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-baske ... o-far/amp/" target="_blank

enfuego wrote:Found this blurb interesting. I didn't realize Arizona was the only school in the FBI probe who isn't sitting anyone.

10. Arizona hasn't officially suspended a player. Subscribers to our CBS college hoops pod are familiar with a discussion Gary Parrish and I had back in November. We suspected that Arizona would do what Auburn, USC and Oklahoma State did: suspend a player, or players, who were under suspicion for ineligibility. Auburn continues to sit Purifoy and Wiley. Oklahoma State's Jeffrey Carroll had to miss games for the Cowboys. USC's De'Anthony Melton still has not played for the Trojans. Yet Arizona has not a thing. Rawle Alkins missed the first nine games of the season due to what has only been attributed as something injury-induced, but otherwise? Nothing from Sean Miller. This was eyebrow-raising to many, and if the NCAA or FBI comes to find players were on the court despite having broken laws or bylaws, then it could retroactively put Arizona's 2017-18 season in jeopardy.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-baske ... o-far/amp/" target="_blank

Hank of sb wrote:

enfuego wrote:Found this blurb interesting. I didn't realize Arizona was the only school in the FBI probe who isn't sitting anyone.

10. Arizona hasn't officially suspended a player. Subscribers to our CBS college hoops pod are familiar with a discussion Gary Parrish and I had back in November. We suspected that Arizona would do what Auburn, USC and Oklahoma State did: suspend a player, or players, who were under suspicion for ineligibility. Auburn continues to sit Purifoy and Wiley. Oklahoma State's Jeffrey Carroll had to miss games for the Cowboys. USC's De'Anthony Melton still has not played for the Trojans. Yet Arizona has not a thing. Rawle Alkins missed the first nine games of the season due to what has only been attributed as something injury-induced, but otherwise? Nothing from Sean Miller. This was eyebrow-raising to many, and if the NCAA or FBI comes to find players were on the court despite having broken laws or bylaws, then it could retroactively put Arizona's 2017-18 season in jeopardy.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-baske ... o-far/amp/" target="_blank

As it should be. Further, Miller's rich contract, even future career as a coach anywhere, is on the line.

OTOH, it may mean that Arizona believes this episode is about Book and Book alone, especially since the UofA administration has been warned well in advance about Alkins.......from many corners.

Hank of sb wrote:

enfuego wrote:Found this blurb interesting. I didn't realize Arizona was the only school in the FBI probe who isn't sitting anyone.

10. Arizona hasn't officially suspended a player. Subscribers to our CBS college hoops pod are familiar with a discussion Gary Parrish and I had back in November. We suspected that Arizona would do what Auburn, USC and Oklahoma State did: suspend a player, or players, who were under suspicion for ineligibility. Auburn continues to sit Purifoy and Wiley. Oklahoma State's Jeffrey Carroll had to miss games for the Cowboys. USC's De'Anthony Melton still has not played for the Trojans. Yet Arizona has not a thing. Rawle Alkins missed the first nine games of the season due to what has only been attributed as something injury-induced, but otherwise? Nothing from Sean Miller. This was eyebrow-raising to many, and if the NCAA or FBI comes to find players were on the court despite having broken laws or bylaws, then it could retroactively put Arizona's 2017-18 season in jeopardy.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-baske ... o-far/amp/" target="_blank

As it should be. Further, Miller's rich contract, even future career as a coach anywhere, is on the line.

OTOH, it may mean that Arizona believes this episode is about Book and Book alone, especially since the UofA administration has been warned well in advance about Alkins.......from many corners.

Lawyers for three of the men charged in the FBI's investigation into college basketball corruption have asked a federal judge to dismiss charges against them, arguing that their clients' alleged conduct might violate NCAA rules but doesn't break federal law.

In a motion sent to U.S. District Court Judge Lewis A. Kaplan on Friday, attorneys for Adidas executives James Gatto and Merl Code and former NBA agent Christian Dawkins argue that the men can't be charged with wire fraud because, among other things, their alleged actions didn't defraud victims but actually helped them.

The FBI alleges that Gatto, Code and Dawkins worked with others to pay prospective student-athletes' families to ensure the players signed with Adidas-sponsored schools and then signed with Adidas once they turned pro, the federal complaints allege.

"The payments purportedly made by Defendants were not themselves unlawful," the defendants' lawyers wrote in a motion to dismiss. "It is not against the law to offer a financial incentive to a family to persuade them to send their son or daughter to a particular college. Such payments might, however, violate the rules of the NCAA. After expending enormous resources, the Government has strained to find any legal theory -- ultimately resorting to one that was directly rejected by a Federal Court of Appeals -- in order to transform NCAA rule violations into a conspiracy to commit federal wire fraud."

On Sept. 26, federal charges were filed against 10 people, including four assistant coaches, following a clandestine three-year FBI investigation.

...

Even if the alleged payments were made, the defendants' lawyers argued in a motion to dismiss, their actions didn't break federal law.

"The wire fraud statute prohibits 'schemes to defraud' victims, not schemes to help them," the motion said. "The Indictment takes pains to assert that the purpose of Defendants' alleged conspiracy was to 'step up and help' Louisville and Miami. In particular, the Government expressly alleges that Defendants' scheme was motivated by a desire to 'assist' the Universities recruit talented athletes and concedes that Defendants provided funds to the three families only after they were asked to do so by the Universities' basketball coaches.

"The fact that the coaches asked Defendants to help via means that could, 'if uncovered,' lead to potential negative consequences with the NCAA does not change the fact that, according to the Indictment's own allegations, Defendants sought to help, not harm, Louisville and Miami."

In a letter sent to Kaplan earlier this week, Joon H. Kim, acting U.S. Attorney for Southern District of New York, wrote that recordings of nearly 1,300 phone calls totaling nearly 200 hours that were intercepted by the FBI have been turned over to the defendants' attorneys through discovery. The lawyers wrote in their motion to dismiss that law enforcement monitored five phone numbers over 330 days and intercepted more than 4,000 calls.

ChooChooCat wrote:

Hank of sb wrote:

enfuego wrote:Found this blurb interesting. I didn't realize Arizona was the only school in the FBI probe who isn't sitting anyone.

10. Arizona hasn't officially suspended a player. Subscribers to our CBS college hoops pod are familiar with a discussion Gary Parrish and I had back in November. We suspected that Arizona would do what Auburn, USC and Oklahoma State did: suspend a player, or players, who were under suspicion for ineligibility. Auburn continues to sit Purifoy and Wiley. Oklahoma State's Jeffrey Carroll had to miss games for the Cowboys. USC's De'Anthony Melton still has not played for the Trojans. Yet Arizona has not a thing. Rawle Alkins missed the first nine games of the season due to what has only been attributed as something injury-induced, but otherwise? Nothing from Sean Miller. This was eyebrow-raising to many, and if the NCAA or FBI comes to find players were on the court despite having broken laws or bylaws, then it could retroactively put Arizona's 2017-18 season in jeopardy.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-baske ... o-far/amp/" target="_blank

As it should be. Further, Miller's rich contract, even future career as a coach anywhere, is on the line.

OTOH, it may mean that Arizona believes this episode is about Book and Book alone, especially since the UofA administration has been warned well in advance about Alkins.......from many corners.

Nothing gets by you Hank, sharp as a bowie knife you are.

dmjcat wrote:

ChooChooCat wrote:

Hank of sb wrote:

enfuego wrote:Found this blurb interesting. I didn't realize Arizona was the only school in the FBI probe who isn't sitting anyone.

10. Arizona hasn't officially suspended a player. Subscribers to our CBS college hoops pod are familiar with a discussion Gary Parrish and I had back in November. We suspected that Arizona would do what Auburn, USC and Oklahoma State did: suspend a player, or players, who were under suspicion for ineligibility. Auburn continues to sit Purifoy and Wiley. Oklahoma State's Jeffrey Carroll had to miss games for the Cowboys. USC's De'Anthony Melton still has not played for the Trojans. Yet Arizona has not a thing. Rawle Alkins missed the first nine games of the season due to what has only been attributed as something injury-induced, but otherwise? Nothing from Sean Miller. This was eyebrow-raising to many, and if the NCAA or FBI comes to find players were on the court despite having broken laws or bylaws, then it could retroactively put Arizona's 2017-18 season in jeopardy.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-baske ... o-far/amp/" target="_blank

As it should be. Further, Miller's rich contract, even future career as a coach anywhere, is on the line.

OTOH, it may mean that Arizona believes this episode is about Book and Book alone, especially since the UofA administration has been warned well in advance about Alkins.......from many corners.

Nothing gets by you Hank, sharp as a bowie knife you are.

Choo: Any word on the progress of the internal investigation???

dmjcat wrote:Tad Boyle commented on the AZ FBI recruiting scandal in his post game presser.......the comments came around the 18:30 mark

Warning...........you are not going to like Tad any more than you presently do.

https://www.facebook.com/Pac12Conferenc ... 915706801/" target="_blank

RichardCranium wrote:

dmjcat wrote:Tad Boyle commented on the AZ FBI recruiting scandal in his post game presser.......the comments came around the 18:30 mark

Warning...........you are not going to like Tad any more than you presently do.

https://www.facebook.com/Pac12Conferenc ... 915706801/" target="_blank

Are you listening to the same presser video I am?

Boyle does not say one word about the 'scandal'. What are you talking about?

RichardCranium wrote:

dmjcat wrote:Tad Boyle commented on the AZ FBI recruiting scandal in his post game presser.......the comments came around the 18:30 mark

Warning...........you are not going to like Tad any more than you presently do.

https://www.facebook.com/Pac12Conferenc ... 915706801/" target="_blank

Are you listening to the same presser video I am?

Boyle does not say one word about the 'scandal'. What are you talking about?

Merkin wrote:

Chicat wrote:Tad Boyle has always been, and will always be, a massively syphillitic vagina.

ChooChooCat wrote:

Chicat wrote:Tad Boyle has always been, and will always be, a massively syphillitic vagina.

It always bugs me that Miller doesn't seem to have much trouble against Krystkowiak who is an infinitely better coach than Boyle, but is hit or miss against Boyle, who is literally a walking testicle.

BBQ wildcat wrote:Jaunary 25, Taddy, January 25. Looking for a huge beat down. Hope we win by 30 and I hope Miller keeps the starters in until calling a time out with under 10 seconds to go.

CatFanOneMil wrote:

Merkin wrote:

Fuck Tad Boyle that is an incredibly cheap shot from a bullshit coach who couldn't recruit drowning swimmers from the Titanic onto a life raft.

It's his way of saying "See I could recruit if you'd let me get away with cheating"...the truth is NO ONE WANTS TO PLAY FOR COLORADO WHO CAN PLAY ANYWHERE ELSE.

Fuck Tad Boyle with a telephone pole.

And in case he missed the history lesson he just gave our guys a reason to beat his boys like a rented mule on fire...come on to Tucson Tad, we welcome the rematch.

Chicat wrote:

BBQ wildcat wrote:Jaunary 25, Taddy, January 25. Looking for a huge beat down. Hope we win by 30 and I hope Miller keeps the starters in until calling a time out with under 10 seconds to go.

Miller should stuff a $100 bill in Tad’s shirt pocket in the handshake line.

Dave wrote:They have USC and Arizona on the road this month and you start making these kind of comments. I wouldn't call that smart.

BBQ wildcat wrote:

Dave wrote:They have USC and Arizona on the road this month and you start making these kind of comments. I wouldn't call that smart.

I really can't figure out what you are trying to say. No one should smack talk them because Boyle shit talked about Arizona and USC? Fuck Boyle. I hope the buffs get stomped in every road game, particularly here and at USC.

We believe the NCAA, once they have heard all of the evidence, will promptly reinstate Brian."

Jefe wrote:The NCAA suspended him? I thought Louisville did. All these articles today says they will seek reinstatement

We believe the NCAA, once they have heard all of the evidence, will promptly reinstate Brian."

Jefe wrote:The NCAA suspended him? I thought Louisville did. All these articles today says they will seek reinstatement

We believe the NCAA, once they have heard all of the evidence, will promptly reinstate Brian."

DiehardDave37 wrote:I think that article was written by media rather than lawyers.
The wording does not appear to be precise.

CatHoops wrote:Kansas forward Billy Preston has signed with a Euro pro team

CatHoops wrote:Kansas forward Billy Preston has signed with a Euro pro team