NY Times: NCAA Coaches and Adidas Official Face Bribery Charges

[punchnjudy]

Ten people involved with the highest echelon of college basketball, including four assistant coaches and a senior executive at Adidas, are facing federal bribery, fraud and other corruption charges, prosecutors in Manhattan announced on Tuesday.

The United States attorney for the Southern District of New York said in a statement that since 2015 the F.B.I. and federal prosecutors have been investigating “the criminal influence of money on coaches and student-athletes who participate in intercollegiate basketball governed by the N.C.A.A.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/sports/ncaa-adidas-bribery.html

 

[erod]

Uh oh.

 

[Leadbelly]

Huge. Surprised how little this is getting. Even college bball boards I follow for my Terps have barely mentioned this. From the article...

“Some of it can’t be completely accounted for on paper,” the sports agent said in urging discretion about one of the deals, “because some of it is, whatever you want to call it, illegal.”​

LOL.

Pitino goes down. Could really blow up the NCAA and take down some major schools.

 

[ghst187]

I'm not sure why this surprises anyone anymore. College athletics, at least the big sports like football and basketball, have been more corrupt than madonna wearing a white wedding dress.
Paying the athletes won't change a thing either other than they will legally get paid. All the bribery, illicit benefits, and whatnot will still continue. Whatever rules they came up with regarding paying players would get broken before the ink on the paper dried. There's just too much money involved in the games. I could care less except I find it offensive that colleges take tax dollars, charge regular students a fortune to attend, beg for donations to true academic endeavors and libraries, but then pay their Inside linebackers coach $900,000.
Despite my free market beliefs, I think colleges should have very strict and high GPA standards for students that programs can't cheat and reasonable salary caps for coaching staffs. They can go pro if they want to make big $. And all the TV and bowl money schools take in...a mandatory percentage (overwhelming majority) should go into true academic budgets not all back into bloated sports programs where athletes have their own luxury condo in the locker room.