Maybe Aki confused Marquette with Duke?
http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-basketball/story/2012-09-10/lance-thomas-duke-lawsuit-ncaa-2010-national-championship (http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-basketball/story/2012-09-10/lance-thomas-duke-lawsuit-ncaa-2010-national-championship)
I can't see Duke being in any more trouble than UNC was. They're one of the NCAA darlings and will get kid gloves treatment.
If Duke doesn't have their title vacated, Scoop should start a letter writing campaign to Memphis to rehang their runner-up banner.
Quote from: brewcity77 on September 10, 2012, 08:21:07 PM
I can't see Duke being in any more trouble than UNC was. They're one of the NCAA darlings and will get kid gloves treatment.
Agreed. Can't see the NCAA doing much.
So much for a Duke education. How dumb do you have to be to spend $97,800 on jewelry, when you are a college student?
Quote from: bilsu on September 11, 2012, 08:54:43 AM
So much for a Duke education. How dumb do you have to be to spend $97,800 on jewelry, when you are a college student?
He obviously wasn't paying for it himself so no harm, no foul, right? ;)
Their defense probably is he only actually paid out about $30K and his mother's job at Ford paid well over $100K and the $$$$ came from her cuz it was just a loan until he got paid in the NBA
Quote from: Red Stripe on September 11, 2012, 02:03:04 PM
Their defense probably is he only actually paid out about $30K and his mother's job at Ford paid well over $100K and the $$$$ came from her cuz it was just a loan until he got paid in the NBA
Unless all parts of this transaction were done in cash, there is going to be a paper trail of where that money came from. And if it was all done in cash, that makes it all the more suspicious. No one on the up-and-up brings a big bag of money to the jewelry store.
Quote from: Red Stripe on September 11, 2012, 02:03:04 PM
Their defense probably is he only actually paid out about $30K and his mother's job at Ford paid well over $100K and the $$$$ came from her cuz it was just a loan until he got paid in the NBA
The question isn't where the $30,000 came from (there might be 30,000 valid excuses for that)... the question is how did a college student get a $67k credit line at a NYC jeweler.
Quote from: brewcity77 on September 10, 2012, 08:21:07 PM
I can't see Duke being in any more trouble than UNC was. They're one of the NCAA darlings and will get kid gloves treatment.
Coach K is untouchable, b****.
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Quote from: Benny B on September 11, 2012, 02:54:31 PM
The question isn't where the $30,000 came from (there might be 30,000 valid excuses for that)... the question is how did a college student get a $67k credit line at a NYC jeweler.
The jewelry probably cost the jeweler $30,000 as there is a huge markup in all jewelry. So the jeweler was risking only his huge profit.
Quote from: Benny B on September 10, 2012, 11:01:01 PM
If Duke doesn't have their title vacated, Scoop should start a letter writing campaign to Memphis to rehang their runner-up banner.
And to Michigan to rehang the Fab 5 banner
Duke may escape from this yet, no one is talking to the NCAA
http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/63796/lance-thomas-case-a-challenge-for-ncaa
QuoteLast week, when news that Rafaello & Co., a high-end New York-based jeweler, was suing former Duke forward Lance Thomas for an alleged $67,800 in unpaid debt Thomas reportedly used to buy "a black diamond necklace, diamond-encrusted watch, diamond cross and diamond pendant in the shape of Jesus' head" (Jesus piece!), it looked like a potential disaster for Duke.
Here was a former player on a national title-winning team who bought nearly $100,000 in jewelry with $30,000 cash down while he was in college. Did he get that loan because of future earnings potential? Were other NCAA-outlawed extra benefits in play? And if so, would the NCAA go so far as to retroactively rule Thomas ineligible -- a la Derrick Rose at Memphis -- and be forced to strip the Blue Devils of their 2010 national title?
Those answers are still some time away, but the NCAA is on the case. The only problem: No one actually has to talk to the NCAA.
On Tuesday, The Raleigh News & Observer's Laura Keeley confirmed that Rafaello & Co. declined to speak with the NCAA, citing their ongoing litigation against Thomas. Thomas is long gone, and he has absolutely zero incentive to speak with enforcement staff. Bylaw Blog's John Infante told Keeley "if everybody keeps their mouth shut and everybody refuses to talk to the NCAA, and by everybody I mean Thomas and the jeweler and whoever might have provided him this $30,000 if it did come from someone else," then the NCAA will have no information, and thus no grounds on which to punish Duke.
If that's the case, Duke has little incentive to talk, either. On Tuesday morning, multiple Duke staffers told ESPN's Andy Katz that the program had no knowledge of Thomas's jewelry purchase. That doesn't really matter; an extra benefit is an extra benefit (to the tune of six figures, no less), and the NCAA could punish Duke even if it proved no one at the school could have known Thomas had purchased a Jesus piece from an NBA-favorite jewelry shop with a $70,000 line of credit.
Duke's main incentive to cooperate is to avoid the wrath of an NCAA that very, very much dislikes being deceived. And as CBS's Matt Norlander points out, the eventual release of court documents could include some information pertinent to the NCAA's investigation. But if that is the only recourse -- and there are no guarantees there, either -- then it's entirely possible the NCAA won't be able to pin this thing down.
Maybe, maybe not. Maybe the NCAA will find someone willing to talk. We'll have to wait and see. But for now, the jewelry store in question has no interest in snitching. It could care less about NCAA sanctions and vacated titles. It just wants its money back.