Interesting Day Ahead...

[buckchuckler]

Interesting tweet from CBS radio host @BrandonTierney:

"When #BigEast expanded to 16 tms in '05-'06, I remember handing a coach a pen/asked him to circle teams that did NOT cheat: he circled 3."

Pretty sure DePaul is one.  Hopefully we are two...Three would just be a complete guess.  As is two really. 

[Tugg Speedman]

Interesting tweet from CBS radio host @BrandonTierney:

"When #BigEast expanded to 16 tms in '05-'06, I remember handing a coach a pen/asked him to circle teams that did NOT cheat: he circled 3."

Depaul
Notre Dame
MU (Crean was the coach and Buzz changed that).

[Tugg Speedman]

I indeed hope some of the game's biggest names, UK, Villanova, Kansas, Texas, Michigan State, Michigan, Indiana, Syracuse, Florida, UCLA, Duke even us., are clean. The ramifications if they aren't are too bad to think of.

Arizona should be on this list and Miller is considered one of the good guys.  So we have a "biggest name" implicated.

[PGsHeroes32]

Arizona should be on this list and Miller is considered one of the good guys.  So we have a "biggest name" implicated.

Meh

Never made a final 4

[Jet915]

Creighton was the favorite up until this moment.

Yes, as someone who followed his recruitment closely, this makes alot of sense.  He exhausted his "official" visits but his last two visits were "unofficial" to Oregon (Nike) and then Louisville (Adidas).....two schools who didn't recruit him until really late.

[Tugg Speedman]

Meh

Never made a final 4

Huh!

They won it all in 1997. Runner up in 2001, made four final 4 since 1988 and 11 elite eight appearances with the last three being 2011, 2014 and 2015.

[cheebs09]

Huh!

They won it all in 1997. Runner up in 2001, made four final 4 since 1988 and 11 elite eight appearances with the last three being 2011, 2014 and 2015.

I believe that's in reference to Sean Miller.

[Pakuni]

This obviously isn't good for college sports and going to end badly for maybe a handful of programs, but we've seen just as bad and even worse - point shaving, numerous examples of schools/boosters paying players and associates, heck ... we've had a coach cover up a murder - and this isn't going to take down the NCAA.
College sports has become, to borrow a phrase, too big to fail. This will eventually fade from the forefront and come April everyone will be tuning into the Final Four just like every other year.

[Frenns Liquor Depot]

This obviously isn't good for college sports and going to end badly for maybe a handful of programs, but we've seen just as bad and even worse - point shaving, numerous examples of schools/boosters paying players and associates, heck ... we've had a coach cover up a murder - and this isn't going to take down the NCAA.
College sports has become, to borrow a phrase, too big to fail. This will eventually fade from the forefront and come April everyone will be tuning into the Final Four just like every other year.

I agree other than I don't think it is going to end poorly for a handful of programs.  If history is our guide, this will end poorly for a handful of people whose names you only learn because of the scandal....the institutions will likely be just fine.

[StillAWarrior]

This will eventually fade from the forefront and come April everyone will be tuning into the Final Four just like every other year.

And, just like in 2016, Pitino will be watching on TV.  A key difference being that he'll probably be watching the entire season on TV this year.

[GGGG]

I don't think the NCAA is going to be taken down by any respect.  I do think they are going to fundamentally have to change.

http://collegebasketball.nbcsports.com/2017/09/26/the-ncaas-amateurism-model-creates-black-market-that-allow-corruption-to-exist/

"The money big-time college basketball generates is real. It's also partially artificially inflated because by the simple fact of cutting players – and their families – out, there's that same amount of cash with fewer people to claim it. That allows things to get ugly, first on the fringes and then further and further to the center of things as the practice becomes a playbook."

[Ardmore Mug]

Reports out now that Slick Rick and the AD will be fired!!

[Marqus Howard]

Reports out now that Slick Rick and the AD will be fired!!

https://twitter.com/AdamZagoria/status/913022998378156032

[CreightonWarrior]

Miller is an agent whose client list includes Kyle Lowry, Serge Ibaka, Dwight Howard, Kristaps Porzingis and Myles Turner.

[sigh] and Justin Patton [/sigh]

[wadesworld]

https://twitter.com/AdamZagoria/status/913022998378156032

How can you hold a guy accountable when he had no knowledge that this was going on in his program?

[mu-rara]

The plot thickens:

Darren Heitner @DarrenHeitner
Sources: Basketball agency ASM Sports was raided today. FBI had warrant, took Andy Miller's computer.


Miller is an agent whose client list includes Kyle Lowry, Serge Ibaka, Dwight Howard, Kristaps Porzingis and Myles Turner.

I thought ASM sold out to IMG.....

[jsglow]

A few pages ago someone mentioned that this gets MU off the bubble.  Heck, this might get DePaul ON the bubble!  Not GTown though.   

I think these guys will sing like canaries to avoid years behind bars.  And that's what the FBI really wants here.

[fjm]

I thought ASM sold out to IMG.....

Not gonna happen, not when you can get a team to Vegas. Spencer has got this stuff under control.

[T-Bone]

https://twitter.com/AdamZagoria/status/913022998378156032

It's Louisville, it's Louisville!

[jsglow]

It's Louisville, it's Louisville!

I see what you did there.

[StillAWarrior]

I see what you did there.

Well, he is probably the highest profile coach not currently working.  Not an unthinkable scenario.

[Dish]

Sounds like Jurich got immediately fired this morning. Interesting that he wore an ACC shirt to his meeting with the interim school president.

[forgetful]

Sounds like Jurich got immediately fired this morning. Interesting that he wore an ACC shirt to his meeting with the interim school president.

Would Pitino sing to avoid significant jail time?

[StillAWarrior]

Pitino met with his staff this morning and told them he expects to be fired, per ESPN.

[Tugg Speedman]

Pitino met with his staff this morning and told them he expects to be fired, per ESPN.

Reading on other boards that Pitino currently has an $18 million buyout that can only be negated by an NCAA violation, which this would not be. The rumor mill says his lawyer is not going to give up easy, Rick will walk but wants to be paid the entire buyout.