NCAA Corruption Investigation - Kansas Identified?
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Did you guys also see that Michael Beasley is mentioned a few times in the docs?
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@mayjay Sounds pretty much spot on.
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@mayjay Right. Iām saying they need to slap everyone on the wrist, but donāt try to make everyone the example. They need to find that sweet spot of a hefty fine, but probably no sanctions. They can put everyone on a āprobationā period.
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Kcmatt7 said:
@HighEliteMajor Meh. Big nothingburger as far as KU is concerned still. That was about as vague as it possibly could be. It gave out all of the hard information that it gathered listing Bridges (YAY!), Abedayo (YAY!), Smith Jr , Fultz, Wendell Carter (YAY!)
But still no KU player. Mentions KU as possibly, but again, no hard facts. Not even a player they mention.
And all of it doesnāt matter if KU didnāt know the player had received payments.
I read an article where Josh Jackson and/or his mom had received a 7,500 loan,
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Hawk8086 said:
@Kcmatt7 In one, JJās mom was mentioned.
So how many does it take? - - you say one. - so does it need to be 2 - -5 - -10 - -20? - -how many does it take?
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@jayballer73 Um, link? Iāve only seen $2,700 cited.
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At least this isnāt really a KU problem We already knew agents preyed on players and their families.
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The NBA is the one causing this with the OAD imo. So, the NCAA needs to start thinking outside of the box on rules to prevent this. Idk if maybe they require players to graduate or else they have to pay back the entire amount? Does that help? Can they themselves offer players loans up to a certain dollar amount per year? What about paying players based on academics? Every semester you complete, you get paid $2k. If they offer these incentives, they can make the punishments more harsh I think.
They need to make it an environment that players and parents donāt feel like they need to go to agents to get extra cash. Iām not sure exactly how to do that, but there are brighter minds than me that could help to solve the problem.
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@Kcmatt7 the hypocrisy is with the NCAA Tournament. There is no way that the NCAA is going to punish all of these teams to the point of them missing the tourneyā¦ they would miss out on a TON of revenue with the best programs in the country not going to the tournament.
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I just gonna be honest Iād be pretty ticked if we had to vacate wins because JJs mom took $2,700. This is an interesting road because the NCAA hasnāt penalized the kid several tiems if they had no knowledge of it example Cam Newtonās dad getting 200K with no punishment. To make it the schools responsibility to keep not only try and keep track of the kids but whatās their parents are doing is a little crazy. Make it illegal for agents to speak to anyone related or the kids themselves. The AAU circuit and these agents are most of the issues with whatās happening IMO.
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BShark said:
@jayballer73 Um, link? Iāve only seen $2,700 cited.
ya, my bad - -your right - -it was 2,700 so many figures in this thing. - - There is no way the NCAA can hand down sanctions o all these schools - this thing will blow up in the NCAA face.
Can you imagine if they penalize or try to penalize all these schools. - - Kentucky - - N Carolina - - Michigan State - - - Louisville - - KU- - - and so on and so on and so on - -going to be interesting what ends up happening - -this could be the straw that breaks the /camelās back ( NCAA ) where all schools back away from the NCAA. - this thing I think is still going to take a lot of time to wrap up. - - ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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This report is some crazy transparency into the underworld. Without the details of everything how can the NCAA do anything.
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Guys this will blow over because a Duke and Mich St player is mentioned. So the media will fawn over the condescending words of K and the tough words of Izzo. THey will both blame the dirty agents and not players or families. If this was just UK or Louisville or even us it would be a whole different ball game.
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If they question Apples its not like she has to talk. They have zero power to do anything. Her son no longer is in College or has anything at stake to risk talking
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@mihawk Agreed. And if you pissed off these schools enough, what is keeping them from starting their own P5 tournament and making ALL of the revenue?
The more I think, the more I am becoming a fan of the P5 conferences to just start their own organization. They can privatize the athletics departments 100% and keep Title IX out of the discussion. I think it would solve a lot of the current NCAA problems. The NCAA is hypocritical in the fact that they donāt give 2 craps about the education the athletes receive. Only the money the athletes generate. They donāt hold schools accountable for anything academically (as proven by UNC). How a player like Duvall can academically qualify at a school like Duke blows my mind. They couldnāt care less. And their lies the problem.
The NCAA Mission Statement: āOur purpose is to govern competition in a fair, safe, equitable and sportsmanlike manner, and to integrate intercollegiate athletics into higher education so that the educational experience of the student-athlete is paramount.ā
The NCAA is not even following itās own mission statement. Which is why people do not respect them.
Letās call a spade a spade and privatize revenue producing college athletics so players can get paid in a transparent way since it is happening anyways.
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BeddieKU23 said:
If they question Apples its not like she has to talk. They have zero power to do anything. Her son no longer is in College or has anything at stake to risk talking
āI never gave any money to Josh and never paid it back.ā
Seems easyā¦
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Unless Dawkins or Miller or whoever provided the money to Apples is going to detail how the situation went down, the NCAA gets the testamony explaining it, questions them, questions Apples and everyone comes clean what can they do? This goes for everyone listed.
Its an eye opener seeing just how much agents were getting involved with kids and families. There is enough information here to know things need to change.
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Also remember Darnell Jackson took money from a booster and simply had to repay it. $2,700 is pretty much nothing. Doubt KU will have to vacate wins because of this.
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@BeddieKU23 @BShark Hereās the other side of the coin, if it happened before JJ was even on campus or committed to KU. Is that didnāt the NCAA clearing house clear him after that?
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kjayhawks said:
@BeddieKU23 @BShark Hereās the other side of the coin, if it happened before JJ was even on campus or committed to KU. Is that didnāt the NCAA clearing house clear him after that?
Proving when the money was exchanged is key. Apples doesnāt have to do anything, they are not privy to her personal information. She has nothing to admit because there is nothing on the line for her son, heās not in College.
If this was a situation where the NCAA is aware that Apples received money and Josh was still in school then you have a situation (like UK, Duke, Alabama, etc face with current players listed). Those families would want to cooperate you would think.
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@kjayhawks Thatās basically based on them submitting transcripts, checking boxes and then literally, saying you didnāt accept any money.
I was cleared in less than two weeks when I applied in HS. Kind of a joke tbh.
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@BeddieKU23 Duke, UK and Bama almost HAVE to sit those guys now right?
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Kcmatt7 said:
@BeddieKU23 Duke, UK and Bama almost HAVE to sit those guys now right?
Bill/KU would. Doesnāt mean others will do the right thing.
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So Izzo had dinners with Dawkins and potentially multiple players paid. I really thought he was clean.
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@dylans Bill has over and over when any question arises. Even when Bragg was innocent last season, he sat him.
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@Kcmatt7 The NCAA should ONLY be a governing body and a regulator to the P5. But right now they are making money off of all these athletes. Thatās the problem. If any of these schools are punished, then it will have a negative effect on the NCAA bottom line.
I am 100% behind the P5 leaving the NCAA in the dust, but I do think there would need to be a separate governing body (that does not profit from the schools) to regulate.
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@BShark link?
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Kcmatt7 said:
@BShark link?
Itās in the Yahoo story. Also āVillanova coachesā that one doesnāt shock me one bitā¦
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So we have a date of Feb 1 2016 for the Apples advance of 1,700. He was an unsigned prospect at the time. He did not sign with KU until the spring.
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@mihawk I think it would be an organization comprised of the 100 schools. Basically, what I would envision, a Senate style of deal. Every school has 1 representative. They decide things based on votes. Every school has equal say. No separate TV deals like the LH Network. A United Athletics Programs of America. This will come after the Declaration of NCAAdependece is written. The NCAA will attempt to stop this by declaring war and cutting off supplies sent to the schools. Only to find that the schools, by bonding together, became stronger than the British, I mean NCAA.
They do say history repeats itselfā¦
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Jared Jefferies hasnāt been in college in 15 years and heās on the report. This is comical that the FBI is connected to a potential NCAA amateurism question involving an athlete taking a loan for as little as $71.39.
Soā¦that uhhh Texas Tech game should be pretty good tomorrow. Itās nice that KU is on gameday for the 2nd week in a row and weāll get to see Jay-Will superman that KU blue and shortly follow with flock of boo birds.
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@BShark I thought Jay was clean. However, his recent success has been unprecedented.
I thought Izzo was clean until last week with the other scandal. Now, this is making a lot of sense. He got tired of being a bad recruiterā¦ His recruiting did pick up a ton lately and I always wondered how. Figured Nike was paying players to go. Now the picture is becoming more clear. His legacy will likely be tarnished. I donāt expect him back at MSU next season at this point.
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BeddieKU23 said:
So we have a date of Feb 1 2016 for the Apples advance of 1,700. He was an unsigned prospect at the time. He did not sign with KU until the spring.
Correct.
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Kcmatt7 said:
@BShark I thought Jay was clean. However, his recent success has been unprecedented.
I thought Izzo was clean until last week with the other scandal. Now, this is making a lot of sense. He got tired of being a bad recruiterā¦ His recruiting did pick up a ton lately and I always wondered how. Figured Nike was paying players to go. Now the picture is becoming more clear. His legacy will likely be tarnished. I donāt expect him back at MSU next season at this point.
Izzo might just be Pitino mk 2.
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Talk from other sites. - - Our consecutive conference Championships is jeopardy possibly?
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@jayballer73 highly doubtful if this is all they have on us. The sum of money is fairly small and it would be hard for KU or even Jackson himself to have knowledge of this. The NCAA canāt expect the players parents to hand over all there bank statements and pay check stub from before the kids are even committed.
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@kjayhawks Clearing house decisions before new info comes are irrelevant. Ask Cal.
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When a player with Markell Fultzā ability signs with Washington red flags should be raised immediately. I donāt know much about him, but I just think thatās evidence that something strange went down.
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Paying players would make no difference because players can still be tempted by more outside money. They should simply let players have nonexclusive contacts with agents and loans (to be reported to the NCAA) that can be disavowed if said agent doesnāt get the player X amount upon leaving school or within a year, say. And pass an actual law providing for criminal penalties for anyone seeking to induce a player or family member to sign a nonreported contract.
Open contracting like that will run the shady characters out quickly.
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@wissox or when a players parent is ārunning their recruitmentā all it means to me is that they are taking payments and the highest bidder is where they end up.
That is what worries me about JJ the most. I just hope we donāt hear of a Kansas coach being involved. We canāt help that we are such a good program that people pay players to come here.
Of course, that is probably a bit of an ignorant thought on my end. It will all come down to the levels of deniability. I just hope we donāt hear about Self going to dinner with agents.
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@mayjay great ideas. That is exactly what they need to do. Find a way to create transparency and crush anyone who does things behind closed doors.
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mayjay said:
Paying players would make no difference because players can still be tempted by more outside money. They should simply let players have nonexclusive contacts with agents and loans (to be reported to the NCAA) that can be disavowed if said agent doesnāt get the player X amount upon leaving school or within a year, say. And pass an actual law providing for criminal penalties for anyone seeking to induce a player or family member to sign a nonreported contract.
Open contracting like that will run the shady characters out quickly.
Pretty great idea.
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@Kcmatt7 It perhaps could work even better if they guaranteed NCAA immunity to any player who reported shady inducements. Use the players as confid sources rather than punishing them if they self report going to dinner with a crook who paid for it.
Iād much rather have the chance to catch the illegal hunter than simply making sure no one gets his target.
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@BShark That Deadspin Article is exactly how I feel about this. FBI is trying to shake more things out.
I think the NCAA is more in damage control mode than they are attack mode lol.
Someone in that office is running around āWHO TIPPED THE FBI OFF?! Son of B. Sht Sht Sh*t. How are we going to spin this? How are we going to fix this?ā
There is no way the NCAA wanted the FBI to do this. This puts way too much pressure on the NCAA to investigate 100 programs and dole out fair punishments to all of them without pissing off one school because they got a harsher penalty than another. Itāll be 10 years before they get to the bottom of all of this too more than likely.
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A couple of interesting items. Did anyone notice the headers on the spreadsheet are in what I would call Spanglish or a combination of English and Spanish and one of the headers indicates āCambios de los Accountantsā which in correct Spanish would be āCambios de los Contadoresā and āPresentado en Espanaā or āPresented in Spainā? This typically happens when someone in a Spanish speaking country uses software written in a English. Could this be loans originated in Spain for players playing in Europe?
More importantly, if schools were not aware of these monies changing hands, can they be held legally responsible/liable? Seems like an extreme reach to me.
Now, the NCAA is a different beast and it can directly benefit from fines it can issue to big programs for whom a few million would not be much of a hardship. I see a big ammnesty coming to programs that were not blatantly involved. If this does not happen, I can see a s enario where the 5 big conferences leave the NCAA and start a new and more college friendly sports association.
Maybe this is what it takes to spur the NBA to ditch the OAD and adopt the baseball model.
Paying students that already receive free tuition, room and board and access to the best coaches, trainers and facilities and national exposure, for academic performance is silly. It would grossly discriminate against the rest of students that not only donāt get these benefits but have to pay for the privilege and patiently wait until graduation to collect the benefits of the education. I guess this makes me old schoolā¦
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@mayjay Something like that might work. They need to change the culture before they change anything else.
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@JayHawkFanToo The free market indicates they are worth more than that. We need to just eliminate OAD. Let the top players that want to get paid go get paid immediately.
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@JayHawkFanToo Loans more likely to have originated in places like Colombia or Mexico or even Russia. Huge caches of cash (couldnāt resist) tend to flow along the same paths as other untraceable commodities, and seem to implicate organized crime involvement.
Gad, I hope there isnāt any gambling investigation going on simultaneously!
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They should just cancel the entire season today. All records to date stand. KU 14 straight conference championships!
