FBI arrests "several NCAA assistant basketball coaches"

Frank Martin's on that list? I'm gobsmacked.

 

Cleveland State is on the clock.

 

As a Carolina grad, I don't know whether to be amused or sad to see N.C. State on the list. On the one hand, there's a certain amount of karma given the moralizing Wolfpack fans have lobbed at Chapel Hill in the last few years. Then on the other hand, it is kinda fucked up that UNC came away from the AFAM scandal with no punishment and now it looks like State might have it's second major infractions case in basketball.

College sports is a dirty, dirty business.

 

Also, if the NCAA ends up declaring Tony Bradley ineligible and forcing Carolina to vacate the 2017 title over a pre-college meal with an agent, after having left the 2005 title in tact when at least Rashad McCants should've been ineligible, my head might explode.

 

Who cares about all of this?

And rich to see the head of a massive price-fixing conspiracy (Mark Emmett) out there casting aspersions on people. If he was the CEO of a tire company he’d be in jail.

 

There's a lot of good things going on in the basketball program besides this payment thing.

 

Jim Valvano was a raging cock. But then he got sick, make a speech and died, so now he’s a saint. But we’re not supposed to say such things bc it interferes with the tidy, feel good narrative. Yahoo expends a lot of energy on gotcha stories like this and i question the investment bc how much do readers really care? It’s largely sanctimonious bullshit.

 

Not to thread-jack but that could be a whole new one: what people are revered in death or after retirement who were actually pricks on wheels. I know Valvano was. Dale Sr. was another. Lasorda and Lee Trevino were two I had personal experience with.

 

I''ll go first: Jesus Christ.

 

Billy Graham.

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Your field for the NIT: the Nationally Indicted Tournament.

 

That Maryland got caught over Diamond Stone is disgusting. Hope that oaf blows out his ACL and has to work at a car wash.