FBI arrests "several NCAA assistant basketball coaches"

The ACC began to die when it took in NCAA reprobates Va Tech and Miami into the fold. It prostituted itself when it took University-6. Without any discussion from other members by the way.

 

And then the ACC became the Big East when it approved the fuck buddy relationship with Notre Dame.

 

Interesting timeline. What was the enrollment in UNC-CH's AfAm program in the years immediately prior to Louisville's joining the ACC?

 

Immediately prior ? Very small. It had been cleaned up by then. The point is valid, however.

I will say that if you look at the whole history of things, UNC 's record is better than most. And I'm no apologist for the Heels.

Only six weeks after they were put on probation for having hookers in the dorms, they offering $150K for a player. Reprobates.

 

The ACC is as whorish re: athletics as any of ‘em. That they welcomed the whore from that neighborhood doesn’t strike me as all that scandalous.

 

To illustrate the, shall we say, variety of approaches in the conference: Two basketball players for my beloved Wahoos graduated with master's degrees this past weekend*. Duke, another esteemed academic institution, had one player graduate with a bachelor's.

*Full disclosure: One of them was a graduate transfer.

 

Here's how you know taking University-6 was different: When they took in FSU, they lauded the school's high-tech physics facilities. They had similarly nice academic things to say about other new members. But when they took University-6, they admitted, "This is an athletics move." Right up front. No attempt to justify on academic grounds in the opening quote of the press release. (No, I can't find the link now.)
University-6 is in a league of its own. Here are the appropriate US News rankings of other members: 8, 18, 25, 27, 30, 32, 34, 46, 52, 64, 65, 70, 72, 81. Then there is University-6 at 161. Closer to most of the SEC than its alleged brethren, one of whose athletes it physically endangered by accepting a playbook before a game.

 

It's not going to be the FBI or the NCAA that cleans up shoe company involvement in "amateur" hoops. It's going to be that getting to the players young doesn't really pay off.

Projected No. 1 pick Ayton signs with Puma

 

Arizona boosters are probably more concerned about the "ethics" of a 16-12 record at this point.