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New details on Kansas scandal

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UConn has a couple new "fall guys" for their ongoing scandal involving numerous broken NCAA rules. In an attemp to deflect the blame away from head coach Jim Calhoun. 2 of UConn's assistant coaches will announce their resignation at a press conference scheduled for today.
http://www.zagsblog.com/2010/05/27/uconn-loses-2-assistants-skerry-leaves-providence/


Keith "Tiny" Gallon, who played his freshman season at Oklahoma and is now in the NBA draft, has admitted he and his mother took money from an "agent" prior to his freshman season. But he is claiming he did nothing wrong, because he needed the money. Oklahoma Assistant Coach Oronde Taliaferro abruptly resigned April 8 when phone records linked him to the financial adviser who made the loan to Gallon indicating that the University of Oklahoma orchestrated this whole scandal.
http://www.zagsblog.com/2010/05/27/gallon-defends-self-against-ncaa-investigation/

One national columnist has called for Oklahoma to get the "death penalty", pointing out that the school was already on probation for “deliberate noncompliance” and “willful violations” at the time the Gallon/Taliaferro situation happened. You can be sure that if this happened at Bradley, the "death penalty" would already have been decreed. But we are talking Oklahoma, one of the big boys in NCAA and BCS sports. Watch for this to all get swept under the rug, the NCAA will declare that since the assistant coach resigned and Tiny Gallon left for the NBA that Oklahoma has been punished enough.
 
This means that current scandals are going on at USC, UConn, Kansas, Oklahoma, among other places...and yet the NCAA has dragged all of these investigations out as long as they possibly can...
wonder how they wrapped up the investigation at BU back in '05 in only a week or so?

BTW -- the thing every one of these scandals has in common is that NONE were self reported, and NONE were discovered or pursued or investigated by the NCAA
...until AFTER one or more (and in the USC case - MANY, MANY!) media articles (usually YahooSports!) exposed their corruption!!
In other words...why is the NCAA simply NOT doing its job and looking into these scandals ONLY when embarrassed into doing so by numerous repeated media stories
that cite and expose the corruption force them to do so?????

(all it takes if for one disgruntled ex-player or coach to rat on a mid-major like Bradley and the entire enforcement staff of NCAA is on campus the next week!!)

I, for one, say THANK YOU to YahooSports! and their counterparts for doing what the NCAA should be doing and exposing this corruption!


BTW -- UConn's head coach Jim Calhoun's leave of absence last season was NOT due to health concerns as was widelty reported..
it was because he assaulted one of his players!!!!! Read the truth that you simply won't see elsewhere!!
http://www.casualhoya.com/2010/5/11/1465052/the-truth-behind-jim-calhouns
 
tornado said:
This means that current scandals are going on at USC, UConn, Kansas, Oklahoma, among other places...and yet the NCAA has dragged all of these investigations out as long as they possibly can...
wonder how they wrapped up the investigation at BU back in '05 in only a week or so?

BTW -- the thing every one of these scandals has in common is that NONE were self reported, and NONE were discovered or pursued or investigated by the NCAA
...until AFTER one or more (and in the USC case - MANY, MANY!) media articles (usually YahooSports!) exposed their corruption!!
In other words...why is the NCAA simply NOT doing its job and looking into these scandals ONLY when embarrassed into doing so by numerous repeated media stories
that cite and expose the corruption force them to do so?????

(all it takes if for one disgruntled ex-player or coach to rat on a mid-major like Bradley and the entire enforcement staff of NCAA is on campus the next week!!)

I, for one, say THANK YOU to YahooSports! and their counterparts for doing what the NCAA should be doing and exposing this corruption!


BTW -- UConn's head coach Jim Calhoun's leave of absence last season was NOT due to health concerns as was widelty reported..
it was because he assaulted one of his players!!!!! Read the truth that you simply won't see elsewhere!!
http://www.casualhoya.com/2010/5/11/1465052/the-truth-behind-jim-calhouns
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dont see much truth there a site for georgetown offering up no evidence to their claim. No links to the real story just them saying it happened
 
several of the big time scandals have new facts...

First - the UConn scandal widens and deepens..
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=15736

Then the Kansas scandal deepens -- seems they ripped off Ticketmaster also...
http://www.ticketnews.com/University-of-Kansas-basketball-and-football-ticket-scandal-deepens5102851

and the amount of money we're talking is more like over $3 million, not $1 million!
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/joe_posnanski/05/28/kansas.tickets/
...btw -- this article does at least cite the main issue at fault here and with most other scandals...it is GREED -- the amount of $$ to be made
if you can land the top players and win championships is staggering...and those greedy coaches will breach any rule in order to succeed...
although where I disagree with SI is that they seem to just lay off the blame to some vague thing called "greed" and "money"..and don't
seem inclined to hold those people who cheat accountable..whereas I do expect them to be honest and hold them accountable for cheating!!

Oklahoma player admits taking money..
http://ncaabasketball.fanhouse.com/...iny-gallon-talks-about-3-000-his-mother-took/

Scandal at Michigan -- lying, coverup, and now a track record of cheating more than just about anyone..
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/university-of-michigan-the-collapse-of-a-so-called-storied-program
 
Even the historically supportive Kansas press isn't buying the lie that nobody at Kansas knew about this scandal...
http://cjonline.com/opinion/2010-05-28/column_all_those_staffers_at_ku_and_no_one_knew_about_scandal


and one big time Kansas donor who feels he's been ripped off by the current AD's season ticket policy (see article) says.......
"I don't see how a person making $900,000 a year and getting obscene bonuses could not know what was going on right there in his own department,'' said Fred LaMar, a retired business executive in Olathe, Kan., and longtime donor."
http://msn.foxsports.com/cbk/story/...k+(FOXSports.com+News+for+COLLEGE+BASKETBALL)


btw - the new revelations of Calipari's player, Eric Bledsoe having his grades altered...this is kinda weird and deja vu -- because not only did Derrick Rose have his grades altered...
but multiple other players who were Calipari recruits at Memphis likewise had shady grade issues of a similar nature..
http://community.foxsports.com/good...SO_FLAGGED_IN_HIGH_SCHOOL_TAJ_STILL_UNDECIDED
......as did three other Simeon players who played with Derrick Rose........one of whom will be a Valley player...

BTW -- this scandal from just last year was totally swept under the rug and we never hard a thing..NCAA never cared..it's Kentucky!!
http://www.kentucky.com/2009/06/06/820774/joe-bolognas-off-limits-for-cats.html
 
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it gets even more bizarre....the guy at the center of all this...
Lew Perkins, the Kansas Athletic Director
who makes about $1 million per year, says he is the victim of a blackmail scheme...but won't reveal the details...
http://www2.kusports.com/news/2010/may/29/ku-athletic-director-perkins-victim-alleged-blackm/

He claims the blackmail attempts took place from Sept. 15, 2009 to April 15, 2010, but he NEVER did report these blackmail attempts to anyone ...
then on April 16, 2010...his lawyer reports them....and you gotta wonder what's up...

and if (as they appear to know from the e mails) they know who the blackmailer is...then why have no arrests been made and why if this was reported to police in mid- April...why are they only now reporting it publicly at the end of May?

Just coincidence...but Lew Perkins came to Kansas from UConn where he was Athletic Director from 1990-2003.
 
tornado said:
... crooked Pump brothers' AAU scams......
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tsk, tsk....once exposed as crooked, now nobody will deal with the Pump bros, and their phony search firm is going out of business....so sad...
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news;_ylt=AiD.VWqU05W1s.n5VzUnw3w5nYcB?slug=ys-search072310



BY THE WAY -- I really appreciate Yahoo and a few other sites and bloggers for keeping the pressure on, for revealing the crooks like USC & OJ Mayo,
and for constantly pressuring the NCAA to do something - which they ordinarily wouldn't do except the public pressure has forced them to at least
give token attention to all this cheating.
 
tornado said:
tsk, tsk....once exposed as crooked, now nobody will deal with the Pump bros, and their phony search firm is going out of business....so sad...
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news;_ylt=AiD.VWqU05W1s.n5VzUnw3w5nYcB?slug=ys-search072310



BY THE WAY -- I really appreciate Yahoo and a few other sites and bloggers for keeping the pressure on, for revealing the crooks like USC & OJ Mayo,
and for constantly pressuring the NCAA to do something - which they ordinarily wouldn't do except the public pressure has forced them to at least
give token attention to all this cheating.
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Im not saying the Pump Brothers were on the up and up but their search firm wasn't phony. It was legit. They were just private business guys trying to make a living. The onus was on the schools and the NCAA to deal, or not deal, with them.

The Pump Brothers have a lot of friends in the business--high powered friends. That's why there never was much done about them. Again, Im not advocating everything they do/did but the NCAA doesn't like anybody but the NCAA making money of college sports.
 
If the NCAA actually does crack down on, or suspend, all the cheaters T points out, JL and BU would have a good chance at another NCAA Tourney run..:lol:
 
AZ you are right on -- we may be in the significant minority of schools that are not cheating...or at least all the cheating of the big boys & BCS-type schools wraps up all the top players and makes recruiting the talent difficult for everyone else..
There's a reason they'd rather go and be the 12th or 13th man on a 15th place Big East team than to be a top player on a mid-major.
 
Here's some interesting news...

The Kansas donor fund -- the one that some of the insiders used freebie tickets to bribe donations and cash gifts.......
http://www.kuathletics.com/williamsfund/kan-williamsfund.html

is suffering big time since this scandal...

People who used to give are afraid to be associated with this donor fund or have perceptions of improprieties and are NOT GIVING...

"Williams Fund's membership is down 31%"
"(as of)... June 8, 2010 they showed 5,488 contributors ....Today, apparently after their select-a-seat campaign is over, they list 3,764.

A sign of the..times ... Ticketgate"
 
Where is the IRS in all of this, and, what about the FBI? My guess is there is probably some interstate wire (mail) fraud going on in some or all of these cases as well. :?::?::?:

Does it seem that football and basketball college athletic programs at many of the BCS schools are basically half way houses for future criminals? With all the assults, thefts, drug use & distribution, gambling, and rapes going on, police should routinely stake out these schools' athletes....:mad:

Perhaps the US Attorney General could weigh in on the 'crime spree' in collegiate sports, as opposed to spending all his time attempting to prosecute States who are enforcing US Immigration laws the Federal Government won't.... :mad::mad:
 
AZ BU Fan said:
Where is the IRS in all of this, and, what about the FBI? My guess is there is probably some interstate wire (mail) fraud going on in some or all of these cases as well. :?::?::?:

Does it seem that football and basketball college athletic programs at many of the BCS schools are basically half way houses for future criminals? With all the assults, thefts, drug use & distribution, gambling, and rapes going on, police should routinely stake out these schools' athletes....:mad:

Perhaps the US Attorney General could weigh in on the 'crime spree' in collegiate sports, as opposed to spending all his time attempting to prosecute States who are enforcing US Immigration laws the Federal Government won't.... :mad::mad:
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Ok, this will likely get deleted. But you'd rather have the US Attorney General worried about college basketball than a likely unconstitutional law? Come on dude, those are pretty messed up priorities.
 
I suppose if someone has a different view of Arizona SB1070 than you apparently do AMC, they wouldn't want the US AG wasting his time suing states who are upholding Federal Laws the US gov won't. But this is for another discussion off line.

In any case, please substitute ;-);-);-) for :mad::mad::mad: in my previous post. I was talking about college sports in general vis a vis gambling, drugs, bribery, and other financial misdeeds that have gotten people in other occupations who have committed similar misdeeds in trouble with the Feds. But the Feds look the other way with college athletics.

And its 'MR OLD DUDE' to you! Senior citizens deserve some respect! ha ha ha
 
I definitely agree that the government has way too many priorities and should not be wasting time investigating private enterprises such as NCAA, NFL, MLB, etc..
or regulating whether people sitting in their own living rooms will be required to privately insure themselves...
Is there no end to how petty government will get in digging through and trying to regulate the lives of individuals?
 
tornado said:
I definitely agree that the government has way too many priorities and should not be wasting time investigating private enterprises such as NCAA, NFL, MLB, etc..
or regulating whether people sitting in their own living rooms will be required to privately insure themselves...
Is there no end to how petty government will get in digging through and trying to regulate the lives of individuals?
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Could not agree more. It's called politics and all they are trying to do is position themselves for some type of pay day. I wonder how much of our tax payer dollars have been wasted on Barry Bonds? How about Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton stuff? btw..I'm not a fan of either just believe our government resources could have been spent on much better things.
 
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