Nugget's Ghostbuster wrote:AndreWhere wrote:I'm having a hard time understanding this whole Louisville scandal. Seems like several scandals going on at once. What's the deal with the tailor with the Arabic-sounding name, for example? Is he just someone who got discovered serendipitously, or did he have something to do with Adidas? There's a lot going on here, and if it all kind of fizzles I won't be shocked. Wouldn't be the first time the feds skulked around somewhere for a while collecting miscellaneous shit on people and then tried to conglomerate it all into a bigger deal than it actually was.
The feds announcement y(esterday was basically just the beginning of what is about to be discovered. The feds anticpate the coaches, financial advisors and shoe company execs to sing like a bird in order to avoid serious jail time. The charges against the first handful of coaches arrested are punishable up to 80 years since its a federal crime. The feds busted one of the financial advisors and had him work with an undercover FBI agent to meet with coaches and negotiate deals for high school recruits. If it is discovered that Pitino approved or had knowledge of the 100k payment to his player, he will be prosecuted by the feds. I expect Bruce Pearl to get the axe here next.
I'm no fan of "University Six," but that sounds like a bit of a witchhunt.
One article mentioned bribery charges. "Bribery" generally refers to paying a public servant to act in a way that might not be in the public interest. The public servant is guilty of corruption or malfeasance.
Bribery might also cover paying someone with a fiduciary duty to someone else money to act against that person's interest. Paying a kid to go play amateur basketball somewhere definitely violates the rules of the NCAA, IOC, AAC, etc., but I fail to see where it's bribery.
Now, one could argue that giving a University Six coach money to steer students to some fancy tailor constitutes inducing a state employee to act against the state's interest in promoting the welfare of its students. If the student is still an amateur and a student, that might hold water. If he's already declared for the draft, it's pretty easy to argue that the tailor was just spending money on marketing. Paying, say, Ed Orgeron money to tell me to go to a certain car stealership is 100% legal.
In any case, I fail to see what Adidas has done wrong, other than helping some people break NCAA rules. I don't think that's criminal.
Could be they're trying to build the whole thing into a RICO case. That law is vague enough to encompass almost anything.
Bring back Reed V. "Pie" TurkPalmer Eustachy.