ACC Teams added: Duke, UNC, Notre Dame, Virginia, Clemson, NC State
Dennis Smith, NC State:"received $43,500 according to the documents. Another document headed "Pina," for ASM agent Stephen Pina, says Smith received a total of $73,500 in loans, and includes notes about "options to recoup the money" when Smith did not sign with ASM."
Jaron Blossomgame, Clemson: "received a payment by Venmo while in school for $1,100 according to the documents"
Players and/or families who are listed as meeting with or having meals with Dawkins:
Wendell Carter, Duke
Tony Bradley, North Carolina
Demetrius Jackson, Notre Dame
Malcolm Brogdon, Virginia
Greg, it doesn't look like UVA is as squeaky clean as you thought they were.
I can't post the link for some reason... I keep getting the link URL is not valid.
https://sports.yahoo.com/exclusive-federal-documents-detail-sweeping-potential-ncaa-violations-involving-high-profile-players-schools-103338484.html
Brogs' mom is a dean at Morehouse and his dad is an attorney. They aren't strapped for cash. She took the dinner right before the end of her son's collegiate career to check out an agent he might hire in his imminent NBA career. If this is what supposedly means UVA isn't "squeaky clean" then, yeah, I'm not worried.
The majority of these cases are improper payments - but not necessarily on the school's watch. To even have Brogdan brought into the conversation is crap and if a guy who had a dinner is on the list, what the fuck are they actually investigating or focusing on?
Also, much as I'd love to see some schools crucified, the story doesn't show any actual links between these payments from agents and the programs the players are in. As Fats says, some agents may go down for this but I'm not seeing anything that will really impact any programs.
NCAA Bylaw 16.01.1.1 reads "Unless otherwise noted, for violations of Bylaw 16 in which the value is $200 or less, the eligibility of the student-athlete shall not be affected conditioned upon the student-athlete's repayment of the benefit to a charity of his or her choice. The student-athlete however, shall remain ineligible from the time the institution has knowledge of receipt of the impermissible benefit until the student-athlete repays the benefit..."
If there is anything that could change in this - it is the athlete-agent interaction. Won't have any long-term impact on collegiate sports.
Hell, unless the NCAA starts to get involved - sanctions aren't even a given.
So, yeah, it's nothing.
If there is anything that could change in this - it is the athlete-agent interaction. Won't have any long-term impact on collegiate sports.
Hell, unless the NCAA starts to get involved - sanctions aren't even a given.
The FBI couldn't find shit in a septic tank.
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Does she deny ordering the crème brulee?
She's a college dean in Atlanta and Dawkins was in DC that day.
He had drinks/bite at the Ritz. He called Brogdon's mom, talked with her for a few minutes and used to that to justify expensing his dinner. Or, she was still in town for the ACC Tournament (ending two days before), and he bumped into her and chatted with her and used it to justify the expense.
It won't have any tangible impact on the game or the NCAA as a whole.
Very few things actually do. Title IX was the last thing to change the face of sports significantly. Hell, even the PSU scandal didn't do anything
Look, the entire system is corrupt, starting with the AAU-
the Mafia of US sports. And the colleges really have no choice put to fall in line with the AAU because they provide and control the supply of talent.
Finally, the colleges, the NCAA and networks - the distributors of the product - have been exploiting these high profile athletes for enormous sums of money for over a half century.
It's time for this flimsy, corrupt system to be destroyed with a wrecking ball and re-built with a system that makes sense...
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It won't have any tangible impact on the game or the NCAA as a whole.
Very few things actually do. Title IX was the last thing to change the face of sports significantly. Hell, even the PSU scandal didn't do anything
You were saying? Arizona just got busted for giving ayton 100k
Some schools will get in trouble. Some coaches will get in trouble. Some agents will get in trouble. And things will carry on as normal.
PSU had a two decade long coverup of sexual abuse, lost scholarships and had sanctions and today it is like nothing ever happened.
Irritating how we’re only getting bits and pieces. Just release all of the evidence
I suspect a number of coaches and programs get caught and get penalized.
But if the big headline is agents loaning money to future clients, the NCAA really has limited skin in the game.
Hint, the schools so chastened will not be the Tobacco Road schools (posters who thought NC was going to be heavily penalized were dreaming), any school in the SEC (Cam Newton was the canary in the coal mine) or any big time football school (See State, Penn) because mustn't hurt the dollars and the tv contracts. So, yeah, Louisville is up.
The majority of these cases are improper payments - but not necessarily on the school's watch. To even have Brogdan brought into the conversation is crap and if a guy who had a dinner is on the list, what the fuck are they actually investigating or focusing on?
That’s my guess too, unless your HC is stupid enough to get caught on tape talking about paying a player. See ya, Sean Miller!