Sounds very familiar. My son just graduated from Purdue. His last 2 years, he lived in a frat house. The year before, he lived in a single room in a brand new dorm. Complete with private bathroom, cable tv and once a week maid service. Not to mention a dining hall across the street with everything from steak to sushi offered. Plus a brand new student athletic center that was like no other gym that you have ever seen. Hundreds of treadmills and other equipment, pools and a climbing wall. He was living well!
Assistant Coaches Arrested /Book Richardson is One
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Sounds very familiar. My son just graduated from Purdue. His last 2 years, he lived in a frat house. The year before, he lived in a single room in a brand new dorm. Complete with private bathroom, cable tv and once a week maid service. Not to mention a dining hall across the street with everything from steak to sushi offered. Plus a brand new student athletic center that was like no other gym that you have ever seen. Hundreds of treadmills and other equipment, pools and a climbing wall. He was living well!
Talk about a sneaker connection! Oregon:
On Aug. 1, 2013, the University of Oregon dedicated the Hatfield-Dowlin Complex, the latest massive gift from Nike co-founder Phil Knight to his alma mater.
Few people actually know how much Knight spent on the building, thanks to a series of financial transactions that obscure details from public records. The university reported the 145,000-square-foot building’s value as $95 million in filings with the federal government, but some media reports have pegged the actual construction cost closer to $138 million.
In addition to the now-standard accoutrements of a modern college football training facility, Oregon’s new building featured flourishes from overseas. The individually ventilated lockers came from Germany; the wood for the floor in the weight room came from Brazil; and the lounge chairs in the players’ barber shop came from Italy. The building also came with technological innovations such as a 40-yard electronic track that measures speed, power and foot placement.
“If a building was a super hero, that’s it,” Oregon Coach Mark Helfrich said in a news conference.
On Aug. 1, 2013, the University of Oregon dedicated the Hatfield-Dowlin Complex, the latest massive gift from Nike co-founder Phil Knight to his alma mater.
Few people actually know how much Knight spent on the building, thanks to a series of financial transactions that obscure details from public records. The university reported the 145,000-square-foot building’s value as $95 million in filings with the federal government, but some media reports have pegged the actual construction cost closer to $138 million.
In addition to the now-standard accoutrements of a modern college football training facility, Oregon’s new building featured flourishes from overseas. The individually ventilated lockers came from Germany; the wood for the floor in the weight room came from Brazil; and the lounge chairs in the players’ barber shop came from Italy. The building also came with technological innovations such as a 40-yard electronic track that measures speed, power and foot placement.
“If a building was a super hero, that’s it,” Oregon Coach Mark Helfrich said in a news conference.
Just wondering where this might hit next.
Sean Miller and Richardson were at Xavier before Arizona. Was Chris Mack on the same staff?
Tony Bland was on the staff at Syracuse before taking his recruiting skills to S.D. State.
Travis Ford was at Okla. State, is fired and goes to lowly St. Louis and produces great recruiting class this year.
Ford played at Kentucky for Rick Pitino, and may have been on his staff.
Marvin Menzies, UNLV, was assistant at S.D. State with Tony Bland during a very fertile recruiting period.
Lastly, Rick Pitino broke in as an assistant with Jim Boeheim, at New York's college team.
Many additional contacts all over the country will evolve as more are indicted. Hope Big East can avoid too much damage.
Sean Miller and Richardson were at Xavier before Arizona. Was Chris Mack on the same staff?
Tony Bland was on the staff at Syracuse before taking his recruiting skills to S.D. State.
Travis Ford was at Okla. State, is fired and goes to lowly St. Louis and produces great recruiting class this year.
Ford played at Kentucky for Rick Pitino, and may have been on his staff.
Marvin Menzies, UNLV, was assistant at S.D. State with Tony Bland during a very fertile recruiting period.
Lastly, Rick Pitino broke in as an assistant with Jim Boeheim, at New York's college team.
Many additional contacts all over the country will evolve as more are indicted. Hope Big East can avoid too much damage.
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Hopefully the FBI is not looking into the use of corn futures in luring Midwest kids to Iowa State.
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MarkRedman
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Every team that is involved in this stuff should get the NCAA "death penalty"
These programs should be blown to smithereens!!
These programs should be blown to smithereens!!
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The bag men always get whacked to protect the godfathers. Omerta.
MarkRedman
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It probably won't happen
The "death penalty" doesn't shut the program down permanently
But it does make it very difficult for a program to rebuild and recover
Something drastic needs to happen and this is the opportune time to do it
The NCAA should use this situation to make lemonade out of lemons
The current system is obviously broken and completely out of control
The pioneers of college athletics never intended for it to become what we now have
The hypocritically NCAA reminds me of the officer in the movie "Casablanca" who while closing the business down proclaimed he was "shocked- shocked that " that gambling was being conducted while being handed his gambling profits.
No doubt that Emmert and his NCAA fat cats were shocked- shocked that high school blue chippers were receiving $ to attend certain colleges.
*** Welcome back "Tommy boy"....I laugh at you.
No doubt that Emmert and his NCAA fat cats were shocked- shocked that high school blue chippers were receiving $ to attend certain colleges.
*** Welcome back "Tommy boy"....I laugh at you.
Death Penalty like everything else in the world of the NCAA is a misleading term. Under the NCAA it is shutting a sport down for "at least one year" But of course if you are Kansas or Kentucky the NCAA says that you warrant Death Penalty but they won't do it because your administration is doing such a great job getting you under control... that is pretty much exactly what they said when those schools were cold busted in the 80s. Kentucky did actually get the Death Penalty in the 50s.
I think he's probably one of the few who is clean. He cheated so much for so long so well that he doesn't have to cheat anymore. He's like Michael Corleone in GF III. He eats dinner with the pope and every once in a while when his conscience bothers him and he can't sleep like a baby he lights a candle and makes a novena.