Friday, February 23, 2018

It's time for the NCAA to go -- we're about to lose college basketball. Completely.

The FBI, I would have to think, is about two or three more steps from taking down college basketball completely, especially given two stories this week, one of them today.

Rick Pitino and the Louisville situation has been confirmed by the NCAA, and the 2013 National Championship has been vacated.

Pitino, defiant, says you can't change history.

Rick...  No uncertain terms...  This is really beginning to look "stalker's paradox" on your part -- "If I can't have it, no one can!"

With Rapelor and Pedo State and Michigan State Sexual Assault Division, it is becoming far harder and harder and harder to defend even the existence of an NCAA in any respect.

But it's clear that either the NCAA has to start shutting down criminal programs, or the FBI will do it for them -- if a Yahoo Sports report released today has any indication.

Yahoo! received documents implicating at lease 25 athletes from 20 high-profile schools, in the FBI investigation of improper monies through an agent and agency for professional basketball players.
  • Dennis Smith, North Carolina State, 2016-17, now with the Dallas Mavericks.  $43.500-$73,500 in loans that the agency is trying to recoup when he signed with another agency.
  •  Isaiah Whitehead, Seton Hall, 2014-15 and 2015-16, now with the Brooklyn Nets.  Approximately $26,000-$37,000 in loans -- signed with the agency, moved to another, was purported to be setting up repayment.
  • Tim Quarterman, LSU, three years, ending in 2015-16, currently in the G League.  $16,000 in loans.
  • Diamond Stone, Maryland, 2015-16, currently in the G League.  $14,303 in loans.
  • Edrice Adebayo, Kentucky, 2016-17, the 14th pick of the 2017 NBA Draft by the Miami Heat.  $36,500 in what the agency now calls a "bad loan".  He signed with somebody else.
  • And here's probably the biggest name of them all:  Markelle Fultz, who, after playing with Washington, was the #1 pick in the 2017 NBA Draft, got $10,000 before he signed with somebody else.
  • Kyle Kuzma, three years at Utah ending in 2016-17, now with the LA Lakers, $16,000 in loans.  (Bleacher Report)
And it doesn't end there, not close.

Imagine a March Madness minus these teams:
  • Kentucky
  • Maryland
  • NC State
  • Duke
  • North Carolina
  • Michigan State
  • Texas
There are violations in this report regarding all of these teams and twice-more.

NCAA, get off your ass, shut down the criminal programs (you might wish to start with Michigan State, Baylor, and Penn State, for three), or get out of the fucking way.

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