Little Pitino
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I heard from someone last night MN paid a Cretin-Durham kid (Oturu) $50K to commit after missing out on the states top 5 prospects in 2017. Apparently they also got Mr Bball from New York? Just what I heard from 1 person that follows the local scene closely. Don't shoot the messenger.
Little Dick looks just as bit of a sleaze as his old man, but let's not rush to judgement. I'd sure like to think that no one in the B1G has been involved in this nonsense. If things roll along like I think they will, the B1G might have all 4 Final Four teams this year by default.
Here is my list
Already screwed- Louisville, Arizona, Auburn, Oklahoma State, Miami, South Carolina, USC, and apparently Alabama
Probable- Kentucky, SMU, Duke, UNC, UCLA, Missouri, Western Kentucky?, FSU, UNLV, LSU, Minny, Illinois.....thats my short list of teams
Already screwed- Louisville, Arizona, Auburn, Oklahoma State, Miami, South Carolina, USC, and apparently Alabama
Probable- Kentucky, SMU, Duke, UNC, UCLA, Missouri, Western Kentucky?, FSU, UNLV, LSU, Minny, Illinois.....thats my short list of teams
I'd add Mississippi State to the mix. Way too weird how well recruiting has been going. Baylor, anybody not mentioned from the SEC,
My guess is Mn is okay. Lil Rich is pulling in some talent but nothing outrageous for B1G team.
BUT if the Feds are seen in Dinky Town I'll be the first to say hello and open up the front door to Williams Arena.
It's been 9 months since MN's last major scandal. They're due for another.
BUT if the Feds are seen in Dinky Town I'll be the first to say hello and open up the front door to Williams Arena.
It's been 9 months since MN's last major scandal. They're due for another.
At some point the NCAA still needs to visit the legality of paying a travel agency in the canary islands to arrange an overseas trip....and wow it is so weird that travel agency's address is the same as the basketball academy where Minnesota (among others) has located foreign players like Bakery Donut or whatever the guys name is.
What a freagin' lucky coincidence, Pappa Pitino would say.
What a freagin' lucky coincidence, Pappa Pitino would say.
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Minnesota has a history of cheating in basketball, so it wouldn't surprise me. Still, until some actual evidence emerges, it probably isn't fair to speculate about it.
The FBI needs to set up a College Basketball taskforce because before it's all said and done, they'll have enough tips to investigate and make arrests for the next decade!
"seven Division I programs—Louisville, Minnesota, N.C. State, Oklahoma State, Troy, UAB and UNC-Greensboro—contracted to spend $944,737 with Promosport & Tours, S.L., on Gran Canaria, a Spanish island"
Little rick might not be involved in exactly the same scams his dad was but you can bet your ass that he is corrupt as hell.
Last August, Minnesota’s basketball team took a 10-day trip to Barcelona and Madrid, winning four exhibitions, as well as visiting a basilica and touring the stadium of soccer team Real Madrid. The Golden Gophers’ athletic department ran a $1.5 million deficit in the 2014 fiscal year according to analysis by The Washington Post, but associate AD Chris Werle told the Pioneer Press that the school used booster donations to pay for the trip, which was contracted for a minimum of 35 travelers and a cost of $211,000. It ended up costing $224,245, making it the largest party and the most expensive trip of the Promosport tours SI analyzed. (The cost was significantly more than the 10-day tour Iowa State took to Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia on the same dates; the Cyclones’ contract with Global Sports Management, which is based in Knoxville, Tenn., was for a minimum of 25 travelers at $122,500.
The contract for the Golden Gophers’ trip was drafted on Oct. 14, 2014, and signed the following month by then athletic director Norwood Teague and Sosa Cruz. Six months earlier Minnesota coach Richard Pitino had announced the signings of two foreign recruits to bolster his thin frontcourt. One was 6'9" Senegalese forward Gaston Diedhiou, who played the previous season at CBA. The other was 6'11" Malian center Bakary Konaté, out of Sunrise Christian Academy in Wichita, Kans. Before arriving in the U.S., Konaté played for the junior program of CB Gran Canaria, the club that once employed CBA’s Orellana as a recruiter. Konaté has started all but five games this season as a sophomore, while Diedhiou, whose admission to Minnesota was delayed until December after reported problems with an English-proficiency test, has appeared in 23 games off the bench. Minnesota declined multiple requests for comment from SI regarding Promosport.
Pitino’s father, Rick, had a similar CBA-Promosport connection at Louisville. On Nov. 19, 2013, the Cardinals signed 7-foot Norwegian center Matz Stockman out of CBA in what multiple news outlets called a “surprise” addition to Louisville’s 2014 recruiting class. Five months later, on April 25, 2014, the school signed a $167,850 contract with Promosport for a minimum 30-person trip to Madrid, Zaragoza and Barcelona that was scheduled for August 2015—the first summer the Cardinals were eligible for a foreign tour after traveling to the Bahamas in ‘11.
When Oklahoma State and Valparaiso, two schools that had never taken a foreign tour, decided to do so, they had one thing in common: a surprise, recent addition of a former CBA big man.
On Sept. 1, 2011, Oklahoma State announced an unusually late (and immediate) add to its roster for the ‘11–12 season: Marek Soucek, a Czech 7-footer from CBA. The Cowboys were in dire need of frontcourt help after losing one big man to a transfer and another to a suspension. The Oklahoman called Soucek’s recruitment a “whirlwind”—one in which the coaches had offered a scholarship without even seeing him in person. “My high school coach spoke to me that they want me here,” Soucek told the paper. Cowboys coach Travis Ford said at the time, “To add somebody with the size [Soucek] has is really what the doctor ordered for us.”
Any of this similar to what the old Iowa State coach was involved in? I think the guy after Eustachy
my god,there are so many ways to cheat; will the FBI investigation ever close???
The FBI tournament is gonna be a good one this year.
1-Louisville vs 8-Auburn
4-Miami vs 5-South Carolina
3-Oklahoma State vs 6-USC
2-Arizona vs 7-Alabama
1-Louisville vs 8-Auburn
4-Miami vs 5-South Carolina
3-Oklahoma State vs 6-USC
2-Arizona vs 7-Alabama
They might, but is that what the FBI and the DOJ really want to spend the next 10 to 15 years dealing with. It would be great to push some of the cheaters out of the game, and put the fear of the FEDS into the rest, but I have a hard time believing the Department of Justice wants to create a backload of cases over a recruits for cash scandal. Most of these cases will never end up in a court room, and will be pleaded out. Just like people saying some of these assistants could get 80 years max sentence. Thats not going to happen. nor should it. The good thing is at least most of these coaches will never work in the profession again,(at least not at a DIV 1 team), and others may think twice before going down that road. At least for awhile.
Pitino and his family are going through a "difficult time," his son Richard Pitino, who is the men's basketball coach at Minnesota, said Thursday.
"Like any son, I want what's best for my dad, and I will always support him," Richard Pitino said.
Source: http://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...-rick-pitino-coach-2-federal-complaint-source
"Like any son, I want what's best for my dad, and I will always support him," Richard Pitino said.
Source: http://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...-rick-pitino-coach-2-federal-complaint-source
OH darn. Where to we send the sympathy cards?
Here you go:
Little Dick Pitino
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