Brontoforumus

The whole "apparel companies were paying athletes to go to school that wore their apparel and then sign with them after they graduated" story just broke big with a bunch of indictments. Probably 30+ schools involved, both major apparel companies (Nike and Adidas), 4 named and indicted assistant coaches at Big 5 schools and like 10 more unnamed coaches at Big 5 schools.

The entire system that we all knew existed just got put up in front of the light and now we're going to have to deal with it.

If it's enough schools with coaches involved, then the Big 5 just walk away from the NCAA. If it's only a few schools with named coaches, then they get to scapegoat it and the NCAA makes a bunch of new rules and we all blame Nike and Adidas for doing what they were incentivized to do.

Auburn, USC and OK State and Arizona functionally do not have basketball programs anymore. They have assistant coaches indicted for taking money and setting up money for recruits who played basketball for those schools. Big money. Like, 100K type money.

Those schools are looking at a minimum of what UL is getting for the strippers situation, and probably a max of "you don't have a team for 2 years."

edit: and in UL's case it was less than 10G over 4 years and resulted in lost seasons, a lost post season, lost scholarships and NCAA parole AND WE COOPERATED.

if you are Ok State and your coach took 90K and distributed money to players and recruits and that's just in ONE YEAR your team is over.

It's pronounced Lebrannah.