Bear Down Wildcats

PHXCATS wrote:Sounds like Arizona is one of the only clean programs

Spaceman Spiff wrote:

PHXCATS wrote:Sounds like Arizona is one of the only clean programs

In all reality, I hope that Arizona is clean (given that recruiting is a dirty business). There's a certain amount of sleaze inherent in the process if you do it well.

Louisville basically paying for prostitution is a little much even by recruiting standards. Most schools just find ladies who don't get paid.

Chicat wrote:

Spaceman Spiff wrote:

PHXCATS wrote:Sounds like Arizona is one of the only clean programs

In all reality, I hope that Arizona is clean (given that recruiting is a dirty business). There's a certain amount of sleaze inherent in the process if you do it well.

Louisville basically paying for prostitution is a little much even by recruiting standards. Most schools just find ladies who don't get paid.

There is no way Arizona is 100% "clean", but there are varying levels to that designation. I know we aren't getting prostitutes or providing fake no-show classes. But as we have all seen, all it takes is a free piece of pizza to get the NCAA to crawl up your ass if they want to.

PHXCATS wrote:Sounds like Arizona is one of the only clean programs

Spaceman Spiff wrote:

Chicat wrote:

Spaceman Spiff wrote:

PHXCATS wrote:Sounds like Arizona is one of the only clean programs

In all reality, I hope that Arizona is clean (given that recruiting is a dirty business). There's a certain amount of sleaze inherent in the process if you do it well.

Louisville basically paying for prostitution is a little much even by recruiting standards. Most schools just find ladies who don't get paid.

There is no way Arizona is 100% "clean", but there are varying levels to that designation. I know we aren't getting prostitutes or providing fake no-show classes. But as we have all seen, all it takes is a free piece of pizza to get the NCAA to crawl up your ass if they want to.

If you have a top ten recruiting class, I doubt you are 100% clean. There are too many people and too many rules involved.

Spaceman Spiff wrote:

Chicat wrote:

Spaceman Spiff wrote:

PHXCATS wrote:Sounds like Arizona is one of the only clean programs

In all reality, I hope that Arizona is clean (given that recruiting is a dirty business). There's a certain amount of sleaze inherent in the process if you do it well.

Louisville basically paying for prostitution is a little much even by recruiting standards. Most schools just find ladies who don't get paid.

There is no way Arizona is 100% "clean", but there are varying levels to that designation. I know we aren't getting prostitutes or providing fake no-show classes. But as we have all seen, all it takes is a free piece of pizza to get the NCAA to crawl up your ass if they want to.

If you have a top ten recruiting class, I doubt you are 100% clean. There are too many people and too many rules involved.

Spaceman Spiff wrote:

Spaceman Spiff wrote:

Chicat wrote:

Spaceman Spiff wrote:

PHXCATS wrote:Sounds like Arizona is one of the only clean programs

In all reality, I hope that Arizona is clean (given that recruiting is a dirty business). There's a certain amount of sleaze inherent in the process if you do it well.

Louisville basically paying for prostitution is a little much even by recruiting standards. Most schools just find ladies who don't get paid.

There is no way Arizona is 100% "clean", but there are varying levels to that designation. I know we aren't getting prostitutes or providing fake no-show classes. But as we have all seen, all it takes is a free piece of pizza to get the NCAA to crawl up your ass if they want to.

If you have a top ten recruiting class, I doubt you are 100% clean. There are too many people and too many rules involved.

Looking back at this post...well, those were simpler days.

No matter how bad it gets, we can always look down on Rick Pitino. What a hypocritical dirtbag.

Spaceman Spiff wrote:I can say that I doubt we are worse than the norm. If you read the complaint, the other assistants were pulling the same stuff, but not landing the classes we were. Shoot, if the rumors are true, Bowen was 100k to Louisville.

But I also think the norm is pretty bad. It does shock me that it might have been coming directly from Book. I sort of assumed there would be a level of separation with the actual coaches.

There's part of me that wonders if Book wasn't just shaking this guy down for more money in personal use. What was the dude gonna do, call the cops because his bribe was misused? Who knows?

Chicat wrote:

Spaceman Spiff wrote:I can say that I doubt we are worse than the norm. If you read the complaint, the other assistants were pulling the same stuff, but not landing the classes we were. Shoot, if the rumors are true, Bowen was 100k to Louisville.

But I also think the norm is pretty bad. It does shock me that it might have been coming directly from Book. I sort of assumed there would be a level of separation with the actual coaches.

There's part of me that wonders if Book wasn't just shaking this guy down for more money in personal use. What was the dude gonna do, call the cops because his bribe was misused? Who knows?

When Book met one of the local fansite operators for the first time way back when, he asked to borrow $40. He was making like $150k at the time. I'm guessing he was pocketing stacks of cash.

SCCats wrote: that he "knows it's coming."

MrBug708 wrote:Winning a title isn't enough to keep your job, wonder what happens to the programs who havent?

MrBug708 wrote:I suppose if the program in question has been slapped with regards to violations lately, sure. It takes a lot to topple a coach and AD

Chicat wrote:

Don’t you just hate when that happens?

Chicat wrote:

Don’t you just hate when that happens?

Out of 125 FBS schools required to report financial data to the U.S. Department of Education, Louisville is the only one that derives more than half of its men's sports revenue from basketball, says Jonathan Jensen, a sports marketing professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Much of that revenue comes from a $238 million taxpayer-funded arena, the KFC Yum Center, which opened downtown in 2010 and has become a heavy burden on taxpayers. The lease was negotiated by Jurich and the arena authority. Under the terms, taxpayer contributions make up 75 percent of the arena's operating income while Louisville gets to keep most of the revenue -- an arrangement that "blew our mind," says state auditor Mike Harmon, whose office examined the arena's finances. "It was like, 'This is ridiculous.' It's like co-signing the loan for a friend's home and then having to pay three-fourths of the mortgage."

Denis Frankenberger, a local businessman who has dissected the lease in minute detail, calls it "the biggest taxpayer scandal in the history of Louisville."

Jefe wrote: