Bear Down Wildcats

Beachcat97 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 08, 2022 7:48 pm Man I'll be happy when this thread stops drawing posts.

azgreg wrote: ↑Sat Mar 12, 2022 1:15 pm

TheCat wrote: ↑Mon Mar 28, 2022 7:03 pm I think one of the allegations is suspect. Penny 2 years before he became coach gave 14K to a players family to move and the player went to Memphis. He was determined to be a booster.

UAEebs86 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 29, 2022 8:50 am

Irish27 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 06, 2022 8:57 pm

YoDeFoe wrote: ↑Tue Mar 29, 2022 9:35 am

UAEebs86 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 29, 2022 8:50 am

A bit silly to legislate this except that there clearly needs to be a change in how quickly these cases are addressed and I don't know how else it will be forced upon the NCAA (who is seemingly oblivious to how deeply they undermine the sport by failing to promptly address allegations of wrongdoing).

I'd like to believe that ADs would take it upon themselves to collectively throw their weight at the NCAA.

UAEebs86 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 29, 2022 8:50 am

RondaeShimmy wrote: ↑Wed Jun 15, 2022 7:14 am

PHXCATS wrote: ↑Wed Jun 15, 2022 8:26 am

RondaeShimmy wrote: ↑Wed Jun 15, 2022 7:14 am

Anything interesting in the article? I refuse to give thise people clicks or money anymore

• Richardson admitted to breaking NCAA rules, including violations that were previously undisclosed - he refuses to discuss details, except to acknowledge that there were several occasions in which he broke NCAA rules regarding impermissible benefits for recruits and their families during unofficial campus visits.
  • He had one meeting with the NCAA’s enforcement staff two months after his arrest
  • He is refusing to meet with NCAA's complex case unit
  • He discusses being frozen out by CSM

pc in NM wrote: ↑Wed Jun 15, 2022 9:02 am

• He discusses being frozen out by CSM

PHXCATS wrote: ↑Wed Jun 15, 2022 9:56 am Fuck him for saying that shit now

He repeatedly expressed deep regret and profound remorse. But he is also frustrated. Arizona fired his former boss, Sean Miller, last year, but in March, Miller was hired to be the head coach at Xavier. Richardson can’t help but wonder when it will be his turn for a rebirth. “I don’t sit next to you as the victim. I’m flawed,” he says. “I’ve asked for forgiveness from God. I’ve asked for forgiveness from the people who I may have hurt. I didn’t just get fired. I was ostracized. I have a scarlet letter. I have a felony. I did my 90 days and my two years probation. I just want to have an opportunity to move on with my life.”

Richardson acknowledges that there were several occasions in which he broke NCAA rules regarding impermissible benefits for recruits and their families during unofficial campus visits. “If someone came on campus and they were hungry, yeah,” he says. “Am I going to put some gas in your tank? I’m going to fill you up. You need a hotel room? I got it. I’ll take care of your airline tickets. Is that illegal (with respect to NCAA rules)? One hundred percent, it’s illegal. I was wrong. And I own that.” Richardson says he dipped into his own pocket to cover these expenses – “The way I looked at it, I was re-investing in my own career” – but he declines to say which players benefited from his largesse. “The last thing I would want to do is put a kid into this,” he says. “A lot of times, the kid didn’t know.”

Richardson still gets regular emails from the NCAA’s complex case unit requesting an interview. He doesn’t bother answering. “I can’t afford representation anymore,” he says. “Everyone still wants me to tell on Arizona. I’m like, guys, what do you want me to tell? None of the coaches are there, none of the kids are there.” At some point, presumably, the panel will consider the pair of Level I violations that were levied against Richardson in the Notice of Allegations that the NCAA sent to Arizona in October 2020. The first was for taking the $20,000 from Dawkins and Sood, which he has admitted. The second was for arranging or knowing about the $40,000 payment to falsify Alkins’ transcript, which Richardson denies. Whatever the NCAA decides, Richardson knows it will be a long time before he gets another chance to coach in college, if that chance comes at all. “There have been worse atrocities committed against the college landscape, and those people have gotten second and third opportunities,” Antigua [Orlando Antigua, Richardson’s close friend and former St. Raymond’s teammate who is now an assistant at Kentucky] says. “I don’t know in what form that comes for Book, but I’ll be there cheering him on and rooting for him when it does happen.”

Merkin wrote: ↑Wed Jun 15, 2022 10:32 am

pc in NM wrote: ↑Wed Jun 15, 2022 9:02 am

• He discusses being frozen out by CSM

CSM should have done that after Book was caught feeding insider info to Ace.

pc in NM wrote: ↑Wed Jun 15, 2022 11:40 am

Merkin wrote: ↑Wed Jun 15, 2022 10:32 am

pc in NM wrote: ↑Wed Jun 15, 2022 9:02 am

• He discusses being frozen out by CSM

CSM should have done that after Book was caught feeding insider info to Ace.

Miller should have disciplined or removed him - but totally cutting ties with a guy you've worked closely with for 10 years is another story, IMNSHO....

TheCat wrote: ↑Wed Jun 15, 2022 7:56 pm Book lied which caused ESPN to write a bogus story that altered Millers life, got him fired from his job, made him a joke in the coaching world and basically could have destroyed him and his family. So here is what I think. Book is a piece of shit, should die alone and penniless and then be buried in a paupers grave. Hopefully his new girlfriend will wise up and dump him before he fucks her over.

TheCat wrote: ↑Wed Jun 15, 2022 7:56 pm Book lied which caused ESPN to write a bogus story that altered Millers life, got him fired from his job, made him a joke in the coaching world and basically could have destroyed him and his family. So here is what I think. Book is a piece of shit, should die alone and penniless and then be buried in a paupers grave. Hopefully his new girlfriend will wise up and dump him before he fucks her over.

TheCat wrote: ↑Wed Jun 15, 2022 7:56 pm Book lied which caused ESPN to write a bogus story that altered Millers life, got him fired from his job, made him a joke in the coaching world and basically could have destroyed him and his family. So here is what I think. Book is a piece of shit, should die alone and penniless and then be buried in a paupers grave. Hopefully his new girlfriend will wise up and dump him before he fucks her over.

RondaeShimmy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 16, 2022 3:28 pm

TheCat wrote: ↑Wed Jun 15, 2022 7:56 pm Book lied which caused ESPN to write a bogus story that altered Millers life, got him fired from his job, made him a joke in the coaching world and basically could have destroyed him and his family. So here is what I think. Book is a piece of shit, should die alone and penniless and then be buried in a paupers grave. Hopefully his new girlfriend will wise up and dump him before he fucks her over.

Are you talking about the ayton story? Book had nothing to do with that story, only that allegedly Miller told Dawkins to deal with Miller directly instead of Book.

TheCat wrote: ↑Sat Jun 18, 2022 12:17 pm He is more than an idiot. He tarnished the Universities reputation and all members of the coaching staff. He was a loser that struck it rich but that was not enough. He had to have more. Absolutely no risk/reward sense. A real piece of shit.

SabinoDrifter wrote: ↑Mon Jun 20, 2022 11:21 am

TheCat wrote: ↑Sat Jun 18, 2022 12:17 pm He is more than an idiot. He tarnished the Universities reputation and all members of the coaching staff. He was a loser that struck it rich but that was not enough. He had to have more. Absolutely no risk/reward sense. A real piece of shit.

He went to prison and Sean Miller is the head coach at Xavier. Not sure that's no risk / no reward.

97cats wrote: ↑Mon Jun 20, 2022 11:50 am you can not talk about Book Richardson in the manor he is being talked about above and not include Miller in that same conversation, for different reasons of course.

in the face of repeated pleading and begging (not just for days or weeks or months but YEARS...yes YEARS) by dozens of prominent boosters, staff, administration both at the university level and inside the basketball program, handles, advisors, AAU coaches, AAU organizations, and YES players and their families themselves to get rid of the one thing that could bring him down - that "him" being Sean Miller and that "one thing" being Book Richardson.

Miller, in the face of it all, time after time, year after year, did the most Sean Miller thing ever with regards to Book, almost unthinkable and unfathomable to anyone around him, he backed his guy...not once. not twice. not three times.....you get the idea.

again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again

every single year Miller would not let go, even when he had cause. even when Book was a drunk bubbling buffoon at high profile booster events, or acting inappropriate with women on the road, or getting lit in Vegas in between games.

there is a reason, the reason goes beyond Ayton or Dawkins or Alkins or the F.B.I - Book and paper bag 'Crazy Joe' participated in some F*CKED UP shit during that very loose period of time...i supported it. i bought it. and id do it again.

look, Book is an idiot, that much is without question. a 100% moronic idiot who cant be trusted. he is an attention whore with diarrhea of the mouth, its impossible for him not to act like an immature child, especially when alcohol was involved.

inside the program he had the nickname 'The Clown' for a reason, but he was Miller's clown, and one Miller died on the vine for.

and when Miller finally knew he was f*cked, when he got the tip that the F.B.I would be kicking his home door down shortly, it was too late, the damage was done, he hung on way too long and would not survive and he knew it.

worst decision of Miller's career at Arizona right in front of recruiting and sticking with PJC.

AzCatFan2 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 21, 2022 9:07 am Book was the perfect candidate for con men looking for an in into college basketball. Yes, Book was making decent coin, but he wasn't making anywhere near what Miller was making. No way Book could afford a house in Miller's neighborhood. At the same time, Book was making enough cash that a $20k to $40k infusion of spending money wouldn't raise anyone's eyebrows. There was a study done some time ago, and it asked one question. How much money do you need to make a year to live comfortably. While the answers all varied, everyone's answer had one constant between them. Everyone needed to make more than what they were currently making.

Book might have been a buffoon, but the life of an assistant coach isn't easy. If you're lucky, you stick with a head guy for a long time and don't have to continue moving around. If you're really lucky, you get a head gig yourself and start making generational money. Meanwhile, you're stuck doing all the dirty work, and never get the glory. And your name only gets in the press if you are a candidate for an open position, or you do something really bad. And again, you're not starving, but you're working your butt off and aren't making anywhere near what the head guy is making, who makes 10X your salary before any promotional money.

It's not a surprise the FBI caught 4 assistant coaches, but couldn't snare a head coach. The risk is too high for the head guy. But it's not hard to convince an assistant to take some extra cash for all their hard work.

And yes, it was a mistake. Huge one. But Book has paid his debt to society, did time in jail, and is now a pariah in the basketball world. Does he really deserve all the continued vitriol towards him?

97cats wrote: ↑Tue Jun 21, 2022 9:32 am AzCatFan2 - 100% no he does not

Book was like hundreds of his peers who participated in the exact same activity same thing, he just got clipped.

Richardson represents many who walked the same path he has over the years, willingly engaging in the same nefarious activity because it was and is the culture of college basketball for the last 50 years. punishing something that was enabled and even nurtured is the irony in all of this but thats for another topic.

man paid the price. man did his time.