2017 ncaa

how is bill walton still paid money to talk about basketball

a no-cut no-trade contract?

is he really worse than vitale?

Why do people dislike Bill Walton calling basketball games? Stop taking everything so seriously

I'd rather have bill walton calling 80% of NBA games than hearing Mike Breen fake laughing 75 times

bill was a lot more interesting as a vegetarian hippie with radical politics than he is now.

BANG tho xp

None of my favorite Bill Walton broadcasting moments had anything to do with those things

Bill Walton and Kevin Harlan are without question the best ever at calling bad games, of which there are many

i wouldn't have pegged matt as a walton fan. vitale is really bad too. i thought walton was fine 15 years ago doing the nba, but i can't listen to him for more than 30 seconds now.

The only time I disliked Walton is when he called games with Snapper Jones and they spent half the game flirting

From the 2017 DRAFT thread, but needs to be said again:

ban college hoops. revamp the d league and pay these kids.

― Spottie

do whatever is worst for Grayson Allen imo

i.e. cancel Hawaii Five-0

johnny crunch are you at this memphis-central florida game

because no one else is

no but i will be at cincy/Tulsa & Houston/uconn

ecu/temple yesterday looked really desolate on tv

btw i have really gd seats to that xp session cash me courtside howbow dah

i'm sure there'll be more people for uconn, but you could have bought rafter seats and walked down to courtside for these early games

gd win by uconn even if cincy works them tmorrow

hai mookie

http://www.actionmoviefreak.com/images/Matrix/matrix-hand-gesture.jpg

lol this uconn game is so dumb. 1000 fouls in the first 10 minutes

terrible

kinda like the uconn-duke 2004 final four game then

40+ free throws by cincy

this is wild

can feel the anti grayson allen weight in every pivot

ND deserves some sort of penalty for not wearing white imo

if i were a tru fan i'd be at the game tho

Farrell's black low tops with off white mid socks deserve something

track star

that merely makes up for whatever mike brey's wearing

V.J. Beachem
Bonzi Colson

these are good names

Brey's coaching success seems to be coupled with midlife crisis

Perhaps related to mindset required to motivate college male athletes

Beach is from fort wayne indiana

Bonzie is an enigma

go tincaps xp

Feel like duke's willingness to take bonzie seriously will pay off for them

He is the secret

though not well kept

MATT JONES

In the turning lane

Congrats on winning a basketball game with all of your elite recruits MOOKIEPROOF

You still must answer for the ted cruz of basketball

<3

k > dean

i now resume loving you SG, and mike brey (put a tie on tho)

<3 cannot stay mad. Just hope we can carry some spark into next week.

sub big country

@AlexRoseNews
North Carolina lawmakers file bill that would pull #UNC + #NCState from @theACC if #ACC boycotts the state again after #HB2 fallout.

mike krzyewski a bitch

*krzyzewski, point still stands

corruption in college basketball? shocking stuff

damn, they got the rifleman

louisville friend convinced death penalty on the way

never happen

or maybe

https://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa-needs-give-louisville-basketball-death-sentence-bombshell-allegations-prove-correct-181930063.html

I'd definitely believe this could just be the start. There has been shoe contract/AAU shenanigans happening for 30+ years. I'm sure eventually something with the Nike schools is to come. There has been allegations around the Nike/AAU for decades but nothing ever happened.

Then again, North Carolina got off pretty much with nothing considering how much academic fraud their sports programs were doing.

I'd figure something will happen with football next.

penn state football and carolina both got off easy, but i don't think those investigations involved the feds?

(the former should have been burned to the ground and had its fields salted)

at a certain point, though, there's so much money involved that it will be worth it for schools to end the charade and leave the ncaa -- unless they're too afraid to so blatantly profit off unpaid athletes

According to sources, Tom Jurich was asked to fire Rick Pitino, refused, both were fired

— Kent Taylor (@KentTaylorWAVE) September 27, 2017

daamn

pay the players

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/20848092/louisville-cardinals-basketball-coach-rick-pitino-coach-2-federal-complaint-source

Louisville men's basketball coach Rick Pitino, who has been placed on unpaid administrative leave amid a federal investigation into fraud and corruption, is the "Coach-2" who played a role in funneling money to a recruit, a source confirmed to ABC News on Thursday.

According to court records, Christian Dawkins, the former agent for ASM Sports who was charged in both parts of the college basketball case, told the cooperating witness, Marty Blazer, that he helped funnel $100,000 to the family of recruit Brian Bowen "at the request of a coach," identified as "Coach-2."

CBS first identified Pitino as "Coach-2" on Thursday.

Court records also said Adidas executive Jim Gatto "spoke directly with Coach-2 multiple times in the days before [Bowen] publicly committed" to Louisville.

During a meeting in a hotel room in Las Vegas on July 27, which was recorded by video cameras placed in the room by the FBI the day before, Dawkins, Jonathan Brad Augustine (the director of a Florida-based AAU program) and an undercover agent discussed how to pay $100,000 to the family of Bowen, a highly recruited player from LaPorte, Indiana, who had recently committed to play for Louisville, which has a shoe and apparel contract with Adidas.

Because two Adidas employees involved in the scheme were having difficulty getting the money, they wanted to funnel the payments through Augustine's AAU program, which was sponsored by Adidas. At one point during the conversation in the hotel room, according to FBI documents, Augustine allegedly said, "No one swings a bigger [expletive] than [Coach-2] at [Adidas]" and added "all [Coach-2] has to do is pick up the phone and call somebody, [and say], 'These are my guys; they're taking care of us.'"

pay the players

― Spottie

Gophers vs Alabama was weird, after entire Alabama bench is ejected, they have eligible players which got whittled down to three. damn near got the lead back playing 3 vs 5 on the floor, just insane game

Yeah, I would have liked to see that one.