How many of the arrested coaches kept their job? Book was arrested on felony bribery. Of course he’s going to get fired. How dumb do you think UofA’s athletic department is?
Additional, when your school is dragged in the mud by a false report, you tend to be skeptical of the other allegations for good reason. Known crooks and frauds listing numbers doesn’t do anything for me and shouldn’t for you. Basically, it is now acceptable for me to call the LA Times and claim that Jaylen Hands received $100k and a car, and then the burden of proof would be on you to prove me wrong. That’s a dangerous precedent.
That's nonsense TJ. Nobody is saying Arizona is this horribly dirty program in a sea of clean programs, but you seem to believe that they did absolutely nothing wrong. if the FBI had come out with a story that listed Jaylen Hands as player 12 who got money to go to UCLA, then yes I'd believe Jaylen got money. These kids GET PAID, we all know that. I fully expect it will come out at some point either some of the Compton Magic kids, or other kids UCLA got were paid too.
What you are trying to suggest is that when this cycle was going on Arizona was recruiting Sexton, Quinerly, Cherry, Little and Bowen, HEAVILY, 3 in that class 2 in the next class. At one point or another Arizona led decisively for 4 of those kids, and at one time they were 1 of 2 favorites for Cherry. From what the FBI has presented, they strongly believe all 5 of those kids took money. In the prior class they got Alkins, Simmons, and Terrance Ferguson, and nearly got Josh Jackson. We know Jackson got money, the FBI says Alkins got money. It was widely speculated the reason Ferguson went pro is he didn't think he was going to clear, in part because he got money. And when the FBI story first broke, before anybody had time to piece together which kids were involved, most Arizona fans were immediately guessing Simmons was one of the players because of the way his recruitment went down. That's at least 9 kids in 3 classes that virtually everyone believes got paid, and I'm not even listing Ayton who's a person of interest in the Gatto case and who Gershon and Scheer keep insisting was one of the players named in the FBI case as part of the Arizona part. 10 kids in 3 years who virtually everyone who follows college basketball believes got paid, all of them closely involved wtih Arizona. You had 2 coaches on your staff directly named in the FBI report, you had a 3rd who provided free plane tickets to a player on the team and then claimed he didn't know it was a violation, he thought if the kid repaid the money that made it ok. When one coach got a new job he was replaced with Romar, who's now being brought into this case because someone at UW arranged to pay Fultz' personal trainer, and btw at one point Arizona was considered the leader for Markelle Fultz.
These kids get paid, everyone knows it and every school, including UCLA, has had kids who got paid. I completely believe that. What I don't believe is that all these schools were as invested in that part of recruiting as others. I think Duke and UK are on another level getting kids steered to them by the Nike machine, using USA basketball etc. But I think it's incredibly difficult to believe that it's coincidence that ARizona was involved with that many kids in that short a timeframe who are now coming out as having been paid, and yet arizona is completely innocent of wrong doing.
Do you actually believe Book is innocent? if so, you need to read that newspaper story that used Freedom of Information Act to get access to his travel records and connected the dots to recruiting. You can literally track his trips to what the FBI said was going on. It matches up, it's a big reason I keep saying Randolph is one of the kids in the FBI story. Because they have documented proof that Book travelled to Yonkers NY to visit someone named "Brandon" during a recruiting dead period. Randolph is from Yonkers NY, at the time of the visit he was already committed to Arizona. and 2 weeks after that visit, the FBI on tape got Book and Dawkins discussing 2 kids with Arizona who Book claimed had agreed to work with him to be steered to Dawkins(and Sood).
I don't think Sean Miller is the antichrist or the dirtiest coach in history but he had 3 assistants on his staff and all 3 of them broke NCAA rules within a year. It's damn near impossible to believe he didn't know any of this stuff was happening.
Schlablach's story may be entirely false, no idea, but it in no way clears ARizona in the FBI story. They are not the same story.
The known crooks and fraud thing is ridiculous, who exactly do you expect to be involved in schemes to pay HS basketball players to attend certain schools and sign with agents? Do you expect that to be done by choirboys? there's a reason these kinds of stories always involve "bad guys", because good guys don't get involved in stuff like this.
I fully believe if the FBI looked into any of the top 50 or so schools they would have found something on all of them. It still infuriates me that nobody seems at all interested in pursuing how Nike funded Bagley's family in LA for 2 years and then funneled him off to Duke, but it is what it is, they have the evidence they have and unfortunately it makes it appear that damn near every kid in these classes that was looking for money, was involved with arizona.
