NCAA is busy, going after the Pump Brothers now

[Russ Smith]

2 separate articles out about rules changes that essentially eliminate businesses the Pumps run.

First one is about making it against the rules to hire someone in a coaching job search who has a connection to potential recruits. The Pumps have a business assisting in college coaching searches, and they sponsor many AAU teams, so there's the potential for a program to pay them the coach search fee to get "help" with players who are on Pump AAU teams.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news;_ylt=ApJ9rlUGwaZS.1a9ioslLi45nYcB?slug=ys-search072310

Second one is about limiting the use of setting up AAU teams as non profits because it leads to coaches being pressured to donate money to a team in exchange for influence with a recruit on that AAU team. Again the Pumps are front and center because they have a big charitable foundation golf tournament and fundraiser that after this season will be off limits to college coaches to avoid conflicts of interest.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=5404713

Pretty busy offseason earlier they shut off the hire coaches for your basketball camps who just happen to coach(HS or AAU) elite prospects you're recruiting. That was pretty common with some schools but now totally against the rules.

 

[Dback Jon]

Awesome! About time.

Now how is Kansas going to buy players?

 

[DWKB]

Awesome! About time.

Now how is Kansas going to buy players?

Your team's players leave teammates to die on the road and your coach would rather throw his players under the bus than take credit for the years of failure under his term.



The sad thing is you have to make up stories about buying players and everything I posted is true.

 

[Gaddabout]

Wow. A Kansas fan cracking back on an NAU fan. Kansas smack talk is far reaching.

 

[Dback Jon]

Wow. A Kansas fan cracking back on an NAU fan. Kansas smack talk is far reaching.

Actually, the Coach-Thieving, Sign-the-Dad-For-Fake-Job-So-kid-will-sign, Jayhawk was referring to Illinois with his gossip.

 

[Southpaw]

Run away from these guys. Dump the Pump.

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[DWKB]

Actually, the Coach-Thieving,

This is all you have isn't it? So sad that your program is second rate that they can have their coach snagged from them so easily. You act like you were entitled to Self. Sour grapes indeed.

Jayhawk was referring to Illinois with his gossip.

The word you're looking for is "truth", not "gossip".

 

[Russ Smith]

Run away from these guys. Dump the Pump.

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It'll be interesting to see the fallout, Roy Williams and a few other coaches have already essentially come out and supported the Pumps, because of course they are afraid if they don't it will hurt their recruiting since they still sponsor a number of AAU teams.

I think the changes are good, I don't know if there was anything dirty going on in either situation with the Pumps, but the fact that it would be possible to make it dirty fairly easy was clearly there and the NCAA is trying to cut that off. The Pumps are still involved in the whole ticket situation and were involved in that a few years ago too so I think the NCAA has every right to be concerned with their actions and do what they can to make sure they're not too influential.