NC State Basketball gets four notices of allegations from the NCAA
Looks like the first program to get hit from the federal basketball investigation is going to be NC State. Definitely a major program, but definitely not at the level of Arizona/Duke/Kansas. We will see if any of the big ones get notices, I'm still not holding my breath for the NCAA.
But Arizona, NC et al. continue on untouched.
LSU says hi!
And Kansas waves from the hot tubs in their athletes' dorm!
Do anti-trust laws stop NC State from suing if nothing happens to any other team? LSU isn't exactly a blue blood basketball school.
Because NC's basketball team was investigated by Kenneth Wainstein and found nothing re: Roy Williams, despite WRAL/Charlotte Observer/Dan Kane's slanted reporting. UNC went 0 for like 40 on Top 10 recruits over a span of 5-6 years. If they were cheating, they clearly were doing it wrong.
Not comparable to Arizona's issues at all.
Wait. Are you defending UNC's basketball program? Their athletics department? The whole university?
I can't quite tell but if you are, woo hoo do you have the cajones. That place MADE UP CLASSES FOR A DECADE for anyone in the entire school to take, just so they could have more competitive athletics teams. I mean, they flat out lied and put those lies on students' transcripts. Presidents of other colleges were calling for UNC - the entire university - to lose its accreditation. The Chronicle of Higher Ed. wrote articles about it.
Same issues as Arizona? No. Definitely not. Arizona's issues are much less severe.
Imagine what will happen to Arizona and LSU when the NCAA finds out they’ve been exceeding the allotted stretching time and didn’t file the proper paperwork. That and paying players and their families 6 figure salaries.
What did Roy Williams do for NC State to deserve this?
He killed Jimmy V.
NCAA sucks.
I'll be impressed when I see some real punishment. Allegations are just noise at this point. Do they have the balls to drop the hammer on schools and coaches who are blatantly cheating? I'd like to believe that the ncaa is going to clean house this time, but it feels like we've seen this show before.
What a joke. Let’s go after a program that doesn’t win anything and ignore the “winners” aka the $ to save face. ”But...but... we did something!”
GTFO!
That's my grad school but...fuck em.
GBOD.
Unless the grad school is Michigan
Beat me to it. My wife went to Bradley undergrad and Michigan for grad. Whenever we are talking about college she conveniently forgets to mention Bradley.
I know Sparty's who claim that as their school even though they only went grad school there.
They must be shaking in their Air-Whatevers. It's almost as scary as when the minimum-wage rent-a-cop patrolling the Bed Bath & Beyond parking lot asks to have a word.
Yeah but what if you stole the towels?
Cousins best friend was on the staff a few years ago. Can confirm NC state is as dirty as the rest of them.
NC A&T is going to pay for it.
I don't know why this is a trigger for cynicism--this was the lowest of low-hanging fruit and it'd be odd if they didn't start with something as clear-cut as this. They've got Gassnola's guilty plea, they've got his testimony, Gottfried's "cooperating fully" which to me sounds like he's thrown Early under the bus. State's thrown in the towel; nobody seems to be disputing the basic fact that an Adidas bagman paid one of their players and the cash passed through the hands of an assistant coach.
I expect them to start with the schools that have already fired their coaches. Those are the easiest targets; if anything the schools may even be happy to assist since negative findings may help them with any buyout disputes and the cooperation might limit the eventual penalties against the schools themselves. A school like LSU that's gone all-in on their coach's claim of innocence will be a tougher nut to crack.
Worried parties should audit Meyer’s class this fall
NC State - definitely big enough to make it look like the NCAA is playing tough, but also irrelevant enough to not hurt the money machine
A recruit got a parking pass?
Really?
This is classic misdirection and NC State should be outragef with the comparative grime that is not being pursued/exposed at favored ATM TV partnerships in the NCAA.................
NC State was so blindingly, obviously crooked with the Smith situation this was inevitable.
This is only the beginning. Coastal Carolina is going to get the death penalty for a couple programs for NCSU getting multiple notices of allegations. That's how the NCAA Punishment Tree works.
Here are the teams getting hammered:
The teams that had coaches arrested:
- Zona
- OK state
- Auburn
- USC
The team whose recruitment of a player was the subject of the case:
- Louisville
And then one more team involved in the case, which is NC State
Those are the six teams I would bet on