American Greed: Rumeal Robinson
Has anyone seen the American Greed episode on Rumeal Robinson? If not, I highly recommend it (should be free on most on-demand cable providers). I know his transgressions have been discussed in the past on this board, but the American Greed episode sums it up nicely in a very engaging and fact driven protrayal of Rumeal's life from rags to riches to rags.
August 27th, 2017 at 10:52 PM ^
This won't end well.
August 27th, 2017 at 11:09 PM ^
...if it makes you feel any better, there is an American Greed: Art Schlichter
August 28th, 2017 at 12:08 AM ^
I wouldn't be to sure. The board is pretty united on the scumbag that Robinson is.
August 27th, 2017 at 10:53 PM ^
who fucked over the people who took care of him when he was young. He repaid their efforts with theft.
August 27th, 2017 at 11:08 PM ^
Rumeal deserved every second of his sentence and no one would have argued if it was even harsher. You don't screw your family and friends.
August 27th, 2017 at 11:14 PM ^
Absolutely bullshit he only had to do 5 years...but I'll save my thoughts on the imbalanced jail sentencing we have in this country for next OT season. We're a week away. Fuck Robinson.
August 28th, 2017 at 4:58 AM ^
He got off relatively light considering the harm he did, and how flagrantly intentional it actually was.
If you don't think five years is a long time though, imagine where you were on August 28, 2012, and now imagine that you were locked up in prison that entire time, and how much of your life you would have given away.
I believe everyone who makes these types of comments, especially judges, should be required to do 30 days in prison incognito before making them. How many do you think could do it?
August 28th, 2017 at 7:38 AM ^
I logged in just to up vote you.
August 28th, 2017 at 8:21 AM ^
2012 isn't early enough. That means we would suffer through the RichRod era again. I feel like most of us would prefer to accept incarceration beginning in 2007.
August 28th, 2017 at 10:58 AM ^
Was 4 years of prison time, football-wise. But then we got pardoned...
August 28th, 2017 at 1:44 AM ^
Basketball Championship; free throws count as one.
August 28th, 2017 at 1:57 AM ^
Haven't seen this episode, but it's incredible how consistent the MO and practices of financial con artists can be. After you've watched this series a while, you can spot these things a mile away. RR is in many ways worse, though. Victimizing the people who helped you the most is a deeper rung of evil than the garden variety cons.
August 28th, 2017 at 8:11 AM ^
Evil, rung, man I hope you dust off all of that glass in your house, today!
August 28th, 2017 at 11:10 AM ^
Their is also one about the 2 young men they made the movie War Dogs.
August 28th, 2017 at 7:34 AM ^
He was a very humble, soft spoken guy...but opened up once you got to know him a little bit. He even got me into a picture in the SI MBB preview issue spread they did with him as a senior. I think I still have the black and blue mark on my arm from him losing his mind watching the Tyson-Douglas fight (he had predicted the upset).
There is literally no acceptable defense for what he did, but he wasn't always a bad guy.
August 28th, 2017 at 8:24 AM ^
Sadly, people don't start out as douche bags but it's either something in their DNA or environment that causes the change. It's almost like an addiction that can't be helped (for some people). Doesn't excuse it in the least though.
August 28th, 2017 at 9:14 AM ^
and found him to be a complete douche.
August 28th, 2017 at 7:54 AM ^
I'm not comfortable dispensing judgment on even those society deems worst. There are bad choices and degrees of those choices, but they don't happen in a vacuum.
August 28th, 2017 at 8:08 AM ^
I wonder if they've done an episode on the NCAA. There's a great example of an organization that operates on a false claim of helping the student athlete when it truly is based on greed by profiting off the backs of those they claim they are there to protect.
August 28th, 2017 at 8:54 AM ^
NCAA that way. That's exactly what the schools want, to make the NCAA a scapegoat for everything that's perceived as wrong in college athletics. It's a brilliant strategy. Fans blame a somewhat nebulous organization for everything they don't like, including their own school's setbacks on the field/court. Meanwhile, the schools take zero heat from their own fans and rake in the money.
The NCAA just does what the member schools want and the only money they get is what the schools allow them to have. The schools collectively always have the power to make any changes they want.
August 28th, 2017 at 9:12 AM ^
You make a great point and why a thoughtful investigation into the NCAA would then help expose how Universities hide behind the NCAA. Btw, I'm fully aware that the NCAA is just an arm of the University system. But the main point of it being corrupt and greedy is still a correct assertion.
August 28th, 2017 at 10:25 AM ^
When is the episode of Mateen Cleaves airing?