More Scandal Update

Gotta wonder the scrutiny if any of this happened in Peoria.....
but outside of reading a few blogs or message boards, you wouldn't hear much at all about most of these cheating scandals..........

A followup of the brewing scandal in the Athletic Department at Wisconsin-Milwaukee--------
George Koonce, the AD at UW-Milwaukee remains on administrative leave for what has been described a a serious, confidential matter, but is still being paid his $175,000 per year salary! But everything is being really kept hush-hush - nobody wants to talk on the record.
Student leaders felt Koonce was a strong supporter of the students' concerns, and have backed him, wanting him to return and some student spokespeople now claim they will organize students to withdraw support for their new on campus arena if Koonce isn't re-instated!
This is in effect like the inmates demanding to run the asylum!! The whole reason this guy is in trouble is reportedly because he's making some shady deals possibly illegal deals so he can get rich while the students are hit with a big time NEW STUDENT ATHLETIC FEE that'll help pay for the new arena..
In other words....the guy may just have been ripping off the very students that are now stupidly pleading to let the potential crook come back!

The whole place seems to be in chaos with students, cheating AD's, administrators, and trustees all blaiming everyone else and at each others' throats..making threats!

One local newspaper is even so fed up with the babyish whining and shenanigans,
that they have recommended that UW-M DROP ALL SPORTS ALTOGETHER!!!!
http://onmilwaukee.com/sports/articles/begeldropuwmsports.html?22476
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/92353554.html

IN THE PROCESS, the writer of the first article confirms that of the $10 MILLION athletic budget at UW-M...virtually all of it...nearly 100% is funded BY TAXPAYERS!!!!
"There is a drop in the bucket of private money but almost all of it is public money"

Can we hear again from those who keep repeating the mantra that most public universities fund their athletics without using taxpayer dollars???



So much for the rarity -- a scandal at a smaller school, on to the everyday scandal and cheating at the BCS schools....
Does it never end at University of Connecticut?? These big boys get caught cheating over and over...
and the NCAA still hasn't even bothered to check into the last time they were caught cheating!!
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471204575210401099496076.html

More than a year ago were revelations of hundreds of other serious violations and cheating -- MORE illegal phone calls than even Kelvin Sampson had!!
And yet to date, not even a sniff from NCAA!!!!!
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=ys-uconnphone032509


Just a year or two earlier, TENS of thousands of $$$$$ worth of illegal benefits were uncovered, and I might just be the only person left in America that even remembers all this, as it has been totally ignored and swept under the rug...
NCAA simply does NOT care when the cheating is at UConn or one of the big boys' schools....
Did it take a year or two or three for NCAA to swoop onto BU;'s campu to dig for the Star Trucking records after some snitch called the NCAA??
Nope -- NCAA had investigators on the ground and digging on campus within weeks of the stoolies' calls, and BU was slammed with penalties only a couples months or so later!!
Yup -- strong justice is swift when it's Bradley but at USC and UConn you can cheat like HELL and nobody cares!!
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/mar/27/271023/tampa-surgery-linked-investigation-uconn-recruit/sports/


I have no idea how the NCAA justifies letting these guys gat away such cheating and how they can maintain an aura of being fair or honest while letting these guy get away with their cheating.....
...but it is so obvious that the big boys who get caught cheating never get any serious penalties...and even the time it takes for the investigations
causes all the evidence to grow cold, so it makes it even easier for the the cheaters to get off with nothing.

IU, if you recall, voluntarily gave up ONE SCHOLARSHIP for ONE YEAR..and the NCAA later said, they had been punished enough so they levied no further substantial sanctions...
and of course IU took the penalty the one year they were horrible and not going to win anything anyway...so in the long run NOT ONE single aspect of the penalties they had
were significant to any degree...yet we keep hearing them use the excuses and alibis of how their program was devastated by NCAA sanctions...baloney...

They were devastated by cheating to land horrible recruits that they had hoped would win lots of games in a hurry but they were mostly kids who flunked out,
did drugs, and all left or were thrown out...leaving absolutely ZERO talent -- then hiring a coach who has trouble landing anyone with more than low-mid-major caliber talent
- so that 3 years later they still can't win a game -- all the time still using the alibi that this is because of what the NCAA did to them!!!!!
(and the press even buys all this crap and tries to drum up even more pity for the Hoosiers - who are not only one of the sorriest programs in a long time,
but they are one of the most crooked, greediest, most arrgoant, blatantly defying the rules, and most cheatingest programs of all time as well........)
I seem to catch a little heat because I stand up for justice and call them out for all their lies and cheating...but so be it.....someone has to ...



The other scandals currently getting swept under the rugs are of course the black-market/stolen ticket sales scandal at University of Kansas in which the major parties are all neck deep in shenaigans, including Bill Self...

And of course the half-decade long cheating/illegal payments/Reggie Bush/OJ Mayo scandal...that for at least 3 YEARS we have been hearing promises that the NCAA was wrapping up and was going to rule........
Yeah-- right, I'll believe it when I see it....but it does make for interesting reading how Tim Floyd claims not only was he totally honest and never broke any rules, but that also the reason he quit at USC was because he was so clean and so honest that he didn't feel the university was supporting him and was going to hang him out to dry - so he got out of there pronto... sure....and I have some swamp land in Florida for sale.....right.......



At Indiana - their deperate need for a big man has moved yet another raw, unskilled, and obscure juco 7-footer to the top of the list ahead of John Wilkins.
http://blogs.indystar.com/hoosiersinsider/archives/2010/04/another_2010_ju.html

This big guy averages about 7 points and 6 rebs for his junior college team...but seriously, just how impressive is that - or just maybe it's impressive in the opposite direction!
In fact, if a guy that big plays 30 minutes of any junior college game anywhere, he's bound to have a few balls fall into his hands, or he'll get fouled or make a bucket...so single digits averages is really not good at all...in fact it's not even average - it's LOUSY!
David Collins' numbers dwarfed this guy...as DC averaged 12.5 ppg and 7 rebs...
even a few years ago..both Shang Ping and Matt Nicholson at ICC put up numbers that were better than this guy!
Indiana already has a couple of foreigner, 7-footer raw centers, and neither of them could even work into a minute of court time on a team this desperate for a big man!!
What in the world makes this guy any more likely to help than Tijan Jobe or Bawa Muniru??
Indiana is really getting desperate.

Speaking of which, is likely why John Wilkins is starting to look elsewhere knowing Indiana is jacking him along and playing for a dope...
John Wikiins just visited Houston........
Houston just hired a new head coach and two new assistants...
one was previously an Iowa State assistant, Daniyal Robinson, and the other is the father of a Bradley assistant, Alvin Brooks, Jr...
both these guys knew full well about John Wilkins and went after him right away when they got their feet on the ground in Houston.
This is now probably one of JW's top options, they really are going after him strong, now......

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http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=215&f=2805&t=5891851&p=2
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RECRUITING NEWS!!!
Iowa State lands a nice big man right away after hiring Fred Hoiberg -- this really has to be egg in the face of Indiana's Tom Crean, who was heavily after this kid!!!
http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=281141

Diante Watkins, a juco point guard Bradley had been recruiting has now signed with D-II in Missouri.
Creighton recruit Tyrone Nared has asked out of his LOI - but likely he was also being told he wasn't going to play at Creighton...as new Coach McDermott is probably freeing up some scholarships.
Nared is obscure with no other offers, and has stats that are reminiscent of a deep sub on an average juco team...


Dana Altman's assistant in Omaha, Brian Fish, had originally said he would leave Creighton to join Altman at Oregon, leading some to think Darian DeVries, another Creighton assistant and Bruce Rasmussen the Bluejay AD would also possibly be joining Dana in Oregon.
BUT -- now it's reported both those guys are staying in Omaha....
http://blog.oregonlive.com/behindducksbeat/2010/04/oregon_basketball_former_altma.html


Seton Hall PF Herb Pope collapsed at a practice and was in serious condition at a local hospital with reports saying he had heart stoppage...
but since he's trying to make himself available for the NBA Draft, they are keeping everything quiet - but I can assure you the NBA teams wouldn't dare take a chance on this situation, so he's gonna go undrafted!
http://www.nj.com/college-basketball/index.ssf/2010/04/seton_hall_releases_statement_regarding_health_status_of_forward_herb_pope.html



And a little followup on the most overrated players coming out of high school in 2008...
http://www.bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=180802#post180802

Anthony Booker is probably the most overrated incoming recruit in the MVC in history...but some of the Saluki fans just never figured that out.....