You have to ask yourself, would Bradley have gotten away with this??
...as it is clearly NO less of a violation than being inadvertently paid a few hundred dollars for a summer job.
6 months ago, one of the University of Tennessee players, a starter for Bruce Pearl named Wayne Chism...appeared in a series of videos - by some reports at least two dozen....-
that were promotions & obvious ads and Chism was reported to have possibly received some compensation (or freebies) ...to promote a local business...
"Chism shot the videos with Mike Norton, a personal friend who is the owner and manager of All Pro Truck Tire Service in Knoxville."
"Collegiate athletes are not allowed to be associated with endorsements for businesses"
....and they certainly aren't allowed to be paid or compensated in any way for it!!
The Tennessee compliance people and head coach Bruce Pearl were said to be "not happy" and knew it was a clear violation....and immediately put an end to it and had all (or most, as some can still be found) of the videos removed from the internet...
Chism admitted he did the videos because
"he was helping Norton out at All Pro"
and one video even shows Chism driving one of Norton's trucks, and wearing one of the company shirts...
"Chism is pictured wearing a company shirt"
Then, after the videos were removed and Chism was told to STOP making the videos with the businessman, in an act of cockiness & defiance Chism made at least one more foul-mouthed video with the same business owner in which he criticized the system that disallowed him from doing what he wanted and criticized people he viewed as having "snitched on him", and cursed them out and even used racially offensive references..
Chism laments that someone "snitched" on him...
"I didn't ever think anyone would go snitch on me like that,'' Chism said ..."I need to stop making videos because I didn't think anybody would call the University of Tennessee basketball office"
this is all well documented and Tennessee was going to self-investigate and report to the NCAA.
Surely the NCAA would find that this was a CLEAR violation and suspend Chism from a certain number of games, right?? Just like Will Franklin and POB, right?? ...well...nope...there has not been one single mention of this whole thing since...it has simply disappeared from the planet and will likely never be heard of again.....
Oh well....business as usual, only the non-BCS people need fear anything...
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/may/29/053009uthoops/http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/may/29/chism-removes-internet-videos-after-request-ut/http://www.volunteertv.com/volsbasketball/headlines/46482382.htmlhttp://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/may/29/chism-removes-internet-videos-after-request-ut/
http://www.volunteertv.com/volsbasketball/headlines/46482382.html#
BTW-- Bruce Pearl is really ticked that his player, Chism, got snubbed...he expected to land two players on the 5-man preseason 1st Team All-Conference (with Tyler Smith, Jarvis Varnado, John Wall, Devan Downey, & Patrick Patterson)..the press guy even suggests a third Tennessee player, JP Prince, should have also gotten recognition...
But Chism was left off by the voters......
http://www.govolsxtra.com/news/2009/oct/19/uts-chism-snubbed-again-in-all-sec-vote/
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ISU beat writer gives his preseason predictions....
http://www.pantagraph.com/app/blogs/main/?p=4355
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Did you see....in another case of likely NCAA inaction despite the talk...
NCAA is giving lip service to passing new regulations on cheating by hiring recruits' dads, families, coaches, and handlers..
also the payment of big $$ to the middle men and handlers just to "deliver" the recruits...
I will believe the NCAA is really interested in rewstricting this form of cheating that favors the BCS boys when I see it enacted and not just when it's talked about.
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=142871#post142871
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"I inherited this mess"
You've heard it....it's a line we hear all too much...
Coaches are hired with all kinds of bad stuff going on and they use this excuse for years to come....we see it at Indiana (Tom Crean) and we see it at Arizona, USC and maybe even to some degree at Kentucky (Calipari)...but we have never seen it at Bradley. Nice that Coach Les has never trashed the people in the past in order to make himself look better.
But we are also seeing it continuously on the major political scene, as every night the news is still filled with top administration officials blaiming everything on the guys who were voted out of office now a year ago!!
Will it ever stop?? Will people ever actually be man enough (or woman enough) to begin taking on the challenges without looking to whine and blame someone else.
They blame their predecessors, they blame their critics, they blame the media, they blame FoxNews, they blame everyone else instead of looking into a mirror.
Come on Barack, Pelosi, Reid, Rahm...cut the whining....
Come to think of it....I can recall a couple presidents who also inherited a WAR that was already in progress when they were voted into office....and none spent the bulk of their administration griping about the previous guys being to blame...
they simply went out and ended the wars.........
Eisenhower ended the Korean War, Nixon ended the Vietnam War, Reagan ended the Cold War with the Soviets.
The blame game is getting pretty old.....step up to the plate and let's see some action.
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Yahoo has a preseason write up of each Valley team... it's all updated within the past week....
the most laughable analysis includes their comments that Bradley is "not a threat to win big", they brag on Wichita beating...gasp...Cleveland State, ISU supposedly getting some fine help from Ekey, and finally someone notes...Creighton's "inside game is a question mark".
also - SIU's season is crucial..they are a program in decline!
Bradley
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=teamreports-2009-ncaab-baq&prov=sportsxchange&type=team_report
Creighton
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=teamreports-2009-ncaab-cbt&prov=sportsxchange&type=team_report
Drake
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=teamreports-2009-ncaab-dar&prov=sportsxchange&type=team_report
Evansville
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=teamreports-2009-ncaab-ear&prov=sportsxchange&type=team_report
Illinois St. (and don't go to their board unless you want to see their own fans whining and agonizing over their horribly weak schedule)
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=teamreports-2009-ncaab-iag&prov=sportsxchange&type=team_report
Indiana St.
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=teamreports-2009-ncaab-ial&prov=sportsxchange&type=team_report
Missouri St.
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=teamreports-2009-ncaab-scg&prov=sportsxchange&type=team_report
Northern Iowa
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=teamreports-2009-ncaab-nba&prov=sportsxchange&type=team_report
Southern Ill.
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=teamreports-2009-ncaab-sbi&prov=sportsxchange&type=team_report
Wichita St.
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=teamreports-2009-ncaab-wax&prov=sportsxchange&type=team_report
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