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Pitino knows he's busted. He's selling the house in Kentucky and moving to Florida, where he says he plans to lay low.
Thompson smiled, then said: “The best thing y’all m------------ can do is stop cheating!”
LOL!
LOL!
Pitino said he knows when one of his players has a beer in Louisville. Ignorance is bliss, but Pitino is a control freak as most coaches are. To think otherwise is extremely naive. As Digger Phelps said, the going rate for a top flight basketball player was $10,000 35 years ago. Fast forward and the numbers we read about seem just about right. The investigation confirms what everyone who is part of the system knows.
Of ANY coach in America, Rick Pitino was the biggest control freak, the most paranoid. That was his reputation, in addition to being a master motivator and great coach. It's a major reason why he failed in the NBA and succeeded in college. You can do that stuff in college but you can't in the NBA where the players run the show.
He knew EVERYTHING that went on in his program. In fact, I'd argue that a coach wasn't properly doing his job if he didn't know everything that was going on. Anyone who thinks otherwise is naive.
He knew EVERYTHING that went on in his program. In fact, I'd argue that a coach wasn't properly doing his job if he didn't know everything that was going on. Anyone who thinks otherwise is naive.
Ten years ago irresponsible Wall Street hotshots/a-holes and their avaricious enablers in Washington almost created an epic financial catastrophe.
They should have had to build a new federal penitentiary to house all the convicts. No one went to prison. Instead, they paid enormous fines (a fraction of their earnings from that behavior).
Conveniently, part of the deal is often to create a big fund that politicians then dole out to so-called non-profits.
It's the same way with the NCAA. Unless and until people in high places go to prison for breaking the law, it's going to continue. There's too much money to make.
The strong and likely prospect of prison is a good deterrent. Even drug dealers know exactly what amount is a misdemeanor and what amount is a felony.
They should have had to build a new federal penitentiary to house all the convicts. No one went to prison. Instead, they paid enormous fines (a fraction of their earnings from that behavior).
Conveniently, part of the deal is often to create a big fund that politicians then dole out to so-called non-profits.
It's the same way with the NCAA. Unless and until people in high places go to prison for breaking the law, it's going to continue. There's too much money to make.
The strong and likely prospect of prison is a good deterrent. Even drug dealers know exactly what amount is a misdemeanor and what amount is a felony.
What a load of crap. You really think that the Obama administration let them off if they were guilty? Get real. And not even half the story. You read Bernie Sanders or Liz Warren to your kids?
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I'm glad you brought this up. Whether it is Rick Pitino or BSD Wall St bankers, they all suffer from the same malady or character flaw: Hubris. Wall St operates on the same principles that old Tammany Hall did, they see opportunity and take it. (George Washington Plunkett-- no relation to Jim). In Pitino's case, from my vantage, he felt untouchable and above the rules, like Leona Helmsley said she was above paying taxes. (More hubris). Pitino's sentence will be the court of public opinion and his legacy. That's a stiffer penalty than anything any of us could imagine. To compare the financial system, something pretty complex, with NCAA rules is a stretch, but you're right, who wants jail time?
This is the single most incorrect post in the history of the web and financial postings.
You know nothing about process in cases like the one you're referring to and you couldn't be more off base. The fines that you so causally dismiss were used to make investors whole and it addressed an industry wide practice that was clearly wrong. As someone who has been a part of such settlement discussions making investors whole is always a priority.
I think you have to be extremely naive to believe head coaches don't know everything that is going on with their program. It also insults my intelligence when I have to listen to ESPN analysts/anchors defend coaches and suggest that they legitimately didn't know what was going on.
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