The scandal that hit about 5 months ago...and then seemed to vanish, is about to re-emerge and, as they say, "blow the lid off the sucker". The hearings into the corruption have been ongoing and are now just about wrapped up and the info that is about to come out, to quote some close to the investigation, will "change the face of college basketball forever".

The biggest change may come about because of what schools end up being involved (the majority will be blue-bloods). It is being surmised that at least one or more of this year's Final Four will be in danger of having to give back the trophy, if they win.

The biggest change to come out of this will probably be the split between the Power 5 and the rest of college sports. The money in college sports is not going away because of this scandal, and the easiest way to change the rules, to make it fit your needs, is to form your own organization.

This situation may well cause the much talked about split in college football AND college basketball at the same time. The Power 5 conferences will run their own game and The NCAA may well be left to run the rest of college sports, but just NOT the high dollar end. How that changes the landscape for teams and schools like W&M and the CAA is yet to be known, but it will be different from what it is now.

Here is a link to Pete Thamel's article on Yahoo.com, about the upcoming turmoil.


https://sports.yahoo.com/sources-college...17174.html

billymac, you scared me with that headline. I missed the "re" and thought our great recruiting years were going to get a big asterisk.

The NCAA is completely incapable of handling anything close to the size of the upcoming scandal.

Sorry, TITB. Didn't mean to scare you.

I listened to a discussion of the upcoming release of info and the guys involved in the broadcast, including a couple former coaches, made it sound like most of the P-5 schools all have something to worry about.

The next step is interviewing parties of interest and then seeking criminal indictments. The name I heard most was the current basketball coach at #10 Auburn, who will probably have to step down after the season because of what will come out.

It should be interesting.

Read the article. Thanks for the link.

So, if we win the CAA tourney, and make a run to the Elite Eight, we could end up being NCAA champs because the remaining schools will have to vacate? Making the tourney, and winning the tourney, all in one year? That would be classic! Talking about knocking the door down.

On a more serious note ... I wonder if the NCAA will consider the FBI investigation to be hostile and offensive? They were more concerned about our upright feathers, than Utah's turned down feathers / mass corruption in hoops.

Couldn't happen to a more corrupt organization! Pass the popcorn!

I literally soiled myself with the idea that anyone...ANYONE...actually thinks the NCAA will conduct an unbiased investigation let alone drop the hammer on a prominent program. The Feds may push hard but they love plea bargins so expect the top dogs to remain protected under a veil of cash.

There's a reason why this news surfaced after a major National tragedy and late in the week.

I have far more faith that North Korea will hold an honest election.

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Not the ncaa scandal, but a scandal none the less. Long, but informative article on the role of shoe companies in monetizing amateur basketball.

http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index..._game.html

Considering that Louisville got caught red-handed buying players, then turned around and hired the best available coach on the market and doesn't seem like they're going to get any NCAA punishment or on-court repercussions for it, it is more clear than ever that there is zero incentive for the major programs that run the NCAA not to cheat. Really just the latest in a long string of such evidence (North Carolina being the most absurd), but it's clear that the on-court benefits to blatant cheating far, far outweigh even the most serious penalties (which almost certainly won't be applied anyway). Not news, but the system is a complete joke.

(03-28-2018 10:04 AM)Tribe2011 Wrote:  Considering that Louisville got caught red-handed buying players, then turned around and hired the best available coach on the market and doesn't seem like they're going to get any NCAA punishment or on-court repercussions for it, it is more clear than ever that there is zero incentive for the major programs that run the NCAA not to cheat. Really just the latest in a long string of such evidence (North Carolina being the most absurd), but it's clear that the on-court benefits to blatant cheating far, far outweigh even the most serious penalties (which almost certainly won't be applied anyway). Not news, but the system is a complete joke.

Even that's an understatement.