College basketball scandal

https://sports.yahoo.com/feds-give-ncaa-go-ahead-begin-investigating-certain-schools-tied-college-hoops-scandal-030502043.html

Good ol’ Emmert! :roll_eyes:

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In the fallout from the scandal, the Rice Commission, and the NCAA’s plan to “clean up” recruiting, comes this from Jeff Borzello:

https://sports.yahoo.com/sources-former-usc-assistant-tony-bland-expected-sign-plea-college-hoops-fraud-case-191548016.html

https://sports.yahoo.com/emanuel-book-richardson-agrees-plea-deal-college-hoop-fraud-case-223203033.html

More fallout per new recruiting guidelines.

Just an ignorant, uninformed question: how much effect did all this crap have on our plummet to the depths of college basketball shittyocrity? I’m speculating that it was a lot.

Not that much. We weren’t after elite guys like this. As dirty as the Beasley situation was, it was handled above-board.