Lol at Bilas who was ESPNU radio trying to say this series of episodes wasn't being (at least) partially driven by one and done culture. Knowing full well that his school is in the thick of one and done.
No fucks given if I sound like a tuck in re: Bilas. I'm getting tired of that dudes shtick while he's drawing a paycheck from (a grumbling) empire that made it's bones on college athletics and drove the business that is modern college athletics.
eff that guy
WTF? You think people wouldn't cheat and funnel money if college basketball didn't have the NBA's one and done rule? I remember when there wasn't a one and done rule and there were lots of cheating ass coaches, right spracs?
What part of "partially" is confusing? How about the caveat of "this series of episodes" (which clearly indicates that there's many other forms of cheating and incidents of cheating)?
You seem to be confused by the word partially, not me. I'm confused as to how you can attribute any of this to one and dones, if it was happening before that was enacted.
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I look forward to how you're going to call Sonny Vaccaro wrong to justify your rant against lib Bilas
There's also a newer pronounced element of "investment" in one and doners by outside parties, because they know they're going to get a quick return on their dime. You seemed to be confused by what you said. You implied that I am saying the only thing driving corruption (both in the past, now and in the future)in college basketball is one and done's. Which is not what I said nor even implied. The shoe companies have been up to shenanigans since before you were born, everyone already understands this. But there were also sports agent firms raided by the FBI and people at that/those agencies arrested. Agents have clearly always been a problem, but now they are doubling and tripling down because they're not waiting multiple years to make bank on some of these guys. In fact, in some cases, they're making bank in 8 months.
Had you heard the interview, Bilas pretty much dismissed the one and done element (element, not the entire issue) straight out, which is bullshit. IMO he's doing that because Coach K is all-in on potential one and done recruits. Jay has a bad habit of pointing fingers everywhere else in college athletics, but going radio silence on his alma mater, who pays its b-ball coach $5 million plus dollars a year, and just spent hundreds of millions of dollars on athletic facilities, after just spending hundreds of millions dollars on athletic facilities a few years ago. Jay's "There's never enough money" Tweets are always pointing out big expenditures, big contracts and fancy facilities every where else, but not surprisingly, that never includes Duke. Coach K is in national corporate advertising campaigns, and has always been one of Nike's top guys. So Jay's hero is all-in on the big money element of college athletics, but you'll never hear that from Jay Bilas.