Interesting KU booster tidbit

[The1BigWillie]

I don't know if anything's going to happen to KU, but the whole Pump and Run money/recruiting feedback loop is about to crash and burn. When that gets pried open is when this thing gets really interesting.

That will be even more embarrassing.  Not that there was involvement, but that we got gems like Tyrel Reed, Morningstar, and Releford while guys like Gilbert Arenas, Channing Fry,Udonis Haslem, and Jordan Farmar went elsewhere.

Yeah, but you got David Padgett.  

[kstater]

Yet all you're doing is speculating.  Anyone with an anti-KU agenda can dream up a bunch of crap that may or may not have happened. 

Speculating based on the fact that the father of a KU player was walking around with hundreds of thousands of dollars of KU Athletic department money.

[OregonSmock]

Yet all you're doing is speculating.  Anyone with an anti-KU agenda can dream up a bunch of crap that may or may not have happened. 

Speculating based on the fact that the father of a KU player was walking around with hundreds of thousands of dollars of KU Athletic department money.

He had hundreds of thousands of dollars of money to begin with.

[Cire]

Yet all you're doing is speculating.  Anyone with an anti-KU agenda can dream up a bunch of crap that may or may not have happened. 

Speculating based on the fact that the father of a KU player was walking around with hundreds of thousands of dollars of KU Athletic department money.

He had hundreds of thousands of dollars of money to begin with.

lol

[Dugout DickStone]

Yet all you're doing is speculating.  Anyone with an anti-KU agenda can dream up a bunch of crap that may or may not have happened. 

Speculating based on the fact that the father of a KU player was walking around with hundreds of thousands of dollars of KU Athletic department money.

IMO, that is going to be the NCAA's primary area of concern.  The father of a recruit/player was being paid by a ku employee.

[yosh]

Yet all you're doing is speculating.  Anyone with an anti-KU agenda can dream up a bunch of crap that may or may not have happened. 

Speculating based on the fact that the father of a KU player was walking around with hundreds of thousands of dollars of KU Athletic department money.

He had hundreds of thousands of dollars of money to begin with.

lol

It's the old "he was already rich, so it's ok" defense.  Good thing it wasn't Collins mom who recieved hundreds of thousands from shady goings on in the KU atheletic department.  She's poor.   

[I_have_purplewood]

I kind of admire Ben in a way.  Sure, the FBI is all over this thing, but he's still assuming that nothing bad happened and that all is well. 

Be strong, Benjamin, be strong.

Up to $3 million in face value ticket revenue went untaxed.  That's one main reason why the FBI is involved.

Up to $3 million in revenue lost....   This is chump change to the revenue sharing they'll be enjoying when they join the Big 10 right Ben??
What a dolt.   

[CNS]

Assuming the $15 mil/yr figure in the report, and the 5 yr period mentioned, the $3 mil equates to 4% loss in rev.

That is huge.

[sonofdaxjones]

What's POSSIBLY $3 million in tickets when your funneling cash to college hoopsters through a corrupt AAU organization and guys like ku booster Roger Morningstar to bring in top recruits that ku fanboy boosters will pay tens of thousands of dollars to see play and then contribute more money on top of that??

POSSIBLY $3 million is chump change.

[OregonSmock]

What's POSSIBLY $3 million in tickets when your funneling cash to college hoopsters through a corrupt AAU organization and guys like ku booster Roger Morningstar to bring in top recruits that ku fanboy boosters will pay tens of thousands of dollars to see play and then contribute more money on top of that??

POSSIBLY $3 million is chump change.

 



Welcome to big-time athletics, you crybaby bitch.

[sonofdaxjones]

You continue to tap out Ben.

Again, any thoughts about the fact that ku booster and former ku player Roger Morningstar is linked extensively to this money laundering operation in the ku athletic department??

[OregonSmock]

You continue to tap out Ben.

Again, any thoughts about the fact that ku booster and former ku player Roger Morningstar is linked extensively to this money laundering operation in the ku athletic department??

It doesn't surprise me one bit.  I played AAU basketball back in the day, and Morningstar was the head coach of the Converse All-Stars.  The guy has connections and  makes quite a bit of money. 

[CNS]

You continue to tap out Ben.

Again, any thoughts about the fact that ku booster and former ku player Roger Morningstar is linked extensively to this money laundering operation in the ku athletic department??

It doesn't surprise me one bit.  I played AAU basketball back in the day, and Morningstar was the head coach of the Converse All-Stars.  The guy has connections and  makes quite a bit of money. 

Aren't these connections the reason he is under fire by the FBI?   

[sonofdaxjones]

You continue to tap out Ben.

Again, any thoughts about the fact that ku booster and former ku player Roger Morningstar is linked extensively to this money laundering operation in the ku athletic department??

It doesn't surprise me one bit.  I played AAU basketball back in the day, and Morningstar was the head coach of the Converse All-Stars.  The guy has connections and  makes quite a bit of money. 

So you're perfectly fine with ku booster and former ku player Roger Morningstar being extinsively involved in possible multiple federal crimes, an extremely corrupt AAU organization and likely involved in a ku ticket scalping money laundering operation then??

Also, care to expound a little more the absolutely idiotic theory that no one in the senior administration at ku knew anything about an operation that involved the very lifeblood of the athletic department . . . over 17,000 tickets worth millions simply unaccounted for with no questions asked??

[pissclams]

You continue to tap out Ben.

Again, any thoughts about the fact that ku booster and former ku player Roger Morningstar is linked extensively to this money laundering operation in the ku athletic department??

It doesn't surprise me one bit.  I played AAU basketball back in the day, and Morningstar was the head coach of the Converse All-Stars.  The guy has connections and  makes quite a bit of money. 

research where he made his money. 

[OregonSmock]

You continue to tap out Ben.

Again, any thoughts about the fact that ku booster and former ku player Roger Morningstar is linked extensively to this money laundering operation in the ku athletic department??

It doesn't surprise me one bit.  I played AAU basketball back in the day, and Morningstar was the head coach of the Converse All-Stars.  The guy has connections and  makes quite a bit of money.  

So you're perfectly fine with ku booster and former ku player Roger Morningstar being extinsively involved in possible multiple federal crimes, an extremely corrupt AAU organization and likely involved in a ku ticket scalping money laundering operation then??

Also, care to expound a little more the absolutely idiotic theory that no one in the senior administration at ku knew anything about an operation that involved the very lifeblood of the athletic department . . . over 17,000 tickets worth millions simply unaccounted for with no questions asked??

Most AAU organizations are corrupt.  This is really nothing more than big-time college athletics.  IIRC, you personally hope that someday K-State gets to the point where there bringing in top talent every year and competing for national titles.
 

[DOOMsday]

What's POSSIBLY $3 million in tickets when your funneling cash to college hoopsters through a corrupt AAU organization and guys like ku booster Roger Morningstar to bring in top recruits that ku fanboy boosters will pay tens of thousands of dollars to see play and then contribute more money on top of that??

POSSIBLY $3 million is chump change.

 



Welcome to big-time athletics, you crybaby bitch.

[sonofdaxjones]

You continue to tap out Ben.

Again, any thoughts about the fact that ku booster and former ku player Roger Morningstar is linked extensively to this money laundering operation in the ku athletic department??

It doesn't surprise me one bit.  I played AAU basketball back in the day, and Morningstar was the head coach of the Converse All-Stars.  The guy has connections and  makes quite a bit of money.  

So you're perfectly fine with ku booster and former ku player Roger Morningstar being extinsively involved in possible multiple federal crimes, an extremely corrupt AAU organization and likely involved in a ku ticket scalping money laundering operation then??

Also, care to expound a little more the absolutely idiotic theory that no one in the senior administration at ku knew anything about an operation that involved the very lifeblood of the athletic department . . . over 17,000 tickets worth millions simply unaccounted for with no questions asked??

Most AAU organizations are corrupt.  This is really nothing more than big-time college athletics.  IIRC, you personally hope that someday K-State gets to the point where there bringing in top talent every year and competing for national titles.
 

I fully understand how corrupt AAU organizations are Ben . . . that's really only a small part of the story.   The big part is that ku booster Roger Morningstar is up to his ears in a corrupt AAU organization.

[Sugar Dick]

I kind of admire Ben in a way.  Sure, the FBI is all over this thing, but he's still assuming that nothing bad happened and that all is well. 

Be strong, Benjamin, be strong.

Up to $3 million in face value ticket revenue went untaxed.  That's one main reason why the FBI is involved.

Does that mean the IRS is covering all the money laundering, fraud, and other crimes?

Is Wednesday still opposite day?

[Sugar Dick]

You know what's awesome?  The fact that BillyBob from the LJW comments had this nailed from the get go

He [Freeman] delivered Rodney and he is going to deliver Morningstar. Probation.

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2010/apr/21/lawrence-developer-set-be-sentenced-thursday-junct/

F8cking BillyBob! Saw him on the way to work this morning, told him Congrats, and we traded an "air high-five".  Here's the pic I took:

[mcmwcat]

incredible interview by BITB http://810whb.com/podcasts

[Andy]

dax and anyone else fighting with bmw or other kans homers...nothing matters to them unless this ends up in wins/championships vacated, postseason bans, or bill self leaving. 

and frankly, bill self better be doing some serious calipari-esq soul searching and consider jumping ship before a lot of this starts sticking to him.  Some of those NBA openings will start to look pretty good soon...

[sonofdaxjones]

I've already said the NCAA won't do anything about this . . . they probably won't even give it a second look.

[Andy]

I've already said the NCAA won't do anything about this . . . they probably won't even give it a second look.

yup.  which unfortunately makes a lot of this rather pointless.  to most fans its all about the banners and not what it took to get there.

would still like to see lew go down though, that guy just seems so untouchable.

[Stevesie60]

dax and anyone else fighting with bmw or other kans homers...nothing matters to them unless this ends up in wins/championships vacated, postseason bans, or bill self leaving. 

and frankly, bill self better be doing some serious calipari-esq soul searching and consider jumping ship before a lot of this starts sticking to him.  Some of those NBA openings will start to look pretty good soon...

Yeah, we've seen how good he is at developing NBA talent. Which is probably why they have to pay players to come to UK. It's not for their future basketball career.

"No, we can't get you to produce in the NBA, but we'll pay you lots of non-taxed money while you're here..." - Seff