Tracking of illicit payments should probably go in a hand-written ledger hidden in a hollowed out 1958 World Book on the bookshelf in the house of a conspirator's grandmother in Boca Raton, not in a computerized spreadsheet. Sometimes the old ways are the best when it comes to crime.

That is assuming these clowns ever thought that this was a crime that anyone would think to look at. The aloofness that exist by these people is amazing. I’m sure Borna has been in a room with these guys, maybe shared a beer with a few as I have and the arrogance of some of them would lead you to believe they are that brash.

Nobody is safe. And I feel like this report is just a tip of the iceberg.

PAC 12 is a mid major conference? ;)

It's striking to me that the amounts in play here are so small.

The money given to guys like Isaiah Whitehead basically amounts to minimum wage if you annualize it.

I'm not sure they're necessarily incentivized to do it, but if the NBA could expand their rosters to the point that each team could have, say, 7 2-way players who spend most of their time in the D-League, suddenly there's room for another 150 players. Even if you paid each of them 45k annually, on a per-team basis that's only another 225k annually. In other words, for the cost of a third of a minimum contract they could expand their minor league system pretty drastically.

Let's say you're Colin Sexton or Wendall Carter or Dennis Smith and you can be make 45k a year and potentially see time in the NBA right away on a 2-way contract. Don't you seriously consider that over Alabama or NC State or Duke given that there are no eligibility restrictions, you get to play against a higher level of competition, and you're not limited in terms of practice hours a week?

I'm not a lawyer, and I don't even play one on TV, but isn't the release of this information by Yahoo Sports irresponsible? Doesn't this jeopardize the use of this evidence in court? I know we have several legal-eagles on this board, so I stand to be correct. And, I promise not to be obtuse about it, either. ;-)

To me it really says something about the character of some of these players that they take money illegally from one sleazebag outfit and then stiff them and sign with another sleazebag outfit. I guess there truly is no honor among thieves!

So what role does the NCAA play in all of this? As a major investigator of all things compliance and busting kids for getting tattoos or eating a meal at a banquet, how does this not get noticed? Or did it and they looked the other way? Or were they complicit?

Looking at NCAA's finances (as a non-profit, mind you), they generated over $1B in revenue in one year (based on their last financial report) and ended the fiscal year with more the $400M in assets. (source: http://www.ncaa.org/sites/default/files/2016-17NCAAFin_Fi... )

They paid 17 executives more than $10 million in compensation in one year. That's an average of more than $608,000 per NCAA exec per year. (source: https://drive.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=http://www.g... )

So THEY are making the money. The players are not. And the NCAA doesn't want them to. So is it possible that the NCAA looked the other way to keep certain players and programs happy on the paying players front? Or was the NCAA completely oblivious to this? In either case, this has serious implications for the NCAA.

Would assume some of these benefits are "taxable income" no? Guessing they were not declared.

somebody hands me 10k it is not going anywhere that could be seen...

Things to remember about today. This is ONE agent. ONE. Know how many of these jokers there are around college basketball?

Coaches can, in no way, be expected to know what the parents/handlers are doing.

To the credit of our AD when new cars and things that raise eyebrows showed up with our athletes behind the Convo beside the "piece of shit white truck" he had the stones and smarts to pick up the phone and call to find out the story. Great job. If the kid is not taking the money, then you got to look at the parents.

There are hundreds of these jokers around summer ball courts from east to west.

The NCAA is a NON profit. It is a large organization. I do not think the salaries there are out of line with the top 10 salaries of many smaller organizations (Blue Cross, Nationwide and most health care insurers come to mind) and I suspect they are doing a lot more work than many of those CEOs and under a LOT more scrutiny. We talk about folks making money while the athletes do not get paid. Laughable. I have been around many athletes who are thankful for the degree and the free education. I have not been around more than a handful who have lamented NOT getting paid. THe folks bitching loudest about athletes not getting paid are folks who were never athletes. Mike and Mike used to go back and forth. Greenberg was the loudest proponent of paying athletes while Golic and his kids were thankful for what they had been given. Greenberg became the poster boy, to me,of the stereotypical NON athlete lamenting the Poor Poor athletes being taken advantage of....

The dominoes will fall and college sports will change. I have heard several coaches who adamantly said today. "We just want it cleaned up" and I hear in their voices that same lament I have heard from many coaches who feel like they have been forced to make a choice of running a clean program or get passed by. I hope Emmerich makes changes that insulate student athletes from folks that are looking to make money on them. Though I am a vocal critic of many things they do the NCAA is a pretty spectacular undertaking that provides a lot of good opportunities for far many more folks past the household names. I am now waiting for the academians who hate college sports with every fibre of their being to start with their opines.

Wow. I would think that he'll have to be fired immediately.

EMU HC Rob Murphy implicated.

https://sports.yahoo.com/black-market-diaries-emails-hoop...

Borna, I very much appreciate your perspective. I totally agree that paying players is not the answer. I suspect that many of the advocates of this approach really have no concept of the problems that would follow. Would this make the atlhletes employees of the university? Would they be eligible for workman's comp if injured? Would running professional sports teams jeopardize a university’s non-profit status? Would universities have to spinoff their revenue sports athletic teams to some kind of affiliated for-profit corporation? Would athletic teams be eligible for collective bargaining? Would schools just spinoff men’s revenue sports, leaving non-revenue men’s sports and virtually all women’s sports still under the university’s direct control? Would this mean the end of many women’s sports because basketball and football would no longer count as official university sports? Lots of questions and many possible bad outcomes possible.

Change always brings uncertainty, but sometimes it is necessary. I like the NCAA’s Current policy, but they need to increase the stipend. Maybe do a partial revenue sharing. Too many kids lay it all on the line and risk getting CTE for a ship, most coaches believe that players should get paid, and these are the real people in the know. The kids are adults and they should be able to make a living if they are good enough. The NCAA needs to get out in front of this if we want to keep our talent at home and if they want a bigger CBS contract at the next negotiation. Once the top 100 recruits star going overseas, you could see the next contract drop by 50%. Paying the players would hurt the parity, so they just need to increase the stipend that players currently receive. As debaters, we have to stop making generalizations based off emotion. I remember us talking about whether NCAA basketball players believied that they could go pro and a certain individual made assertions and the actual data opposed this persons opinion. You can’t be a subject matter expert if you don’t know the facts.