Report: 6 schools to be notified of serious NCAA violations

[Savannah Jay]

Serious question - did anything ever happen to Louisville after all of the scandals there with hookers, etc? Looks to me like they are a Top 5 team which makes me think whatever ramifications were negligible.

They're now only allowed to use hookers that weigh over 150 pounds.

You may owe me a keyboard...

[ArmyVet]

Louisville notified.
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-baske ... llegations

Louisville received a notice of allegations from the NCAA on Monday, including one Level I allegation involving improper recruiting offers for former signee Brian Bowen II and the coach of another prospect, and three Level II allegations, including one against former basketball coach Rick Pitino.

Louisville is also accused of failing to adequately monitor the recruitment of an incoming, high-profile student-athlete.

The NCAA alleges that Pitino, who was recently hired at Iona, did not satisfy his head-coach responsibility when he failed to promote an atmosphere of compliance. Former assistant coaches Kenny Johnson and Jordan Fair are also accused of providing impermissible benefits and transportation and having impermissible contact with a recruit.

Louisville is the seventh program to receive an NCAA Notice of Allegations stemming from an FBI investigation into college basketball. Kansas, NC State, Oklahoma State and South Carolina were all accused of Level I violations. USC and TCU did not publicly release their notices or the allegations they were facing.

Sources previously told ESPN that NCAA enforcement staff members were also investigating Arizona, Auburn, Creighton, LSU and possibly other programs.

[ArmyVet]

Kansas prepares to go to battle with the NCAA.

KU was hit with five Level I violations -- the most aggressive and serious that can be levied against a collegiate institution or university employee.

Kansas is at odds with the NCAA over the definition of a "booster" and how such a broad definition could apply in this case. The school has fought against the notion Adidas' employees would have been boosters when they made payments to parents/guardians of players or help facilitate recruitments in Kansas' favor. Gassnola himself testified that KU's coaching staff was unaware of his doings, but text messages from Gassnola to Self, shown in court, revealed Gassnola's willingness to stock the cupboard for one of the biggest and best coaches -- and schools -- in college basketball.

Self, who is a Hall of Fame coach with more than 700 wins and a national championship to his name, would be vulnerable to a significant suspension if Kansas lost it case. In the aftermath of the FBI's investigation, the Rice Commission made recommendations to the NCAA to institute more perilous punishments to rule-breakers. Kansas is one of nearly a dozen schools entangled with the NCAA, all of them part of the fallout from the federal government's investigation in 2017.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-baske ... e-to-ncaa/

[paulxu]

It's crazy that over the years so many of the supposed "blue bloods" of college basketball get embroiled with NCAA violations.
UNC, Kansas, KY, Louisville, Arizona, etc.
Just crazy. You'd think they'd never need to do any of that crap.

[ArmyVet]

Shocked to hear Zion might have received money to attend Duke.

In a filing with a Florida court, the attorneys representing Ford and Prime Sports asked Williamson to admit under oath that the following things were true:

•Sharonda Sampson, Williamson’s mother, and Lee Anderson, his stepfather, “demanded and received gifts, money and/or other benefits from persons on behalf of Nike (directly and/or indirectly) to influence him to attend Duke.”
•Sampson and Anderson “demanded and received gifts and economic benefits from persons acting on behalf of Duke University (directly and/or indirectly) to influence him to attend Duke.”
• Sampson and Anderson “demanded and received gifts, money and/or other benefits from persons acting on behalf of Adidas (directly and/or indirectly) to influence him to wear Adidas shoes” and to “influence him to attend a college that endorsed Adidas shoes.”
•Before he arrived at Duke for his freshman season, Williamson or someone acting on his behalf “accepted benefits from a NCAA-certified agent that are not expressly permitted by the NCAA legislation” sometime between Jan. 1, 2014, when Williamson was 13 years old, and April 14, 2019.
•In a separate filing, those same attorneys requested that Williamson disclose the address and both he and his parents lived at while he attended Duke, including the name of his landlord and the monthly rent payments.

https://sports.yahoo.com/zion-williamso ... 52682.html

[DeltaV]

Shocked to hear Zion might have received money to attend Duke.

In a filing with a Florida court, the attorneys representing Ford and Prime Sports asked Williamson to admit under oath that the following things were true:

•Sharonda Sampson, Williamson’s mother, and Lee Anderson, his stepfather, “demanded and received gifts, money and/or other benefits from persons on behalf of Nike (directly and/or indirectly) to influence him to attend Duke.”
•Sampson and Anderson “demanded and received gifts and economic benefits from persons acting on behalf of Duke University (directly and/or indirectly) to influence him to attend Duke.”
• Sampson and Anderson “demanded and received gifts, money and/or other benefits from persons acting on behalf of Adidas (directly and/or indirectly) to influence him to wear Adidas shoes” and to “influence him to attend a college that endorsed Adidas shoes.”
•Before he arrived at Duke for his freshman season, Williamson or someone acting on his behalf “accepted benefits from a NCAA-certified agent that are not expressly permitted by the NCAA legislation” sometime between Jan. 1, 2014, when Williamson was 13 years old, and April 14, 2019.
•In a separate filing, those same attorneys requested that Williamson disclose the address and both he and his parents lived at while he attended Duke, including the name of his landlord and the monthly rent payments.

https://sports.yahoo.com/zion-williamso ... 52682.html

[ArmyVet]

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/292 ... efits-duke

A Florida state court judge on Tuesday denied New Orleans Pelicans rookie Zion Williamson's request to stay discovery into whether he was eligible under NCAA rules when he played one season at Duke in 2018-19.

Florida 11th Circuit Court Judge David Miller ruled that Williamson will be required to answer interrogatories and requests for admissions from attorneys representing Gina Ford and Prime Sports Marketing, who are suing Williamson for $100 million for breaching their marketing agreement.

I'm listening....

[ArmyVet]

Okie State gets post-season ban.

An NCAA infractions committee panel announced Friday that former Oklahoma State assistant men’s basketball coach Lamont Evans violated ethical-conduct rules by accepting up to $22,000 in bribes from financial advisers.

The NCAA also levied including penalties that include a one-year postseason ban for the team that takes effect next season. The ruling included three years of probation, a $10,000 fine self-imposed by the school and a reduction in basketball scholarships.

[gtmoBlue]

Looks like Okie Dokie State got the Herodotus Anvil Slam. Nice.

[OmahaGuy]

I feel awful for Oklahoma St. It's never fair to punish a whole program for the sins of one guy. The players (and probably most of the coaching staff) had nothing to do with any of this