The process is just beginning. Imo, the reason they came out with this now is to start the dominos falling and line up cooperating witnesses.
Do any of us think that any of the actors in this mess declared their ‘earnings’ on their taxes?
Monet laundering is one of the specific charges listed.
Thank you for this post, TroutMan.
It’s that last one that has me confused, because I don’t understand the applicable law(s).
Dear Og, this reached all the way into the world of fine arts? :eek:
It’s all about the monet, it appears…
Laundering makes all the colors run together, so the painting looks like Impressionism.
The scandal Goghs much deeper than sports.
Ah, here we go now:
Buh-bye.
I think the question being raised, a little facetiously, is why aren’t the athletes pertinent to this same chain of logic?
But you have to admit that those high-paid coaches are just price Gauguin.
“A constitution is not intended to embody a particular economic theory, whether of paternalism and the organic relation of the citizen to the State or of laissez faire.”
Well…the players do get something. A free education. Now you can certainly argue they deserve more and that often colleges steer them into easy courses with little post-collegiate use. Big time college sports are pretty low on things I wish to defend. But they do get something, for NBA headed players (which are very few) it is only one year (which the NBA players union has agreed to) and they can sharpen their skills. Few, if any, high school seniors with talent have gone to European pro leagues.
They do not get a “free” education; they are paying for it, and losing money as they do so.
No one denies that they receive some compensation. The issue is whether schools have the right to limit their compensation – from any and all sources. I think that schools have usurped this power mostly because until now nobody thought to complain about it.
I read in one story that Pitino’s contract says that he can’t actually be fired without at least ten days’ notice, which is probably why it’s “unpaid administrative leave” at the moment.
I have also seen pics of a tweet that says that one of the Louisville players is being “held out of NCAA activities”; I am assuming this is Brian Bowen, who almost certainly would be declared ineligible if his parents accepted the money.
Meanwhile, both Anfernee Simons and Courtney Ramey, who had already verbally agreed to attend Louisville starting next season, have backed out of their commitments.
One factor is, you can’t pay just the football and/or men’s basketball players money; this is one of the reasons Title IX exists. (As I like to point out, “But football and men’s basketball programs are the only ones that make money!” as a defense is pretty much the best reason for keeping Title IX in place.)
If they start paying the players then they will start firing the underperforming players. While the current system is bad for the stars, it carries a lot of scrubs through college and into the professions.
They always have, in effect. Scholarships are awarded year to year, and can be taken back from players who are flunking their sport and given to new recruits instead.
This issue is not necessarily about pay from the schools to the athletes. It is more about athletes’ earnings from any and all sources. One of the board experts can correct me if I’m wrong but if Booster Bob wanted to hire Football Jock to hawk his car dealership, I don’t think he’s bound to offer an equivalent deal to Lady Field Hockey.
What would a “firing” look like?