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Yeah, we were discussing it in the basketball thread.

Crazy Yankee logic

was just reading up on that. but it's a b1g bball thread, and i don't usually step in there.

but i figured if hot seats, leaderboards, and personal pm's deserved their own thread, maybe the biggest sports scandal to come down in years is also worthy of one. no?

I probably would have.  But it was already going in there.

I think Avery Johnson is building something pretty solid right now, and the threshold to be solidly #3 in the SEC (behind Kentucky and Florida) is pretty low.  Arkansas, Tennessee and LSU (at least in recruiting) have both seemingly swung and missed at that title in recent years.  I think South Carolina and Auburn were both implicated already in this, so forget them.

Missouri should be pretty decent for a bit until they land on probation.

Let's move the discussion here then.

I don't think we have limits on pages in a thread here though..

I think this deserves its own thread.  

Does anyone have a current link for a list of Addidas affiliated schools?  Also, are all schools in a single contract for all sports or do some of them split it up into separate contracts for football, basketball, other?  

Power 5
ACC: Boston College-Under Armour (UA), Georgia Tech-Russell Athletic, Louisville-adidas, Miami-adidas, NC State-adidas
Big 10: Indiana-adidas, Nebraska-adidas,  Maryland-UA, Northwestern-UA, Wisconsin-UA, Rutgers-adidas
Big 12: Kansas-adidas, Texas Tech-UA
Pac 12: Arizona State-adidas, Cal-UA, UCLA-UA, Utah-UA
SEC: Auburn-UA, Mississippi State-adidas, South Carolina-UA, Texas A&M-adidas

All the others wear Nike stuff.

Now, just follow the McD's AA/one and done kids and where they went to school. If it was an Adidas school, you can do the smell test.

If Nike and others were playing the same game, Bowen (for example) may have ended up elsewhere. I think that could be telling, but we'll see.

This seems like Adidas doing everything it could to stay relevant. Well, they accomplished that.

I knew when the US Atty office kept referring to these programs as 'top tier' programs, that there was no way Nebraska was involved in this,  that's why, among other reasons, I'm not wedded to the whole Adidas as the sole bad guy here.


As noted elsewhere (the super secret Big Ten hoops thread that deflects outside eyes),  this is what the Feds have.....for now.   This is like SEC (Securities  Exch Commission) coming in on 'sweep exams'.   They get what they get, based on where they are sniffing around.   If and when the Feds can compel guys to flip or continue to develop informants, this thing could get really bad for lots of programs.    The subpoena power is a huge stick, only outgunned by the federal grand jury superpowers.

Yep. 

Bout to be some top flight recruits to drop in some laps. 

per darren heitner (no idea who he is, but not only one reporting it) fbi has subpoenaed nike info as well.

this is going to be ugly

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