#KalebGlenntoUVA
I checked and he still follows our entire 2022 class. No idea if its because he was interested in us heavily (I remember @HoozGotNext being impressed Glenn remembered Kyle Getter’s full name in an interview where kids barely remember schools that have offered) or just because he knows them through training camps and other basketball events.
Caffaro’s face maul gang sign… nice!
My favorite part
Damn. Really needed this to be a big hit to get Kaleb Glenn.
#rehireRick?
https://twitter.com/MattNorlander/status/1588146128104701953
Why do we even pretend the NCAA has an enforcement arm?
Lol, shocker. Good thing that took so long
They really need to go buy Oklahoma St a nice Christmas present or something.
What is even the point of a $5,000 fine? Just to say you fined them? That’s like fining a normal person a dollar.
Sort of true-ish tweet, but kind of not (depending how he means it). Louisville’s biggest punishment was self-imposed: firing Pitino and firing Jurich. They were the only team to fire the head guy right away** (and the AD). I think their years of mediocrity are more directly tied to that than the NCAA cloud.
Self and Roy managed to win nattys while under the cloud, and arguably, the cloud helped direct them to the types of recruits (2/3/4 year guys) they needed to win, rather than the OAD trend that was a bit boom or bust.
** Arizona and LSU arguably did slow motion firings, but going in slo-mo left those programs in better spots.
TeamRankings released their projections, including conference standing projections:
https://www.teamrankings.com/ncb/projections/standings/
Similar to Torvik’s projections at the top end of the conference, though a little lower on Duke, as they project UNC to have some separation from Duke and UVA. Some differences in the middle of the pack where TR is higher on FSU, lower on ND than Torvik.
Long story but my company represented UofL in these hearings. Message conveyed by all defendant’s was that Adidas was the bad guy and out of control. Pitino, Mack, UofL’s AD, etc. all there. About the only project in the last year I read everything available. Pretty interesting project for us.
That was basically my read of the situation. I compared Adidas’s behavior to Sebastian Janikowski trying to pay off cops to let him go.
It’s like Adidas came into the market, and was like, “Oh, I get it, we have to throw money around.” But didn’t bother to differentiate between throwing money around in ways that were “fine”, and ways that would draw the Feds momentary interest when some oddbird agent stumbled into (and eventually out of) the scheme.
But I suspect the reason there was essentially no punishment here is less Adidas being a particularly bungling and easy to blame bad guy, and more (1) the IARP–however it’s constituted–diverging from the NCAA normal enforcement process (compare Okie St, which went the NCAA route, to the schools going the IARP route), and (2) a general change in tenor post Alston, NIL, and no-sit-out.
Law - You reap what you sow.
Looking at how the program has done the last 5 years … they have largely reaped what was sown.
To your point:
https://twitter.com/DanWolken/status/1588192466095820801?s=20&t=QmfXEnv3RmzboI3YqaLrug
Have they ever issued a judgement for Arizona or LSU? I’ve lost track. Which I suspect is partially the point of it taking so long. By the time these things come down, we don’t even remember what it’s about.
The Louisville case (if I remember right) centered about a player who never actually played, The FBI stuff came out and he left school before his freshman season. Little different from LSU and Arizona.
No on Arizona and LSU. NCAA said they want to have decision on that by spring 2023 when asked today about it. Which means 2026.
Chaminade up 7-5 on Louisville first TV timeout. Just found out I had espn+ this whole time through Disney plus. So of course im watching.
Louisville went up 15-9. But now Chaminade leads 18-17