re: 2017-18 Alabama Basketball Season Thread: 20-16 (10-11)

he has very long arms and has a 34 or so vertical leap. he would need to add some meat to play a 5

AU is a 9.5 point favorite tonight against Kentucky.

I’m well aware of how each of their seasons are going and that the game is in Auburn, but that high of a number still surprised me.

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Sources tell ESPN as many as 3 dozen Division I basketball programs could face NCAA penalties once evidence of FBI probe is public.

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Why would the FBI make it public? I assume most people end up cutting deals. At that point what obligation does FBI have for making it public?


As an AU fan I'm not too worried. Under Armour hasn't been involved so we may just be Chuck Person related which isn't that bad to be honest

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Why would the FBI make it public? I assume most people end up cutting deals. At that point what obligation does FBI have for making it public?

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Pretty much none unless it is used in court filings. They aren't going to release evidence provided in response to a subpoena or seized via search warrant. I've been working almost 20 years for an entity with a very similar mission to the ones involved in this case and to the best of my memory we've never, ever released collected evidence. To the contrary, great steps are taken to keep a lot of it secret (stuff filed under seal, filings redacted, etc).

Now, having said that there are a couple of ways schools could get nailed. The first is pretty obvious - the cases go to trial and the evidence is presented in open court. The second involves the plea deal. Usually, those involve admitting to specific acts. Using Person for example, the news will simply say "he pleaded guilty" but the detail may say that "defendant admits that on XX/XX/XXXX he act to defraud the government by meeting with representatives of Austin Wiley and pay them $15,000." You've got an under oath admission of NCAA violations, so the evidence really isn't needed at that point.

Hopefully, the NCAA will recognize that conduct like Person's was done for personal benefit, not sanctioned in any way by the school, and limit the punishment to something like vacating the wins where ineligible players participated.

If the public info is accurate, the thing that saved us is that our guy was so freaking greedy he kept all the money for himself. The biggest single piece of evidence saying this is the case is the fact that Colin Sexton is still playing but Wiley and Purifoy have to sit for a year.

I also think AU is not looking at much trouble (and they shouldn't be). They played two ineligible players last year, so I expect the NCAA to do SOMETHING on general principals but if it is just vacating wins from last season would anyone really give a frick? No titles are involved and we all know who won the games.

Louisville should be well and truly fricked (pun intended). They need the worst possible sanction. With this coming right on the heels of the hooker scandal the death penalty really should be on the table.

Ole Miss football is downright saintly compared to what Pitino was doing.

From my understanding, he was paid to set up the meeting with Colin's dad. Colin's dad was bribed, but he didn't bite on said bribe.

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From my understanding, he was paid to set up the meeting with Colin's dad. Colin's dad was bribed, but he didn't bite on said bribe.

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From the excerpt, there wasn't much said after it states that Baker accepted money to give to Sexton's dad. It doesn't say that the dad refused or anything of that nature. Sounded like this was more of just a side note. I'd say it's premature to think we're completely out of the woods he just yet.

In addition I think Sexton's dad repaid the cost of a meal. Our compliance people would have been all over it had their been anything more.

Auburn has serious offensive issues with long, athletic teams that can switch everything out front and are competent on defense.

I expect some sort of athletics administration building will be constructed first. Moving those offices out of Coleman. Then basketball would possible play a season in Birmingham, while a new arena if built on the current site.