re: UA Basketball Recruiting

Trey Murphy III to Virginia and Justin Turner back to Bowling Green.

well, if the handler doesnt get what he thinks he should get, then there could be a problem, because he could raise a stink. But it took the FBI, and the threat of imprisonment to get the handler to talk about Will Wade. The ncaa just doesnt have any power to make someone talk. Or the kid could get mad over playing time or something and spill the beans after he jumped to prof bball. Usually its too late for the ncaa to do anything about it though.

Translation: The price got too high.

Same thing happened with Watford. I heard his family had Penny and Wade in an all out bidding war. Wade obviously won

When he didn’t know Wade was gonna keep his job he was 100% Memphis because that was the biggest offer still on the table. He didn’t care who they already signed they were offering the most $. Wade got reinstated and he pushed his commitment date back

I got the feeling he was all Memphis til it became obvious they were gonna sign Achiuwa. I think he was always Memphis back up option to Achiuwa.

Achiuwa is a lot better PF than Watford, he is probably gonna be drafted in the top 10 picks this draft.

Watford signed with LSU 3 days after Achiuwa signed with Memphis.

If a player is being heavily recruited by programs that are widely known to be extremely dirty, then at an absolute minimum our compliance office should be working overtime to ensure that we are not in danger of having them retroactively ruled ineligible. But to answer your question, I really don't believe it is worth the risk. There are plenty of great players that can be recruited without finding yourself as the 3rd wheel in a bidding war where the best possible outcome is signing a player who shouldn't even be eligible.

Then there's James Wiseman.

I don't want to play these games L$U and Memphi$ are playing. I'm not naive enough to think recruiting is clean. But I don't want to go up against the pros at it either. I want the NCAA to do their damn job and shut it down. By that, I mean get it back to a discreet level where everyone is doing the same type of thing, not paying and flaunting it.

Well first of all Penny is considered a Memphis booster because he played basketball there, not because he was hired to coach there. Secondly, if you think that a) he only paid James Wiseman and his family ~$12k for moving expenses and b) paid to move James Wiseman to Memphis for literally any reason besides creating additional leverage for himself to get that job then I have some beachfront property in Kansas I'd like to sell you.

The reality is that there are certain programs that cause a lot of red flags to go up when they start to get really involved with a recruit. And especially now since all the shite with Adidas and the FBI came out. You don't think that there is a microscope placed on literally any kid Will Wade so much as sends a text message to right now? And considering the fact that even after he got caught he still got right back in the saddle and paid for Watford, something tells me he won't be deterred in continuing to assemble a semi-pro team every year until the NCAA decides to do something about it. The last fricking thing we need is to end up with a couple of players who get caught up in the fallout when it happens.