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re: As The Plains Burn II: FBI arrests Auburn's Assist basketball coach
Posted on 9/26/17 at 8:56 am to volfan30
Posted on 9/26/17 at 8:56 am to volfan30
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The FBI claims Jim Gatto -- the Director of Global Marketing for Adidas Basketball -- paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to funnel top prospects to Adidas sponsored colleges ... including Louisville.
It's all in court docs obtained by TMZ Sports ... which says Gatto conspired with a team of people in a massive illegal bribery scheme.
In the documents, the FBI says Gatto tried to pay one player and his family $100,000 to get him to a school of Gatto's choice.
The FBI says it has wiretapped phone calls catching Gatto and his conspirators in the act.
The FBI spells it out ..
"The investigation has revealed multiple instances of bribes paid by athlete advisors, including financial advisors and business managers, as well as high-level apparel company employees, and facilitated by coaches employed by NCAA division 1 universities, to student-athletes playing at or bound for NCAA D-1 universities, and the families of such athletes, in exchange for a commitment by those athletes to matriculate at a specific university and a promise to ultimately sign agreements to be represented by the bribe-payors once the athletes enter the NBA."
Dis gone be good
This post was edited on 9/26/17 at 8:58 am
Posted on 9/26/17 at 8:56 am to StopRobot
quote:what does this have to do with the compliance department?
Werent we told that AU had the best compliance department in the country?
how about the bama excuse... rouge assistant coach doing shady shite behind everyones back, Pearl had no idea this was going on
Posted on 9/26/17 at 8:57 am to Prof
We are screwed. Gave $18,500 to players families. We suck. Death penalty for the basketball program.
Posted on 9/26/17 at 8:58 am to Pigfeet
quote:Wasn't he a player at Auburn when Barkley was there?
Chuck Person
Posted on 9/26/17 at 8:58 am to Pigfeet
Holy crap. So much for that Bama/AU basketball resurgence. We running this shite now.
Posted on 9/26/17 at 8:58 am to joeyb147
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rouge assistant coach doing shady shite behind everyones back, Pearl had no idea this was going on
Giving a kid a $500 loan and talking to a kid during a recruiting dead period definitely falls in the same bucket as $100K in bribes to steer your players to apparel companies.
Nailed it
This post was edited on 9/26/17 at 8:59 am
Posted on 9/26/17 at 8:59 am to AHM21
My Chuck Person Auburn foam finger just increased in value
Posted on 9/26/17 at 8:59 am to allin2010
Looks like this is going to be widespread. So far assistants from Auburn, Oklahoma St, Arizona, and USC
Posted on 9/26/17 at 9:00 am to AlbertMeansWell
We'll still sweep Bama
Posted on 9/26/17 at 9:01 am to Teague
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So much for that Bama/AU basketball resurgence. We running this shite now.
Bama/State is a better bball rivalry anyway. Getting back to the Stansbury/Godfried years
Posted on 9/26/17 at 9:02 am to Mstate
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Getting back to the Stansbury/Godfried years
There are 2 guys who knew how to cheat in CBB without going to prison.
Posted on 9/26/17 at 9:03 am to allin2010
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We are screwed. Gave $18,500 to players families. We suck. Death penalty for the basketball program.
Not convinced of this yet. I mean, I'm convinced Chuck gave money to the family, but I'm not sure we're going down the typical paying players rabbit hole here
Posted on 9/26/17 at 9:03 am to joeyb147
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what does this have to do with the compliance department?
He's an assistant coach at AU. The job of the compliance dept is to make sure the athletics program is in compliance with NCAA rules.
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how about the bama excuse... rouge assistant coach doing shady shite behind everyones back,
I dont act like our shite dont stink.
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Pearl had no idea this was going on
Coach Show Cause? OK sure
Posted on 9/26/17 at 9:03 am to SummerOfGeorge
that's for damn sure
Posted on 9/26/17 at 9:03 am to BowlJackson
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We'll still sweep Bama
Sadly true.
Posted on 9/26/17 at 9:03 am to Mstate
Just thankful that Howland runs a clean operation.
Posted on 9/26/17 at 9:05 am to Pigfeet
And Ky basketball program wasn't in on this????? :rotflmao:
Posted on 9/26/17 at 9:06 am to AlbertMeansWell
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If you read it, it says that players were given bribes out of this grant money.
How stupid do you have to be to pay players with grant money?
I dont think that is what it says.
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