money talks in college sports...sometimes talks too much too,its big business in America,its not a hobby like it is here

Sure it goes on, but for Miller to apparently get caught on tape, how dumb is he. Most of the time it's underlings that bring the house down, and stupid things like hooker's at Louisville I believe. Then the whole pretence of student athletes and assignments being done for them or teachers giving passing grades. Bring in "death penalty" for schools like smu in football, no games whatsoever. Won't happen because of money involved. Or the sanctions that Kentucky got when a package fell open full of cash. Just really surprised at Miller though.

Another option is to just make it transparent and pay the kids, just try to ensure Max of say $100k and be done with all the pretence. Rich schools are getting the talent anyway and making millions of them. Might get some kids staying in school to get better instead of leaving to primarily help their family.

They get paid in college anyway.

The shoe companies help big schools recruit by signing the top talented kids to an endorsement deal through the parents into a trust fund that only vests to the child once they leave college. Legal circumvention.

The problem is these athletes from a certain background want more more more and get even more $$$ in addition to this, which creates these issues.

Where is this shoe deals given to parents to hold in trust, calling bullshit on that. Then any company and booster can do the same, and majority of schools are nike and adidas so how do they choose what school to go to???

they are not permitted to deal with the likes of Nike ,Adidas etc on a personal level ever,those companies sponsor universities,and depending on which one it is depends on how much sponsorship they get.
Boosters are the ones who call the shots in college basketball,they are pandered to big time to keep the money coming in

the bigger the universities profile the bigger the budget the more they want bang for their buck.

basically your top 25 div 1 colleges for that sport are where the money sits. and it changes depending on the sport,its when colleges target a player and forget their ethical structure that it comes undone

Matt, there are no D1 college malnourished unless they don't like the resort/4 star plus hotel eating facilities provided to them.

Where these payments happen is mostly the "blue bloods" as pointed out above. These athletes are looked after extremely well beyond these illegal cash payments.

They do have to live and perform like pro athletes, they bring in massive revenue to these programs. Not saying they should not be paid as pros just saying they would not be malnourished in these kinds of programs. They are treated VERY well indeed.

#674578 you are extremely dumb.

I'm dumb, post where shoe companies legitimately pay athletes families where to go. Then we'll see who's dumb moron.

You continue to be stupid. Pray tell where would I post "where" when it is illegal and behind closed doors. If I could post a link to it then the FBI would be on to them like what has happened to Miller. Jesus F Christ!

The fundamental issue has to be that the NCAA can't afford to stop this. Look at the list of schools implicated and that's what? 90% of the income derived from men's basketball? You're going to post-season ban all those schools for a couple of years and have a few NCAA tournaments that nobody watches, costing you hundreds of millions of dollars?

I agree with #522, the only really shocking part of it is the Miller revelation because I wouldn't expect a head coach to be stupid enough to touch stuff like that personally.

It's a fascinating process, though. The NCAA has nothing like the investigative powers of the FBI, but the FBI has much higher thresholds for conviction/penalty. So if the FBI can't get something to stick, how much information will they hand over to the NCAA so that they can hand out administrative penalties where legal ones weren't available? Does the NCAA want them to do that? The behind the scenes would be incredible.

Dear moron with the shoe company conspiracy theory. So you admit there's no proof, just an imaginary figment of your tiny mind. Mate, you went full retard, never go full retard!