Auburn is offering full refunds to season-ticket holders after federal charges were filed against assistant coach Chuck Person on Tuesday. Will USC adopt a similar policy with assistant coach Tony Bland also facing federal charges? Does USC even have enough season-ticket holders to matter? Would USC ever give anyone a refund?
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Pitino has been fired. Who’s next? Let the dominoes fall. One can only hope this will lead to a clean up of college sports. Feds need to go after the NCAA as well as the schools, coaches and admin. Just maybe the powers that be will think of what’s best for the athletes.
The only way to clean up college sports is to force the NFL and the NBA to develop their own players. If the NBA really cared about the players and the college game, they would get rid of the one-year after high school rule.
Problem is that college sports is a multi-billion dollar industry. There is too much money sloushing around for it to ever be “clean.”
What the NBA should do is adopt the European model of signing and developing kids as young as 13 y.o. That will never happen in our lifetimes, but getting rid of the one-and-done fiction is a start.
Getting rid of the NBA would be a start !
You, sir, are my new hero! The NBA is an embarrassment to those who know the game: lazy entitled slobs who won’t play defense and walk thru games. What a joke!
Gotta offer refunds. We have a much different product now, overnight so to speak. Yuk.
I’m not a basketball fan, so no biggee to me. But feel sorry for those who are really into USC hoops and had realistic hopes we were out of the muck and possibly a Sweet 16 team. Too bad.
It depends on what happens to the player(s), Enfield, USC, and Coach Hart. I think we lose the two players but everything else stays the same. Melton was good and I don’t know who the incoming freshman was, but you still have the main core and now you have to recruit to replace them.
1,) No.
2.) No.
3.) No.
That was easy
So, Auburn is judging guilt is now a proven fact with the athletic Dept? I know usually alledged means nothing proven until court.. From what I have read there is no evidence SC was involved,and Bland kept it all within himself,whatever it was he did .I guess it is like the old rock’n roll payola,which I still do not really see anything there,it unless it is IRS violations
Chuck Person, the Auburn assistant, is the common thread between the pay-to-play scandal, which USC is not involved in, and the steerage scandal, which Bland was arrested for.
Auburn should have know when it hired bruce Pearl, who has been involved in two previous recruiting scandals.
It was an FBI sting I think he was targeted.
Is Enfield next ? Only Bland knows if Andy knew what he was doing.
Miller already met with the FBI. I am sure Enfield will soon.
I doubt that Enfield goes. Bland was a late player to the scheme, only making contact this year in July. He also might be the dumbest player in the scheme. The investigation has been going on since 2015.
$350,000 a year salary and you get $13000 for this stupidity ? Boeheim didn’t teach him very well
No $h!+.
Bland has to be the dumbest. Form what I took from the complaint, the DOJ went trolling in Vegas during the Summer League looking for easy marks and caught Tony.
For TB, it’s all about the Washingtons and Andyain’twinning recruited TB to bozo u.
He probably learned it from Boeheim.
Yet Bland was one who was actually arrested. It’s what he did, not when he decided to get involved.
He’s a crook, plain and simple.
My point was that Bland was greedy and dumb. Apparently he was swept up in Vegas at the last minute, and he was caught on a wiretaps saying “I trust these guys”, and “this is clean”. LOL.
And the people he was trying to push business towards — corrupt, corrupt, corrupt thieves. Dawkins’ accreditation as an NBA agent to revoked after he billed $42,000 of Uber rides to a player’s credit card. Blazer, otherwise known as CW-1, was accused as siphoning off $2 million from pro athletes and he just plead out.
It is one things to gain competitive advantage. It is another things to causally steer a young man’s financial well-being to known thieves.
USC Basketball would probably win more games if last years second string quarterback had switched sports. Something tells me he would win anywhere he played. But now it is not a sport again.
And who okayed the shoe deal for that high school kid?
When it is the right thing to do, USC has indeed given refunds.
Example of when Socal has done the right thing, please.
When they hired Sark?
When they fired Sark?
Goodbye college basketball as we once knew it. I saw this coming years back when shoe company reps started mouthing off as to what “they” felt the players should be free to leave early for pro-ball. I firmly believe today’s one & done rule was the result of these company shoe reps manipulating the law to expedite these 19 year olds (who are not very smart and being lead by the nose) into the pros.
And the NBA and The Players Association agreed to all of it. I wonder how complicit they are.
SC used to be tied with SMU as the dirtiest program in history, but with this revelation and the video (coming soon to YouTube), SC now stands alone with OJ, Reggie, McNair and now Bland as the filthiest program in history, hands down.
Remember, Regggie’s total haul was greater than all of these new alleged crimes all put together!
you can’t spell scum without USC……
#ItsLikeThat
Brute,
How much do you think the pros at ucla received while Johnny Cheetin’ Wooden was paying them..err.. coaching them? I think the total would probably be around %500k. BTW, an NCAA investigator said that if they had investigated ugly and Johnny Cheetin’ Wooden, they would have been permantely suspended.
the whole world worships Wooden. his name is sacrosanct virtually everywhere (except South Central??)
you poor wittle trOXans, so bitter and jealous on account of the fact that the face of your crappy school is OJ Simpson.
#OhItsTrue
If there were any hills near South Central a sort of Mt. Rushmore of OJ, St. Pat, Carmen Puliofito, Reggie & Pete Carroll would be perfect. Sadly, in that area, it will probably have to be done via graffitti
shhhh…they don’t like it when you mention the fact they are in South Central LA…..not sure why, but they have a HUGE inferiority complex about it. so funny how they were all gushing like school girls cause they opened an actual real-life TRADER JOES!!! uhhh, it’s still South Central, bubbies.
#DuckAndCover
they would have to offer to buy back the groceries they bought at Ralph’s to get the free tickets. Nobody pays to watch Second Choice U.
Scooter, let me ask you a question, why would USC offer a refund to season ticket holders? If they did nothing wrong, then that is on USC for hiring Bland and losing two players. Sc and the fans will feel the effect, but it not blow up the program. if the program goes under and is placed on a death penalty, then yes, SC needs to offer a refund, plus costs of shipping and handling.
Bland totally gave us a quick black eye going into this season. We were riding high with momentum. His presence in the huddles are also gonna be significantly missed.
You were riding high on steroids.
For Usc being supposedly a rich school (in reality, not as wealthy as they believe and not when compared to the truly wealthy colleges), the admin has always been cheap and they continue to be stingy.
#cheapskates