Is College Football Next on the FBI Probe?? I hope so!
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To answer your question, no. McElroy in the article is right. Bilas is in "everybody does it" mode, and McElroy has actual first hand experience. Bilas was emoting, McElroy was reporting.
Even the dirty people in fooball and the people the doing the bball probe say the two systems are different. Its why bagmen exist in football but not basketball. And the bagmen system is likely overblown too.
Football agents tend to be different too. Sure, some sleazy ones will try to Reggie Bush a player, but there is no tie between sneaker companies and handlers creating the bribes to coaches to steer players. And without the one-and-done aspect in football - pro teams dont even want HS players, as they are too hard to predict - HS senior fball players do not generate the financial incentives of bball players. When it happens later with a college junior it is not a recruitng issue and almost always happens without the program knowing it. It violates his amateur status, but its not illegal and the program has little incentive to want it to happen.
The FBI probe, a legal matter not involving the NCAA, examines a system that does not exist in fball. It is as simple as that. If its the bagmen that gets one's panties in a bunch, that is a different subject.
So pick your poison. If "everybody's doing it', an ivesitigation will expose you too, one of the everybodies. But the reality is that if a 5 star signed at UGA no apparel companies were involved, and no bribes were paid to coaches to steer him to agents. Bagmen? Maybe. But that is old news and likely unprovable in any case. And if everybody's doing it, that is not the variable..
I prefer the FBI stop school shooters, terrorists and citizens that use a global charity as a family slush fund.. Why is the FBI worried about recruiting
Agree on all that. The good news is that they are not worried about recruiting. They are worried about tax evasion and bribes to public employees, and not little of it but a lot of it.
.....and they have plenty of divisions and agents to cover it all. Also, school shootings are a local police matter not a federal matter. The FBI simply acts as a clearinghouse of information that, in the Fla case, they failed to turn over to local authorities.
The sad part in all of this is not that kids are accepting the bribes. The sad part is that individuals and companies are willing to fork over money in order to sway a teenager in his decision of where to go to school and play a freakin game. 
all the way to the bank.
all the way to the bank.
Maybe they have enough man power to look into churches that funnel “bagman” money?
I agree in this article that Bilas is deflecting and playing the “everyone is doing it’ card most likely to help protect his former university.
I hope it doesn’t work!
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