Vitale loses it on radio show. Gets hot, says "damn" when host says K pays players

[billCgmx]

Yes IMG academy . Have we ever got a player from there?

I don't think so.

 

[yoshukai]

You can play coy all you want but everyone knows damn well if this were another school beyond UNC or Duke, the NCAA would be prepared to smother the campus with investigators. After the crap that has gone on with Duhon, Maggette and Thomas, nobody believes the NCAA will do a damn thing to Duke.

You act like the only schools ever caught were caught because the NCAA had stone cold proof with pictures and signed confessions before they investigate. Hell they damn near had that with the Maggette situation and did nothing but punished UCLA for the exact same thing. By exact, I mean the same damn guy paid Rush that paid Maggette. The Times Picayune reported enough on Duhon that would have got any other school investigated. Lance Thomas didn’t cooperate so nothing the NCAA could do. How did that work for Memphis and Rose?

Keep posting your bullshit. We know Duke will get away with it. But spare us the Duke is clean bit and the NCAA doesn’t treat Duke differently. Duke is the modern day UCLA, K is the modern day Wooden and someday whoever is your modern day Sam Gilbert will be known. It will just be “too late” to do anything just like it was with UCLA.

Pretty sure Dukes Sam Gilbert is Nike.

 

[Kentucky fan 1989]

I just heard him call Pete Thamel and Pat Forde respected Journalist.

 

[DonkeyDwayne]

Does anyone really think what Vitale thinks is relevant or unbiased? He's a joke and has been for years.

Does anyone think the top 25 and more are not being funneled money to play?

 

[billCgmx]

Does anyone think the top 25 and more are not being funneled money to play?

This is a story on LSU and Smart but I don't care for our coach and players/recruits names turning up in stories like this. I keep saying this, if someone digs hard enough and deep enough, you won't find a BB program out there that is 100% clean or has played without ineligible players.

A Baton Rouge product himself, Forman's Twitter account is rife with references to Smart's performance this season at LSU. A 247Sports story from April 2017 mentions Forman as Smart's trainer, and notes that Forman played collegiately at Memphis for John Calipari. The story predicts that Smart "may be Kentucky's safest bet in the 2018 class."

Smart quantified the relationship with Forman, who coached him in middle school, this way: "He's my mentor. He's real close to me, and he looks out for me. He's been there most of my life. When I really got into basketball, he was there for me. When I really started to focus on basketball, he was always there for me."

In addition to the Forman-Calipari connection, Smart had begun playing AAU ball with Houston Hoops, a reliable pipeline to Kentucky in recent years (De'Aaron Fox, Jarred Vanderbilt, 2019 commit Tyrese Maxey). Yet two months later, Smart had committed to LSU.

https://sports.yahoo.com/yahoo-excl...dentity-of-will-wade-middleman-164024544.html

 

[KyCatFan]

This is a story on LSU and Smart but I don't care for our coach and players/recruits names turning up in stories like this. I keep saying this, if someone digs hard enough and deep enough, you won't find a BB program out there that is 100% clean or has played without ineligible players.

A Baton Rouge product himself, Forman's Twitter account is rife with references to Smart's performance this season at LSU. A 247Sports story from April 2017 mentions Forman as Smart's trainer, and notes that Forman played collegiately at Memphis for John Calipari. The story predicts that Smart "may be Kentucky's safest bet in the 2018 class."

Smart quantified the relationship with Forman, who coached him in middle school, this way: "He's my mentor. He's real close to me, and he looks out for me. He's been there most of my life. When I really got into basketball, he was there for me. When I really started to focus on basketball, he was always there for me."

In addition to the Forman-Calipari connection, Smart had begun playing AAU ball with Houston Hoops, a reliable pipeline to Kentucky in recent years (De'Aaron Fox, Jarred Vanderbilt, 2019 commit Tyrese Maxey). Yet two months later, Smart had committed to LSU.

https://sports.yahoo.com/yahoo-excl...dentity-of-will-wade-middleman-164024544.html

Nothing in that is negative for us. If anything, it shows that something bigger than a personal connection to his trainer, who played for Coach Cal, led him to LSU instead. Something like show me the money.

 

[billCgmx]

I said the story is about Smart and LSU but I don't like seeing anyone associated with Kentucky being involved with these AAU runners and shysters. The NCAA should have stepped in a long time ago to clean up the shady AAU scene. I'm not surprised the FBI didn't get the NCAA involved in their investigation because the NCAA's system allows these indivduals to pretty much operate in the manner they do.