Plausible Deniability

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CAARHawk

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The dominance of OSU, Auburn, Bama, Boise State, USC, etc. was based on a system of illegal inducements. That is not all that impressive. The impressive thing is the complex system these programs set up so they can claim plausible deniability when people start asking questions. Keep the money guy distanced enough from the coach. Limit the number of people in the chain of knowledge. Make the money people believe they are actually part of the program.

Then don't be stupid and talk on cell phones (got USC) or through recorded text based communication (OSU). Tressel is not a great coach or recruiter, he was great a plausible deniability. Well, until he screwed up.
 


CAARHawk said:
The dominance of OSU, Auburn, Bama, Boise State, USC, etc. was based on a system of illegal inducements. That is not all that impressive. The impressive thing is the complex system these programs set up so they can claim plausible deniability when people start asking questions. Keep the money guy distanced enough from the coach. Limit the number of people in the chain of knowledge. Make the money people believe they are actually part of the program.

Then don't be stupid and talk on cell phones (got USC) or through recorded text based communication (OSU). Tressel is not a great coach or recruiter, he was great a plausible deniability. Well, until he screwed up.
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Sad, but true. It's the exact same game in college basketball...just *slightly* less shame amongst the coaches perpetuating it in college bball.
 






It is the lying, the cover-up, and the looking the other way that is bothersome. As a national TV guy pointed out it as if no one has learned from Richard Nixon and Watergate.
 


trj said:
It is the lying, the cover-up, and the looking the other way that is bothersome. As a national TV guy pointed out it as if no one has learned from Richard Nixon and Watergate.
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Arrogance. It brings down many leaders.
 


I just posted on the Whitlock thread that fans are crazy if they don't think Iowa was doing that in the 80's and 90's. Plausible deniability is how the program operated back then. I have no idea if Kirk operates the same way, I doubt it, but the very men that Hawk fans idolize engaged in what would be considered shady practices. Everything was a hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil situation for the man at the top.

The fact of the matter is that the NCAA is dirty and has been for a while. The beauty of professional sports is that is doesn't hide the fact that it is a business.

Brandon Jennings was one of the first of a new breed of high school basketball players that decided to forego the NCAA and take a lot of money out of HS to play overseas before jumping to the NBA after one year. Elite football players cannot do that so sometimes they go to the highest bidder in the NCAA before jumping to the NFL. It isn't right but it is the way the game works right now for some of the elite players.
 


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