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Scandal at Duke
Posted on 9/7/12 at 2:35 pm
Posted on 9/7/12 at 2:35 pm
A starter on Duke's basketball team in 2010, Lance Thomas is alleged to purchase $100,000 in custom jewelry.
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Posted on 9/7/12 at 2:38 pm to sctvman
The fact that he purchased $100K in jewelry isnt the scandal..its whether he received undue credit because he was a basketball player
Posted on 9/7/12 at 2:44 pm to REG861
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The fact that he purchased $100K in jewelry isnt the scandal..its whether he received undue credit because he was a basketball player
I'd say that the 30k down payment might raise a few red flags.
Posted on 9/7/12 at 3:01 pm to Robot Santa
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I'd say that the 30k down payment might raise a few red flags.
Nothing illegal about that on the surface.. but does raise some questions about where he got the money from (if one assumes that a college player has no business tossing around that kind of money)
Posted on 9/7/12 at 3:17 pm to REG861
Posted on 9/7/12 at 3:22 pm to sctvman
It's a good thing their athletic director Joe Alleva doesn't just jump to conclusions right away and presume the guilt of everyone involved before letting the facts come out.
-Said no one when the Lacrosse scandal hit
-Said no one when the Lacrosse scandal hit
Posted on 9/7/12 at 6:04 pm to ProjectP2294
I respect Coach K and the Duke program(don't like them though) but does anyone really believe that Duke is completely clean? No way a basketball school maintains that success and gets all those players in this age of AAU without some side deals being made. Probably much cleaner than most schools but still there's no way they're perfectly clean.
Posted on 9/7/12 at 6:15 pm to sctvman
Four possibilities come to my mind:
1) Story is wrong - player never received the jewelry or had that cash.
2) Story is true but the player/school are innocent: money came from the family (I'm skeptical of this - even if his family has money it strikes me as unlikely they would be giving him six figures to blow as he pleased on jewelry)
3) Story is true and the player is guilty of receiving illicit benefits due to agent tampering - I think this would have to cost Duke the NC though. Once he gets a stack of cash from an agent he becomes an ineligible player and the games he played in should be forfeited right?
4) Story is true and the player is guilty of receiving illicit benefits through booster or school representatives - even more serious than possibility #3 esp if any coaches knew about the benefits.
1) Story is wrong - player never received the jewelry or had that cash.
2) Story is true but the player/school are innocent: money came from the family (I'm skeptical of this - even if his family has money it strikes me as unlikely they would be giving him six figures to blow as he pleased on jewelry)
3) Story is true and the player is guilty of receiving illicit benefits due to agent tampering - I think this would have to cost Duke the NC though. Once he gets a stack of cash from an agent he becomes an ineligible player and the games he played in should be forfeited right?
4) Story is true and the player is guilty of receiving illicit benefits through booster or school representatives - even more serious than possibility #3 esp if any coaches knew about the benefits.
Posted on 9/7/12 at 6:18 pm to molsusports
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1) Story is wrong - player never received the jewelry or had that cash.
Story is based on a lawsuit filed by a jeweler with a reputable name among pro athletes, so this seems unlikely IMO
Posted on 9/7/12 at 6:29 pm to jacks40
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Story is based on a lawsuit filed by a jeweler with a reputable name among pro athletes, so this seems unlikely IMO
I'm inclined to agree.
Also, notice this from the article?
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Mike Bowers, the firm's attorney, said Thomas purchased a black diamond necklace, a diamond-encrusted watch, a pair of diamond studs, a diamond cross and a black diamond pendant in the shape of Jesus' head. According to the purchase order, signed by Thomas, the player agreed to pay a deposit of at least 25 percent of the purchase price and the remainder in 15 days.
He was supposed to pay the remainder in 15 days? That means the player in question is either retarded or expected to have the remaining 68K in hand by the middle of January 2010? Or this is something where the jeweler didn't really expect to get the money by then but was interested in floating the kid for some other reason?
Posted on 9/7/12 at 6:37 pm to sctvman
Pinky ring worth about fitty
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