Since all of this came out in February 2018 there has only been one person I heard who has been down right honest about college basketball. Charles Barkley.

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“I’m still trying to figure out why the FBI is involved,” Barkley said. “Listen, I went to college in 1981. We cheated back then. We’re cheating now. They’re always cheating. The toothpaste is out of the tube. They said they gave that kid at Arizona (Ayton) $100,000. He was underpaid. There must’ve been closed bidding because I would’ve gave his (expletive) more. “I didn’t realize the FBI needed to be paying attention to college basketball. Maybe if they were paying more attention (to other matters) they wouldn’t have screwed up our (presidential election).”

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“These (political) parties suck. Plain and simple,” Barkley said. “The Democrats have been taking my votes and black people’s votes for granted for 100 years. Republicans do what they do — they’re gonna take care of rich people. We as democrats have to start calling our party out more.

I guess just the first part of the quote is relevant, but my point is. Everyone who follows college basketball knows what goes on on college basketball and it has been that way for decades.

I remember listening to Finebaum one day and in one breath he said "college basketball has always been a cesspool" then in the next breath he was talking about how bad things were for Will Wade (this was before he got reinstated).

Why is this such a big deal? Seriously? If anyone thinks Duke, UK, North Carolina, Kansas, etc, etc, etc has never paid for players then I don't know what to say. It's all in what you can prove. Can they prove those schools paid players?

As for as Will Wade, okay there was a claim of $300k deal. Now prove it. If it can't be proven how can he be fired?