re: “It didn’t even seem like they wanted to hide it. It was so pervasive.” Arizona State

This does suck to see. I really wanted to see Herm Edwards succeed at the college level

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This is a completely false statement. Some players get yellow, black or white chargers.

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Don't sleep on the yellow BMW or the red Jeep.

Who cares? This is just another day in the SEC. Hell, Vandy is laughing at this.

Yahoo sports article

Thamel is calling out the AD and President, and of course takes a shot Will Wade.

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“I think this really puts to test whether Dr. Crow was sincere about this topic or will be shown to be a hypocrite,” said a source familiar with the inner workings of Arizona State. “He doesn’t like to be wrong. He hired Ray Anderson, and that can’t be a bad decision because he made it.”

Crow has been president at ASU since 2002, a generally successful and celebrated tenure. But during that time, he has developed a reputation for protecting the confidants in his cabinet, like Anderson, and acting like an autocrat and dictator to everyone else.

Crow, Anderson and Edwards are all tied together amid these allegations. Crow recently extended Anderson until 2026, and Crow has expended much of his capital in college athletics by being viewed as the enabler and behind-the-scenes bully who protected outgoing Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott as he and the Pac-12 languished under his leadership. Crow was the last leader in the Pac-12 to realize Scott wasn’t fit for the job.

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Few athletic directors and head coaches are tied together as tightly as Edwards and Anderson. Anderson is Edwards’ former agent, and hiring a coach in his mid-60s with virtually no college experience and no market to coach elsewhere in college was a considerable risk. Also in the crosshairs at ASU is associate athletic director Jean Boyd, the so-called GM of the program, who had all of these alleged things happen under his direct watch.


The three assistant coaches implicated in the documents viewed by Yahoo Sports — Chris Hawkins, Prentice Gill and Adam Breneman — all had no on-field Power Five experience before Edwards either hired or promoted them. They arrived or emerged at ASU amid a culture that former staffers described as one where those who dove into NCAA gray areas in recruiting were rewarded and those who didn’t were ostracized.

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Perhaps Anderson saw how schools like Arizona, LSU, Kansas and others rode their star coaches for years through the federal basketball investigation. The NCAA investigations stemming from those cases are still ongoing after that federal case became public in 2017.

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If ASU actually gets hit for this, presumably because Kevin Mawae's a snitch that didn't want to recruit, it will be a travesty. Lazy former LSU boys messing with the west coast teams because they wanted a job without recruiting.

And the ASU internal folks are saying Mawae seems the obvious dude. He had the OL job locked up, until he didn't. And then this.

Oh no, ASU coaches "ran into" recruits on campus, and maybe the QB's mom paid for a plane ticket for some DB's from Florida so they could visit.

If ASU gets punished hard over this and other schools skate, it will be a joke.

Yeeeah, it’s Kevin Mawaes fault.

Not the staff being run by a inexperienced jackass like Antonio Pierce who was let to run wild… but K Mawae

First of all, Keyshawn Junnson is the one promoting that Mawae is a “snitch” because he didn’t get the OL coach job. He paints it as Mawae is one of Todd Grahams disgruntled hold overs, which is ridiculous, since Herm hired Mawae. So, right off the bat, Keyshawn was misinformed by the guy he is using his national platform to be a mouthpiece for. Antonio Pierce. Johnson is smearing Mawae to excuse Pierce and Edwards not knowing what they are doing, and putting ASU in this predicament. I expect nothing less from Keyshawn’s race based existence. Make no mistake, if it were Mike Holmgren and Brian Urlacher in this exact position, Keyshawn wouldn’t be assuming a snitch, he would be demanding their heads.

The most hilarious thing about all this was the NCAA let D2/D3 to just Recruit like normal while for some reason restricting D1 from doing anything

I was expecting drugs and hookers

Not this