re: Sean Miller caught discussing 100k payment to player

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The question we need to be asking is why the fricking FBI is wasting resources for wire taps for NCAA basketball.

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Because if kids will take money to go to a school they'll also take money to fix games.

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this is MURICA bro we don't reward the stupid anymore

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Do you allow the freedom to contract in MURICA?

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Do you allow the freedom to contract in MURICA?

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You get my point and I'm the biggest freedom to contract/capitalism guy you'll probably ever encounter, but you'll never get me to back off my position, you come at me with a rebuttal can assure you it'll be met with "agree to disagree"

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I don't know why people care about this.

There's caught and not caught and no in-between.

Biggest offenders have won the last 8 MNCs in CFB.

A Pro guy isn't going to be all Pro guy...and we know what pro guys do a Bama guys have said...they give us pills.

Greenies, Uppers...what was that Antler shite every Bama was taking before the ND Natty Game?

But Roids, meth...etc. crazy the stories from Bama...but nobody cares - they care about car payments.

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Your Bama melts are becoming my favorites

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All this comes out about basketball but not football. What da hell mane
NCAA basketball has frick you money. NCAA football has money that says frick you to the frick you money NCAA basketball has.

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I am certain there is a lot of cheating in football, but I don't think it's nearly as pervasive or as problematic as in basketball for a couple of reasons:
- It's a lot harder to predict just how good a prospect is going to be in football. The maturation and development cycle is much longer, and with some exceptions (guys like Clowney or Reggie Bush), the great majority of 4 and even 5 star guys aren't going to be exceptional in the first year or two
- Obviously, roster size - harder to spread out $$ over an 85 man roster than a 12 man roster
- Individual impact on the game: no one player, with some very very rare exceptions (like Cam Newton), can dominate a game in football like a great player can in basketball
- Recruiting is pretty much entirely divorced from high school programs at this point in basketball. The agents/runners/"advisors" run the show; that's not the case at all in football where the high school programs and coaches still run the show. I think that serves as a big buffer against cheating.

What I think happens in college football is a lot of low-level, minor cheating (a few hundred here and there, free meals, academic skating, etc.), but I don't think the systemic, program-sanctioned cheating that has been pervasive in high end college basketball since forever is there, for the most part, in college football. And when programs do start to play that game (like Ole Miss a few years ago) it is obvious to everyone and pretty flagrant.