College Basketball Scandal Analysis

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Recently there was a huge scandal in which people lost their jobs, rules were broken, and fans were enraged. This scandal took place in college basketball. When a basketball player earns a scholarship then they have to sign some papers that says that they will not accept bribery from anyone to play at that university. If they do accept money then they will get kicked out of the program and so will the other people involved in the scandal. This does happen a lot but it is under the table and usually no one finds out. But this all changed a couple of weeks ago. My first cite was the Sports Illustrated website. Louisville commit Brian Bowen was recently investigated by the FBI and they uncovered that he and his family accepted one hundred thousand dollars from Adidas to play on an Adidas sponsored AAU team and then go on to play at Louisville He said that this scandal could cause these huge shoe company tournaments to not happen anymore because there was so much bribery going on under the table. College recruits always looked at the sponsored teams first but now this will cause them to look into smaller AAU teams and more recruiting will happen at small tournaments. A lot of coaches don’t want to have to deal with these types of situations so they are trying to become a professional basketball coach where these rules do not exist and there is real money getting paid to the players. This scandal finally made the NCAA realize how much bribery actually goes on under the table. This is revolutionary because lots of money has been payed to college players illegally and the NCAA has to lock down on this situation a lot more and make some big changes. These AAU tournaments were a huge deal also and that is where all of these players got their exposure and the whole AAU organization will be changed in a big way

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