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    Langford's IU Commit called into question by Washington Post

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    On the night that Romeo Langford chose to spend one year, maybe two, at Indiana University, I waded my way through a pack of media who were trying to get a word with the reigning Mr. Basketball. I was not terribly interested in hearing from Romeo, though: I wanted to have a short conversation with his father, Tim, who was standing on the outskirts of the media scrum, a huge smile creasing his face.
    "Why Indiana?" I asked him.
    "Well, we looked at all three schools (IU, Kansas and Vanderbilt), considered who was staying and who was coming back and where he would be good fit on their team," Tim Langford told me. "One thing he (Romeo) told me was, he wants Archie (Miller) to put the ball in his hands, and good things will happen."
    Now it's nearly a month later, and the Washington Post reported earlier Wednesday that Adidas, the apparel company that sponsors IU and several other big-time sports programs throughout the country, paid Tim Langford a nice sum of money to fund his AAU team, Twenty Two Vision.

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    Here is the link to the Washington Post Article too (Link)
    "He's a little bit ball-dominant, he needs to have the ball in his hands, and he's not a good shooter." Ball-dominant … isn't that a nice way of calling someone a ball hog? Where is my Jay Bilas Thesaurus?

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    Yikes reading through most of it, his dad could have gotten $100-150k, there's no way Archie Miller didn't know that adidas was rampaging up this stuff, it smells funny, we're definitely going to be hearing more and more of this stuff since Louisville kind of broke open the door.

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    I think Kansas is also an Adidas team.
    ...he went up late, and I was already up there.

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    Anyone playing for an Addidas supported AAU team, who ends up going to a university with ties to the same company.......their recruitment is going to questioned.

    Now that certainly doesn’t mean that any NCAA rules have been broken, but it definitely LOOKS suspicious to many because of what the FBI has reported has happened with other schools, coaches, and families.

    As longs as you have business interests providing money to individuals, schools, and organizations with the purpose being to publicize the products they produce and/or sell, we are going to see this repeated over and over.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GIMMFD View Post
    Yikes reading through most of it, his dad could have gotten $100-150k, there's no way Archie Miller didn't know that adidas was rampaging up this stuff, it smells funny, we're definitely going to be hearing more and more of this stuff since Louisville kind of broke open the door.
    But even if all of this is true, it's not illegal and it's not breaking any rules...plus it happens all the time with these top recruits. Check out the marvin bagley situation...makes Langford look like he got a free sandwich in comparison.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Xville View Post
    But even if all of this is true, it's not illegal and it's not breaking any rules...plus it happens all the time with these top recruits. Check out the marvin bagley situation...makes Langford look like he got a free sandwich in comparison.
    Yeah that's true, they mentioned Bagley and the guy from Miss State?? that actually got in trouble for it, the NCAA needs to really go through and vet their rule book a lot better and make these grey areas more clear. It's legal, which is scary, that means there's a whole shit ton more of this going on, and will continue to go on in the future.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GIMMFD View Post
    Yeah that's true, they mentioned Bagley and the guy from Miss State?? that actually got in trouble for it, the NCAA needs to really go through and vet their rule book a lot better and make these grey areas more clear. It's legal, which is scary, that means there's a whole shit ton more of this going on, and will continue to go on in the future.
    I think it's also very clear the ncaa plays favorites and has forever. I'm 99% confident duke cheats their ass off and never gets touched. Really that's what pisses me off the most about this whole thing.

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    How long does it take until the optics become unacceptably ugly? This needs to be addressed, and it just seems to get worse and worse.

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    Here's another take from the Louisville Courier columnist.

    Sure, it looks a little sleazy, particularly with the FBI investigating the role of shoe companies in recruiting. But really, where’s the harm? If Langford had been a tech whiz instead of a basketball star, and Apple or Amazon had paid to send him to Stanford, do you suppose anyone would object?

    Why do athletes deserve less? They don’t.

    And then there is this article from the Indy Star, which makes it sound like the shoe company had nothing to do with his decision to go anywhere.
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    So adidas funneled money to the AAU team. What's illegal about that? Nothing.

    There will always be legal work-arounds. Always. And sometimes, people will do illegal workarounds knowing the case to put together proving illegal behavior will be very long, hard and expensive.

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