The Rifleman Is In Hot Water

Unlimited resources? That is shooting from the hip again (hit yourself in the foot a lot that way) and grossly exaggerates the scope of the investigations. This was an investigation focused on law breakers linked to one witness who flipped due to charges involving the SEC, not the conference.

This investigation doesn't say much about anything else, I'll agree, but it wasn't a full scale investigation of the NCAA or AAU or even Louisville basketball. There is a lot more there, most would probably bet.

I am sure there is a lot of scrambling being done right now to cover up anything that might be linked. Calhoun is probably right, the AAU is the weakest link and doesn't have the political allies or resources the NCAA has to try to avoid trouble related to this investigation.

One factor that caused the NCAA to avoid looking too closely is that the system was a way to pay the players....which the NCAA is under some pressure to do. By using the shoe company hidden money, they could pay some players without losing the illusion of amateurism and without having to deal with Title IX bullshit, and that whole can of worms.  This had the effect of easing a bit of steam out of that boiling pot for the NCAA.

I am not saying it could not or does not happen in football but a slam dunk prospect worthy of some kind of kick back is not easy to identify as an 18 year old. If he is one of the few that can be he is not at BSU anyway. It only takes 1 kid to turn around a basketball program where it takes 12-15 to turn around a football team. Make no mistake though the nike symbol in the Logo is there for recruiting purposes

What halftime says:I challenged two statements. One that anything like unlimited resources were used or available to be used, and stated this was a very limited investigation. And second concluded such a small scale investigation was unlikely to find very many dirty programs.

halftime considers this pretty stupid.  I think I now understand why he favors short posts, the larger fusillade of words as he shoots from the hip would sever even more of his toes.

He seems to think 8 billion dollars is unlimited resources, but of course 15,000 agents each have about 10-15 cases on their desk at any moment and have to clear some go on to others in a typical year.

Very few cases are allocated much of a budget for wiretaps or surveillance of any kind. Many are a lot more important than this one. Perhaps halftime thinks this result, a serious investigation into a few schools was cheap and easy?

I suppose halftime, hunched over his keyboard on sports forums could assume that the budget priority is pretty high in investigating the 347 NCAA programs he mentions, and I don't know how many possible corrupt connections are possible.

But an FBI agent asking big bucks to widen the investigation from the few schools involved with the busted sports finance agent and to attempt to broaden the investigation, that FBI agent runs into problems since the DOJ and FBI leadership probably think there are higher priorities in law enforcement.

Other shoes will drop......

Hey, will Pappa John be heading back home?

Was that so difficult to give us the condensed version?

Budgets for investigations are usually determined by 1) the seriousness of the crimes, 2) the breadth and depth of individuals/institutions/corporations involved, 3) the amount of publicity the FBI will receive when they break the case. Not necessarily in that order.

This is a case that has far reaching implications, and a huge amount of publicity. Sure, there are more serious crimes out there, but as Meat Loaf might say, 2 out of 3 ain't bad.