Book Richardson story on struggling to recover from his fallout

[WILD]

"I'm not this tough guy, but I grew up with some morals and code of honor and code of conduct," he says. "Maybe that means nothing. Maybe that's my foolish and selfish thoughts and innuendos of what I think loyalty is. Maybe I watched 'The Godfather' too much."

Even with his continued loyalty, Richardson feels like he let down the program and the Tucson community. It weighs on his already hemorrhaging mental anguish. As it turned out, prison was the easy part of Richardson's punishment.

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[Little George]

Still doesn't tell the full story.
He was approached multiple times and finally lured into the scandle. He needed the money and took advantage of the opportunity to get it. The sad thing is that it was total entrappment by the FBI. The corrupt FBI!
Worst part for Book is losing his wife. Wish I could help him. Wish Trump would pardon him and clear his record. Stanford had a coach that took 100k and got no time. Different sport maybe, but the principle is the same. The courts are corrupt too! People talk about systematic racism? There IS systematic corruptiin period. Nit so much the racism, but corruption througb and through.
Book is the key to any penalties levied against Arizona. If he says NO money went to players, which is what he said in court before, then the NCAA has NO level 1 offenses against Arizona. None, Nada.....
Book is a good man that made a mistake, nit like the damned criminals being let out of jail all across the country so they would not get some virus. Bunch of BS!

[FOOS]

Book's actions brought the heat on the program.  Actions -> Consequence.  That said - he paid the price and I wish him the best of luck. I hope he can land a great job and heal.  Always a Cat to me.  BEAR DOWN, Coach Book !!!

[Deb]

Sad to read. He did a dumb thing and paid heavily for it. Only one in all this mess to serve prison time. Must be hard for him to take when he knows the amount of rampant corruption in the NCAA to begin with. Cheaters that monitor cheating. That works.

I think his presence is missed at AZ much more than most realize.

[Johnny-bravo]

"I'm not this tough guy, but I grew up with some morals and code of honor and code of conduct," he says. "Maybe that means nothing. Maybe that's my foolish and selfish thoughts and innuendos of what I think loyalty is. Maybe I watched 'The Godfather' too much."

Even with his continued loyalty, Richardson feels like he let down the program and the Tucson community. It weighs on his already hemorrhaging mental anguish. As it turned out, prison was the easy part of Richardson's punishment.

Read the full story below. 

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Best of luck to him.  I agree it was entrapment.  I want the truth, not loyalty.  Let the chips fall where they may. 

[Dryheat]

I lived relatively close to Book and had the pleasure of meeting him several times, including a lengthy conversation about Parker Jackson. He was a really down earth person, easy to converse and a genuine person. It's really sad that he got such a harsh sentence and all the others involved got a slap on the wrist. I truly hope he recovers and is allowed to coach at a high level again.

[KansasCityCats]

The worst part is that 99% of the other D-1 assistants would have taken the same bait...but adidas decided to pick and choose who to bait.

Book absolutely impacted our program and it shows. Book recruited hard working athletes that played hard, and looked up to him like a father.

I miss the hell out of him, and personally only spoke to him a couple of times. Wish him the best going forward. What a genuine guy...