Did ACE/PGU start this whole mess with Book & the FBI??

[dashots_UA]

this came out there in today's paper. 

"In March, FBI agents watched as Mr. Soon met with several people at a restaurant in Las Vegas.  Prosecutors alleged it was a meeting to arrange paying basketball coaches at the university of Arizona."

The article goes in pretty good depth of painting the timeline. Blazer was desperate to give investigators some kind of criminal activity he could to lighten his future sentence (which according to documents can be between two and 64 years) so he started reaching out to people.  He had reached out to a partner, Sood, to work with Dawkins to land recruits. This is where it gets interesting. Basically Sood and Dawkins went behind Blazers back and started doing deals on their own (with undercover FBI agents posing as investors). Essentially Arizona got involved when Sood notified Blazer (who by this time was wire tapped) about his meeting in Vegas regarding Arizona.  So, how does Sood know PGU?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-man-who-started-college-basketballs-armageddon-1506902378

Can u imagine whats going to come out when all of these coaches start spilling their guts to lower their sentences?  It is going to touch at least half of D1 Men's BBall in one form or another.  I hear some of this stuff and I wonder how it doesn't constitute entrapment. Obviously it doesn't but a lot of it sounds as if Book was baited into this.  Not justifying his actions by any means. 

[Surgeon]

this came out there in today's paper. 

"In March, FBI agents watched as Mr. Soon met with several people at a restaurant in Las Vegas.  Prosecutors alleged it was a meeting to arrange paying basketball coaches at the university of Arizona."

The article goes in pretty good depth of painting the timeline. Blazer was desperate to give investigators some kind of criminal activity he could to lighten his future sentence (which according to documents can be between two and 64 years) so he started reaching out to people.  He had reached out to a partner, Sood, to work with Dawkins to land recruits. This is where it gets interesting. Basically Sood and Dawkins went behind Blazers back and started doing deals on their own (with undercover FBI agents posing as investors). Essentially Arizona got involved when Sood notified Blazer (who by this time was wire tapped) about his meeting in Vegas regarding Arizona.  So, how does Sood know PGU?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-man-who-started-college-basketballs-armageddon-1506902378

Can u imagine whats going to come out when all of these coaches start spilling their guts to lower their sentences?  It is going to touch at least half of D1 Men's BBall in one form or another.  I hear some of this stuff and I wonder how it doesn't constitute entrapment. Obviously it doesn't but a lot of it sounds as if Book was baited into this.  Not justifying his actions by any means.

I think the FBI stopped before it could get big enough to bring down everyone. They had been at it for three years before anything materialized and wanted desperately to show something for their work.

A bit more on Munish Sood-

http://www.newsindiatimes.com/indian-american-munish-sood-arrested-in-college-basketball-fraud-scheme/30323

[Dav]

I have been a fan since '75 and I just want to vent a little.  If someone else has already pointed this out forgive me.  What I just don't understand is how a high level college coach making high 5 to 6 figure income is willing to destroy a programs reputation for, what, more money???  Are you fucking kidding me?  My first year in the military I was making $500.00 A MONTH...and I did the best I could without cheating, and yes some were. They would sell things the government gave them on the black market, I didn't like that either but, I understood it, the guys were just trying to keep food on their family's table.  The justification for cheating, at the level of pay these coaches make... There is none, the World has gone mad, and Money is the God.

[jumpinjohnny]

Entertaining thread.

My username @ PGU, was "Old Guy," my good buddy Ace changed it for me, not once but twice, after I suggested he was a bully. I can't remember the first name change, because it was more a paragraph, that a title. It included the words, . . . small penis . . . and I asked him how he found out? A normal person would have at least posted a LOL, but no. After the second username change, I observed from a distance, or not at all.  All good things come to an end.

That said, I enjoy this site, even if I don't participate with regularity. I especially enjoy the videos, but the articles aren't too shabby either. Keep up the good work!

[DWIZZ]

Another UofA site is now saying that a former Arizona site owner is right in the middle of the Book FBI situation. He says it's per a former insider. This is crazy!!

[Little George]

Another UofA site is now saying that a former Arizona site owner is right in the middle of the Book FBI situation. He says it's per a former insider. This is crazy!!

Time frame is right on.

[WILD]

Can you put the link to it DWIZZ?

[DWIZZ]

Sure, see link below for the post was talking about

http://arizonafootballonline.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=37223

[SteveKerrFan]

I had never thought about this, but the theory just blew my mind a little bit!

[GoCatZ]

I still think ACE was involved in this with Book and the timing of everything the way it happened.