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

[Little George]

I may be wrong but this was not Ace. His businesses/web sites never ran under this name to my knowledge. He also did not have need of the money. However if it was to take from one and give to another it could have been. Also, while the PPU site shut down immediately, his other businesses did not. He had people in place to run some of them. Pras left PGU site to work in another office in Florida. One of Ace's other offices that Pras was running. That is why Pras disappeared from the site much sooner.

[Little George]

Book was definitely Ace's connection and Miller did cut that off. Ace had a temper issue as well and i would not doubt that he is involved in all this mess one way or the other. Maybe that is where tbe leaking is coming from and why it is Arizona and Miller that are the targets? That would all make sense now that I think about it.
I was hoping Ace would just learn from the experience and move on as a spectator/fan letting Arizona be Arizona.

[yoyowordup]

https://www.lajollalight.com/news/story/2021-12-07/10-million-lawsuit-against-la-jolla-pizza-restaurant-alleges-harassment-and-discrimination

Interesting read about Ajay or Ace or Thakore or Rogers or whatever . . . .

I was on at PGU and got reamed for suggesting that paying for the private forum was really just impatience since everything eventually gets revealed...Ace dumped my personal info online and mocked me...I tried to delete my account but was not given the option...

This is what I can surmise from that...whoever Ace was he was incredibly insecure and one of the greatest demonstrations of that was his twitter account with him showing all the cars and cash and boats and bling...

Now here's the deal, Vegas is a business world, it might come across as a playground but having done construction there I can assure you it is business to its core, people who go around flashing money and bling get marked right away...there was even evidence in one off his tweets that he had been banned form a casino...now you don't get banned from a casino without either running up huge debt or doing shady shit, hell they let Hells Angels have gunfights in the lobbies...

All that bling does not go unnoticed, no way in hell he made that money from Gophermedia or PGU...you seriously think you're buying high end cars running a veterinarians website???

There is very little doubt (but also very little evidence) that he was not doing some kind of illegal shit, either tax evasion, or money laundering or perhaps even getting into the recruitment game for Adidas...and Vegas is the absolute WORST town to try and pull that crap...the Feds keep a pretty tight surveliance on every casino, the kinds of legal clearances and documentation that those casinos must submit to stay in good graces is deeper than your average political campaign...there are laws about recording every transaction over certain dollar amounts, hell even your local bank must report cash deposits over 10k to the feds...

There's no way a guy like Ace does not attract the wrong kind of attention...the timelines line up pretty well and there were even some photos at one time of Book at one of the parties...we know that Book got reprimanded by Miller for leaking info, THIS might be the silver lining in the whole mess...let me explain:

Book is an employee of the State of Az, as such he cannot get a reprimand without heavy documentation, this goes in "his file"...Miller cannot be expected by the NCAA to have wire taps and set up stings on his assistant coaches, without hard core evidence Miller cannot simply fire Book on a hunch...so this personal record might be enough proof that Miller was in compliance with the NCAA rule of "creating an atmosphere of compliance"...he has a recent record of reprimanding Book and then no hard evidence of his wrong doing that got him nabbed...so Book leaking stuff to Ace created the situation where Miller has a record of correction in his favor...

Here's my last theory...I think Book exonerates Miller...media day is Oct. 11-12, Books hearing is Oct. 10...he will probably cop a plea deal, but in doing so he will admit guilt and in that moment I think Book steps up to the plate and lets everyone hear him say "I acted alone without anyone's knowledge this is all on me"...

I trust that is the character that both he and Miller expect from one another...I know we all want to see Book strung up for smearing the UA, but lets not forget he loves these guys and he probably loves the UA...I think he will try to clean up his own mess.

Obviously Ace is way before my time, no idea until this week- but from what Ive been reading from all of you guys is it seems like him and Dawkins have similar traits lol. Not like there's any connection or anything, just a simple observation. Flamboyance/bragging, getting caught with your pants down. Just think it's funny

First off his name isn't ace. He's not a fighter pilot or some street fighter character. His name is Ajay Thakore and he is a laughably small person with the physicality of a thin mint. That said, he talked shit like he was someone who could back it but it was all a charade. He basically duped naive people into thinking he was some kind of authority when all he was doing was giving kickbacks to get information. So in that sense he was an authority, and it exploded his ego those of his minions as well. PGU appeared to have some almost Scientology like following, as evidenced by the posts above.

give this a read if you haven't:  https://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/media-watch/Content?oid=5028027

[KansasCityCats]

Jeez. Why spend the money to go through the legal process when you know the judge will just grant a restraining order in the end.

Silly dispute...

[Tucsandman]

All Ace did was pass along inside information. He didn't "predict" anything.

[KansasCityCats]

I give him credit that he was able to accurately predict whether recruits would commit...based on inside info. The dude had some great sources because he was rarely wrong on the recruiting trail.

[something1]

I will admit to having finally read this full thread with a sense of wtf nostalgia. I was never an insider and more of a lurker on PGU; I liked hearing about recruits, but had a disdain for the rest.

[FOOS]

Here's video of Pras who I thought was ACE talking to Gordon & Ronde before they started playing for UofA. There's a lot of videos of him interviewing future CATS & AAU players players on YouTube.

100% Pras.  I met both Ace and Pras at a PGU VIP event in Tempe the night before the UA/ASU game during the '10 '11 season.  We got to meet the entire team : Miller, Hill, Mayes, Wize, Perry, Parrom, Horne, Williams, Momo, Foggy.  What a team !!....  I won a basketball signed by the entire team at the raffle.  Sat at a table with Bus/What's Up and his wife and my wife....  awesome time

[Surgeon]

Here's video of Pras who I thought was ACE talking to Gordon & Ronde before they started playing for UofA. There's a lot of videos of him interviewing future CATS & AAU players players on YouTube.

100% Pras.  I met both Ace and Pras at a PGU VIP event in Tempe the night before the UA/ASU game during the '10 '11 season.  We got to meet the entire team : Miller, Hill, Mayes, Wize, Perry, Parrom, Horne, Williams, Momo, Foggy.  What a team !!....  I won a basketball signed by the entire team at the raffle.  Sat at a table with Bus/What's Up and his wife and my wife....  awesome time

Somebody actually married Bus? A human?

Holy shit that's bravery

[Wiidslifecoach]

I can completely see the pain of marriage in every word catbust posts. Definitely Pras. Ace was a very strange person, with weird phobias and quarks. Dude seemed bi-polar, would switch on and off. Life is too short to tolerate people like that.  I think he still sends me hate texts...