Wakey-leaks scandal

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dobre_shunka said:
Maybe because its Wake Forest
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I get that. But the team involved is less important than the action itself. Those games were basically fixed. I don’t care which teams were involved, that’s a big deal.

When Boston College players were involved in point shaving in 79-80, it was a big deal, even though it was just Boston College, not Kansas or Kentucky.
 
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GregAmsler said:
I get that. But the team involved is less important than the action itself. Those games were basically fixed. I don’t care which teams were involved, that’s a big deal.

When Boston College players were involved in point shaving in 79-80, it was a big deal, even though it was just Boston College, not Kansas or Kentucky.
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Boston College was also pretty good in basketball at that time, and there was Mafia involvement which makes it a much bigger story. Most of the time a story like that isn't going to get traction unless the team in question is making noise in some way. If SMU was winning 2 or 3 games a year when they paid players, that probably isn't anywhere near as big of a story either.
 
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05_never_again said:
Boston College was also pretty good in basketball at that time, and there was Mafia involvement which makes it a much bigger story. Most of the time a story like that isn't going to get traction unless the team in question is making noise in some way. If SMU was winning 2 or 3 games a year when they paid players, that probably isn't anywhere near as big of a story either.
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Wake Forest went 11-3 last year, won the Atlantic Division and played in the ACCCG. They’re making as much noise as that BC basketball program was, if not more. They just don’t have a big name or following…just like that BC program.
 
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GregAmsler said:
Wake Forest went 11-3 last year, won the Atlantic Division and played in the ACCCG. They’re making as much noise as that BC basketball program was, if not more. They just don’t have a big name or following…just like that BC program.
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Yeah, but the scandal happened, what was it, 5 or 6 years ago now. Wake was awful around that time.

I don't necessarily disagree with you. It is a fascinating story that "should" have gotten more attention, but I think it is obvious why it did not. Wake was an awful team that nobody was really watching or cared about.
 
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05_never_again said:
Yeah, but the scandal happened, what was it, 5 or 6 years ago now. Wake was awful around that time.

I don't necessarily disagree with you. It is a fascinating story that "should" have gotten more attention, but I think it is obvious why it did not. Wake was an awful team that nobody was really watching or cared about.
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The stuff happened then, but the story hadn’t “broke” or been figured out then. But maybe this Atlantic piece is what will start the exposure. Guess we’ll see.
 
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05_never_again said:
Ding ding ding. Wake Forest is one of the more anonymous, irrelevant P5 programs.
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It’s one of 4 P5 in North Carolina and no one cares. Everyone calls it Switzerland because everyone views it as neutral. You don’t like them, you don’t hate them. They’re just there. I think they’re the smallest P5 school w/ around 3,200 undergrad.
 
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05_never_again said:
Boston College was also pretty good in basketball at that time, and there was Mafia involvement which makes it a much bigger story. Most of the time a story like that isn't going to get traction unless the team in question is making noise in some way. If SMU was winning 2 or 3 games a year when they paid players, that probably isn't anywhere near as big of a story either.
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I saw an interview with Henry Hill talking about this. My favorite quote of his in this interview was "I never threatened him. All I said was 'it is gonna be hard to play basketball with two broken arms.'"
 
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