I think Syracuse was paying for players in the early 2010s. they had some weird direct pipeline with inner city philadelphia, just getting some of philly's best ballers to skip over places like Nova, Maryland, Rutgers and go up to Upstate NY and wait 1-2 seasons on the bench to start for Jim. I don't know. It's weird. That kid Rak Christmas when IG first came out was always flossing on there too. Maybe he came from a well-off family who had been buying him Gucci clothes since he was a little kid. It's innocuous in the grand scheme of things too but some funny shyt was back in 2011 or 2012 when the Jordan Concord 11s came out there was something on the news about a kid getting robbed for his pair by someone waiting on the line, then the Cuse came comes on and the team takes the court wearing the Concord 11s
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Corruption has obviously always been around something serious but I feel like the fukkery really got revised when the conferences started expanding and changing up and teams were moving all over the place. Recruiting has been the wild west since then. that was back in 2012-2013 and if the FBI still has open active investigations we're gonna see a lot more crazy ish the next couple years