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Texas Tech men's basketball confirms positive COVID-19 cases – CollegeBasketballTalk

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The NCAA had a chance to do the right thing on Friday and, in a stunning turn of events, completely missed the mark.

Who saw that one coming?

The punishment that the Committee on Infractions handed down to Oklahoma State on Friday, a one-year postseason ban to go along with scholarship reductions and myriad recruiting sanctions, was wrong and should be utterly terrifying for the other programs that found themselves caught up in the FBI’s investigation into college basketball corruption.

Oklahoma State faced a single Level I violation. It was an unethical conduct charge levied at former assistant coach Lamont Evans, who accepted at least $18,150 in bribes from financial advisors in exchange for peddling influence over one player from Oklahoma State and one player from South Carolina, where Evans was coaching before accepting a job on Brad Underwood’s staff in the spring of 2016. Evans was also accused of giving Jeffery Carroll $300.

That’s it.

Evans provided no competitive advantage for Oklahoma State, unless you consider the $300 he paid to Carroll — who was already on the roster and suspended for three games as a result — a competitive advantage. Evans was lining his pockets. He was not doing this to benefit the basketball program. Technically speaking, the players Evans claimed to have the power of persuasion over were the victims of the crimes that got him sentenced to three months in prison on federal bribery charges. He steered them to financial advisors that were willing to shell out bribe money. He knew nothing about the people that he was telling these players to invest their money with. One of the men Evans accepted bribes from was Marty Blazer, who sparked this entire investigation to try and avoid prison when he was caught by the SEC embezzling millions of dollars from clients.

That’s where Evans was guiding players who trusted him.

The players were the victims.

Despite that, Oklahoma State was still hit with a one-year postseason ban. Evans has been gone for three years. Carroll has been gone for two. Neither the current head coach — Mike Boynton — or the head coach the violations were committed under — Brad Underwood — were mentioned in the Notice of Allegations.

“There were no recruiting or other major violations on the part of the institution,” Oklahoma State said in a statement in November. “There are no allegations involving current student-athletes or coaching staff.”

None of that mattered to the Committee on Infractions.

They dropped the hammer on Oklahoma State, effectively neutering what was the most anticipated OSU season since Marcus Smart returned for his sophomore year. So much for seeing Cade Cunningham play in the NCAA tournament. Hell, we may not see Cunningham play for Oklahoma State, period. He was offered the chance to join the G League prospect pathway program, reportedly for as much money as Jalen Green. If he’s not going to play meaningful games at Oklahoma State, maybe he reconsiders the offer.

“Whatever the best option is for him we’re going to support 100 percent without any reservations,” Boynton said.

This gets to the core of the problem when it comes to NCAA enforcement: They far too often punish players and coaches for violations that they took no part in. What did Cunningham, or anyone else on Oklahoma State’s roster, have to do with Lamont Evans accepting bribes from a white collar felon that had been flipped by the FBI? How was anyone associated with the Oklahoma State athletic department supposed to prevent one assistant coach from accepting those bribes?

“A postseason ban for a bunch of kids that were 15, 16 years old when a lot of this was going on? It’s completely, completely out of bounds,” Boynton said.

He’s not wrong.

A postseason ban is total overkill.

That is the most infuriating part is that the NCAA was actually able to punish the man responsible. That’s not usually the case. Evans received a 10-year show-cause penalty from the NCAA in addition to a three month jail sentence for pleading guilty. His coaching career is effectively over. He’ll never be a Division I head coach. He’ll never coach at a level where he is able to earn a couple hundred grand as an assistant. The person entirely at fault for this situation had his life blown up.

And Oklahoma State still got a postseason ban despite the fact that, as Larry Parkinson of the Committee on Infractions said, “the institution fully cooperated from the moment they learned about the circumstances.”

That should be a major red flag for everyone else caught up in this investigation.

USC, Arizona and Auburn all had an assistant coach plead guilty to similar charges as Evans. Louisville committed their violations while they were on probation from the last scandal the program was embroiled in. Oklahoma State faced one Level I violation. Kansas faces five, and they’ve made quite clear they aren’t going to be as cooperative.

If the Committee on Infractions has set the bar here, everyone else better be ready to catch the book that gets thrown at them.

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Former Texas Tech, NFL player arrested for fraudulent health reimbursement claims

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24 Oct 1998: Defensive end Montae Reagor #34 of the Texas Tech Red Raiders in action during the game against the Texas A&M Aggies at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas. The Aggies defeated the Red Raiders 17-10. Mandatory Credit: Stephen Dunn /Allsport

This is a press release from the Texas Department of Insurance

Former NFL player Willie Montae Reagor was arrested January 30 for submitting fraudulent health reimbursement claims after an investigation by the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) Fraud Unit.

The TDI investigation found Reagor submitted claims totaling more than $80,000 between October 2017 and August 2018 to the Gene Upshaw NFL Player Health Reimbursement Plan for medical treatments he never received. The health plan helps pay certain medical care expenses for former NFL players.

Reagor was indicted by a Tarrant County grand jury and charged with a third-degree felony. He faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.

The case will be prosecuted by Special Assistant District Attorney Brad Carpenter, one of five prosecutors employed by TDI who work in district attorneys’ offices across the state to fight insurance fraud.

Reagor played nine seasons in the NFL as a defensive tackle for the Broncos, Colts, and Eagles.

TDI Fraud Unit investigators are licensed state peace officers. You can report suspected insurance fraud by calling 1-800-252-3439.
For more information, contact: MediaRelations@tdi.texas.gov

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Former Tenn. Tech football player charged in deadly hit-and-run

admin — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 02:42:28 +0000

HORRY COUNTY, SC (WMBF) — An investigation is underway after a former Tennessee Tech football player was arrested on charges of driving under the influence in a deadly hit-and-run in South Carolina Saturday.

23-year-old Riley Patton is charged with felony DUI resulting in death and leaving the scene of an accident involving death after officials say he struck a truck and pedestrian around 1:00 a.m off Hwy 544 and Cabots Creek Drive near Myrtle Beach.

According to Max Preps, Patton played long snapper, center, and defensive tackle at Halls High School. He graduated in 2015.

SCHP says Patton was driving his 2002 GMC truck eastbound on 544 when he ran into the center median, hitting a 2001 Ford truck in that lane and a pedestrian near the Ford truck.

The Horry County Coroner’s Office says 55-year-old Timothy “Timmy” Shulkcum of Myrtle Beach was hit by the GMC truck and pronounced dead at the scene.

Corporal Sonny Collins with the South Carolina Highway Patrol says Patton continued driving after the incident before being apprehended at a nearby grocery store.

A spokesperson with Coastal Carolina University confirms Patton is currently enrolled as a student. Patton was listed as a long snapper on the 2019 Coastal Carolina Football roster, but the walk-on graduate transfer played no snaps as a Chanticleer. CCU says Patton no longer has eligibility.

“Riley Patton is a student at Coastal Carolina and was a member of the football team in the fall semester and no longer has eligibility,” a spokesman said in a text to WMBF News. “Thus he is no longer a member of the football team.”

At an initial bond hearing in Conway Saturday, a Horry County judge set Patton’s bond at $200,000 for the hit-and-run and DUI charges. Patton is also required to wear a location monitoring system.

The Knoxville, Tennessee native spent the first four years of his college career at Tennessee Tech.

SCHP says the investigation is ongoing.

WMBF News will continue to update this developing story as more information is made available.

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Former Florida Tech football player accused of trying to sell stolen goods on social media

admin — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 04:53:36 +0000

A former Florida Institute of Technology football player who police say used social media to sell stolen goods from retail stores in Brevard and Indian River counties was arrested.

Marshawn Gordon, 23, of Missouri, was charged with dealing or trafficking in stolen property, possession of an anti-shoplifting inventory control device, organized fraud, and petit theft, after a traffic stop in Melbourne.

Gordon had exhausted his eligibility with Florida Tech’s football program after the end of the last season. He played two seasons as a backup running back and wide receiver with the Florida Tech Panthers.

Marshawn Gordon (Photo: BREVARD COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE)

In November, Gordon was one of 10 offensive players honored on Senior Day as part of the festivities before rushing for 45 yards on four carries in that season-ending 42-3 victory against Shorter.

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On Jan. 8, Brevard County sheriff’s deputies were alerted about a retail theft at the Target store in Viera. Deputies spotted his vehicle and carried out a traffic stop. Deputies approached the car with guns drawn and ordered him out of the vehicle, reports show.

Deputies searched the car and found a pair of cutters – the kind typically used to cut roofing type metal – sticking out of his right pocket. Investigators said Gordon had used the cutters to remove shoplifting devices at Target stores in West Melbourne, Viera and in Indian River County.

Inside the car, deputies found several electronics, including wireless controllers, video streaming devices, Amazon Firesticks. West Melbourne police also linked Gordon to the theft of Nintendo switch controllers and Fitbit watches.

Investigators talked with Gordon, who admitted to stealing the goods and then selling the items on Instagram and Facebook. Gordon was registered at Florida Tech but was not staying on campus, authorities reported.

He remained held at the Brevard County Jail on $34,000, according to court records. No court date has been set.

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Texas Tech Football Player Arrested for Possession

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Thursday afternoon (June 14), Lubbock Police arrested a member of the Texas Tech football team.

Police arrested 21 year-old Quan Shorts around 3 p.m. during an investigation at an apartment complex in the 2200 block of Mac Davis Lane. Shorts was charged with possession of marijuana.

Texas Tech football head coach Kliff Kingsbury announced Thursday evening that Shorts has been dismissed from the program. No other comment from Texas Tech has been made on the matter.

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Ex-Rutgers, Tennessee Tech player Nadir Barnwell charged with attempted criminal homicide

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Texas Tech lifts suspensions of four players allegedly involved in night club skirmish

admin — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 23:50:55 +0000

The indefinite suspensions of four members of the Texas Tech football team were lifted on Tuesday, according to coach Kliff Kingsbury.

Quarterback Jett Duffey, linebacker Christian Taylor and wide receiver Quan Shorts returned to practice on Tuesday, and cornerback Desmon Smith returned to the team but didn’t practice due to an injury, according to a report from KCBD-11.

The four players, along with six other people, were arrested outside of a Lubbock night club while allegedly impeding traffic on March 25, which included damage to the windshield of a vehicle. According to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Taylor was booked on criminal mischief charges for allegedly smashing the windshield. Duffey was charged with criminal mischief for allegedly damaging property at a nearby apartment complex after the incident. Shorts and Smith were booked for disorderly conduct.

“Obviously, meeting with LPD and going through all of those steps and talking with our administration. We came to our answer,” coach Kliff Kingsbury said, according to KCBD.

Smith started for the Red Raiders a year ago, notching 30 tackles, one interception, one tackle for loss and three pass breakups for a defense that had 14 interceptions on the season. Shorts had nine catches for 109 yards and two touchdowns for the high-octane, air raid offense. Taylor had five tackles in a reserve roll, and Duffey completed his only two passes of the 2017 campaign.

With the four players back on the roster, Kingsbury will have a better look at what his 2018 team will look like.

With five of their top six receivers gone, including leading receiver Keke Coutee, Shorts could factor into the wide receiver mix this year.

Duffey is battling junior McLane Carter for the top spot on the quarterback depth chart in place of Nic Shimonek. Unfortunately, Duffey is no stranger to off-the-field problems. The dual-threat quarterback was suspended last offseason after a Title IX hearing found that he twice had sexual relations with a woman who was too impaired to consent in 2016, according to the Star-Telegram. However a grand jury found there wasn’t enough evidence to criminally pursue the case.

Texas Tech opens the 2018 season on Sept. 1 vs. Ole Miss at NRG Stadium in Houston in the AdvoCare Texas Kickoff.

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Virginia Tech provides latest example of LAX

admin — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 04:01:30 +0000

A video was published on social media over the weekend showing several white women’s lacrosse players from Virginia Tech singing the racially charged lyrics of a rap song.

The 13-second video was shot on the team bus following a win and was originally posted to Snapchat and eventually made its way to Twitter. In it, several members of the team sing along to Lil Dicky’s “Freaky Friday.” The lyrics include the n-word.

“Following an away match on Saturday, March 24, a member of our squad posted a video to social media of the team signing along to a song that included derogatory lyrics,” head coach John Sung said in a statement. “Members of the VT Athletics administration and coaches have met with the full team. We are engaged in conversations within the campus community to share our sincere apology. We have confidence that the team will learn from this mistake and understand that these actions reflect poorly on our program and do not represent the values of our program or the principles of the university.”

Virginia Tech players may learn from the mistake, and may be truly sorry for the video getting out. But this is not the first time something like this has stained the sport of lacrosse, a game that continues to try to shed its rich, white, prep school, lax-bro identity.

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“This sport of lacrosse needs to look like this country and to put it bluntly — it doesn’t,” Chazz Woodson, a black pro player said at a recent diversity and inclusion summit for the sport.

He’s right.

Lacrosse has been struggling with diversity issues for decades and the Virginia Tech video was not an isolated incident. It marked the fifth time since December lacrosse players have been involved in hateful incidents. In February, black and native players from IMG Academy in Florida complained they were taunted with racist insults in a game against Ponte Vedra (Fla.) High School.

In response, Albany freshman Tehoka Nanticoke, a Native player from Ontario and an IMG alum, wrote “There is no need for this,” on Twitter. “We all love this game. This is Medicine game meant for us all to come together and grow the game.”

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In January, USA women’s team member Alex Aust’s posted the n-word on her Instagram account, which she apologized for and said it happened when she didn’t have her phone. Whoever posted the word, it was still hurtful.

“As black lacrosse player I’ve always looked up to you because you showed little girls of different backgrounds that they can play lacrosse and it’s not just a white sport,” Louisville’s Taylor Webster wrote to Aust, who is Asian, at the time. “Today I’ve changed my mind because you posted this on your Instagram Story. I am disgusted, offended, and saddened. You owe all black people and especially black lacrosse players an apology.”

In December, pro player Paul Rabil was attacked on social media for his support of women. In the past, Rabil has also been jabbed for backing gay and lesbian athletes. Also that month, a player with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes club team posted an image online with the caption referring to their mostly minority opponents as “convicts.”

Diversity in lacrosse has been an issue for years. Former Syracuse star Jovan Miller, who is black, boycotted the equipment manufacturer Warrior in 2012 over a racist ad campaign that featured the slogan “Ninja please,” which offended him and others. Last month, Miller wrote an open letter to the lacrosse community asking for an open dialogue on racial issues. His post was borne of frustration with the continued lack of diversity in a game invented by a minority: Native Americans.

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Kyle Harrison, another black lacrosse celebrity, has also been outspoken on diversity issues. Harrison’s father, Dr. Miles Harrison, played college lacrosse on the legendary “Ten Bears” teams at Morgan State in the 1970s.

Incidents like the one with the Virginia Tech women’s lacrosse team make it tough for the sport to shed its rich, white, prep school, lax-bro identity.

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Morgan was the first HBCU school with a varsity lacrosse team. The team, made up of black players shunned by more established schools, disbanded at the end of the decade. An HCBU school did not field a varsity team until Hampton added lacrosse two years ago.

In January, Kyle Harrison said he’s seen pictures of a mock lynchings sent to black coaches and players, and in response to two of the incidents listed above, he said “the insensitivity is appaling,” and “a serious discussion needs to take place in our sport about inclusion, diversity, and what is acceptable behavior because clearly there is a disconnect.”

One such discussion took place in January at the Inside Lacrosse Industry Summit’s talk on diversity and inclusion, which Harrison participated in with Chazz Woodson.

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“We have to coach these kids to be socially aware,” Harrison said that day. “I don’t think the kids are racist. But, they don’t realize that those comments are not funny … It’s important to understand that’s not acceptable.”

That tone-deaf behavior has been well documented. In October, the UMBC women’s lacrosse Twitter account liked a President Trump tweet, which sparked a spat between the social media editors and the school’s black student union. Trump was at the center of another controversy last spring when the Adelphi men’s lacrosse team came out for games to music that was cut with excerpts of a Trump “Make America Great Again” speech.

Taking it a step further, two of the most reviled political leaders in this country right now got their start in the circus surrounding the Duke lacrosse incident more than a decade ago when a black stripper falsely accused white members of the team of rape. The racial undertones of the case exploded and before it became a battle of right vs. wrong, it was very much a white vs. black issue.

Among those who spoke out in defense of the team before the facts finally cleared them of all charges were Duke students Stephen Miller and Richard Spencer. Miller wrote a series of columns for the school paper, The Chronicle, which earned him some national fame; Spencer was hired to write an article about the campus unrest for The American Conservative.

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Miller is now a Trump adviser and Spencer is the leader of the alt-right, a movement he coined a year after the Duke case.

Which brings us to Saturday. The Virginia Tech women’s team had just defeated Elon, 14-12, and improved to 9-3 on the season. Cue the music. And the camera phones.

“They had just won. They’re singing songs,” Sung told the Roanoke Times. “The first couple songs were Disney songs … They were celebrating and they were dancing and they were excited. They’re good kids that made a bad decision.”

The problem is, there has been a long line of similarly awful decisions that continue to stain the sport.

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At best, those girls were oblivious to what they were doing. At worst, and closer to reality, it was just the latest example of lacrosse’s deep diversity problem rearing its ugly head.

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Jett Duffey, Christian Taylor Among 4 Texas Tech Players Arrested

admin — Sun, 25 Mar 2018 19:30:26 +0000

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Four Texas Tech football players—quarterback Jett Duffey, cornerback Desmon Smith, safety Christian Taylor and wideout Quan Shorts—were arrested Sunday morning, according to Jarrett Johnson of 247Sports.com (h/t Scott Bell of the Dallas Morning News):

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4 football players, including QB Jett Duffey, starting CB Des Smith and starting WR Quan Shorts arrested on one of the biggest days in #TexasTech sports history. SMH. This program. https://t.co/0K3aPz5co7

Duffey and Taylor were charged with criminal mischief.

The criminal mischief accounts are a misdemeanor. According to LubbockOnline.com, Smith and Shorts were “charged with misdemeanor counts of disorderly conduct,” and bond was set at $750 for each player.

Duffey has been trying to win Texas Tech’s starting quarterback gig and has been in a competition with McLane Carter this spring.

His time in Lubbock has been rocky, however, according to Bell:

“After redshirting his first season in Lubbock, Duffey was suspended by Texas Tech for the spring and summer of 2017 after a Title IX hearing panel sided with a woman who alleged that Duffey had sex with when she was too incapacitated to consent. A grand jury ultimately decided there was not enough cause to criminally prosecute the case.”

Smith has appeared in 19 games for the Red Raiders the past two seasons, accumulating an interception and 46 tackles. Taylor has played in 18 games for Texas Tech, posting five tackles. And Shorts has also played in 18 games, registering 14 catches for 233 yards and three scores. He’s also rushed two times for 19 yards.

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Four Texas Tech football players, including potential starting QB Jett Duffey, arrested Sunday morning

admin — Sun, 25 Mar 2018 18:20:29 +0000

Four Texas Tech football players, including potential starting QB Jett Duffey, were arrested early Sunday morning, according to Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office records found online.

The arrests were first reported by InsideTheRedRaiders.com’s Jarrett Johnson.

The players were all booked into the Lubbock County Jail, according to online records.

Duffey was booked at 4:15 a.m. and charged with criminal mischief.

Three other players –CB Desmon Smith, safety Christian Taylor and WR Quan Shorts — were also arrested on Sunday morning.

Taylor is the only other player with a charge listed (criminal mischief), but all three were booked early Sunday morning. Taylor was booked at 4:48 am, Shorts was booked at 5:08 a.m. and Smith was booked at 8:07 a.m., according to online records.

Texas Tech had an open scrimmage in Midland on Saturday.

Duffey, a Mansfield Legacy graduate and the 2015 SportsDayHS Offensive Player of the Year, has been competing with McLane Carter for the Texas Tech starting QB job. After redshirting his first season in Lubbock, Duffey was suspended by Texas Tech for the spring and summer of 2017 after a Title IX hearing panel sided with a woman who alleged that Duffey had sex with when she was too incapacitated to consent. A grand jury ultimately decided there was not enough cause to criminally prosecute the case.

We’ll have more on this story as it becomes available.

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