Micheal Beasly Admits To Major Rules Violations At Kansas St.

[SoonerDan74012]

Oh boy.

Washington Post Story:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/wizards/michael-beasleys-lawsuit-alleges-he-received-improper-benefits/2011/10/22/gIQAn40AKM_story.html

Court Docs:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/bell-beasley-documents.html

Beasley Admits NCAA Sins, Implicates Huggins
Posted by Brooks on Oct. 26, 2011, 9:14pm

Eric Prisbell and Steve Yanda of the WASHINGTON POST report that as part of a current Maryland Circuit Court case, Michael Beasley recently revealed stunning details about his recruitment to Kansas State and one year-stay at the school.

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(PDF: See Pages 7-8)

In a counterclaim filed late last month by attorney Mark A. Smith on behalf of Beasley against his former NBA agent Joel Bell, the ex-Kansas State star reported in Montgomery County Circuit Court documents that former Kansas State basketball head coach Bob Huggins hired Beasley’s ex-AAU Coach as an assistant coach for the Wildcats essentially in exchange for Beasley attending the school.

From Beasley’s attorney in court documents dated Sept. 27, 2011:

After (former Beasley AAU Coach) Hill had worked for Charlotte a couple of years, on information and belief, Bob Huggins of Kansas State wanted Beasley, so he offered Hill an assistant coaching job at Kansas State with a salary that ended up being in excess of $420,000. Hill took the job, and Beasley went to Kansas State.

Beasley also submitted to the Maryland Court that the founder of the AAU team he played on before attending K-State, Curtis Malone, was a “runner” for NBA Agent Bell. Beasley further asserted that Malone - via Bell - bankrolled Beasley’s mother’s move to Manhattan so she could be close to her son - among other things.

From Beasley’s court filing:

Malone promoted that Ms. Smith [move] to Kansas with Beasley to, among other things, keep other agents away from him. …

Smith (Beasley’s mother) moved to Kansas in June of 2007. The man that Malone had introduced to her paid for Ms. Smith’s moving to Kansas and made a lump-sum payment to cover the first six months of her rent while she was there …

… On information and belief, shortly afterwards, Bell phoned Ms. Smith and asked her the amount of her rent and her car payment and that they would be taken care and they were, Ms. Smith never made a rent or car payment during Beasley’s entire freshman year as a player for Kansas State, His only year of collegiate basketball prior to going pro.

Beasley’s admissions are particularly troubling considering the alleged personal level of complicity by Huggins and Hill in committing what can only be construed as major NCAA violations. Not to mention the fact that it is Beasley himself admitting to an extraordinary level of extra benefits the level of which was most recently seen in NCAA rules violations committed by USC’s Reggie Bush and his family.

With the revelations by Beasley well within the NCAA’s five-year statute of limitations window, it will be interesting to see how accountable the NCAA holds Kansas State for Beasley’s now-admitted rules violations in relation to the basketball programs of the current employers of Huggins (West Virginia) and Hill (Maryland).

 

[McJacknife]

Color me a purple shade of unsurprised.

 

[Sawyer]

Did anyone not see the Beasley/Hill/Huggins thing as dirty from a mile away?

At the time there was a lot of discussion about how Huggins had been away from coaching for a year, a period when he could contact recruits essentially free from NCAA rules. He was supposedly going to deliver Mayo, Walker and Beasley to whatever school hired him (ended up being just Walker and Beasley; Mayo ended up getting USC into some hot water himself).

The Hill/DC Assault deal was obviously questionable from the start. He was a glorified AAU coach getting paid more than any assistant in the country.

 

[sys]

Did anyone not see the Beasley/Hill/Huggins thing as dirty from a mile away?

At the time there was a lot of discussion about how Huggins had been away from coaching for a year, a period when he could contact recruits essentially free from NCAA rules. He was supposedly going to deliver Mayo, Walker and Beasley to whatever school hired him (ended up being just Walker and Beasley; Mayo ended up getting USC into some hot water himself).

The Hill/DC Assault deal was obviously questionable from the start. He was a glorified AAU coach getting paid more than any assistant in the country.

some (a lot) of the above is inaccurate, at least in the details.


beasley's account, though, is pretty much what kstate fans have been hearing for the last 4 years. it's why we've always lol'd at national media and fans of other teams making much of hill & dc assault. kstate hasn't had a chance at a dc assault recruit since beasley fired his agent.

 

[Sawyer]

What specifically was inaccurate? (not being argumentative, just curious)

I assume one thing would be Hill's salary. I knew that was probably something I should look up before posting. I am pretty sure his salary at ksu was not what a coach with his experience would typically command.

 

[Sooner_In_MI]

And now Huggins is probably going to be back in the conference when we add West Virginia. Amazing. What a conference.

 

[BigTime]

 

[campbest]

Dalonte Hill...see ya. As sys said, none of this is surprising if you keep up what was happening.

 

[BoulderSooner]

don't see where there are any problems from that on Kstate or huggins end

as long as not one can prove the they knew about the money the mom got

huggins can hire whom ever he want as a coach ..

 

[stoops4pres]

some (a lot) of the above is inaccurate, at least in the details.


beasley's account, though, is pretty much what kstate fans have been hearing for the last 4 years. it's why we've always lol'd at national media and fans of other teams making much of hill & dc assault. kstate hasn't had a chance at a dc assault recruit since beasley fired his agent.

Yeah... These revelations were just too obvious. Surprised it wasn't uncovered awhile ago.

 

[NormanPride]

Money for players in college ball? AAU coaches funneling recruits for cash? Say it ain't so...

 

[sys]

What specifically was inaccurate? (not being argumentative, just curious)

I assume one thing would be Hill's salary. I knew that was probably something I should look up before posting. I am pretty sure his salary at ksu was not what a coach with his experience would typically command.

good assumption. like i said, just inaccurate in the details.

huggins didn't recruit beasley during his one year hiatus. he was exclusively a hill recruit; huggins never even met him until after hiring hill (obviously huggins had seen him play, as he would have seen any prominant recruit).

hill, when hired by huggins, was a relatively poorly paid asst. about 120k, iirc. which was about double what he had been making as an asst at unc-charlotte. he didn't get paid big money for bringing beasley, when he was able to cash in, it was for staying with martin and kstate, rather than taking beasley to wvu with huggins.


not entirely related, but a little bit - the kstate staff have told a lot of people that they passed on mayo, rather than the other way around. they felt he would not have been sanctioned as an amateur by the ncaa. i first heard that story well before anything came out with him at usc.