I am not a snicker guy, more of a milky way guy.
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I’m more of an Almond Joy type guy.
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You like nuts? 
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sometimes I want nuts, sometimes I don’t. When I don’t then I want mounds. 
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Shocking, I am shocked that Josh Pastner is caught up in something shady. 
He said he also spent “about $500” on groceries for the players when they stayed at his house from May 9-13, and he provided photo evidence of Okogie and Jackson in his swimming pool. The NCAA should also be considering, he said, a 220-mile roundtrip ride from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport to Bell’s house in Tucson, which Bell said he provided for both players, as an impermissible benefit. And after adding up other various expenses, including a $120 meal Bell said he had with Okogie and Jackson at a Houston’s in Atlanta, the 51 year-old who works in the real estate business concluded he’s definitely given Okogie more than $750 and Jackson more than $525 in impermissible benefits.
“It’s not even close,” Bell said
Eight of the 10 men have been indicted this week by a grand jury empaneled in New York. The contents of indictments and who hasn’t yet been indicted suggest the possibility that the first two defendants to cooperate with prosecutors could be Jonathan Brad Augustine, an AAU coach out of Florida, and Munish Sood, a financial planner from New Jersey.
Neither man has been indicted and isn’t expected to at least this week, if ever.
In the indictments of the others, however, the two men no longer appear by name, although each did in the original charging documents. They are now listed as “a co-conspirator” – CC-1 (Sood) and CC-2 (Augustine).
_Ultimately, the people actually running the sport – the head coaches – also had to intervene. To little fanfare, that process has begun. The NABC announced on Nov. 16 an ad hoc committee that will seek to “address the pressing issues currently facing the sport” with the primary function of being an advisory entity “to develop a series of recommendations to present to the recently-formed NCAA Commission on College Basketball.” _
The committee is 15 coaches deep and includes some of college basketball’s most accomplished names: Kentucky’s John Calipari, Michigan State’s Tom Izzo, Villanova’s Jay Wright, Gonzaga’s Mark Few, Notre Dame’s Mike Brey, West Virginia’s Bob Huggins and more. But these men are not dealing with a style-of-play issue or course-correcting graduation trends. They’re going to try to curb the most egregious configurations of cheating. Anyone with a casual knowledge of major college athletics knows that’s a practical impossibility. Short of that, what can the committee, rationally, be able to do?
They put Calipari on a committee to curb cheating 
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Louisville asserts that Pitino badly fumbled his contractual duties. For one, although Pitino is neither a defendant nor a named witness in any of the recent criminal indictments brought by the U.S. Department of Justice against assistant coaches and sneaker executives, he is implicated in them. To that end, Pitino supposedly facilitated financial payments—which the Justice Department construes as illegal bribes—to the family of five-star Louisville recruit Brian Bowen.
_The Los Angeles Times, citing anonymous sources working the case, reported in October that more charges against others were expected later that month. That never happened. Now coaches, media, NCAA staffers and employees at college institutions are ever-curious and increasingly in the dark. The FBI’s got everyone standing, waiting, wondering. Maybe that’s just what it’s going for. _
As one influential person in the sport put forth to me on Thursday, “Does ‘nothing’ mean the bomb is coming, or does it mean nothing is coming?” People throughout the college basketball world often request anonymity when talking about the case because, well, it’s the FBI.
Regardless what happens with the criminal cases, sources with knowledge of the FBI investigation told ESPN this week that the clandestine probe could result in potential NCAA violations for as many as three dozen Division I programs, based on information included in wiretap conversations from the defendants and financial records, emails and cell phone records seized from NBA agent Andy Miller. His office was raided on the same day the FBI arrested 10 men, including four assistant coaches, in late September.
“It’s not the mid-major programs who were trying to buy players to get to the top,” a source told ESPN. “It’s the teams that are already there.”
This has been an open secret in college basketball for a long time. Nike / Adidas funneling money to the top schools to bribe AAU coaches for sending players to their schools has been going on a long time.
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“This goes a lot deeper in college basketball than four corrupt assistant coaches,” said a source who has been briefed on the details of the case. “When this all comes out, Hall of Fame coaches should be scared, lottery picks won’t be eligible to play and almost half of the 16 teams the NCAA showed on its initial NCAA tournament show this weekend should worry about their appearance being vacated.”
Spreadsheets, wiretaps and bank records detail payment scheme in hoops corruption case
Sources familiar with the probe told Yahoo Sports that there’s a surprising level of specificity in the documents, bank records and wiretaps involving Miller’s business. They include exact dollar figures and intricate documentation of payments to the families of college players. There are also conversations brokering deals between Dawkins and the clients he was recruiting.
“There are spreadsheets detailing who got paid, how much they got paid and how much more they were planning to pay,” said a source familiar with the investigation. “The feds got everything they wanted and much more. Don’t think it will only be players who ended up signing with ASM that got paid. Those spreadsheets cast a wide net throughout college basketball. If your school produced a first-round pick in the past three years, be worried.”