Question for the board: Why isn't shady recruiting/bagmen exposed?

I've often wondered why a school like Michigan that seemingly has unlimited resources doesn't launch their own investigation.  There are countless other schools with deep pockets that could contribute in this light,   Is it because it doesn't happen as often as we suspect so why bother.  Is it because the last thing we want is other schools taking a closer look at some or any of our practices.   Just a thought.

It wouldn't take much inducement for a recruit at a cheating school to make the exact same claim about the University of Michigan. What's another falsehood to the cheaters? 

Many of these inner city school kids come from cultures where "Snitching" or reporting crimes is extremely taboo. The culture will hold people back from even reporting a murderer to authorities let alone some guy bribing a recruit.

An interesting story of bagmen comes from Derrick Henry. Right after signing with Alabama he mysteriously ends up with a Red Dodge Challenger. Of course he refuted the statements saying his family bought him the car which is highly unlikely as the cars price tag was higher than the average median income of families in his city. Another player claimed Alabama tried to give him a Corvette for signing to them

Maybe recruits do report these incidenrts of schools trying to bribe them. We would never know if some recruit reported an incident of some Alabama bagman trying to bribe players. It seems the NCAA doesnt care

stuff like this a lot, especially during recruiting.  Particularly in basketball and football, it seems somewhat surprising that some group of former players has not come out saying what they offered/received.  

But I think a lot of this depends on the angle you are looking at.  If a player goes to school A, gets some "perks," and graduates, chances are he enjoyed the school, loved his position coaches, and does not want to hurt the institution, coaches, or teammates/alums.  

I look at a guy who is unhappy and transfers.  I wonder if his transfer "restrictions" are contingent on confidentiality?  Also wonder how much influence and power some of these donors wield for kids getting jobs other than football?

The CBAA has no supoena power and bagmen are used because it leaves no evidence other than heresay. Also like any politician, what the CBAA says they want and what they really want are entirely different. Going after some small time coach for buying lunch for his players is one thing. Going after bagmen would have the SEC talking secession. If you believe a certain report not long ago, only the few bluebloods are able to compete without bribing recruits. And out of these only a very few don't offer bribes, because their presidents wouldn't allow it. So if Michigan and say UCLA threatens to leave if Ole Miss and Auburn etc aren't given the death penalty as they should, do you think the carry the same weight as the entire SEC plus likely half of every other conference?

As to why Denard and so on don't come forward, obviously some of them do when asked. But here's the thing, until their college career is over, they don't want to be viewed as a snitch. Christ, look what happened to Ped State's former QB coach and that's after he turned in a pedophilia ring. He's blacklisted now. These elite players don't want to wreck a chance of grad transfer to those very same programs. They are not willing to throw their careers away just to make accusations the CBAA will never follow up on. They have 0 respect for CBAA either and aren't about to help. Plus they never actually received the $, so they can't prove much themselves and might even get sued for slander