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New York story blasts MU basketball recruiting tactics

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Missouri made a big splash last spring with its basketball recruiting, but count the New York Post’s Phil Mushnick among those who are unimpressed.

In fact, he takes it a lot deeper in a recent column (https://tinyurl.com/ya6gafpl) detailing some of the ills of the sports world as he questions Mizzou’s ethics. He writes, in part:

“This big college basketball scandal with Adidas payola money, the FBI sting that made big news and still does? But influence peddling — flat-out payola to land the best ‘student-athletes’ — occurs, unhidden, in plain sight.

“In April, Missouri signed the nation’s No.