What he got busted for was illegally signing athletes names to his movie line, and the FBI and SEC caught him. It is entirely different than what he exposed the AAU for. He was facing 67 years but basically told them he would expose the AAU. So basically for a year he was undercover for the FBI exposing Nike and Adidas.If I understand this correctly you're exactly right. He wasn't paying players to come to a certain school, he was paying them so they'd choose him as their agent. The timing of these payments and who the players were would be interesting to know. We all know that our compliance department is all over our kids. I know we all have nightmares about the NCAA looking down that barrel again but I don't see this going anywhere.
I’ll remind you that Alabama is deep in bed with Nike so the fact that Alabama has come up twice in this very case in two different sports isn’t just something to say it’s nothing. Yeah we aren’t going to get hit IN THIS CASE but you can bet rival dirt diggers are going to be watching extra closely in things related to this case in the future.
What the investigators started realizing was that teams like Louisville were funneling money to recruits through adidas to come to Louisville. That was the big one. UNC, Arizona,and Auburn were other big ones doing the same thing but not on the same scale.
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