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As many as 3 dozen Division I basketball programs could face NCAA penalties

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ESPN: Ex-Adidas execs, agent want federal charges dropped in corruption case


QuoteU.S. District Court judge in New York will hear arguments Thursday morning about whether a federal criminal case against three of the 10 men indicted for their alleged roles in the FBI's two-year investigation into college basketball corruption should continue.

Attorneys representing former Adidas executives James Gatto and Merl Code and former sports agent Christian Dawkins are expected to argue in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York that what their clients are accused of doing --

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."
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 Jon Rothstein‏Verified account @JonRothstein

Duke has done an internal review following today's news and found no eligibility issues regarding Wendell Carter, per release.


Matt Jones
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2h2 hours ago

Matt Jones Retweeted Jon Rothstein

Well that settles that
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4h4 hours ago

From @JeffEisenberg: Schools rush to distance themselves from Andy Miller and ASM sports https://sports.yahoo.com/schools-implicated-federal-documents-rush-distance-andy-miller-192441806.html ... In reaction to @YahooSports story this morning
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Collin Sexton expected to play Arkansas 'at this time' after FBI report  https://trib.al/oKyAeAZ


QuoteThere's more smoke in the wide-ranging FBI investigation into college basketball recruiting. Again, it mentioned Alabama star freshman Collin Sexton.

It, however, isn't impacting his availability for the 5 p.m. CT Saturday game with Arkansas in Coleman Coliseum. Coach Avery Johnson said he saw the report and didn't have any updates on his status. The coach was asked specifically if he'd play against the Razorbacks,

"Yes," Johnson said. "At this time, we anticipate that."

Sexton was named in a Yahoo Sports report published Friday morning on a list of players who allegedly had family members take meals from an agent.
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Michael DeCourcy‏ @tsnmike

Given stuff in my mentions, lotta people would understand College Hoops scandal better if they read my column.


Quote1. The worst part of this scandal remains the charges against a few assistant coaches that they were paid to steer athletes to particular agents or money managers. This is the part of the case that too often has been lost in the concern over college basketball's future or the sex appeal of prospects allegedly being delivered to particular schools in exchange for large payments.

The original complaint from the U.S. Attorney for New York's Southern District claimed Auburn's Chuck Person, who was being paid well into six figures as a Tigers assistant coach, accepted $91,500 in exchange for promising to direct prospects to work with a financial manager who was a cooperating witness with the Justice Department.

Person was not alone in being charged with this conduct.

There is no action that has been made public in any documents either released by the Justice Department or leaked to news outlets that is as disturbing as this. This one has actual human victims, young people who ought to be able to trust their coaches to have their best interests in mind.

2. The worst part of Friday's stories is that the eligibility of so many players was, according to the leaked documents, put at risk for loans from agents. Not grants or payments or free cars or whatever. For loans. According to the documents, ASM was loaning money to help secure future representation agreements with the players who still were competing as collegians or were on their way to doing so.

The principal presumably then would be collected from the player's earnings once he signed a professional contract and began gaining income with endorsements.

It's another way these players were victimized. The athlete takes most or all of the risk in the transaction.

3. It's never been more obvious that these sorts of decisions are made above the players' heads...
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Pat Fording this: If you're thinking the NCAA will drop the hammer during this season on schools caught up in the federal corruption in estimation, you're probably wrong.


QuoteEmmert: Don't expect sanctions before 2019 NCAA tournament

NEW YORK — NCAA president Mark Emmert confirmed Wednesday that investigations are underway based on information gathered by federal authorities in the college basketball corruption scandal, but those investigations aren't likely to be resolved during the 2018-19 season.

"This whole incident has cast a very bad light on college basketball and we need to deal with it as effectively as we can," Emmert told reporters after speaking at the Learfield Sports Business Journal Intercollegiate Athletics Forum. "We're not going to have everything wrapped by the Final Four because these trials are still going to be going on."

The first of three federal trials concluded in October, with guilty verdicts returned on former Adidas executives Jim Gatto and Merl Code, and aspiring agent Christian Dawkins. The three currently are awaiting sentencing. Two more trials will be conducted in 2019: former Auburn assistant coach Chuck Person and Atlanta clothier Rashan Michel are defendants in the first one, slated for February; former Arizona assistant Emanuel "Book" Richardson, former USC assistant Tony Bland and former Oklahoma State assistant Lamont Evans are defendants in the second, scheduled for April.

Yahoo Sports reported last month that the NCAA had been given a nod by the feds to begin its own investigations. The association is helped by the newly ratified process of "importation" of information from other investigations, though it does not have access to all material gathered by the feds. Emmert asserted that his organization has "the manpower and the willpower" to tackle this sprawling scandal, but he also cautioned that the association is still more of a spectator in some aspects of the wide-ranging case.

"There are still ongoing trials, investigatory work being done by the U.S. Attorney's office, and we have to be respectful of that," he said.

The ones who got paid will be able to play and the hammer if any will fall on those who sign with schools who get penalized in their future.
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