Perhaps this will get the attention of others. Here is the story:

NEW YORK — Three men received prison sentences Tuesday (March 5) in the widespread college basketball recruiting scandal that has tainted two dozen schools.

Former Adidas executive James Gatto, business manager Christian Dawkins and amateur league director Merl Code were convicted in October of conspiracy to commit wire fraud for funneling illegal payments to families of recruits to Louisville, Kansas and North Carolina State.

Gatto got nine months in prison; Dawkins and Code got six months each.

Prosecutors say coaches teamed up with Gatto and others to trade hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to influence star athletes’ choice of schools, shoe sponsors, agents and even tailors.

NCAA President Mark Emmert has said an independent enforcement body to adjudicate major infractions cases could be in place by August.



Coach offered little comment on the matter on Monday.

Judge Lewis A. Kaplan said he sympathized with the argument that the defendants were being punished when others who did similar things were not being prosecuted. Nonetheless, he said, “These defendants all knew what they were doing was wrong.”

The judge added that he wanted to send "a great big warning light to the basketball world."

"I deeply regret my actions," Gatto said in a shaky voice.

Dawkins referenced “social dysfunction” in college basketball and said his actions were “clouded” by a “system that takes advantage of kids.”

"I realize now more than ever none of this was worth it," Dawkins said.

Code said he also regretted his actions but added, “Some things really got to be changed about college basketball.”

LINK: https://www.nola.com/lsu/2019/...ruiting-scandal.html

Can you say "tip of the iceberg?"
I mean, come on. Between you know who in college football and BB.

I have always said in the last decade or two. How do these kids pay for $10k or more worth of tattoo's?

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
NCAA President Mark Emmert has said an independent enforcement body to adjudicate major infractions cases could be in place by August.

Sure....top men are on it, right Mark?

Here's something I heard on the Steve Deace show that very few know - the NCAA mkes most of its money on March Madness. They make very little money from other college sports, including football.

So they are heavily invested in the status quo with regard to college basketball.

As with the ongoing college admissions scandal, the fact that this was prosecutable under federal law strongly suggests that federal law is vastly to broad and overreaching. The wire and mail fraud acts need to be rewritten and significantly shrunk.

My wife asked me the same question.

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Originally posted by old rugged cross:


I have always said in the last decade or two. How do these kids pay for $10k or more worth of tattoo's?

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"I realize now more than ever none of this was worth it," Dawkins said.

Funny how going to prison clears the mind.

What I am trying to figure out is exactly who was defrauded? And is it illegal to pay a kid to pick a particular school, or just against NCAA rules?

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I have always said in the last decade or two. How do these kids pay for $10k or more worth of tattoo's?

I’m pretty heavily tattooed. I’m almost 45 and have been. Working on them for more than 25 years. I still have a long ways to go, and yeah, it’s expensive for quality art.

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Originally posted by AUTiger89:
Here's something I heard on the Steve Deace show that very few know - the NCAA mkes most of its money on March Madness. They make very little money from other college sports, including football.

So they are heavily invested in the status quo with regard to college basketball.

Some smaller universities or big ones that are marginal will get hammered while the unc, Kentucky, dukes, kansas of the basketball world will get a free pass. The ncaa will continue to protect the money makers.

The unc scandal of 20 years + of no show classes, fake grades, tutors writing papers was documented for basketball and football players. The ncaa turned their heads and did nothing!

I detest what college sports has become. Just about ready to quit watching. However the ncaa Tournament just attracts so much attention that the few like myself that go away will not be noticed by sponsors or the crooks at the ncaa,

I hold a little bit of hope that the FBI will blow up the whole crooked mess. It might as well be the mafia.

I’m sure this will put the brakes on the whole system, right?

This will just make all of the “recruiters” more careful. This has been going on for a long time and will continue to do so in one form or another.