The Larranaga saga could get interesting.
His exact words from his PC are "I did nothing wrong". That's different than saying I am innocent or I did not commit any violations. This reminds me of an article a couple of weeks ago where a basketball writer said he talked to alot of coaches and almost to a man their response to what was happening was "I didn't know what I was doing was wrong or illegal". I think in the industry it is just accepted as common practice.
I went back and looked at the indictment this morning, the good news is that it appears he is not on any wiretaps - rather coach-3 comes up in discussions on wiretaps between Dawkins and Code and Code and Gatto.
if the first call on Aug 9 Dawkins and Code discuss paying player-12 (Little?) and/or his family 'at the request of at least one coach from University-7 (Miami) ("Coach-3")'.
Dawkins and Code also discuss the involvement of coach-3 in ensuring that company-1 would funnel payments to player-12 to secure player-12's commitment to play at University-7.
Finally, on the call it is stated that according to Jonathan Brad Augustine that "coach-3 knows everything" and they could "start the process" to funnel the payments to player-12.
on a call on August 11 between Gatto and Code discussing the payment scheme Code says "University-7 wants this kid named player-12".
Gatto says to Code that he already knew about University-7's request and he had spoken to coach-3.
In a footnote it states that Gatto had 2 telephone calls with a cellphone number believed to be used by coach-3 on August 6.
It feels like Miami's situation, and particularly coach-3, are going to be tied up into how much Gatto, Code and Dawkins are willing to talk.
What's interesting to me are there are 2 different things going on here. First is the legal piece - which is what the FBI is interested in. Coach 3 may be largely ok here since he is not on any of the wiretaps directly.
The second part is NCAA violations. You do not need to pay a prospect to violate NCAA rules, you simply need to know about payments. In that sense, it would appear that coach-3 could be insignificant trouble. But right now all this info resides with the FBI and given this is an ongoing investigation I got to imagine the FBI will not be in any rush to turn the evidence over to the NCAA - which means it could be years before the NCAA would have the evidence to do anything.
It appears as though right now the NCAA is likely to let the schools self report and take action and then once the NCAA actually has any evidence, then they will look to possibly take action and see what the school did before the NCAA gets the information.
