Arrests coming due to college bball kickbacks

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BigDaddyBuzz said:
It was dirty but it wasn’t the kid or the family. It was the aau and the bag men.
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Bingo!
it appears that Little and his family were clean. But his AAU coach certainly was not. He reportedly never talked to the Little family about potential payments - he just planned to keep the money himself.
 

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Morning update.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-b...to-ex-nc-state-assistant-detailed-by-witness/

NCST needs to be feeling worried. Testifying that you gave 40K to a NCST asst to give to Dennis Smith Jr. That ropes NCST's former staff in.
Kansas doesn't look great either with an asst telling Grassnola to connect DeSouza's guardian with Adidas.
Grassnola also mentioned he knew DeSouza's guardian was getting 60K from a MD booster.

This was under the prosecution's questioning and Grassnola is their witness. Could be alot more with the defense gets to cross this afternoon.
 
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I am still not sure what the defense will try to prove? That the payments were not made or something else?
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They will probably focus on the fact that the payments aren't bribes and that no one was defrauded. The only party who could be a victim is the school (unknowingly admitting ineligible players). If they knew or should have known, who is the victim of this purported fraud?

I would think it would go something like this: So you are saying that the basketball program that got player X (insert All-American here) was a victim for getting player X to play the basketball game for this school? Hmmmm. That seems odd.
 

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I have had 2 kids play intercollegiate sports. How the hell does anyone get a look at wire transfers in or out of my bank account? That ain't happening for me :confused:
 
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ESPNjacket said:
They will probably focus on the fact that the payments aren't bribes and that no one was defrauded. The only party who could be a victim is the school (unknowingly admitting ineligible players). If they knew or should have known, who is the victim of this purported fraud?

I would think it would go something like this: So you are saying that the basketball program that got player X (insert All-American here) was a victim for getting player X to play the basketball game for this school? Hmmmm. That seems odd.
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This is what I don’t understand, how does proving that the bribes weren’t bribes save these guys from being charged with embezzlement? I don’t understand this trial other than putting on a show to air dirty laundry
 
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ESPNjacket said:
Click on this, read this, you're welcome:

https://sports.yahoo.com/fake-affai...inside-routine-day-hoops-trial-012320618.html
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Probably the most unbelievable part of Gassnola's testimony. Possible perjury.
What “help” means is open to debate. Crean eventually lost his job at Indiana in part for not recruiting well enough, so whatever “help” Gatto and Gassnola were talking about didn’t, well, help. But did just the hope Gassnola might be of any use for the Hoosiers really warrant a hug?

“Tom hugged me,” Gassnola testified.
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This is what I don’t understand, how does proving that the bribes weren’t bribes save these guys from being charged with embezzlement? I don’t understand this trial other than putting on a show to air dirty laundry
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Why would it be embezzlement? They have an expense account to buy stuff for potential clients. I don't understand why any of this is illegal. I've read a fair amount about it and have yet to find anything convincing.
 
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ESPNjacket said:
Why would it be embezzlement? They have an expense account to buy stuff for potential clients. I don't understand why any of this is illegal. I've read a fair amount about it and have yet to find anything convincing.
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Yeah, @RonJohn said it last year and I didn't want to believe him. However, the more I read the more I see he was spot on. NCAA rules were broken, for sure. Were laws broken? Eh, tangentially I guess.

Seems like they would've been better served to make these IRS-related issues. From what I read of the bagg-man, it seems they've gotten him on those in order to compel his testimony. Making these federal law violations seems like a stretch.
 
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