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[QUOTE="TinyManInside, post: 2318317, member: 1251"]
The thing that is crazy to me in all this is that the funneling of money is coming from very traceable sources. It doesn't seem very smart to have a top assistant directly involved in this sort of thing. Too easy to get back to the head coach and university.

Another thing to consider here - there's more than one way to skin a cat.

When I was closely covering/following recruiting in the mid 2000s I was told that several schools (um, can you smell the tobacco burning?) use boosters for making the deals and delivering the goods... the coaches identify the kids they're recruiting, and the booster independently handles contacting the kid/family and makes the negotiations/delivery. In most cases the coach doesn't even know the terms of the deal, he just knows the kid signed the LOI.

This is smart for 'plausible deniability' - if the school gets caught, the response is "OH NO, that's just a rouge booster, whatever are we to do????"

But once you have your assistants directly involved, it gets a whole lot harder to say "gosh, golly-gee I had no idea this was going on" if you're the head coach.

So for everyone clamoring for Kentucky to go down, they might not be operating in the manner that is currently being investigated. It appears the focus of the investigation is a closed-loop 'sneaker company/agent/university' system. It's possible that there are other universities cheating their pants off, but just not in the way that the current investigation is focused. Since the FBI opened up a hotline, they're probably fishing for other inducement systems outside of the current investigatory window?

Mason
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