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[QUOTE="Waltdods, post: 2569948, member: 2932"]
I do think this is going to put schools in a somewhat awkward position.  This flows directly from the fact that the prosecutors are using a fairly creative legal theory that is not particularly consistent with the reality of college sports.

Just to spell it out - the alleged victims are the schools who admitted the players.  Some people on this thread have suggested that the victims are those schools that are playing by the rules, which may be true in a factual sense, but is not the legal theory the United States is pursuing.  The theory (seriously!) is that Louisville et al. were defrauded because they unwittingly accepted players who were ineligible to play NCAA basketball.  Even if all the facts are true, that strikes me as a pretty unconvincing hook for federal criminal charges.  In addition, it does depend on some level of lack-of-awareness on the schools, which ain't terribly convincing.  If Rick Pitino (to take a name at random) is making scholarship decisions on behalf of the University, and Rick Pitino well knows that Addidas is paying guys, can the school really claim to have been defrauded?  (Maybe, is the answer, but the fact that we need to do these contortions is at least suggestive.)
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