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<p type = "text" content = "NEW YORK – The proof part of & nbsp;federal trial of university basketball against corruption& nbsp; finished here Thursday afternoon. Final arguments will be extended on Friday and Monday. A 12-member jury will then decide whether defendants Christian Dawkins and Merl Code have corrupted college basketball coaches. "Data-reactid =" 18 "> NEW YORK – The evidentiary part of federal university basketball corruption The trial ended Thursday afternoon and pleadings will continue on Friday and Monday, and a 12-member jury will decide whether the defendants Christian Dawkins and Merl Code have corrupted college basketball coaches.
<p type = "text" content = "More than 19 months ago, the sport of basketball – from the NBA and its players union to the grassroots – & nbsp;was rocked by the arrest of 10 men, including four college assistant coaches, following a three-year FBI operation. At the time, the US District Attorney's Office of the Southern District of New York had promised a massive crackdown on sport as part of an ongoing investigation. "Data-reactid =" 19 "> More than 19 months ago, basketball – from the NBA and its players union to the bases – was shaken by the arrest of 10 men, including four Assistant university coaches, following a three-year FBI crackdown on sport in an ongoing investigation.
Some coaches have been fired, plea agreements have been concluded and now two essays are for the most part (the third, if it occurs later this summer, should provide little new information). Yet, the sport has mostly turned.
<p type = "text" content = "There will be no clear closing for & nbsp;Arizona& nbsp; and his head coach Sean Miller. Several people have said over the past three days that Miller paid or was willing to pay money to players, their families and / or their players. "Data-reactid =" 43 "> There will be no clear shutdown for Arizona and its head coach, Sean Miller.Over the last three days, many people have claimed that Miller was paying for it. money, or was willing to do so, to players, their families and / or their coaches.
<p type = "text" content = "There were other stories of Miller paying money, not to mention Richardson's guilty plea, which is at least a bad lens for the program Richardson repeatedly speaks of wiretaps on payments, transactions and schemes.In a wiretap discussion that took place on Wednesday, Dawkins and Code said they would not discuss not details of an agreement with some Arizona assistant (Mark Phelps) and found another "boring" (Joe Pasternack), Phelps was removed from his duties and Pasternack is the head coach from & nbsp;UC-Santa Barbara. "data-reactid =" 45 "> There were other stories of Miller paying money, not to mention Richardson's guilty plea, which is at least a bad lens for the program. Richardson is repeatedly on wiretaps discussing payments, offers and plans In a wiretap discussion that took place on Wednesday, Dawkins and Code said they would not discuss the details of the payments. an agreement with a certain assistant from Arizona (Mark Phelps) and found another "boring" (Joe Pasternack), Phelps was removed from his duties and Pasternack is the head coach of the UC- Santa Barbara.
Despite the existence of FBI intercepts between Miller and Dawkins, Miller's voice was not heard in this trial. The prosecution decided not to play, probably by relevance. Despite the first proclamations, the government's goal was to win beliefs, not to expose obstacles.
Arizona accompanied Miller, his 10-year-old coach, throughout his career. Miller missed a match in 2017 after an ESPN report was released regarding one of the recorded phone calls. Despite his failure to participate in the NCAA Tournament this year, he is about to host in Tucson one of the top five recruiting categories for the 2019-2020 season.
What is Arizona doing now? Maybe nobody knows it. A university lawyer and an outside lawyer attended portions of the second trial. When the trial materials are finally made public, university officials will be able to hear Dawkins and Richardson's own conversations themselves and assess the guilt. These conversations took place without the knowledge that they were registered by the FBI, which confers credibility.
Is it sufficient? Is the fear that tapes involving Miller eventually go out is enough to scare Arizona? Or is it the status quo for Miller, who can continue to practice his profession but never find a measure of exoneration?
<p class = "web-atom canvas-text Mb (1.0em) Mb (0) – sm Mt (0.8em) – sm" type = "text" content = "On three different occasions, it was deduced that LSU L coach Will Wade paid for a rookie Last week, during a recorded conversation, Richardson told Dawkins that he and Wade had discussed the recruitment of the future Tigers star, Naz Reid, who is Arizona & nbsp;LSU"data-reactid =" 76 "> It was deduced three times that LSU coach Will Wade had paid a rookie.Last week, during a recorded conversation, Richardson told Dawkins told him that he and Wade had been discussing the recruitment of the future Tiger star, Naz Reid, who was recruiting both Arizona and LSU.
"Look, there is an agreement in place, I have $ 300,000 for him," said Richardson, Wade told him.
At the first trial last October, defense attorney Casey Donnelly had read a transcript of a call starring Wade and Dawkins, in which Wade had said, "I can get you what you have need "to recruit Balsa Koprivica. Donnelly later said that "need" meant "money".
<p class = "canvas-atom canvas-text Mb (1.0em) Mb (0) – sm Mt (0.8em) – sm" type = "text" content = "Yahoo Sports reported in March that & nbsp;Wade is in separate conversation with Dawkins and discusses a "strong offer"& nbsp; he told the director of the future guardian LSU, Javonte Smart. "Data-reactid =" 79 "> Yahoo Sports reported in March that Wade was in separate phone conversation with Dawkins to discuss a" foolish offer "that he had made to the manager of the future LSU guard Javonte Smart .
LSU's new sporting director, Scott Woodward, begins his work on Monday. While the evidence against Wade has been upheld, Woodward must make a difficult decision.
Wade led the Tigers to their best season of the decade, when LSU won the SEC and reached the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament. Wade was suspended for the final game of the regular season and the playoffs, in part because he did not meet with school officials to discuss Yahoo's story for more than a month.
Wade is back as a head coach. And Woodward must decide if he wants to tie his car to a coach whose success has come with a cloud of suspicion and a series of allegations. Sports managers tend to follow a conservative trend, and the sentiment around the SEC and the NCAA is a feeling of disbelief that Wade has been around for so long. Firing Wade would not be popular with Woodward fans. But would it be considered the most pragmatic administrative step to start a career in parallel with a coach related to so many problems?
Zion Williamson's name was cited in the federal corruption lawsuit. (AP)
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Because the purpose of the trials was to win convictions or acquittals and the nature of the federal courts – procedures, evidentiary decisions, and restrictions on relevance – about one million subjects were addressed, but never really explored.
<p class = "canvas-atom canvas-text Mb (1.0em) Mb (0) – sm Mt (0.8em) – sm" type = "text" content = "Zion Williamson, for example, has been set up several times in two trials, with the suggestion that at least one member of his family is looking for money, a job, and a house, but that does not go much further than it is likely that the public will never know what caused the sensation & nbsp;duke. "data-reactid =" 105 "> Zion Williamson, for example, was mentioned several times in two trials, with the suggestion that at least one member of his family was looking for money, a job, and a house It is likely that the public will never know what brought the sensation to Duke.
<p class = "canvas-atom-canvas-text Mb (1.0em) Mb (0) – sm Mt (0.8em) – sm" type = "text" content = "Similarly, the October trial has introduced several references to an "astronomical offer" that Dawkins and Code believed & nbsp;Oregon& nbsp; Brian Bowen was signed, but his father responded in this regard when he was questioned about it on the witness stand. This week, Dawkins and Richardson listened to a tape telling their belief that the price to sign Bol Bol, which ended up in Oregon, was $ 200,000. Again, nothing was more than that. "Data-reactid =" 106 "> Similarly, the October lawsuit repeatedly referred to an" astronomical offer "that Dawkins and Code thought Oregon had signed for Brian Bowen, but his father was reluctant to do so. when We heard a tape from Dawkins and Richardson recounting their belief that the price to sign Bol Bol, which resulted in Oregon, was $ 200 000. Again, there was nothing more.
Either a lot of inaccurate speculation about the Ducks program, or coach Dana Altman dodged a bullet and will continue to Eugene.
There are many unexplored or unresolved allegations involving dozens of schools.
<p class = "canvas-atom canvas-text Mb (1.0em) Mb (0) – sm Mt (0.8em) – sm" type = "text" content = "On the other side, the & nbsp;University of Miami& nbsp; was one of four schools (Kansas& nbsp;Louisville& nbsp; and & nbsp;State of North Carolina& nbsp; were the others) contained in the original indictments, causing major consternation at Coral Gables. However, in the end, the school was removed from the record and there were only superficial references to the Hurricanes. "Data-reactid =" 109 "> The University of Miami was one of four schools (Kansas, Louisville and the state of North Carolina were mentioned in the first indictments, which caused consternation However, in the end, the school was removed from the record and there were only superficial references to the Hurricanes.
<p class = "canvas-atom canvas-text Mb (1.0em) Mb (0) – sm Mt (0.8em) – sm" type = "text" content = "Although few people can remember schools such that Oregon or & nbsp;Creighton& nbsp; Having nothing to do with the case, they turned out to have much more than Miami, which could be tied forever for an apparently major reason. "data-reactid =" 110 "> Although few people remember schools like Oregon or Creighton having nothing to do with the case, they turned out to have a lot more than Miami, which could be linked forever for apparently no major reason.
Then there is the most important: Nike, which, according to almost everyone in the sport, operates in the same way, but on a larger scale, like Adidas. Adidas chief executive James Gatto and consultant Merl Code, however, were sentenced in October in a lawsuit that resulted in the best Adidas schools – Kansas, Louisville and N.C. State – in the scrum.
In public, at least, there is no indication that neither the Southern District of New York nor the FBI are investigating Nike as it had done with Adidas, even with the constant cries of Attorney Michael Avenatti, accused of attempting blackmail against the shoe company. information of irregularities.
If a federal inquiry of this magnitude and magnitude in basic basketball ends without any direct connection to Nike … well, that would be a mistake and a failure on the part of the government.
Christian Dawkins appeared in federal court in New York on Wednesday and Thursday in the federal government's basketball-related corruption scandal. (AP)
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The jury should get the case on Monday and determine the guilt of Code and Dawkins. Although both men were found guilty in the October trial and sentenced to six months in federal prison, the stakes are not huge. It is quite possible that, even if they are found guilty this time of accusations of corruption, their sentence in this case will be of the same duration and will take place simultaneously.
Nevertheless, both would like to avoid discovering it. They also appeal their previous conviction and remain free as it works in the system.
So, can one or the other of them really win?
Despite the understanding that the federal authorities rarely lose, there is certainly a very compelling argument that the Code could obtain a verdict of not guilty. His role in the so-called bribery of college assistant coaches is at best peripheral, in that he essentially helped organize meetings with coaches who were not really corrupt.
He hardly knew and rarely spoke with anyone other than Dawkins and expressed doubts about the idea, pushed by an undercover FBI agent named Jeff DeAngelo, that paying college assistant coaches was a good way to secure future clients of the NBA from their agency.
Code, 45, did not even bother to present his defense on Thursday – mainly because, other than calling himself a witness, there was no one who could help. It's hard to prove a negative, as they say.
There is much more evidence against Dawkins, 26, and the prospect of everything except a conviction, was as distant as last Wednesday. However, he took the defense of his own defense and made it clear that he never wanted to bribe college coaches and that he only did so under the pressure of an investor of his company who happened to be an undercover agent of the FBI. Bank records even indicate that some of the alleged "kickbacks" were actually returned to Dawkins and reinvested in the company.
He certainly has an argument. Perhaps even better for him, he showed up extremely well on the witness stand without ever giving up incriminating details about college coaches, even when the possibility of separating from Miller, in particular, was available.
<p class = "canvas-atom canvas-text Mb (1.0em) Mb (0) – sm Mt (0.8em) – sm" type = "text" content = "In the end, he pleaded forcefully to compensate equitably university athletes while & nbsp;Hacking his two main enemies – the NCAA and the FBI. In the end, he argued forcefully for college athletes to be fairly compensated while ridiculing his two formidable enemies – the NCAA and the FBI.
He may not win at the end, but Christian Dawkins has jumped.
Rashan Michel leaves the Manhattan courthouse on October 10, 2017 in New York. (Getty archive photo)
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The end of this essay can be seen as the metaphorical transfer of the federal part of this case to the NCAA portion. There is still a potential lawsuit, that of the clothier Rashan Michel, the intermediary in charge of confection, who faces accusations of corruption and online fraud.
In the micro-system, the NCAA will learn from the federal government when its law enforcement staff can begin to thoroughly investigate these cases. This will only happen when the federal investigations are fully completed, but this change is expected sooner rather than later. The NCAA will face a huge task in terms of reach and scale – there is a lot of pressure to get real results from coaches.
A Power Five coach summed up the situation on Thursday at Yahoo Sports: "The people in our company are laughing. What is going on? All of us who said, "Hey, let's follow the letter of the law." Are we all idiots? Why do we do that? "
The NCAA has been handcuffed and the shortest time to achieve significant results from NCAA investigations will be at least one year. Some of the cases going over two years would not be surprising.
"At some point, we all wonder when decisive action will be taken," said the coach. "Schools must also respond. I do not want to put that solely on the NCAA. I feel that so many people in our positions feel that we have a weakness, both from the universities and the NCAA. "
In one of the most humorous moments in court this week, Dawkins said, "Everything is in violation of the NCAA rules." It is now up to the NCAA to see if it can enforce them.
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The world of NBA agents did not have a flattering week in court, Christian Dawkins' testimony essentially portraying a picture of a world where agents ruthlessly compete to buy the best players in high school. He described the competition for signing players as "fierce", a ruthless world where buying players was commonplace. Dawkins learned this world by working and recruiting for former NBA agent Andy Miller. "I have nothing to hide from this point of view," Dawkins said. "Everyone was paying the players." He added that there was "no one" signing players who "do not pay for people".
<p class = "canvas-atom canvas-text Mb (1.0em) Mb (0) – sm Mt (0.8em) – sm" type = "text" content = "Three officials of the National Basketball Players Association attended a Thursday was the association regulating the world of NBA agents.It was mentioned several times Wednesday and Thursday Seth Cohen, an obscure basketball agent who would have paid $ 13,000 to the former & nbsp;Caroline from the south& nbsp; Assistant coach Lamont Evans to recruit P.J. Dozier. (Cohen declined to comment when he was contacted by Yahoo Sports on Thursday.) According to & nbsp;Cohen's Customer List on RealGMhe has no current NBA player on his list of customers, which is indicative of the competitiveness of this world (Dozier signed with Bill Duffy). "data-reactid =" 174 "> Three National Basketball Players Association officials attended the meeting and part of Thursday's testimony is the association that is responsible for regulating the world of NBA agents. Seth Cohen, an obscure basketball agent who reportedly paid $ 13,000 to former South Carolina assistant coach Lamont Evans in an effort to recruit PJ Dozier, was mentioned several times on Wednesday and Thursday. Cohen declined to comment when Yahoo Sports contacted him on Thursday.) According to Cohen's customer list on RealGM, he has no NBA player on his client list, which is indicative of The competitiveness of this world is (Dozier signed with Bill Duffy).
"Since the September 2017 indictment, NBPA is monitoring the FBI's investigation-related procedures and will continue to do so in the future," NBPA said in a statement. addressed to Yahoo Sports. "In addition, we are ready to investigate any decisional information we receive regarding the inappropriate behavior of certified agents."
Following the first arrests, Andy Miller waived his accreditation to represent NBA players in December 2017.
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