More players named by FBI as having received payoffs including Wichita State and Creighton players

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more.... Dana Altman involved

"During secret recording played in court today, Christian Dawkins and Merl Code
both described Oregon's offer to Brian Bowen to sign there as "astronomical"
but no details provided. Bowen was set to go to Oregon but Code said, "let me
work the phones and get something done."

[bradleyfan124]

Some of these coaches are saying they knew nothing about the payoffs which is a crock of crap. Either you knew it and were part of it or you say did not know about it which means you have no idea what is going with your players. That is lack of institutional control.

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more players' names being revealed


The government also provided a text from Christian Dawkins to Munish Sood listing payments Dawkins claimed he made to several other players.

"Of the $19,000 I gave 5K to Sexton, 2K to Bowen, 500 to Bazley, 350 to Blossingame," the text read in part.

https://twitter.com/AdamZagoria/status/1047570718345650176

Collin Sexton- Alabama but now with the Cavs
Brian Bowen- verbaled to Louisville but playing in Australia
Darius Bazely- high schooler who is going to play in G-League
Jaron Blossingame- Clemson, now in NBA

[pfcmsh]

It is a cesspool.

[AZ BU Fan]

NCAA Action? When He'll Freezes Over

Does anyone seriously think the NCAA will do anything?

The NCAA knows if they do anything, the schools in Big 5 Conferences will bolt and form their own league. All the freeloading poobahs in the NCAA will lose their posh lifestyles and freebies.

Hopefully the IRS will get involved as I'm sure NO Taxes were paid on this income or benefits.

[Da Coach]

Does anyone seriously think the NCAA will do anything?

The NCAA knows if they do anything, the schools in Big 5 Conferences will bolt and form their own league. All the freeloading poobahs in the NCAA will lose their posh lifestyles and freebies.

Hopefully the IRS will get involved as I'm sure NO Taxes were paid on this income or benefits.

Good question. Yes, we know when it's up to the NCAA, they always go easy on or ignore violations by the big schools. But in this case it is the FBI, and they are pressing some serious federal charges against those indicted, and I expect more people to be indicted as the lower-level guys start to cooperate. I would hope the FBI or the IRS won't be so generous to the big boys.

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summary of the schools that have been mentioned so far in testimony as offering cash for players:

-Those whose employees face charges-
Arizona
N.C. State
Kansas
Maryland
Louisville
USC
Auburn
Miami

Others mentioned during testimony-
Alabama
Kentucky
Mississippi State
Washington
Utah
LSU
Creighton
DePaul
Oklahoma State
Texas

according to YahooSports

[Da Coach]

In the FBI trial involving Christian Dawkins, the father of the primary player, Brian Bowen is on the witness stand (he is also named Brian Bowen, Sr.). His son was originally a 2017 recruit out of high school in Saginaw, Michigan, but then became a 2018 recruit by going to La Lumiere Prep School. The father just testified he started getting paid by Adidas as early as 2015, while his son was a sophomore at Saginaw Arthur Hill HS.-

https://twitter.com/PeteBrush/status/1047937100379840514

Follow this reporter's twitter page for more interesting information about this trial-

https://twitter.com/PeteBrush

[Da Coach]

The juicy tidbits and a lot of new names keep coming out of this FBI trial. Brian Bowen's father just testified that:
>>Christian Dawkins told him the Arizona, via assistant coach Joe Pasternack (now head coach at UC Santa Barbara), was offering $50,000.
>>He also testified that Oklahoma State would pay $150,000, $8,000 for a car and "some undisclosed amount to buy a house" via asst coach Lamont Evans.
Also-
>>Texas would "help me with housing" via asst coach Mike Morrell (now the head coach at UNC-Asheville)
>>Creighton would pay "like $100,000 and a good job, like a lucrative job" via asst coach Preston Murphy
>>Bowen Sr. said he was paid $25,000 for his son to play AAU ball one summer with the Michigan Mustangs. Money came from Dawkins and Adidas' Chris Rivers
>>Bowen Sr. testified he was paid $5,000-$8,000 to play AAU ball with the Nike backed Mean Streets out of Chicago
>>Bowen Sr. said he was paid $2,000 a month to have his son attend La Lumiere by then coach Shane Heirman (now an assistant coach at DePaul)
>>Bowen Sr. said Dawkins told him an original offer of $60,000 to $80,000 from Adidas to attend Louisville was increased to $100,000 because that is how much Billy Preston got to go to Kansas

These are from Yahoo Sports writer Dan Wetzel-

https://twitter.com/DanWetzel/status/1047947300146958336

As far as I recall, the names of former Arizona Associate Head Coach Joe Pasternack, Texas assistant Mike Morrell, Creighton assistant Preston Murphy, and DePaul assistant Shane Heirman had not previously come out publicly.

Heirman was hired in May, 2017 for the main purpose of trying to land his player (Brian Bowen) of La Lumiere at DePaul (which never materialized).

I expect more corruption to be uncovered, and more schools and coaches proven to be cheaters.
Joe Pasternack took over a 6-22 team at UC Santa Barbara in 2017, and turned things around immediately into a 23-9 record in 2017-18. Now we know he is a cheater.

And as with the revelation yesterday that Landry Shamet was getting paid while in college at Wichita State and confirming what has been long known that Gregg Marshall is a long-time chreater, now we have even more proof that Creighton's Greg McDermott is maybe an ever bigger cheater.

The question is, will the NCAA do anything about all this corruption and cheating? Undoubtedly the NCAA has known this was all going on for a long time, and they have intentionally ignored and buried it.
In fact, now that the FBI is uncovering all the corruption that should have been the job of the NCAA, the NCAA President is being criticized for not even attending the trial!
Mark Emmert's absence from hoops trial shows how much he cares about corruption in the sport

https://sports.yahoo.com/mark-emmerts-absence-hoops-trial-shows-much-cares-corruption-sport-001607530.html

[RoyalShock]

And as with the revelation yesterday that Landry Shamet was getting paid while in college at Wichita State and confirming what has been long known that Gregg Marshall is a long-time chreater, now we have even more proof that Creighton's Greg McDermott is maybe an ever bigger cheater.

Can you provide proof for this claim? The only "revelation", based on your own post from yesterday, was that Dawkins was "actively involved with" Shamet. That is not the same as what you just alleged. In fact, unless you can provide a link that states he was paid by Dawkins, especially while at WSU, it's not even an allegation. It's a fabrication. A lie.

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I have long though that sleazy stuff was going on at La Lumiere - but of course NCAA would have no cause nor jurisdiction....
the worst that could happen is that DePaul would have to cut ties with him

[bradleyfan124]

Can you provide proof for this claim? The only "revelation", based on your own post from yesterday, was that Dawkins was "actively involved with" Shamet. That is not the same as what you just alleged. In fact, unless you can provide a link that states he was paid by Dawkins, especially while at WSU, it's not even an allegation. It's a fabrication. A lie.

You are in denial!!!! If he did not know about the payments to his players then he has no control over his program. A coach must know what is going on with his players

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it took decades for even these well documented payoffs to finally be made known - and NOT because of the NCAA's actions - but because finally the FBI stepped in...

As we have seen all along - this is just the tip of the iceberg...the sleaze has been well hidden for years but now the lid is being peeled off...
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if two Wichita players have already been exposed, then gotta wonder how many and how long has it been going on? Does it even go as far back as Turgeon?

This time it's high level testimony under oath in a big time federal trial ...the guy is NOT going to lie on that witness stand...
so if the witnesses are describing cash to Shamet & FVV, then it's probably a little bit more than rumor.
And this is just one shoe company and a couple of agents.....multiply that out by several shoe companies and dozens of those freewheeling agents and i think there's likely hundreds of players involved and nearly every power-conference school, plus a few who used the technique to get to that level like Wichita. Tip of the iceberg.

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another aspect of the testimony from Brian Bowen's father

-- he said Bowen was paid $25,000 for his summer job when he was a sophomore in high school...some was just cash in envelopes....
the money came from adidas and Bowen didn't really have to do anything to earn it.

Yahoo adds their opinion that NCAA should just legalize this..

https://sports.yahoo.com/college-basketball-fraud-trial-point-ncaa-ethically-bankrupt-191446567.html

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another blockbuster piece of info from the testimony in the FBI case ...

"Bowen testified that the offer involving Creighton included $100000 and two "high paying jobs" for he and his longtime girlfriend.
Defense asked if both were over $100000 per year and Bowen said could recall exactly."

so the Creighton job would have paid possibly $100,000 up front plus TWO sham jobs that paid maybe $100,000 each PER YEAR!!!


Also - testimony that TWO separate DePaul assistants gave cash to Bowen- https://twitter.com/GatorBuckman/sta...35790312521728

also Brad Underwood's staff at Oklahoma State made offers in excess of $200,000

https://twitter.com/DanWetzel/status/1049706800390529035