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More players named by FBI as having received payoffs including Wichita State and Creighton players
"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!!!
Depaul is one school that has certainly NOT been getting their money's worth. Someone at Depaul needs to hire a better "bag man" because they're obviously not getting the bang for their buck.
The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies... - John Walter Wayland
In addition to funnelling dirty money to the talent brokers, DePaul hired the head coach at La Lumiere Prep hoping to land Brian Bowen, the guy Louisville paid $100,000 for and other schools paid big buck for, too. And they thought it would help them land other La Lumiere kids, too.
But the only La Lumiere kid they have landed since they hired the coach is this wacky, walk-on, glorified cheerleader who never sees the court-
There’s an old saying in sports that statistics don’t always tell the whole story. A box score will identify the winner, loser, various percentages and, of course, the final score. All of that information is important. But at the end of the day, it’s really just a bunch of numbers. In basketball, like any other...
Creighton is lawyering up big time..
the name of the Creighton assistant alleged to have made the $100,000+ payment offer is Preston Murphy who has been at Creighton under Greg McDermott since 2015. And the strange La Lumiere-connection seems to pop up again...
Creighton's President says they have done nothing wrong, they are not apparently doing any investigation on their own, and have done nothing regarding the employment of assistant coach Preston Murphy in the meantime.
What's also interesting is that the other top Creighton assistant is Alan Huss, who, like Shane Heirman (see above) came to Creighton after serving as head coach at La Lumiere. In fact, Heirman was Huss' assistant who took over at La Lumiere when Huss left.
Also on staff there at Creighton is former Missouri State head coach Paul Lusk.
we now have really strong, sworn courtroom testimony that talented players and/or from both Wichita State & Creighton were offered or DID receive illegal payments ...
Of course, NCAA is just sitting on the sidelines hoping all this goes away and stalling so those programs can continue recruiting blue chippers and packing their coffers with cash from their sellouts...
Creighton's President says they have done nothing wrong, they are not apparently doing any investigation on their own, and have done nothing regarding the employment of assistant coach Preston Murphy in the meantime.
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The Creighton President and Board sold their soul when they joined the Big East for the sole purpose of being able to elevate and enhance their brand with prospective wealthy Catholic students from the northeast. They're so far down the shady train tracks that there's no turning back now...
The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies... - John Walter Wayland
likewise Wichita State - when all their assistants jumped ship last spring - Gregg Marshall hired a guy who had a history of NCAA violations
But then, that is not a new thing for Gregg Marshall -
he has hired Steve Forbes who was part of the Bruce Pearl scandal at Tennessee
He has hired Chris Jans who was run out of basketball for sexually assaulting a woman
And he hired Donnie Jones who got one of the "stiffest penalties" the NCAA could hand out for a scandal
More blockbuster testimony today in the college basketball corruption trial...
one of the corrupt agents who was paying players has directly implicated Kansas head coach Bill Self in funneling CASH PAYMENTS to DeAndre Ayton...who ended up going to Arizona instead...
Adidas consultant TJ Gassnola who admits to paying cash payments to high schoolers in order to funnel them to specific colleges... "Gassnola testified ... he paid $15,000 to a family friend of Deandre Ayton that was to be given to Ayton's mother. This was when Ayton was a junior in high school. The money was given to Ayton's family in an attempt to "establish a relationship" and get Ayton on board with Adidas, Gassnola said."
"Gassnola testified to attempting to get Ayton's mother permanent housing and a job in Kansas in an effort to recruit Ayton to KU. Gassnola also said he felt he let Kansas coach Bill Self down in his outside recruiting efforts after Ayton committed to Arizona."
He goes on to detail two different players (Silvio DeSouza and Billy Preston) that he funneled money to in order to get them to Kansas.
He even convinced Peston's mother to claim she was in an INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP with Gassnola "which would make the $90,000 payments "OK." - same as if a family member was giving him money!!
In addition to Bill Self - other names brought up who were alleged to be in on illegal payment schemes...
Bill Self, Maryland's Mark Turgeon, NC State asst Orlando Earley, Kansas asst Kurtis Townsend, Miami assistants, and then another middle-man/agent Martin Fox who was paying adidas money to the corrupt agents...
A former Adidas consultant testified he tried to get Deandre Ayton's mother housing and a job in an effort to recruit Ayton to Kansas
BTW- here is BILL SELF's denial....
it sounds incredibly dishonest and actually doesn't even seem to deny he was CHEATING!!! "Self told reporters Wednesday. "But I can say this, in the past I've made a
statement that we certainly believe, based on the information we have, that
this thing would have a positive resolution. But that was also based on the
information that we had.
"So, you know, who knows what could potentially happen in the next, you
know, whatever period of time? But I'm taking the approach, as everybody is
on our team, that we're going to have Silvio De Sousa playing for us this year.""
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. This is corruption at its worst level. I like to think they have to. They are always complaining they no subpoena powers to gather evidence putting them at a disadvantage. Here they are getting sworn testimony in a court of law. However I think the NCAA has been taken over by the bigger Corrupt Powers so they may want to ignore it. If they do I think they will show there true colors and lose creditability. Time will tell.
Some text messages between Kansas Head Coach Bill Self and an Adidas representative named T.J. Gassnola that were entered into evidence Monday at the FBI trial appear to show that Self was aware and involved in the Adidas payoffs to top high school players, and that Self expected Adidas to do more to help Kansas land more "lottery picks". The Adidas rep assures Self he won't "let him down" like he did with Deandre Ayton, the 5-star big man who picked Arizona (a Nike school) over Kansas (an Adidas school). Ayton turned into the #1 overall pick in the NBA draft this past June.-
LOL
and in their conversations Self declares "that's how it (pay-for-play) works at UNC and DUKE"...
and the agent responds "...and at Kentucky"!
so it was common knowledge in the upper echelons of college basketball that you get what you pay for
"Simply put, this has been college basketball for a while.
Self was right. That's how it works.
Gassnola (the adidas "agent" or "consultant" known as "the fixer") essentially promising Self
that he'll help him land five-star prospects because Kansas
is Adidas' biggest basketball program and what's good for Kansas is good for Adidas.
Gassnola assures Self he will deliver because he's never previously let him down."
Interesting stuff that was not allowed into evidence today, but is interesting and again suggests schools like Oregon and DePaul were willing to pay up to $200,000 to get Brian Bowen. It also brings up a couple new names that were likely involved in the pay for play scandal - players Zion Williamson (now a freshman at Duke), Markelle Fultz (who spent a year at Washington and is now in the NBA), Balsa Koprivica (a 7'1" prep school senior whoi has offers from a lot of major schools, including Illinois, and who some have thought was leaning toward LSU) and LSU head coach Will Wade.
Read down the whole thread...
Huge revelation in the court proceedings...
and it involves the recruitment of top 5-Star prospect Zion Williamson..
a taped conversation between KANSAS assistant coach Kurtis Townsend and adidas "fixer" Merl Code...
Code says, regarding Williamson... "Hey, but between me and you, he asked about some stuff.
I know what he's asking for. He's asking for opportunities from an occupational perspective,
he's asking for cash in the pocket and he's asking for housing for him and his family."
...so Zion Williamson would be open to going to Kansas but he wants to be lined up with a lucrative job, a bundle of cash and a nice free place for him & his family to live!
Here's the response of the Kansas assistant Kurtis Townsend on the tape.. "If that's what it takes to get him here for 10 months," Townsend responded, "we're going to have to do it some way."
another witness says Kansas' Bill Self not only knew about the payments being made to funnel players to Kansas - he specifically asked for the payments to be made.
An attorney for Adidas executive James Gatto said Gatto approved a $20K payment to the guardian of Kansas player Silvio De Sousa only after coach Bill Self requested it.
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