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What you're saying just isn't true. Leo Lewis wasn't being investigated. He simply did not HAVE to cooperate with another investigation. And even if he did, the problem here was that he was compelled by an NCAA investigator and possibly his own coach to be a part of an investigation into another school. Do you not think that's a fricking big deal?

That's exactly how investigations are conducted. OM keeps acting like this is groundbreaking when in fact it is SOP with numerous examples found via google. Investigators talk to players about how other schools recruited them ALL THE FRICKING TIME and the coaches at those other programs have an ethical obligation to see that their players cooperate.

You'd have a shaky but somewhat tenable position if Lewis had initiated contact with the NCAA, but that's not what happend. Lewis didn't call them, they came to him. At that point, yes he had to talk to them. He could have said "I don't remember" but if you'll see the post a few down they had corroborating evidence in the form of conversations he couldn't have know of that discussed the same amount of money he claimed to have gotten from OM. Faking ignorance at that point would have cost him his eligibility.

So yes, once they came to him and particularly now that he's been called to appear before the COI he damned sure has to be there or he won't be playing NCAA sports.