re: Yahoo: NCAA waiting for feds to finish

Saying 'so much cringe' is probably the cringiest thing one can say.

LoL

These guys were right about AU almost zero percent of the time during the Cam investigation. They're hacks.

A monumental CAT FIGHT!

My west Georgia lil bros definitely have the high ground on this "conversation". As usual, the coonasses are in another world (Bizarro) when it comes to trying to rationalize LSU's catastrophic dilemma, and their feline cousins are just trying to educate them...good luck with that!

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Wtf

Did you need to sleep on it?

What's wrong, lil Billie? No fun being on the butt-hurt end of this shite-show for you coonasses, huh?
I've got some really bad news for you, too...a few goofy little gifs aren't gonna make this nightmare go away and soon you're going to have to straight-up deal with it...maybe those little seeds will have dropped by then, and you'll be able to handle it like a man!

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What's wrong, lil Billie? No fun being on the butt-hurt end of this shite-show for you coonasses, huh?
I've got some really bad news for you, too...a few goofy little gifs aren't gonna make this nightmare go away and soon you're going to have to straight-up deal with it...maybe those little seeds will have dropped by then, and you'll be able to handle it like a man!

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I always think people ignore my unnecessary italics/bold/underline.

Glad people are paying attention.

So, do we all agree that the Feds probably won't give, and definitely *don't owe*, the NCAA anything coming out of this trial?

This trail has been over for 6 months. With a little thought you can get a pretty good idea who University 6 and University 7 are. Seems like the NCAA would of been all over this.

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First, GATTO, CODE, DAWKINS, and SOOD worked together to funnel $100,000 from Company-1 to the family of a high school basketball player (“Player-10”) in exchange for Player-10’s commitment to play at an NCAA Division I university whose athletic programs are sponsored by Company-1 (“University-6”), and in further exchange for a commitment from Player-10 to retain DAWKINS and SOOD, and to sign with Company-1, once Player-10 joined the NBA. DAWKINS told CW-1 and others on a recorded conversation that he did so at the request of a coach at University-6 (“Coach-2”), and call records show that GATTO spoke directly with Coach-2 multiple times in the days before Player-10 publicly committed to attending University-6.

Moreover, because the payments to the family of Player-10 were both in violation of NCAA rules and illegal, they were disguised by GATTO, CODE, DAWKINS, and SOOD using fake purchase orders, invoices and related documents to make them appear to be payments from Company-1 to CODE’s company. As CODE explained to DAWKINS, while such payments are sometimes made “off the books,” for this particular payment, GATTO and CODE had identified it to Company-1 as “as a payment to my team, to my organization, so it’s on the books, [but] it’s not on the books for what it’s actually for.” Indeed, the money, once allocated by Company-1, was funneled back to DAWKINS to use to pay the father of Player-10 in cash.

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Second, DAWKINS and AUGUSTINE agreed to facilitate payments to the family of another high school basketball player (“Player-11”) in exchange for Player-11’s commitment to play at University-6 and ultimately to retain DAWKINS’s services. While these payments were not directly funded by Company-1, they were made to benefit Company-1, which, as noted, sponsors University-6, and with the expectation that Company-1 would provide additional funding to AUGUSTINE in return. AUGUSTINE noted, “all [Coach-2] has to do is pick up the phone and call somebody [and say] these are my guys, they’re taking care of us.”

Because these payments from DAWKINS to Player-11’s family were both in violation of NCAA rules and illegal, AUGUSTINE suggested that the “easiest way” for DAWKINS to provide money for Player-11 and his family would be to send the money to AUGUSTINE’s “non-profit for the grassroots team,” although AUGUSTINE confirmed that he also would accept cash.

As DAWKINS subsequently explained to UC-2 in the context of providing such money to AUGUSTINE and others, “obviously some of it can’t be completely accounted for on paper because some of it is, whatever you want to call it, illegal.”

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Third, GATTO, CODE, DAWKINS, and AUGUSTINE agreed to make payments of as much as $150,000 from Company-1 to another high school basketball player (“Player-12”) in order to secure Player-12’s commitment to play at an NCAA Division I university whose athletic programs are also sponsored by Company-1 (“University-7”). Because Player-12 played for an amateur team run by AUGUSTINE and sponsored by Company-1, AUGUSTINE, with the assistance of CODE and DAWKINS, attempted to broker the deal to secure Player-12’s commitment to attend University-7 rather than a school sponsored by a rival athletic apparel company. In exchange for the payment, Player-12 similarly was expected to commit to retaining DAWKINS’s services and signing with Company-1 once Player-12 joined the NBA.

Much as with the payments to Player-10 described above, according to intercepted calls, GATTO stated that the payments from Company-1 to Player-12 were allegedly requested specifically by a coach at University-7 (“Coach-3”), who allegedly called GATTO directly and who, according to DAWKINS, CODE, and AUGUSTINE, “knows everything” and, in particular, “knows something’s gotta happen for” Player-12 to commit to attending University-7.

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who do you think are the companies, universities, players behind the terms?