Breaking: Starting in the summer of 2019, the NBA’s G League will offer “Select Contracts” worth $125,000 to elite prospects who are at least 18 years old but not yet eligible for the NBA draft. https://t.co/aL6lOCYT3Jpic.twitter.com/SkNyHLBc5o
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An attorney representing one of the three men accused of a pay-for-play scheme to influence high-profile recruits to sign with Adidas-sponsored schools alleged during closing arguments on Thursday that Kansas coach Bill Self was aware that an improper payment was made to at least one Jayhawks recruit.
Michael Schachter, an attorney for Adidas executive James Gatto, told the jury that Gatto approved a $20,0000 payment to Fenny Falmagne, the guardian of current Kansas player Silvio De Sousa, only after Self and Kansas assistant Kurtis Townsend requested the payment through former Adidas consultant T.J. Gassnola.
"The evidence, I submit, shows that Kansas' head coach knew of and asked for a payment to be made to Silvio De Sousa's handler," Schachter told the jury. "More than that, Coach Self requested just the kind of help that Mr. Gassnola arranged as a condition for Coach Self to permit Adidas to continue their sponsorship agreement with the University of Kansas."
The funny part, there wasn't any evidence to point that Self and Townsend knew money was being distributed. The Williamson evidence is not allowed.
The jury can not rule on that, only the evidence submitted. The attorney took the liberty to plant the seed in the head of the jury. As a former jury foreman I would never allow spoken comments as evidence from an attorney and I do not understand why the judge did not have that comment disallowed unless there is something else that has not came out.
Now, with all of that said, we all know that college sports have been pay to play for the last 70 years.
Originally Posted by TomBarndtsTwin:
Interesting new tidbit . . . .
It’s not really a tidbit. That was part of a closing legal argument where the attorney was drawing an inference from all the available evidence to get his clients off (and one that it is hard to argue with). The only really problematic thing for KU that has come out of the trial is the Townsend conversation. [Reply]
Kneel before Marshall. He’s a shining King of Virtue who stays out of the “slop” that the Toup wallows in. Shun Bill Self and tear him from your bosom as you would his ratty toupe. Repent beakers for the time of reckoning is upon you. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ChiefaRoo:
Kneel before Marshall. He’s a shining King of Virtue who stays out of the “slop” that the Toup wallows in. Shun Bill Self and tear him from your bosom as you would his ratty toupe. Repent beakers for the time of reckoning is upon you.
