Kansas - Bad Sporters https://www.badsporters.com News Blogging About Athletes Being Caught Up Sun, 10 May 2020 05:12:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Kansas City Chiefs https://www.badsporters.com/2020/05/10/kansas-city-chiefs/ https://www.badsporters.com/2020/05/10/kansas-city-chiefs/#respond Sun, 10 May 2020 05:12:49 +0000 https://badsporters.com/?p=6037 CLEMSON — Bashaud Breeland, a cornerback for the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs and a former Clemson star, was arrested Tuesday afternoon, according to York County Sheriff’s Office records obtained by The Post and Courier.  Breeland was booked in Charlotte at 1:26 p.m. and charged on five counts: resisting arrest, the transport of alcohol in […]

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CLEMSON — Bashaud Breeland, a cornerback for the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs and a former Clemson star, was arrested Tuesday afternoon, according to York County Sheriff’s Office records obtained by The Post and Courier. 

Breeland was booked in Charlotte at 1:26 p.m. and charged on five counts: resisting arrest, the transport of alcohol in motor vehicle with a broken seal, open container of beer or wine in motor vehicle, possession of 28 grams or less of marijuana or 10 grams of hash, and driving without a license.

He was released at 11:01 p.m. on a $2,362.50 bond. In a since deleted pair of tweets, he proclaimed his innocence:

“Lot of people wanna speculate on my situation and don’t know the facts. I really was at a gas pump, got (approached) by two guys, police pulled up they throw something (in) my car as police pulled up which the cop saw and I was the one detained (with) charges that really shouldn’t be charged. I’m not fighting to clear a name. I don’t care (what) people think, I know the truth, innocent until proven guilty.”

According to the incident report, an officer observed three people smoking marijuana in Fort Mill. All three attempted to leave the scene as the officer approached, the report said, and the officer observed one suspect throw a small blunt into Breeland’s vehicle. Breeland attempted to flee the scene after he was told he was being detained, according to the report. The officer attempted to place handcuffs on Breeland, who refused, the report said. 

Breeland pushed the officer, who when pulled out his taser and continued issuing commands, the report said. Breeland was able to push the officer away and hop in his vehicle, per the report. The officer issued more lawful orders, the report said, and then drew his issued firearm when he could not see Breeland’s hands. Breeland removed his hand from the concealed area and put his hands in the air, but continued to resist for three more minutes, according to the report, until the officer got Breeland in handcuffs and other units arrived on scene.

The officer located a marijuana blunt that weighed approximately 1.3 grams and approximately 3.2 grams of marijuana in Breeland’s driver door, according to the report, in addition to two opened bottles of Corona beer and one open bottle of Patron tequila. South Carolina is one of eight states in which marijuana is not decriminalized. 

Breeland, 28, recently signed a one-year, $4.5 million contract with the Chiefs. In Kansas City’s Super Bowl win over the San Francisco 49ers, he recorded a team-high seven tackles and a key interception in the second quarter.

The Allendale native played at Clemson from 2011-13 and left for the NFL after his junior season. He finished his college career with 136 tackles and six interceptions.

He was selected No. 102 overall in the fourth round of the 2014 NFL Draft by the Washington Redskins, for whom he played until 2017. After one season with the Green Bay Packers, he signed a one-year contract with the Chiefs. After the Super Bowl win, Breeland signed another one year deal and was expected to be a big part of Kansas City’s championship defense.

Breeland was already facing a four-game suspension for a separate violation of the substance-abuse policy, according to an NFL Network report.

Breeland is the second former Clemson player to be arrested in the past four days. Ben Boulware on Saturday was charged with driving under the influence and having an open container of beer or wine in a motor vehicle, according to Greenville County court records.  

Staff reporter David Cloninger contributed to this report. 

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The NCAA enforcement staff said Kansas’ basketball program committed “egregious” and “severe” rules violations that “significantly undermine and threaten the NCAA Collegiate Model,” and alleged that Kansas Jayhawks coach Bill Self and assistant Kurtis Townsend “embraced, welcomed and encouraged” Adidas employees and consultants to influence high-profile recruits to sign with Kansas.

That was the NCAA enforcement staff’s position in its 92-page reply to Kansas, which the university released on Thursday. The Jayhawks are charged with five Level I rules violations, the most serious, including lack of institutional control. Self is charged with head coach responsibility violations.

Under NCAA rules, a head coach could be hit with a show-cause order and be suspended up to an entire season for Level I violations.

Kansas is also charged with two Level II violations and one Level III violation related to the football program under coach David Beaty.

Because of the complexity and severity of the allegations, and Kansas’ position regarding Adidas’ role, the case might be processed through the Independent Accountability Resolutions Process (IARP). An Independent Resolution Panel (IRP), consisting of five independent members with legal, higher education and/or sports backgrounds, would hear the case and decide what penalties the Jayhawks would face. The IRP’s decision is final and there are no appeals.

“While the football allegations involve alleged Level II and III violations, which are serious alleged violations, there can be no doubt the men’s basketball allegations are egregious, severe and are the kind that significantly undermine and threaten the NCAA Collegiate Model,” the NCAA enforcement staff wrote in its reply. “The institution secured significant recruiting and competitive advantages by committing alleged Level I men’s basketball violations. The institution, in taking its defiant posture in the case, is indifferent to how its alleged violations may have adversely impacted other NCAA institutions who acted in compliance with NCAA legislation.”

Kansas officials, along with Self and Townsend, are disputing each of the five Level I violations regarding the men’s basketball program, as well as each of the nine aggravating factors cited by the NCAA.

“The NCAA enforcement staff’s reply does not in any way change the University of Kansas’ position that the allegations brought against our men’s basketball program are simply baseless and littered with false representations,” Kansas officials wrote in a statement on Thursday. “As the federal trial proved, Adidas employees intentionally concealed impermissible payments from the University and its coaching staff. The University has never denied these impermissible payments were made. For the NCAA enforcement staff to allege that the University should be held responsible for these payments is a distortion of the facts and a gross misapplication of NCAA Bylaws and case precedent.

“In addition, the enforcement staff’s assertion that KU refuses to accept responsibility is wrong. The University absolutely would accept responsibility if it believed that violations had occurred, as we have demonstrated with other self-reported infractions. Chancellor [Doug] Girod, [athletic director] Jeff Long and KU stand firmly behind Coach Self, his staff and our men’s basketball program, as well as our robust compliance program.”

Adidas and its employees and consultants were at the center of a federal investigation into bribes and other corruption in college basketball. The Jayhawks are the company’s flagship program and signed a 14-year, $196 million apparel and sponsorship extension in April 2019.

During a federal trial in October 2018, Adidas executive James Gatto, former Adidas consultant Merl Code and aspiring business manager Christian Dawkins were found guilty on felony charges of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. They are appealing their convictions.

In September 2019, former Adidas consultant T.J. Gassnola was sentenced to probation and fined for his role in pay-for-play schemes to steer recruits to Kansas and other Adidas-sponsored programs.

Gatto was accused of working with Gassnola to facilitate $90,000 from Adidas to former Jayhawks recruit Billy Preston’s mother and agreeing to pay $20,000 to Fenny Falmagne, current Kansas player Silvio De Sousa’s guardian, to help him “get out from under” a pay-for-play scheme to attend Maryland, which is sponsored by Under Armour.

The NCAA also included allegations that Gassnola provided $15,000 to an unidentified individual to give to the mother of recruit Deandre Ayton, who signed with Arizona, and that Gassnola “communicated in a text message to Self that he had let Self down” when Ayton signed with the Wildcats.

“Regarding the men’s basketball allegations, very few facts are in dispute,” the NCAA reply said. “The institution does not dispute that Adidas and its employee and consultant provided at least $100,000 to families of three men’s basketball student-athletes the institution was recruiting. Bill Self (Self), head men’s basketball coach, and Kurtis Townsend (Townsend), assistant men’s basketball coach, also do not dispute many of the facts related to Adidas and its representatives having contact with prospects, and that they regularly communicated with Adidas representatives about their recruitment of prospects.

“However, where the parties diverge from the NCAA enforcement staff is on the key issue of responsibility for this conduct. They assert that Adidas and four of its employees or consultants are not representatives of the institution’s athletics interests, arguing the enforcement staff’s analysis is novel, unprecedented and never previously contemplated by the NCAA membership.”

The NCAA enforcement staff contends NCAA membership “feared shoe apparel company involvement and influence in the recruitment of elite student-athletes and then put safeguards into place in an attempt to prevent what occurred in this case.”

“The institution failed to control and monitor the relationship between Adidas’ representatives with its storied men’s basketball program,” the NCAA reply said. “This failure led to TJ Gassnola (Gassnola), a convicted criminal and then Adidas outside counsel, having unfiltered access to the men’s basketball program and allowed for Gassnola and Adidas to profoundly influence the institution’s recruitment of elite men’s basketball student-athletes.

“In fact, Self and Townsend embraced, welcomed and encouraged Gassnola and Adidas’ other representatives’ impermissible involvement. When boosters commit violations, the membership has clearly spoken through its legislative authority and infractions case precedent that the institutions should be held responsible.”

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Chiefs player Bashaud Breeland was arrested Tuesday for smoking a joint and resisting arrest, police said, before being released from jail after meeting bond later that night.

Breeland, a Chiefs cornerback and a critical part of the Super Bowl winning team, was arrested in York County, South Carolina, on several counts of possession of marijuana and resisting arrest, according to Trent Faris, spokesperson for the York County Sheriff’s Office.

The NFL player and several other men were seen smoking marijuana at a gas station in Fort Mill, according to an arrest report obtained by CNN. When a deputy with the York County Sheriff’s office approached the men, they attempted to leave the scene, according to the report.

The deputy called all three men back — including Breeland — and said they were being detained for attempting to flee, the report said.

The deputy said Breeland then got out of his vehicle to speak with him, and he saw one of the suspects throw a blunt back into Breeland’s vehicle. The deputy also smelled a strong odor of marijuana coming from Breeland’s car, the report stated.

While attempting to place handcuffs on Breeland, he “pulled away and resisted” several times, the report stated, which led to the deputy pulling out his Taser and firearm.

As other units arrived on the scene, the deputy handcuffed Breeland.

Upon searching Breeland’s vehicle, deputies located a large marijuana blunt that weighed approximately 1.3 grams, as well as 3.2 grams of marijuana, located in the driver side door, according to the report.

Deputies also found several messages in Breeland’s phone regarding drug transactions, the report stated. But Breeland told the deputy “those deals were not around York County” and explained that he liked to smoke and was a marijuana enthusiast, it said.

Breeland was transported to the York County Jail without further incident.

In a statement, Breeland’s attorneys questioned why the level of force exhibited by the responding deputy was necessary.

“At the time of his encounter with law enforcement, Mr. Breeland was leaving a gas station store after making a lawful purchase,” J. Preston Strom, Jr. and Bakari T. Sellers said in a statement. “Moments after returning to his vehicle, a 2020 Range Rover with valid temporary paper tags, law enforcement officers approached Mr. Breeland and drew their weapons. We look forward to investigating why this level of force was necessary.”

Sellers is a CNN commentator.

Breeland has been charged with resisting arrest, marijuana possession, driving without a license, having an open container of beer or wine in a car and transporting alcohol with a broken seal.

After posting the $2,362.50 bond, Breeland was released just after 11 p.m. ET on Tuesday, according to Faris.

The Chiefs told CNN in a statement that the club is aware of the incident, but did not have a comment.

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Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Bashaun Breeland was recently arrested on a drug charge.

According to TMZ, Breeland was arrested Tuesday afternoon in Charlotte, North Carolina after an alleged altercation with police that started when he was allegedly smoking weed at a gas station. (RELATED: David Hookstead Is The True King In The North When It Comes To College Football)

TMZ reported that the police report claims Breeland tried to leave the scene when a police officer drew his taser and handgun because the NFL player wouldn’t comply. Eventually, police were able to get Breeland into handcuffs.

Police allegedly found drugs in his vehicle during a search and messages on his phone about “drug transactions.”

He was charged with possession of marijuana and resisting arrest.

As I always say, you’re innocent until proven guilty in this country, and that’s a good thing. Breeland has a right to the presumption of innocence.

Having said that, this isn’t a good look if he’s guilty. Do you know what you do when a police officer gives you a lawful order?

You comply. You don’t resist.

You can figure out the rest in court. You don’t try to argue on the streets. Once an officer has a weapon out, the time for negotiations and debates is over.

I don’t even care about the weed. The last thing we should be concerned about is weed. It’s just the situation, when looked at in totality, it isn’t great if Breeland is guilty.

We’ll see what comes of it, but he needs to start making much better decisions if it turns out he’s guilty.

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Kansas City Chiefs defensive back Bashaud Breeland was reportedly arrested in South Carolina on Tuesday on two alcohol-related driving charges and possession of less than an ounce of marijuana.

Breeland was also charged with driving without a license and resisting arrest, the Post and Courier reported.

Breeland, a starter for the Chiefs last season who tallied an interception in the Super Bowl, took to Twitter early on Wednesday to address the situation, and appeared to suggest he was mistakenly arrested by police officers while they were involved in an unrelated pursuit:

The Chiefs said they were aware of the situation but had no comment, ESPN reported.

Breeland, 29, is a native of Allendale, S.C., and played collegiality at Clemson. The former Packer and Redskin re-signed with the Chiefs on a one-year deal this offseason after winning the Super Bowl in his first year in Kansas City. Breeland owns 12 career picks and three touchdowns, including two pick-sixes.

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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) – A University of Kansas football player is charged with two misdemeanors after his arrest at a Lawrence bar.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports sophomore linebacker Thomas Patrick Barrett was charged Tuesday with two counts of contributing to a child’s misconduct. An attorney entered a not guilty plea on his behalf.

Police Sgt. Amy Rhoads says Barrett, from Cleveland, Ohio, was arrested on Aug. 31 at the Jayhawk Cafe. Two 17-year-old girls inside the business were in possession of what was believed to be alcohol.

The girls were released to their guardians.

Barrett turned 21 the same week he was arrested. He’s scheduled for another court appearance Oct. 2.

The Kansas athletic department said it’s monitoring the situation while it goes through the legal process.

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Former Michigan State University football player Auston Robertson was arrested April 17, 2018 in Garden City, Kansas.(Photo: Courtesy Finney County, Kansas Sheriff’s Office)

LANSING – Auston Robertson, a former Michigan State University football player awaiting trial on sex assault charges, had his bond in Ingham County revoked Thursday due to an alleged robbery in Kansas.

He was arrested Tuesday by Garden City, Kansas police on suspicion of four charges: aggravated robbery with a dangerous weapon, conspiracy to commit robbery, distribution of marijuana, and interfering with law enforcement officers, Ingham County Assistant Prosecutor Nicole Matusko said during a bond hearing Thursday in Ingham County Circuit Court.

Robertson, 20, faces two counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct in an Ingham County case that dates to April 2017, when he allegedly assaulted a woman in her Meridian Township apartment.

More: Auston Robertson to face trial on two sexual assault charges

Judge Clinton Canady III last summer agreed to modify Robertson’s bond so he could move from Ohio to attend school and play football in Kansas. He was required to wear a GPS tether as part of Canady’s conditions.

On Thursday, Canady revoked Robertson’s bond in the local case.

Robertson is currently being held on a $300,000 bond in Kansas and is expected to be formally charged there next week, Matusko said.

Robertson’s trial had been scheduled to begin in May. It’s unclear whether his Kansas case will affect the start date.

“Our office previously objected to the bond conditions that allowed the defendant to travel out of state,” Ingham County Prosecutor Carol Siemon said in a statement released after the hearing.

“While hindsight is of course 20-20, we believed at the time that continued placement here in Ingham County would allow the court to properly supervise this defendant during the pre-trial phase. It is always disconcerting when a criminal defendant fails the conditions of their bond and we believe the courts have now taken the proper action.”

Robertson fled Michigan after the incident last April, and was arrested in Fort Wayne, Indiana before being extradited back to Michigan.

More: Judge allows former Spartan Auston Robertson to play football in Kansas

Garden City Community College won the 2016 National Junior College Athletic Association football championship. Last fall, Robertson played defensive end in all 12 games for the Broncos, logging 73 tackles. The team finished the season 8-4.

MSU head coach Mark Dantonio removed Robertson from the team the same day charges were announced last April.

Robertson also had legal problems before joining the Spartans.

He was arrested in January 2016 on a misdemeanor battery charge stemming from an October 2015 incident at his high school, Wayne High. Robertson was accused of improperly touching a female classmate, according to court records. 

Those charges were later cleared from Robertson’s record after he fulfilled the terms of his diversionary program, the records say.

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The troubles for former Michigan State defensive lineman Auston Robertson continue.

Robertson, who was dismissed from the MSU program last April after he was charged with sexual assault, was arrested Tuesday in Garden City, Kansas, where he attends community college and plays football. According to the Lansing State Journal, Robertson, 20, is potentially facing four charges: “aggravated robbery with a dangerous weapon, conspiracy to commit robbery, distribution of marijuana, and interfering with law enforcement officers.”

Conditions of Robertson’s bond stemming from the April 2017 sexual assault charge in Michigan allowed Robertson to attend Garden City Community College. That changed after Robertson’s arrest Tuesday in Kansas, where formal charges are expected.

From the Lansing State Journal:

Judge Clinton Canady III last summer agreed to modify Robertson’s bond so he could move from Ohio to attend school and play football in Kansas. He was required to wear a GPS tether as part of Canady’s conditions. On Thursday, Canady revoked Robertson’s bond in the local case.

Robertson is currently being held on a $300,000 bond in Kansas and is expected to be formally charged there next week, Matusko said. Robertson’s trial had been scheduled to begin in May. It’s unclear whether his Kansas case will affect the start date.

In Michigan, Robertson is awaiting trial on a felony charge of third-degree criminal sexual conduct, which relates to alleged non-consensual sexual penetration with force or coercion. Robertson was suspended from the MSU team when the investigation into his alleged conduct began. When the charge was filed, he was dismissed from the program.

Robertson was one of the top prospects in MSU’s 2016 recruiting class, but he nearly never made it to campus. He initially did not sign on national signing day because he was charged with misdemeanor battery for allegedly inappropriately touching a female classmate. From there, he entered a diversionary program and the charge was cleared from his record. Michigan State then accepted his national letter of intent on March 30, several weeks after signing day.

“Our decision to accept Auston Robertson’s signed National Letter of Intent and Big Ten Tender has been evaluated over the last three months while utilizing all resources available to us to thoroughly review his situation,” Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio said in a school statement when the lineman signed.

“Our relationship with Auston began last summer when he committed to Michigan State. When we accepted his verbal (commitment), we also made a commitment to him and his family. We elected not to sign him in early February, and since then he has been accepted into a pretrial diversionary program and must continue to satisfy those requirements. Given all the information available to us, we believe Auston should be provided with an opportunity to begin his education and playing career at Michigan State.”

Robertson appeared in seven games as a true freshman, but never saw the field again. He played in 12 games last year at Garden City Community College, a top junior college program that often sends players back to the FBS level. He totaled 73 tackles and seven sacks.

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Former MSU football player Auston Robertson has been arrested in Garden City, Kansas.

Robertson is facing two counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct after allegedly raping a woman in her apartment in April 2017. He faces those charges in Ingham County. In late March, he requested a venue change during a pretrial conference.

His bond was revoked by the court in a hearing Thursday morning, according to a release from Ingham County Prosecutor Carol Siemon’s office.

Robertson was arrested by the Garden City Police Department on Tuesday and is being held at the Finney County Jail in Garden City, according to a release from Siemon’s office.

Robertson is accused of multiple felonies in Kansas, including aggravated robbery armed with a dangerous weapon, conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery and distribution of marijuana, according to releases from Siemon’s office. He is expected to be formally charged next week.

“The defendant, Mr. Robertson, allegedly engaged in further criminal conduct while awaiting trial for a sexual assault committed in an off-campus apartment near MSU,” a release from Siemon’s office reads. “The bond conditions issued by the Court state that the defendant was to refrain from criminal activity.” 

Judges allowed Robertson to attend Garden City Community College to play football after leaving MSU in 2017. The release mentions Siemon’s office previously objected to bond conditions that allowed Robertson to travel out of state.

Stay with The State News for more details as they become available.

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In November 2016, according to court documents unsealed this week in New York, one of the nation’s top high school basketball players and his mother signed a series of forms so the player could accept an athletic scholarship from Kansas.

In the forms — similar to those signed by more than 460,000 athletes at NCAA schools each year — both the player and his mother asserted they had no knowledge of any violations of NCAA rules regarding amateurism. Over the years, the NCAA has interpreted amateurism rules to prohibit a long list of benefits for players and families, ranging from duffel bags full of cash and luxury cars to more modest perks, such as gas money and free meals.

When the player’s mom signed those forms, she was lying, according to federal prosecutors, who did not identify her or her son in court documents. Just days before, prosecutors allege, the mother had met with an Adidas consultant in a hotel in New York and accepted $30,000 cash — routed through one of Adidas’ grassroots teams — meant to ensure her son enrolled at Kansas, one of Adidas’ premier endorsed college programs, and if he made it to the NBA, signed an endorsement deal with the apparel company.

In college basketball circles, this allegation, contained in an indictment charging an Adidas executive with wire fraud for arranging the payment, was the latest sign that the ongoing Justice Department probe of the basketball black market is far from over.

To economists and lawyers familiar with both federal law enforcement and college sports, however, this week’s charges brought into sharper focus an aspect of the investigation that has puzzled them for months: The FBI and federal prosecutors in New York are trying to put people in prison for paying college athletes and their families.

“I still can’t figure out why the FBI is involved with this,” said Dan Rascher, a California economist who has consulted for college athletes on lawsuits challenging NCAA rules. “There’s literally no problem at all with people being paid for their skills to provide value to an educational institution. Except if the people we’re talking about are college athletes.”

[New indictment ties Kansas, N.C. State into FBI’s college basketball probe]

By making money from her son’s talent, and lying about it, prosecutors allege, the mother conspired with Adidas officials to defraud Kansas, which could have been exposed to fines and other sanctions if the NCAA learned of the payments. This theory of fraud, which casts schools as victims because players or their parents have secretly taken money, is rare but has been deployed at least twice before by federal prosecutors: in a 1980s case involving a sports agent with ties to the mafia, and a 2000s case involving a convicted cocaine dealer making it rich as an AAU coach.

Six months after the first arrests, however, the FBI and prosecutors in New York have yet to make public any allegations involving mob ties or drug dealers, or even tax evasion, which some legal experts expected would eventually emerge, offering justification for the public money spent.

A spokesman for prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, who are overseeing the investigation, declined to comment.

Colleges as victims?

In the scenario involving the Kansas recruit, according to prosecutors, the fraud occurred when the mother signed that form despite knowing she’d taken money for her son’s talents, in violation of NCAA rules. The mother, according to court documents, is an unindicted co-conspirator of the Adidas executive.

The victim of this fraud conspiracy, according to prosecutors? Kansas, a school with one of the wealthiest basketball programs in the country, whose coach makes $5 million annually to oversee an amateur basketball team that is regularly one of the star attractions in the Big 12 Conference, which has packaged basketball and football television rights to help generate $371 million in annual revenue, and in the NCAA tournament, which generates more than $850 million for the NCAA and member schools each year.

The mother was not charged with a crime but, according to experts familiar with federal investigations, likely will be threatened with the prospect of arrest by prosecutors, if she hasn’t already, as they seek her testimony against the Adidas officials.

[Instead of paying players to go to Miami and Louisville, he kept the money. The FBI let him go.]

The latest charges, which also involve a recruit whose father allegedly took $40,000 from Adidas to secure his son’s commitment to North Carolina State, rest entirely upon the very same NCAA rules that are the subject of a federal antitrust lawsuit in California. Lawyers representing athletes in that case, set for trial in December, are portraying the NCAA and schools as a cartel that colludes to cap the earnings of college athletes at the value of a scholarship, sending hundreds of millions of dollars in excess revenue, collectively, into school coffers and paychecks for coaches and administrators.

The NCAA, on its website, defends amateurism as a “bedrock principle of college athletics.” Amateurism rules, the NCAA states, “ensure the students’ priority remains on obtaining a quality educational experience and that all of student-athletes are competing equitably.”

If the NCAA permitted college athletes to sign endorsement deals with shoe companies, as Olympic organizations do with their athletes, legal experts noted, prosecutors would have been unable to file the wire fraud charges announced this week against Jim Gatto, an Adidas global marketing executive who also faces charges for similar allegations of arranging payments to steer recruits to Miami and Louisville.

“There are no true victims here. It’s a derivative crime based on alleged violations of a private, nonprofit entity’s internal bylaws,” said Don Jackson, an Alabama attorney who has represented athletes in NCAA rules compliance cases. “This would be like someone lying on an application to the 4-H club and getting charged with wire fraud.”

Blurred lines

Jackson is among many who note even the NCAA has struggled to determine when shoe company money flowing into a youth team is against its rules.

Among those who run grassroots basketball teams, the key to procuring shoe company money has long been clear: Get the top high school players. Such as star often can bring his team a shoe company sponsorship, which can run as much as $100,000 or $150,000 per year, to engender the kind of loyalty that will lead the player to choose to play for one of the colleges whose basketball programs are sponsored by the same company and, ultimately, to sign an endorsement deal with the company if he makes it to the NBA. Nike, Adidas and Under Armour are the three dominant spenders in the grassroots market.

In 2009, Jackson represented Renardo Sidney, a Mississippi State player who drew the NCAA’s attention because Reebok had sponsored his grassroots team and hired his father to a consultant’s position. The NCAA ultimately suspended Sidney for a season, ruling, among other violations, that Sidney’s father couldn’t properly account for money that had flowed into a nonprofit foundation he’d created, connected to the Reebok-sponsored team.

This year, however, the NCAA approved Duke freshman star Marvin Bagley III as eligible, even though the circumstances surrounding his father’s relationship with Nike raised eyebrows around grassroots and college basketball. As reported by the Oregonian last month, Bagley’s family was struggling financially a few years ago, shortly before Nike agreed to sponsor Phoenix Phamily, the grassroots team featuring Bagley III as a player and his father, Marvin Bagley Jr., as coach and team director.

[The FBI also probed payments to college athletes in the ’80s. It didn’t end well.]

In a 2016 interview with Sports Illustrated, Bagley Jr. — the father, who did not return a request to comment — said the family was relying on the Nike sponsorship and a fledgling apparel company he had created to “make ends meet.”

Bagley III attended Duke, one of Nike’s premier endorsed college teams, and after one year with the Blue Devils, he declared for the NBA draft, and is expected to be among the first players selected. Bagley III has not yet made his shoe endorsement plans public, but he is widely expected to sign with Nike.

Duke basketball officials declined to comment when asked about Bagley’s eligibility. The NCAA also declined to comment.

There are significant differences between the details publicly known about Nike’s dealings with the Bagleys and the specifics alleged in court documents of Adidas’s dealings with representatives of recruits. Nike signed Bagley’s team to a publicly announced sponsorship. Adidas executive Gatto is accused of arranging cash handoffs to families of recruits through an Adidas consultant who oversaw several grassroots teams, and at N.C State, through an assistant coach who has not been identified.

The economic realities displayed by these deals are basically the same though, economists note. Top high school recruits have more financial value — to shoe companies, agents and financial advisers — than NCAA rules currently allow them to earn.

After the first round of arrests last September, the NCAA created a commission, led by former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, to propose rules changes to college basketball. Unless the commission recommends Olympic-style rules permitting athletes to sign endorsement deals, economists and legal experts doubt it will have a significant impact in reducing these secret dealings that prosecutors in New York believe are defrauding major colleges.

“When you have a system that generates billions of dollars in revenue, and you have an unpaid labor force, you’re going to breed a black market,” Jackson said. “That’s just a fact.”

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