The Adidas trial got interesting on Wednesday when Thomas Gassnola, who worked for Adidas before this all blew up, testified about funneling money to player’s families.
He specifically named Arizona’s DeAndre Ayton, Billy Preston and Silvio DeSousa of Kansas, Louisville’s Brian Bowen and NC State’s Dennis Smith, Jr.
What’s intriguing to us about the way things seem to be developing is that, contrary to what we expected, it seems entirely plausible that the head coaches may not have known this happened (particular interesting in this sense is Rick Pitino, who was dismissed at Louisville, and Arizona’s Sean Miller, who ESPN reported had been wiretapped discussing paying Ayton.