After years of University of Kansas officials claiming men’s basketball staff members were unaware of Adidas’ involvement in the pay-for-play scheme that resulted in five Level I violations for the program, a new court opinion in the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals proves otherwise.
According to Dana O’Neil and Bruce Feldman of The Athletic, Judge Gerald E. Lynch’s court opinion filed earlier this month “references a recorded phone call involving an unnamed Kansas assistant.”
As revealed by The Athletic, Lynch’s court opinion states the following: “In the call the coach admitted that he knew that paying for a recruit’s brother to visit the school violated the NCAA rules, yet he planned to ask “Jimmy” (convicted Adidas rep James Gatto) for help in routing funds to the family through an amateur team, all in the hopes of getting the recruit to eventually commit to Kansas because “it’s (his) job” to do so.