NEW YORK — There are no Jayhawks on trial at the U.S. District Court in southern Manhattan. Nor were any Kansas coaches ensnared in the larger FBI probe that begat the ongoing simultaneous cases against Adidas executive Jim Gatto, former Adidas consultant Merl Code, and burgeoning player rep Christian Dawkins. And still for yet another day the actions and interactions of the staff of one of college basketball’s most storied programs took center stage in a federal courtroom, where the unseen machinations of amateur basketball’s “underground” continue seeing rare light.
This is a weird case in many ways.