According to a new report from ESPN, Mark Gottfried was directly involved in getting cash into the hands of Dennis Smith Jr.’s family during the recruitment of the star point guard. Gottfried is the first head coach to be so implicated in the ongoing federal college basketball corruption case.
Here’s the meat of it, from the ESPN piece:
According to a disclosure from federal prosecutors, former NC State assistant Orlando Early’s attorney said his client disclosed that Gottfried on two occasions gave him envelopes -- containing what Early believed was cash -- to deliver to star guard Dennis Smith Jr.