A little over a year ago, federal prosecutors and the FBI – to much fanfare – presented their findings from a survey of two years of corruption in college basketball. Assistant coach and sneaker company representatives and prospective agents were arrested. Officials said illegal money stories around sports, sloshing around certain players to win at certain schools. Wednesday afternoon, FBI agents were at their biggest victory of the effort to date. to commit his fraud and wire fraud conspiracy after a three-week criminal trial in Daniel Patrick Moynihan US court in New York City – A jury three defendants – two former employees of Adidas and an aspiring sports agent. James Gatto, Merl Code (former Adidas reps) and aspiring player representative Christian Dawkins will be sentenced in March. (Probably appeal the case.) On the surface, the ruling as an important victory seems to count for amateurism rules of the NCAA, that prevent college athletes that their schools to make money, or a third, profitable for them to do sport. Players now pay seems to be a federal crime; NCAA rules currently seems to be enforceable by federal law. Not so fast. This case was a head-scratcher from the beginning. As television rights agreements plowing and other companies millions of dollars in college sports, more people have argued that amateurism is obsolete. While coaches and other stakeholders rich, not the players who earn really attract the public to their side? Former college players are dabbling a challenge in the Federal Court that the ban argue against players earn salaries and sponsorship of third-party anti-trust law. And while an arm of the federal government for another swoops hear from amateurism to a criminal proceeding, is tantamount pay players with corruption. This smells like the government too far. Why the feds want to NCAA and its amateurism respect the rules? Read more: it’s time to pay college athletes now supports federal prosecutor that the defendant cheated paying college players, as these payments violated NCAA rules and not eligible would cater for their schools. In fact, the defendants have denied the schools, the results of these athletes. So schools essentially the victims of a federal crime were. The jury for handing down the guilty verdict, agree with this reasoning. But at the same time the NCAA evidence can be used to punish the institutions they would do here found wrong with the process. For example, former associate Adidas T. J. Gassola testified that he paid the family of former Kansas player Billy Preston $89,000, and the current player Guardian Kansas Silvio De Sousa $2,500 for online courses. Gassola also testified that a recall Maryland keeper De Sousa paid $60,000. Kansas announced that De Sousa was pulled from the team until a review of admissibility. could inherit the NCAA sanctions against Kansas for suiting an ineligible player (De Sousa, for example, he has played in 20 games for the Jayhawks a year) on. So basically, the NCAA would punish a school that is known as a victim of a federal crime. Only in the twisted world of college sports “victim” could be criminalized. “This case is full of paradoxes”, said Matthew Mitten, executive director of the National Sports Law Institute at Marquette University. Read more: Decision North Carolina Academic Fraud Exposes Hypocrisy College Sports This judgment, however, it is to pay a federal crime not necessarily college players. Instead, it could be part of the evidence in support of civil cases claim the payment prohibitions NCAA challenge. One of the main arguments NCAA is to support amateurism that paying players would turn off fans and the bottom line of the violated NCAA schools. paying players would be bad for business, so amateurism must live on. However, the study College Hoops showed that the opposite may be the case. subjected the witness to the economy of black market for college basketball; The money is flowing already for players, business is booming and will continue to do so. “The federal government has now proved ready to sink your teeth into college basketball,” says Marc Edelman, a law professor at Baruch College Zicklin School of Business. “But the prosecution has missed the big problem here. If we want to be intellectually honest, the next right step for the Justice Department would file an antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA.” The federal suit is unlikely. However, the other actors are a challenge dabble in civil proceedings. Many fans and experts know that the model is unjust and unsustainable. The money must flow around the players who deserve it, no matter what a jury says. Picture copyright by Stephanie Keith Getty Images
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