In recent months, a parade of NCAA executives, conference commissioners and famous football coaches have traveled to Washington to lobby Congress in search of new federal laws and regulations to oversee college athletics.
Their main concern is how the use of name, image and likeness money can influence the recruitment and retention of athletes. They claim they need “guardrails.” They need “guidance.” They need a universal standard that they can enforce.
Or that in the case of former basketball coach Will Wade, the NCAA process couldn’t conclude that Wade was actually discussing a “strong ass offer” of cash to a recruiting middleman in an effort to land a player, even though the conversation was caught on a FBI wiretap. That’s because the FBI wouldn’t share the tape and, as such, it had to rely on a Yahoo Sports transcript of the call.in and of itself is not persuasive and credible," the ruling read.
However, in front of the NCAA, Wade and others advanced a defense that the “strong ass offer” wasn’t actually about money, but a chance for the middleman to join the LSU coaching staff. Nor was there any explanation — or perhaps even contemplation — on how Wade would have “tilted toward the family a little bit” a job as an assistant coach. Was the recruit’s mom going to get hired also? How can you “tilt” a coaching job between two entities?
Fans certainly don’t care, at least not in any tangible way like stop watching the games. If anything, these colorful cases are part of what makes college athletics fun.
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