(02-23-2018 12:14 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  Once Duke, UNC, NC State and Louisville all get hit by the FBI, I guess the new order of ACC basketball will have UVA, VT, Clemson and (once they get their scholarships back) Syracuse?

In the case of Smith Jr. this appears to be when he was in high school and the agency didn't even get his business. Perhaps he got more money after he started at State who knows? He probably got more money from other agents as well. His father was bringing in big shoe company money coaching AAU when he was in high school.

If he was getting money under the table directly or indirectly from the shoe companies how is this a violation for whatever college he ends up at? That is unless they are involved? It isn't like we are talking about boosters here. I understand that, but secret "loans" before he is even enrolled?

As far as the Chapel Hill and Duke players the argument that it was just $100 is silly. The parents meeting the runner for lunch wasn't to discuss the weather. They were meeting to negotiate money terms. They might not have ended up working together but lets not be naive. Some agency paid somebody in the family. But again this is shoe money flowing into players and their families hands, not boosters or the school itself.

I doubt there are any major conference schools that don't have players that have gotten money.