We’ve been kind of fascinated by the Adidas trial because it’s exposed the market for college basketball talent and upset a bit of conventional wisdom about college coaching - that the head coaches always know what’s going on in their programs.
This change was (apparently) achieved when Adidas bypassed the head coaches and went through the assistants to pay players to attend particular schools.
On Thursday, former Adidas consultant Thomas Gassnola testified that he arranged for $40,000 to be delivered to the family of former NC State star Dennis Smith and that the money was delivered to former State assistant coach Orlando Early, at his house, so that no one else at State would find out.