Adidas may have played a role in steering blue-chip basketball recruit Romeo Langford to Indiana, the Washington Post’s Will Hobson reported in an article published Wednesday.
Langford, a 6-foot-5 senior shooting guard from New Albany (Ind.) High School, recently chose Indiana over fellow Adidas school Kansas — and Nike school Vanderbilt — in recruiting. Earlier in the recruiting process, he considered Adidas school Louisville, Nike school Kentucky as well as Under Armour school UCLA and others.
Hobson’s story — and also a story in the Louisville Courier-Journal — detailed a financial relationship allegedly between Adidas and an AAU program (Twenty Two Vision) directed by Tim Langford, father of the McDonald’s All American.