Kansas Athletics’ designation of an Adidas representative as a “booster” during a recent reinstatement case should not impact the school when it comes to potential future enforcement matters, according to an expert on NCAA rules.
During a news conference Saturday, KU athletic director Jeff Long spoke in more detail about the school’s process of trying to get basketball forward Silvio De Sousa reinstated. Long said that the NCAA specified that KU had to declare former Adidas representative T.J. Gassnola, who previously testified in federal court that he had made a $2,500 payment to De Sousa’s legal guardian Fenny Falmagne, as a booster of the program “only as a hypothetical for the purposes of reinstatement.