Christian Dawkins is currently in federal prison in Alabama for, in part, defrauding the University of Louisville. Merl Code and James Gatto served between five and seven months this year, for in part the same reason, before being recently paroled.
Gatto and Code were executives and consultants, respectively, for Adidas grassroots basketball. Dawkins was a budding basketball middleman with a fledgling sports marketing agency.
All three men were convicted. In addition to the incarceration, all had their careers derailed, spent massive sums on legal defenses and will be labeled as convicted felons for the rest of their lives.Buried in the report was a stunning reversal. Adidas, the"Independent Resolution Panel" ruled, actuallya"representative of Louisville's athletic interests" due to its sponsorship agreement and thus its payments to Bowen weren't a violation of NCAA rules.
“However, in his subsequent interview with the Complex Case Unit [the investigative arm for the IRP], the senior associate director of athletics for compliance hedged his prior testimony and interview responses by suggesting that he thought the specific facts and relationship must be considered along with the plain language of the bylaws,” the report stated.
Yet now the NCAA’s “Independent Resolution Panel” has ruled otherwise. Not only would such information have dramatically changed defense tactics, the cases may never have even been brought to court in the first place. Code, a former Clemson basketball player, spent nearly two decades with Nike and then Adidas Basketball, specializing in the grassroots of the sport. While recruiting top high school talent and AAU teams was often cut-throat and colorful, no one ever considered it ran afoul with federal laws. The son of a prominent South Carolina attorney, Code, 48, always said if he suspected that, he would have walked away and done something else.
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