re: Will Wade and the Addidas basketball trial

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I predict the NCAA will ignore this entire Adidas spectacle. It's a black-eye on the sport and too many programs and legendary coaches are involved. They will claim that it was a legal issue and all the evidence was sealed.

Nothing will come of any of this, unless a specific school decides to take action. I don't think the NCAA will do anything.

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The NCAA would have to essentially shut down every major program if that is the "standard". Every coach and team bends the rules...because great players would not come play for you if you didn't. The biggest violators are the best programs. Kansas, Duke, Kentucky, UNC, Louisville, etc are ALL competing for the top players...the same guys for whom the shoe companies are competing and have tie in's.

AAU ball is one big player auction with the major shoe companies running the show. This is simply how college basketball recruiting works...for all programs that want to have at least a chance at competing. Hell, Creighton was implemented in some testimony a few weeks back.