re: How can anyone defend the conversations from the tapes?

Are scholarships given out to players family members?

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Easily, because the tapes prove nothing. There’s a reason you use coded words. Called plausible deniability, son.

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That is not what plausible deniability is, or is for.

The lack of using plausible deniability is why Will Wade is at home right now, he was sloppy.

Every other coach, all the ones Dick Vitale is slobbing over at least avoid any interaction with these deals whatsoever. They are smart enough to be many layers deep in the onion. Boosters, Shoe Companies, Assistant coaches, etc.

Good coaches who want longevity and to build dynasties in this day and age of the NCAA must never be involved or have any knowledge of these deals. It needs to happen in the background.

That way when they are asked, they have plausible deniability (they truly do not know about the "strong arse offers").

He is a great coach, and if the context of the tape is incriminating then he is incredibly naive also.