Connection between LSU’s BB Fed involvement-College admissions scandal-Mueller probe, etc

Just a wild hunch, or more of a premonition, but I honestly wonder what stirred up the initial Fed involvement in the BB recruiting scandals; the recent revelations about the college admissions scandal; and all things being looked into by the Feds since 2016 presidential election!
A wild assertion no doubt, but I can’t help but to think there is a common thread that permeates all the goings on in college/higher education/NCAA sports mid-deeds that seemed to have so swiftly moved to the front page of the news almost overnight.
You have to be impressed with what all has been done investigation wise the last 2 years or so and the Feds ability to keep it under wraps right up until actual guilty pleas are being entered by the key actors!
On a side note, would LSU admins be so crazy as to risk the fallout from playing Smart unless they were pretty sure he didn’t actually receive $$$/benefits that would = sanctionable activity!
While no doubt damning is the colloqy between Wade and the middleman, if the smoking gun evidence were out there to prove actual follow through on the negotiations, I gotta believe it would have been laid out in broad daylight already!
And why the decision by Yahoo sports as far as timing of their story release! Almost suggests frustration on someone’s part that the real proof simply does not exist to drop the hammer on Wade and LSU.
Last thought:
Was not the “Addidas” story already a matter of some knowledge at the time Wade engaged in his ill advised conversations with middleman fella!