I think you’re seriously reaching here. I highly doubt the NCAA will be able to do much with this right now. If anything, it’d wait until after the season. Remember, the NCAA learned about this just this morning.
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Sure but this isn't a normal situation where they get a tip and then have to investigate. This is a situation where if the FBI gives them what they have, they have these kids red handed taking cash. One of the points made in the SI story is that every year all these kids have to sign a document stating that they have not done anything to violate NCAA rules including amateur status, it's both for incoming kids like Ayton, and current players like Trier and Alkins. The entire point of having kids sign that document is so if the NCAA finds out they did in fact violate the rules, they can go after them for lying to the NCAA. They don't honestly think any kid is going to refuse to sign it and admit they took money, the entire purpose of the document is to increase the ability of the NCAA to punish kids who get caught.
At the very least any kids who are named in this would presumably be suspended by the schools because they won't want to take the chance of playing a kid who later on is ruled ineligible.
The timing is bad, when the Feds nailed Bazz' dad, he admitted to them he'd taken out a loan using Bazz' NBA future as collateral. By the time the feds got that information to the NCAA, it was too late. I've always been surprised they didn't vacate every win he played in at UCLA that year but the NCAA ruled that there was no way UCLA could have known because they only found out when the NCAA did when the feds informed them. In THIS case, the feds are informing UA and USC etc right now that they have players on their current team who took payments.
If you read closely there's a reference in the Book stuff where he tells a money man they don't have to worry about paying a current player because "he's already been paid." Assuming the feds tell the NCAA who that player is I can't imagine the NCAA won't at least temporarily rule him ineligible.
If that player is Trier I'd be stunned if he gets reinstated, he was suspended last year and there's no way they're going to like him taking money this close to having been suspended. The other issue is given the timing in the story if it's him or Alkins in both cases you can argue the entire reason they didn't turn pro is they were paid by some agent or shoe company and it allowed them to stay in college another year.
again I'm not blaming arizona here at all, this is clearly a case where agents and shoe companies were so interested in placing kids at certain schools for their own benefit that they just found coaches willing to take bribes, I fully expect more names and more schools to come out if the FBI starts having people come forward and turn in people in exchange for deals. Dan Wetzel is saying this thing is going to wind up huge by the time all the people rat each other out, lots more schools will have players and coaches implicated.
But we know for sure there's at least one player on your current roster that has not only already been paid, he was apparently seeking to get paid again and Book informed the money man they didn't need to pay him. Most of this stuff is based on undercover stings they have eye witness and video surveillance of these things happening, there's no gray area at all the NCAA would have to look into.
