get your facts straight
it does not say a bad loan "to" Bam
it says "bad loan" with Bam's name beside it
at no point does it state he received the money
it could have been a AAU coach a H.S. coach you have no idea who received the alleged money
you can assume anything
we all can assume that every coach, the AD, and the president at KU knew what was going on
see how easy that is
True...there’s a possibility that it were a coach (in which case, it would be very easy to say “I never took any money,” but I digress).
You can’t say the same for the document regarding the hundreds of thousands in planned payments to Vanderbilt and his family. Knox and Hagans were also connected to agents. Do any of these guys even crack the top 15 of most talented players in the Calipari era?
Then you have Calipari’s connections to agents and Nike reps, “World Wide Wes,” rampant rumors about Davis, Code and Gassnola pointing the finger at Kentucky, etc.
Elite players have been getting paid for literally a hundred years. Kentucky might have plausible deniability if a) they hadn’t been caught in the past or b) they hadn’t collected by far the highest number of elite players in the Calipari era.
The question of whether or not any of these players were paid is not a rational one. The only rational question is if Calipari or staff had any direct involvement. But it’s a huge stretch to say they weren’t aware of anything. And the end result is the same: a bunch of players that probably should have been ineligible by the supposed rules.