If the new rule is in place just a couple of years ago, Ja Morant doesn’t play a 2nd season at Murray State. Dude would have been a Kentucky Wildcat making $500k in cash under the table, and I have zero doubt in my mind about that.
The penalty right now for paying recruits is supposed to be major suspension, level I violations, etc. And schools still do it… How do you prove tampering if it is being done by ShoeCo in the background?
It is a penalty to tamper and poach players now, and coaches were still able to get it done. It is all about circumventing direct contact, and that isn’t very hard. Coaches can call old AAU coaches, ShoeCo Reps, etc and ask about a players availability. Andrew Slater damn near projected every single transfers destination before they even officially decomitted.
It is just too easy.