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Originally Posted by Chiefspants

It's pretty clear that KU knew that Gassnola was their "fixer". I'm not condemning KU, this seems to be standard operating procedure for College Hoops. Even ****ing Maryland had a fixer through under armor.

KU knew Gassnola was "their guy" - but didn't want any direct confirmation or a paper trail with how he got guys to KU.

When Preston wrecked his car, KU found the payments Gassnola approved for Preston's family when looking up Preston's financial accounting. After finding that direct evidence, KU could not play Preston any longer.

With De Sousa, KU never had that "confirmation" that he received any money from Gassnola. This gave them plausible deniability throughout the entire Adidas trial. They would not have had this plausible deniability had they played Preston after the car accident.

Ah... gotcha. Yep.