“The players are being paid and also are involved with people who have the influence over them well before they get to college,” Dawkins testified. “So to pay someone who they are going to be with on campus for six months, who's probably also paid somebody else to get them, it wouldn't even make common sense to pay a college basketball coach. They don't have the influence needed to deliver the player to you.”

Source: Los Angeles Times May 08, 2019 20:37 UTC