Wait, someone please explain this excerpt from the article to me. I wonder if I am understanding this correctly?
Duke was not penalized in the Magette situation because it was deemed they/Coach K didn’t know. I’ve read media and Duke fans say that’s where their situation differs with the Rose/Memphis incident. Memphis was warned while they were playing him that Rose was being investigated.
Is the attorney not saying that he warned Duke about Magette??
“...........Some pointed back 20 years ago, to when star Duke recruit Corey Maggette played as a freshman after accepting impermissible benefits from Kansas City AAU coach Myron Piggie, who went to prison for conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and failure to pay income taxes. Duke was cleared by the NCAA in 2004 in the Maggette case, which cited the school’s lack of knowledge of payments the player received prior to coming to school.
“The evidence that’s coming out in trial and the issues facing schools today are a virtual repeat of what we saw in the late 1990s [with Piggie],” said Stephen Hill, who prosecuted that case and is now a partner at Denton’s in Kansas City. “Our investigation found, and we shared with [Duke] and the athletic department as well as the basketball program, they were playing a player who’d been paid to play in basketball games. His amateur status, like those athletes being discussed in this trial, was severely threatened by the fact he had received payments to play and submitted a national letter of intent.”