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When former University of Washington basketball stars Markelle Fultz and Dejounte Murray were mentioned Friday in a Yahoo Sports report as receiving money from the ASM Sports agency, it abruptly became a national story with a local angle.
That means the potential fallout is going to become much more intensely watched and acutely felt, with the undeniable potential to do damage to the Husky basketball program.
Former Huskies star Markelle Fultz received $10K from sports agent before arriving at UW, report says
We don’t know yet if it’s a huge deal for UW or a trifling matter, or whether the resulting penalties will be major, minimal — or nonexistent. The fact that Fultz’s name is listed on a ledger as having received a $10,000 loan, and Murray as being paid $500, doesn’t mean the money actually changed hands.
And this is hugely important: Even if it did, there is nothing yet that links the Husky athletic department, nor its coaching staff at the time, to the alleged transaction. It is indeed possible that, as many coaches of implicated programs have already claimed, these side deals were done outside their purview, for the purpose of securing future endorsement deals or representation with no benefit to the school.
In other words, the big question still to be answered is time-honored in the annals of potential wrongdoing: What did he or she know, and when did they know it?
Maybe the FBI has those answers in the vast network of records and wiretaps they’ve amassed in the course of this investigation. But we don’t, which is why I’m going to be cautious in my assessment of any blame due to Lorenzo Romar, the coach when Fultz and Murray played their lone seasons with UW before becoming first-round NBA picks. Romar said Friday he didn’t know anything about the alleged payments until they were revealed by Yahoo on Friday.
https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-husky-basketball/how-much-uw-is-involved-in-hoop-scandal-is-unresolved-but-its-clear-the-ncaa-needs-to-change/
And of course Porter Jr was all set to go there until he got fired.
