GOVERNANCE Ryan P. Mulvaney, Esq. Partner; NBPA certified basketball agent; FIBA licensed basketball agent
[email protected] McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP, New Jersey The NCAA Commission’s report and recommendations on college basketball - some layups, some airballs On 11 October 2017, resulting from the arrests of numerous college coaches, Adidas representatives, and a recruiter for a now defunct sports agency in connection with the United States Attorney’s Ofce for the Southern District of New York’s (‘DOJ’) investigation into corruption in “the dark underbelly of college basketball1” - paying coaches, players and/or their families - the National Collegiate Athletic Association (‘NCAA’) President Mark Emmert announced the formation of the Commission On College Basketball (‘Commission’) to examine Division I basketball2. In this article, Ryan P. Mulvaney, Esq., Partner at McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP, provides his analysis of the resulting report and recommendations (‘R&R’) published by the Commission to address the issues in collegiate basketball in the US. Introduction when it comes to opining on monetarily Christian Dawkins of now defunct ASM In its R&R, the Commission noted rewarding players who are targeted by Sports, a financial advisor, Munish Sood, that those it interviewed not only Division I programs in grammar and high and a suit maker, Rashan Michel (‘Agent/ confirmed the DOJ’s allegations but school not for their academic prowess Advisor Defendants’);11 and an executive, highlighted concessions of actual but for their athleticism (ability to earn James Gatto, and representatives, knowledge: “everyone knew what universities and conferences money), Merl Code and Jonathan Augustine12, was going on3” and “many informed the Commission’s silence is deafening.