5 * Brian Bowen visiting Oregon

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Re: 5 * Brian Bowen visiting Oregon

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Reading this thread gives me hopes that Arizona was the competing school with UL.
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Re: 5 * Brian Bowen visiting Oregon

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Duck07 wrote:Reading this thread gives me hopes that Arizona was the competing school with UL.
Don't think it was Arizona as they are also an Adidas school. A couple items from today's New York Times article on Bowen https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/04/spor ... ncaa.html
Like Bowen, Louisville and Pitino were not named in the complaint. But the 10 men charged comprised nearly all the colors in the college sports corruption rainbow: coaches, sneaker company officials, an agent, a money manager, an A.A.U. coach and even a middleman whose main business is bespoke suits. Six major programs were implicated, and investigators hinted that others were up to similar endeavors, as was at least one of Adidas’s corporate rivals.

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In the discussion, Dawkins warned of a problem: A university endorsed by a rival apparel company was “coming in with a higher number” for Bowen. The concern seemed to have been that Bowen could still change his mind — he never signed a binding agreement with Louisville, according to news reports. Dawkins said he had spoken with the second Louisville coach — Pitino — about getting more money from Gatto.

From this thread it appears Oregon, DePaul and Texas were in it to the end. Anyone else?
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Arizona is a Nike school.
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