lol I remember Choo (?) saying this and being pissed that he didn't take the fucking job
• Book Richardson on video claims Will Wade told him about Naz Reid: “Look, there’s a deal in place, I got $300,000 for him."
Book then says, “I said listen, shit, give me half that and I’ll make sure he goes there.”
• Richardson also says on the video about Mississippi State: "If I'm recruiting against Mississippi State, all bets are off."
• Richardson on recruiting in the SEC: "In that league, I'll give you this guy to sign 20, 30, 40 grand."
Sood shortly thereafter: "And that's allowed?"
Richardson: "Oh, no. Of course not, no."
• Munish Sood also testified Monday that Book Richardson took $15,000, money that was wanted for the recruitment of Jahvon Quinerly. Richardson explains to an undercover officer the tricky logistics of how he is hoping to make this work and dealing with Quinerly's mother.
• "You gotta find a job. ... This is what I'll do. This is what I can do for you to put you in a situation to move to Tucscon. ... I don't want the NCAA fucking with us. You should take one or two more visists and then shut it down. And then as soon as you do that, you commit."
• This is Richardson, in Princeton, New Jersey in July of 2017, explaining to Sood and the undercover officer what's happening with Quinerly's recruitment and his mother. "So, she's -- she's been like, they've been good with me in terms of following the script."
• The undercover agent to Book: "We're gonna do -- gonna do 15 for three months, right? And that should help with the kids?"
Richardson: "It better help with the kids."
• We also learned today that Sood, an undercover agent and Christian Dawkins met in August 2017 with Rodney, Rawle Alkins' cousin, to establish a business relationship so Book Richardson could steer Alkins to Dawkins' company.
• Book Richardson in a meeting capture at a restaurant in Tucson in August 2017, says of Deandre Ayton's mother: "Because mom is loyal to someone else." This conversation brings up a $50,000 figure, and Sood testified they were seeking an introduction to Ayton to gauge his interest
• Dawkins was caught on a wiretap telling an undercover agent: “I’ve already given Rick (Pitino) a kid before” and “you already know how I am with Arizona. I can go to Arizona practices like I am a member of the team."
• On 5.31.17, Dawkins emailed Sood a list of programs/coaches he was targeting: Arizona, Louisville, Michigan State, Michigan, Cleveland State, Texas, LSU, DePaul, Creighton, USC, Alabama and Western Kentucky. Sood testified he only ever met w/ Book at Zona and Tony Bland of USC.
• Book Richardson on 6.20.17 to undercover agents, Sood and Sood's assistant: "I want to thank you four for spending time with me. Because you cause -- my goal is that they look at you guys as family." He's referring to Arizona recruits and players in relation to Dawkins' company.
• Book, cont.: "Whatever you think someone's telling you, tell them to show you in cash. They're not doing that." Says if Dawkins shows up on Arizona's campus "he's getting Rawle Alkins. Like, I'm telling you, he's getting Rawle Alkins. The, like, there's no ifs ands about that."
• This is the conversation where Richardson also invokes Deandre Ayton, Jahvon Quinerly and Naz Reid. On Quinerly, he says, "And I'm like, fuck, OK, so this is what I tell the kid. If you commit, I'll give you 5 grand." Says he's taken money out of his TIAA-CREF to fund players.
• Richardson on Alkins' cousin's move to Tucson: "His cousin moved to Tucson, which I'm highly against. I never want the parents or any one to move there. I'll give you 2 grand a month to make sure it works. But he brought him, his wife and his child. Wrong move."
• Book Richardson: "If anything happens, it's their word against mine. And when it's cash, you know, I don't know what they're talking about."
• Book says players he recruits "always gonna defer to me" and then says when you allow players "to make their decisions it can go any way." He says when Quinerly is on campus for a visit, he's gonna call Dawkins & Co. and have Quinerly talking to them like their his aunts+uncles.
• "If I did not trust you, I would be here," Richardson said the June 2017 meeting in which Sood testified Richardson took $5,000. "And you know, everything we talk about stays here. So we, we're very, very private about this stuff.'
• In a meeting w/ undercover agents, Dawkins + Sood at Arizona on 8.30.17, Richardson says as long as Alkins' mom isn't involved in this deal, it should work.
Dawkins: I think he'll do what you tell him to.
Richardson: He will.
They set up a meeting w/ Alkins' cousin, Rodney.
• Sood testified he was hoping to link up with Ayton when he said this to Richardson: "Just remember what you said when we first saw you. You're no longer giving suggestions. You're telling them."
