The transcript
The restIn the June 20, 2017 recording, Richardson and Dawkins discuss Ayton. The prized recruit had already arrived in Tucson after verbally committing to the Wildcats in September 2016.
Book: "Ayton is on campus. Sean’s got to get the f--- out of the way and let us work”
Dawkins: “We’ll see how Sean plays it out,”
Book: “You know what he bought per month?”
Dawkins: “What (did) he do?”
Book: “I told you, 10,”
Dawkins: “He’s putting up some real money for them n-----s. He told me he’s getting killed.”
Book: “But that’s his fault,”
On another phone call, Dawkins said Miller was "taking care of Rawle (Alkins) and them," referring to the former UA wing.
Richardson told Dawkins that Miller "thinks he's got Bol Bol," referring to a recruit who considered Arizona before committing to Oregon. Richardson said on the wiretap that a "dude in New York" said it was going to take "200 bands" to get Bol. (Bands is slang for $1,000.)
Richardson did not say on the audio whether "10" meant $10,000 with regards to Ayton. ESPN reported in February 2018 that Miller and Dawkins were on a wiretap discussing a $100,000 payment to Ayton.
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Dawkins said that he often pocketed money earmarked for the assistants. The jury was shown bank deposit records showing that he deposited money into an account for LOYD, Inc.
"Everything that was deposited was given to me by the government," Dawkins testified.
Dawkins further testified that paying coaches was not smart, and that he "never paid a coach with the intent of bribing or having them do anything for me."
He explained why he thought it was bad business to do so.
"One, from an economic perspective, it didn't make sense," he testified. "Two, they don't have enough influence to justify it."
"There's no need to pay a college coach because these players are coming into college with agents," Dawkins continued. "This idea that it's an amateur world is not real."
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Miller's name has come up on audio recordings played throughout the trial, now in its second week. On Monday, jurors heard Dawkins say that Miller "fronted" a deal for a player later identified as Ayton.
Last week, jurors viewed a video — recorded June 6, 2017, two weeks before the recorded conversation between Richardson and Dawkins — in which the aspiring agent bragged about his access to the Wildcats' coach.
“Sean Miller likes to know everything that’s going on,” Dawkins said on the recording. “I can call Sean and have a conversation like, ‘this is what’s going on.’ He’ll talk on the phone about things he shouldn’t talk on the phone about.”
Dawkins told the others that Miller said he was "taking care of everything myself” with regards to Ayton, but that he wanted to “turn everything over” to the aspiring agent.
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Richardson and Dawkins discussed what it would take to get Ayton to join the company. Richardson told Dawkins that Ayton's mother wanted her son to choose a different agent.
Dawkins was more confident that he could land Alkins. In the audio played Wednesday, Dawkins told Richardson that Miller was "taking care of Rawle and them."
"Rawle already knows he’s gotta pay back if he doesn’t go with them. So we got no expenses there," Dawkins said. "We’ll get a n---- this year anyway. And then you use the money that you’re getting from them to help you recruit, do whatever."
Dawkins testified Wednesday that he was going to work with Alkins whether Richardson helped or not, and that he argued against paying Richardson or any other assistant coaches. Dawkins said his LOYD, Inc. partner — an undercover agent working for the FBI — was the one who pushed the idea.
"It makes sense now why he was trying to pay coaches," Dawkins testified. "He was trying to set us up."
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