As we passed along last night, the NCAA is close to dropping the hammer on Georgia Tech men’s basketball for high-level recruiting violations.
According to Jeff Goodman, one of the recruits in question is former Duke player Wendell Carter.
A Tech assistant supposedly took Carter to a strip club, where Georgia Tech booster and former player Jarrett Jack provided impermissible benefits:
Wendell Carter was the recruit taken to a strip club by a Georgia Tech assistant, sources told @Stadium. The booster in question was former Georgia Tech guard Jarrett Jack. https://t.co/8sLkRZhskx
— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) March 15, 2019
Here are more details from ESPN:
Jack, whom the NCAA declared to be a representative of Georgia Tech’s athletics interests, is alleged to have provided Carter and an unidentified then-Georgia Tech player with $300 for the strip club visit, the sources told ESPN.
The NCAA has notified Georgia Tech officials that the former assistant, Darryl LaBarrie; a booster the sources identified to ESPN as Jack; and Ron Bell, a former friend of Yellow Jackets basketball coach Josh Pastner, are being charged with multiple alleged rules violations, including Level I violations, which are the most serious under NCAA rules.
