Knox got a meal. First, the spreadsheet showing the meals shows no proof that the amount is paying for both agent and player. Just says "meal with Kevin Knox" or "Meal with Wendell Carter." The plane tickets on there are a different story, but that ain't us. If the NCAA really thinks they have the time and resources at this point to try to figure out if Kevin Knox had a steak bought for him, a year ago, that's on them, but good luck getting anyone to admit to that and this is the only paper trail, and it has no proof. None of the players listed as having a meal is gonna mean anything.
The loans are a more damning issue. Bam getting a loan is bad, but first, if the worst thing that comes from this is a vacated elite eight run, I can probably live with that considering the scope of this.
Secondly, I think this will just be the death of the NCAA as a compliance body and the death of amateurism. They don't have the resources or the balls to go after all of this. The feds aren't interested in helping them while they prosecute big boy crimes. And they're not gonna investigate twenty different teams, twenty different eligibility issues, and vacate 30-40 seasons of different teams results. They just won't. Everyone will just stop paying attention to them.