Legal Opinion
Deon L. Thomas v. Bruce Pearl, Individually and in His Representative Capacity as Assistant Basketball Coach of the University of Iowa
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 30, 1993No. 92-2709PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.
Six-foot-nine-inch All-American Deon Thomas was the kind of high school basketball prospect who could make college coaches salivate-or worse. The University of Illinois was so eager to see Thomas wearing a Fighting Illini jersey that an assistant coach allegedly offered the high school student $80,000 and a Chevrolet, and promised to move his grandmother into a new apartment, if he would agree to accept the school’s offer of a full scholarship. 1 The charges against Illinois were made public by a Big Ten rival college also interested in Thomas’ talents on the court,…
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