Tonight, HBO will debut the documentary "The Scheme," about the two-year undercover FBI investigation into the seedy world of college basketball. LSU coach Will Wade is at the center of some of the most explosive accusations in the documentary.
The documentary's central character is Christian Dawkins, who HBO describes in its promotions as "an unassuming and unknown 25-year-old who was allegedly part of a criminal enterprise that infiltrated college basketball teams and funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars to steer recruits to prominent athletic programs. For the first time ever, Dawkins explains how a kid from Saginaw, Michigan wound up in a hotel suite surrounded by FBI agents with a warrant for his arrest."
While the FBI investigation and trial resulted in the arrest of executives at Adidas and assistant coaches at major college programs, schools such as LSU and Arizona stood behind their head coaches.
It will be interesting to see if any of the new information presented in "The Scheme" changes that.