The Tulsa World on Wednesday reported a subpoena was issued to the university requesting the Cowboys deliver the documents by Oct. 17 or appear in court prepared to testify.
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Evans was one of 10 people, including three other Division I assistants — Arizona’s Emanuel “Book” Richardson, Auburn’s Chuck Person and USC’s Tony Bland — arrested as part of a sting operation. The group included a high-ranking official of the apparel company Adidas. The other three coaches are free after each posted $100,000 bond. All four are accused of accepting money from third parties and using it to either land recruits or steer players to sign with particular schools.
The subpoena demands OSU release various types of documents, including NCAA certifications forms, scholarship and financial aid papers, and communications OSU’s coaching staff had with players and parents.
Interestingly, the subpoena also calls for OSU to fork over any correspondence between 25-year-old Christian Dawkins, Adidas employee Merle Code and financial planner Munish Sood, all of whom are charged with funneling players in exchange for them signing with Adidas-sponsored schools.
First-year Oklahoma State coach Mike Boynton said he hasn’t spoken with Evans, his onetime lead assistant, since his arrest, though he has read every page of the FBI’s investigation.
“It’s a challenge like a lot of other challenges, just in a different form. Obviously, he’s someone who had the respect of our players, someone who had worked at this university before,” Boynton said of Evans in his first interview since Evans’ firing. “Any time you’re down staff, it makes everybody else have to take on more responsibility.”
Assistant coach Keiton Page will take on some of Evans’ in-game coaching duties.
