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Message: [QUOTE="oldude, post: 4313712, member: 7511"] Lucious Allen & Larry Farmer, both of whom played for Wooden, publicly acknowledged their connections to Gilbert. An LA Times investigation determined that Gilbert was involved with multiple players during the Wooden era which entailed the purchase of cars, clothes, airline tickets, along with paying scalper prices to players for their complementary tickets. It was also reported that Gilbert arranged abortions for players’ girlfriends. While it is true that UCLA was not put on probation by the NCAA until after Wooden’s retirement, and Wooden always claimed to have no knowledge of any inappropriate actions by Gilbert or other boosters, the length and breadth of the recruiting violations at UCLA extended back well into Wooden’s tenure. [/QUOTE]