I'm shocked, shocked to find NCAA athletes being paid under the table for making their schools billions of dollars!
Posted on 05/11/2008 12:15:42 PM PDT by Perdogg
Former USC basketball player O.J. Mayo, a projected lottery pick in this year's NBA draft, received thousands of dollars in cash, clothes and other benefits in apparent violation of NCAA rules while he was still in high school and during his one year in college, a former Mayo associate told ESPN's "Outside the Lines."
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You think that’s bad, you should audit the USC football program.
You whining again? Just take your annual beatings from teams like USC and be quiet. As though Michigan is some ‘simon pure’ program, gimme a break.
Leave him alone we don't need no stink-in ethics in Lost Angeles, Asstzlan Universidads.
So sad.
But keep your hopes up, you might buy someone good again.
The Mayo Cynic.
Stinko de Mayo.
What did you expect folks?
It isn’t called Thugball for no reason...
Did he throw games? Beat up co-eds? Take Steroids? Not go to class? Shave Points? Take a No-show job?
This is the result of David Stern and the NCAA’s misguided policy about banning kids who can already play in the league.
While the quality of play in the NCAA was crippled in the Post-KG world, the quality of student athletes increased. Coaches now had to do something more than recruit - they actually had to coach. And the players were there because they weren’t good enough to go to the NBA - so they made the best of it.
Now what you have are hot-shot superstars who are miles better than their competition, who are just marking time to when they can declare for the draft. And the coaches tolerate it because these kids are good enough to get the team to a sweet-16 and get the coaches a multimillion dollar contract.
It’s only a matter of time before the Europeans will start poaching High School Sophomores from the US and put them in their developmental system.
just let these kids go pro ... why shouldn’t they be able to earn a living instead of being in a college where they don’t want to be and is a waste of money for those paying high tuition fees to pay for them?
The more I read and hear these types of stories the more I’m convinced the Ivy league does it right. They don’t hand out athletic scholarships and thereby avoid all this garbage.
come on now....this is USC afterall.....they can do no wrong and they can turn blatant jumping offsides into a fumble recovery....they are MIRACULOUS!
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