Posted on 03/30/2011 5:05:57 PM PDT by lwd
In an HBO special airing Wednesday night, four former Auburn football players will say they received cash from boosters, according to the Sports by Brooks website.
One of them, Stanley McClover, will say that during his recruiting process he got $500 in a handshake from LSU, other money handshakes from Auburn and Michigan State, and sexual favors at Ohio State.
The website says it reviewed an advanced copy of the show, "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel."
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Let’s see how long it takes to find out that AU did in fact pay for Cam the Sham...........
It is time again to use the "death penalty" (like what SMU received in the 80s).
And another thing ... after hearing the sleeze perpetuated by the boss hogg of the Fiesta Bowl (you all know it is happening at the other BCS bowls right?)... these BCS games need to be kicked to the curb and replaced by a play-off.
I never got why college athletes are barred from taking gifts or endorsement deals from non-college entities. Why shouldn’t they be allowed to profit from their talents?
It’s really something that these “student” athletes play and THEN talk about the favors they were offered and received. For the most part, they’re dumb as dishwater but nobody can convince me that they didn’t know what was going on.
Major college sports STINK from the schools to the coaches to most of the players!!! Most of these guys should not be able to get near a college campus if the true purpose of colleges was to educate.
Allowed to profit by getting to screw the blonde trophy Ohio State girls? Ohio State must be real proud of the sleeze program that is run there.
There was a former U of IA football star in the late 1950s who disclosed that he was also given cash payments by alumni so this is nothing new.
No doubt in my mind that happened
Exactly. SMU was considered an upstart that, among other things, was considered undeserving of entering the statospheric territory of the big boys. The Mustangs only momentarily visited the promised land of the top five with their cheating. So SMU was permanently cut down to size.
But in the meantime, the Institutionalized BIGS just keep Tresseling along doling out the party favors and the NCAA shadow boxes and decides they will never use the death penalty again. (as if they have the guts to use it on a school with lots of alumni anyway).
sexual favors at Ohio State
Is that banned as well?
That is what I have been for a long time, have a bracket system, for college football, just like it is for basketball.
Speaking as a parent who has sent their kids to a private school since kindergarten, and is getting ready to shell out tens of thousands for college, I think their scholarship would be considered "profit"....Just saying...
I must not have been paying attention - what happened with the Fiesta Bowl?
a scholarship is more than enough $$$ .
I was on the rifle team at Akron and every year we got the gambling and don't sell your crap talk. Every stinking year. I traded NRA points for mounds of trophies, although I probably could have cashed them out without the NCAA knowing. But I was a good girl and did the right thing. Those OSU football players claim that they never knew they couldn't sell their stuff. Male bovine feces! OSU has the largest compliance office in the nation, and they didn't know that they couldn't sell their gold pants?
I know an Athlete Alumni from Auburn, probably.. 20 years ago. He was paid $500 a month to mow the lawn of a Alumni... never mowed it once.
what happend with the Fiesta Bowl?
If you ain’t cheatin’ you ain’t tryin’
Around 1970, a football player at W. TX State U., who went on to a great pro career, was dating a girl who lived a block from me. This poor black player drove a brand new green road runner. Hard to figure how he afforded that. I worked full time and couldn’t afford a car like that. I remember him passing my house on the way to pick her up all the time. At that time, the saying was that Oklahoma U had the best pro team in college football. Guess all the schools/alums were paying the top players.
My son got recruited some and a couple of his HS team mates were were big time recruits. Get real folks, they ALL cheat, including some of the ones that are not big time programs. If you are in school enforcement, how do you stop, or even find out about $100 handshakes?? You can’t unless somebody rats it out for their own benefit.
The schools are knocking down huge money and using kids mostly from poor families to do it. Pretending otherwise is the same as trying to have a rational discussion about race in this country these days: the truth never gets told. These kids should get a stipend because they don’t have enough time to work and they don’t have enough money without illicit gifts to have a social life. Otherwise, you are just pretending that these kids aren’t human and they are too stupid to realize the schools are making a mint off them. The way it is now is just plain wrong!!!
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