According to ESPN, OJ received cash, clothes, and other "benefits" while at USC and in HS.
Should be interesting to see how this turns out. Floyd might finally get caught.
oleskl Wrote:According to ESPN, OJ received cash, clothes, and other "benefits" while at USC and in HS.
Should be interesting to see how this turns out. Floyd might finally get caught.
The high school stuff is what catches my attention. We like to talk about what could have been had this guy (and others) been Bearcats, now we're seeing the other side of that. Had he been taking benefits in HS, then come to UC, even if UC had been clean, We'd be taking a beating in the media... No one would be giving us the benefit of the doubt.
nm...found the article now:
Quote:Louis Johnson, who was a part of Mayo's inner circle until recently, said Mayo accepted around $30,000 in cash and gifts during the past four years from Rodney Guillory, a 43-year-old Los Angeles event promoter. In addition to cash, the gifts included a flat-screen television for Mayo's dorm room, cell phone service, a hotel room, clothes, meals and airline tickets for Mayo's friends and a relative, according to Johnson, others with knowledge of the gifts and store receipts.
When Mayo was in high school in Ohio and West Virginia, Guillory was receiving monthly payments from the Northern California sports agency Bill Duffy Associates. Johnson said BDA provided Guillory with around $200,000 before Mayo arrived at USC, and that Guillory used most of the money to support his own lifestyle but also gave a portion of it to Mayo.
In exchange for the payments and gifts, Mayo entered into a verbal agreement to allow BDA represent him when he turned pro, Johnson told "Outside the Lines."
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=3390695
If you don't think Tim Floyd either had something to do with this or at least knew it was going on, I've got some swampland to sell you.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/s...ortCat=ncb
Quote:According to the OTL investigation, Mayo received thousands of dollars' worth of clothes. A flat-screen TV for his dorm. Hotel rooms for him and his friends. And receipts for all of them, provided to ESPN by insider-turned-whistle-blower Louis Johnson (whose stories were remarkably consistent and verifiable, according to those who worked on the piece).
But it gets better: The swag allegedly was financed by a man named Rodney Guillory, who previously had gotten former USC guard Jeff Trepagnier in trouble for accepting agent kickbacks. Not only did that fail to get Guillory banned from campus, he also wound up a fixture within the program. Of course, who wouldn't want a 43-year-old scammer hanging around a college freshman?
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=3389049
Quote:In August 2007, a few days before the fall semester began at the University of Southern California, freshman basketball guard O.J. Mayo decided he needed some new clothes for school. His friends, Louis Johnson and Rodney Guillory, picked him up in Guillory's black Infiniti SUV and soon they were at a mall in Carson, Calif., picking out thousands of dollars of clothing.
How far back does the OJ/Guillory relationship go?
You had Huggins with a long standing relationship and completely NCAA free for a year and he still couldn't land OJ. Was the Guillory money flowing even back then?
I wonder what percentage of Div I schools find ways to pay kids?
And now back to scrounging for loose change players at the last minute against $EC schools.
Another program at USC where players are getting payments from future agents? Do tell.
Seems I recall hearing a bunch of rumors of perks being thrown his way as far back as North College Hill days.
A few months after his hire, Greg Doyle wrote a piece saying something to the effect that Floyd's program was going to win the award for best signing of great recruits in short order in exchange for a guaranteed stint on probation.
Make them forfeit all their games last year. Suspend the head coach. Make them pay in extreme fashion. It's the only way "some" of these programs are going to think twice about cheating.
90% of D1 schools pay the players. Not much news here.
Not sure I believe that. I think many of the top ones do, but do you really think South Idaho State or Alaska State pay their players? There are 300 schools in D-1 basketball correct? So you're saying 270 of them pay their players?
Chatter, I can't give you an exact number, but over the years I have seen enough of college athletics to question everyone except the military academies (they used to cheat heavy in the late 40's) and the Ivy League.
I'm pretty sure Floyd knew that Mayo was getting money and extra benefits, but that's different than actually giving them as a way to induce a kid to come to your school.
This is what the one year in college rule has wrought. He was probably getting money in high school thinking he'd never go to college anyway, so it didn't matter.
And it doesn't even seem like it was much money. The Outside the Lines report showed some receipts of wire transfers that apparently went to Mayo from Guillory. They were for $200.
levydl Wrote:I'm pretty sure Floyd knew that Mayo was getting money and extra benefits, but that's different than actually giving them as a way to induce a kid to come to your school.
This is what the one year in college rule has wrought. He was probably getting money in high school thinking he'd never go to college anyway, so it didn't matter.
And it doesn't even seem like it was much money. The Outside the Lines report showed some receipts of wire transfers that apparently went to Mayo from Guillory. They were for $200.
i might have misunderstood ( misremembered
) but i thought williams said oj might have received somewhere around $30,000 out of a possible quarter of a million that went to guillory. again, not sure but it was way more than $200.
mrstealz012 Wrote:levydl Wrote:I'm pretty sure Floyd knew that Mayo was getting money and extra benefits, but that's different than actually giving them as a way to induce a kid to come to your school.
This is what the one year in college rule has wrought. He was probably getting money in high school thinking he'd never go to college anyway, so it didn't matter.
And it doesn't even seem like it was much money. The Outside the Lines report showed some receipts of wire transfers that apparently went to Mayo from Guillory. They were for $200.
i might have misunderstood ( misremembered ) but i thought williams said oj might have received somewhere around $30,000 out of a possible quarter of a million that went to guillory. again, not sure but it was way more than $200.
The guy said OJ may have received $30,000 tops from Guillory over the years. This was just him talking and coming up with a number. I was just saying that the "proof" he showed was in the form of various receipts, 2 of which were wire transfers of $200 from Guillory to someone in Huntington, WV, who supposedly passed it on to OJ. Then there was a Costco receipt for a plasma TV and some others that I can't remember.
While I don't doubt that Guillory gave OJ money and bought him clothes and stuff, it seems rather petty to me. I can't believe that OJ would sign with Bill Duffy for $30,000 "at most" over a 2, 3, or 4 year period (whatever it was).
QSECOFR Wrote:Chatter, I can't give you an exact number, but over the years I have seen enough of college athletics to question everyone except the military academies (they used to cheat heavy in the late 40's) and the Ivy League.
Yeah, I guess since every school is doing it, then it must be alright.
That's what I tell my kids about their friends. If all their friends are doing it, then it must be alright.
I also told me kids that if a couple of their friends jump off a cliff, they should follow them.
Not to suprised here. I kind of had a feeling this was going on with Mayo. The only thing i was suprised at is that it was the past 4 years when he was in high school.
QSECOFR Wrote:Chatter, I can't give you an exact number, but over the years I have seen enough of college athletics to question everyone except the military academies (they used to cheat heavy in the late 40's) and the Ivy League.
Back in the day the military schools could say come play here or you get drafted.
SuperFlyBCat Wrote:QSECOFR Wrote:Chatter, I can't give you an exact number, but over the years I have seen enough of college athletics to question everyone except the military academies (they used to cheat heavy in the late 40's) and the Ivy League.
Back in the day the military schools could say come play here or you get drafted.
In the late 40's Army used to have guys that would play for them on a Saturday and for an NFL team on Sunday.
Back in Civil War times, some men would go play baseball during the day and shoot the enemy at night.
