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Father of Ricky Seals-Jones says schools offered WR $600,000
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I know of a certain SEC player right now in this state that received a total of $200,000.00 (cash) from both Bama AND Auburn. Not to mention a former Auburn assistant that told me all about SCAM Newton. It's business as usual.

If you can't beat em cheat em.

I wish I knew how to play football.

(08-28-2013 01:53 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote: [ -> ]I wish I knew how to play football.

Only the professionals athletes get those kinds of benefits in College.

Yawn! Show me the proof please.

(08-28-2013 03:08 PM)backyardblazer Wrote: [ -> ]Yawn! Show me the proof please.

yeah...cause if theres not receipt, it didnt happen

Yawn, hard to trace cash. That's what most of the ones in denial say.

Interesting.
I heard an interview on Memphis radio today with Dan Wetzel before this story broke. He didn't mention this specific story but talked about this upcoming book The System, which he described as a book that really gets inside and breaks some stories.

He said nothing disclosed in the book surprised him as something he had not seen before (including this story). The one exception though was an interview with a former Tennessee hostess who speaks for the first time. She talks about what the job of hostess entails. She claims that nothing beyond flirting happens, but she is more than a hostess. The job entails pretending to be a girlfriend to the recruit for months after the recruiting visit happens, including calls, texts etc. and she does this with several recruits simultaneously. She will send out flirty texts to several different recruits, one right after another.

College athletics is so sleazy. But I am looking forward to reading this book, which comes out in about a week.

May have to pick it up. The book.

I really like Dan Wetzel.

The old days of getting a kid hooked up with a car or a high pay, no-show summer job are over. Too easy to trace. We're in the day of pumping a Visa cash card full and giving it to him, or arranging a high pay summer job - with a friend who has no connection whatsoever with the program the player is playing for.

It's not that hard to do things in a plausibly deniable manner if you take a moment to think. It just used to be that nobody bothered because nobody much cared. If you don't think that this goes on all over the SEC, you're not thinking.

Well if you're only gonna miss the first half of the first game for doing along the money, can anyone blame them?

(08-28-2013 03:20 PM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote: [ -> ]Yawn, hard to trace cash. That's what most of the ones in denial say.

In today's world of cell phone recorders and video cameras, if this did happen there would be evidence on the net. Until I see evidence, I will assume this is some recruit trying to "hype himself up". "Man, I so good I had an SEC school offer me $300,000.00 in cash money".

To recruits who say they get cash offers.....Show me proof or shut up.

(08-29-2013 11:35 AM)backyardblazer Wrote: [ -> ]

(08-28-2013 03:20 PM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote: [ -> ]Yawn, hard to trace cash. That's what most of the ones in denial say.

In today's world of cell phone recorders and video cameras, if this did happen there would be evidence on the net. Until I see evidence, I will assume this is some recruit trying to "hype himself up". "Man, I so good I had an SEC school offer me $300,000.00 in cash money".

To recruits who say they get cash offers.....Show me proof or shut up.

It happens believe it or not. I know of individuals who have participated in such arrangements. You do as well if you just take the blinders off.

(08-29-2013 11:35 AM)backyardblazer Wrote: [ -> ]

(08-28-2013 03:20 PM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote: [ -> ]Yawn, hard to trace cash. That's what most of the ones in denial say.

In today's world of cell phone recorders and video cameras, if this did happen there would be evidence on the net. Until I see evidence, I will assume this is some recruit trying to "hype himself up". "Man, I so good I had an SEC school offer me $300,000.00 in cash money".

To recruits who say they get cash offers.....Show me proof or shut up.

While I think it happens often, I do agree...if its worth it for a kid to talk out about it, go ahead and flip your cell phone to record. If you won't bother to record it, don't bother to talk about it

(08-29-2013 11:35 AM)backyardblazer Wrote: [ -> ]

(08-28-2013 03:20 PM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote: [ -> ]Yawn, hard to trace cash. That's what most of the ones in denial say.

In today's world of cell phone recorders and video cameras, if this did happen there would be evidence on the net. Until I see evidence, I will assume this is some recruit trying to "hype himself up". "Man, I so good I had an SEC school offer me $300,000.00 in cash money".

To recruits who say they get cash offers.....Show me proof or shut up.

Lol, please. Alabama players host autograph parties where they get together to "play cards" and then frat boys knock on the door and pay up cash for them to autograph boxes of footballs and t-shirts. That's just one example of what I know happens. I've talked to people that were in the room when these things happened.

I'm sure it happens all over the place.

I wouldn't be surprised if even some of our own boosters weren't squeakly clean...in fact the way some of them hound players on FB and Twitter I'd say that answer is pretty clear.

There's an old adage that "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely". In the top levels of NCAA football, you are dealing with multimillionaire boosters who have absolute power to make financial deals to give themselves the inside track to identify with their favorite team's staff and to visit with their peers in luxury skyboxes. Had Logan Young not "stiffed" that high school coach over the money he had promised, we would today still believe Albert Means went to Bama because he loved the campus and the coaches. (and Young was a Vandy alumnus)