I just listened to the podcast and based on the headlines and posts here I was expecting a smoking gun. I came away feeling better about the situation.

Sidney's Dad was basically taking money from Reebok, agents, etc. well before Stansbury or Mississippi State ever entered the picture. That is where the house in LA came from.

Sidney's Dad wanted him to play overseas and had already negotiated a contract with a team. His mother wanted him to play at Mississippi State because it was his home state. He never says that Mississippi State or Stansbury was paying him or his family. He did say that his mother was getting money from someone (shoe company, agent, maybe boosters). Goodman was digging hard on this one. He was asking everything he could think of to get Sidney to say that Stansbury was dirty. It didn't happen.

He said that Stansbury and the coaching staff never gave him any special treatment, etc. In fact, he was mad because he felt like the school didn't do enough to get him eligible sooner. He also mentions that no one was forcing him to stay at Mississippi State and that he should have left sooner or never went at all. That doesn't sound like the school or coaching staff were paying him. He does mention having plenty of money in the bank from his high school days so he never needed any at college.

He let his weight spiral out of control, didn't listen and butted heads with coaches and that cost him an NBA career and burnt Stansbury out of coaching for a brief period.