Four former Auburn football players claimed they received thousands of dollars of cash from boosters from a number of schools on an HBO special that airs Wednesday night, according to the website Sports by Brooks.
The players, Chaz Ramsey, Troy Reddick, Stanley McClover and Raven Gray, alleged they received money as part of a pay-for-play scheme during their time at Auburn. None played there more recently than 2007.
"Somebody came to me, I don't even know this person and he was like, 'we would love for you to come to LSU and he gave me a handshake and it had five hundred dollars in there," McClover said in the HBO special, an advance copy of which was obtained by Sports by Brooks. "That's called a money handshake ... I grabbed it and I'm like, 'wow,' hell I thought ten dollars was a lot of money back then."
McClover told "Real Sports" that boosters from Auburn, Michigan State and Ohio State also arranged for him to get money and other inducements such as sexual services when he was being recruited in 2003. He originally committed to Ohio State but switched his commitment to Auburn after receiving cash that he said persuaded him to change his commitment. On that occasion, he said the cash was delivered in a bookbag. The amount was not disclosed.
"I literally passed out I couldn't believe it was true," the HBO transcript quoted McClover as saying. "I felt like I owed them."
-ESPN.com
Um is this suppose to be news? I mean I've said at least 4 times on here that the NCAA is the most corrupt, joke of an institution this side of FIFA. Obviously schools in the Big 10 and SEC break the rules and pay-for-play. Do people really think Cam Newton was clean at Auburn? The NCAA does this all the time though. They let the teams play the season out amidst controversy (ie. Ohio State and Auburn this year) and then slam them a few months or few years later with sanctions that are barely a slap on the wrist. It's funny though that the biggest culprits are always the schools from the NCAA poster conferences, the SEC And Big 10. Those two conferences are even more of a sham. With the money flying around in the SEC they might as well be a minor league NFL, and the iniquity in the Big 10 they might as well be Richard Nixon in Watergate. It's just a shame that teams like USC, SMU, and UNC, get the harshest of penalties for the exact same crimes that these other schools are committing. I mean god forbid Ohio State's stars, or Auburn's Heisman winner get suspended for their BCS bowl games. Absolutely not because that will cost the NCAA one thing they hate to lose: Money. So the NCAA does what they always do, makes concessions for their favorite sons, let it slide, and then will hammer them with a slap on the wrist 5 years from now. Give me a break.
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