Our old friend Tim Floyd in hot water

[Newskoolbulls]

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=4162444

A former associate of NBA star O.J. Mayo says that Southern California basketball coach Tim Floyd paid a man who helped get Mayo to play for the Trojans, Yahoo! Sports reported on Tuesday.

Louis Johnson, the former associate of Mayo's, told the Web site that Rodney Guillory told him that Floyd had given Guillory "a grand." Johnson said he was able to view $100 bills inside an envelope Guillory had.

Last year on ESPN's "Outside the Lines," Johnson accused Guillory of providing Mayo with improper benefits while the guard played for USC.



Man why wont coaches and teams learn? Your going to get caught so dont do it. Listen if you miss out on a recruit there will be more.

 

[Newskoolbulls]

P.S. Couldnt be happier this came out. I hate clueless Floyd.

 

[chi_hawks_23]

There is so much of this going on that its not even funny.

Part of me feels like we should just let these college players make a bit of money. When you look at how much money the NCAA and their respective schools make off of them, its ridiculous. And a fair % of these guys dont graduate, don't make it to the NBA, and their life is pretty much hosed. Why not give them a chunk of the cash that they are generating as players? You could argue that they have "earned" it.

I do understand the Pandora's box that opens. Boosters would be buying ferrari's and all sorts of crap for these players. Youd have 5-10 programs get every star recruit b/c of the financial backing.

 

[dougthonus]

Man why wont coaches and teams learn? Your going to get caught so dont do it. Listen if you miss out on a recruit there will be more.

They have learned. They've learned that getting OJ Mayo to come to your school makes you millions of dollars and costs you thousands of dollars. How many people wouldn't risk that?

Basically none, because all schools do it, it's just a matter of which ones get caught and which ones don't.

The problem is the system where schools make millions upon millions when they get one of these athletes but can't share the money with them openly. The player wants a cut of that money, and if the schools could give it to him legally they probably would, but they can't.

At the same time, you can't have state funded schools paying kids to play basketball for them either, so it's just a really crappy situation all the way around.