USC Star Lonnie Star Received Money at USC

[Whiskeyjack]

The article can be found here.

Discusses Notre Dame briefly as well.

It also should be noted that I understand that every college football player’s experience is different and there are many athletes who never receive money or illegal benefits. But it would not be wise to think that it doesn’t happen or that it only involves cut-throat successful programs. Or that it has stopped.

Does anyone believe it's stopped? UNC is a great example of a less than successful program which has been cheating like there's no tomorrow.

I know at least five athletes, who are either a relative or close family friend, who played at the BCS level last season. And they all agree, there’s more rule-breaking going on than people know.

Since both Lonnie and his brother played at USC, I wonder where his relatives and close family friends play... perhaps USC, or other programs like it? Clearly, since Lonnie knows five players at dirty programs, every school must be corrupt.

 

[Rhode Irish]

The title of this thread is a little redundant.



And by that, I am referring to "USC Star" and "Received Money", of course.

 

[IrishLax]

That's so dumb. SENDING PRIVATE JETS WAS LEGAL UNTIL 2004!!! What a moron. That news would not "make a blog."

 

[ACamp1900]

go to edit... the advanced options... you should be able to eidt the title from there

 

[Whiskeyjack]

go to edit... the advanced options... you should be able to eidt the title from there

/embarrassed

Thanks for the tip.

 

[BGIF]

/embarrassed

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It was Freudian. The "Star" gets the perks.




I found this refrences to Rutgers and ND somewhat bizarre.

(After I declined to commit to those schools, their attitudes changed — immediately. Instead of driving me to my home after my trip to a Rutgers game, I was dropped blocks away and my father had to pick me up. And, Notre Dame left me snowed in at an airport when it came time for me to return to New Jersey.)

I assume he's trying to show that rule breaking takes place everywhere. To some degree it may but the Rutgers and ND examples are a hugh reach. After mentioning " women, sex, drugs and alcohol" in the previous paragraph he jumps to tickets and transportation.

The rules were a lot more lax in the "1970's" when he brother was recruited and in 1982 when he was and the brief description he offers of the private plane was allowable transportation then.

The Rutgers driving him home and dropping him "blocks away", really? Did you tell the driver he was at the wrong location. Was the driver trying to P.O a highly prized in-state recruit? As a big strong athlete, kick returner and sprinter, did daddy really have to come pick you up "blocks away"?

Was the private plane grounded by the snow storm and you were taken to O'Hare so you could catch the first available flight when the weather broke?

Nice smear, Lonnie.


As Keith Arnold noted in the opening two sentences in his column today, "It’s human nature to want to paint with a wide brush. You cover more ground, get your point across quicker, and it’s far more enjoyable to slap a roller across a wall than deal with the tiny corner of trim that you need to cover with blue tape and wrench your back to get just right."