OT: "Everyone has something" on Nick Saban (paying players)

...water is wet, the sky is blue.

In other news why isn't Auburn under sanctions and why does Cam Newton still have his Heisman?

/ Serious

I can see it now uh sorry guys I didn't know it was illegal to pay players....Okay...I'll stop.

Only a matter of time before that ship epicly starts to sink same said for Kentucky basketball

Afford a new house, a $60,000+ car, taking care of 2 kids, a girlfriend, his mother, himself, and $1,000+ suits, all on a college student's salary?

Let's be clear here...Cindrich is not some lackey without a history as an agent. The guy has been a high profile agent for a long time and has represented significant names in significant negotiations.

Probably, the guy dislikes Saban and took an opportunity to mock him and diminish his accomplishments (and that of Alabama). That doesn't make what he is saying untrue.

While State College burns it's not like there are not other centres of impropriety in the NCAA (Tuscaloosa comes to mind).

Wish RDT was here to give us his perspective....

/s

If that's the case, I wonder what Auburn agreed to pay Reuben Foster to decommit from Alabama, and what LSU arranged for Andy Dodd. Lots of negotiations taking place.

Grizzly Adams did have beard.

This may give me a reason to listen to the Paul Finebaulm show for more than a minute on my drive home from work.

Is preparing for Treadwelll...

"Pay for play accusations always raise eyebrows, even though they've become fairly commonplace. Will this go anywhere? Until Cindrich offers specifics, likely not."

These would have to be some rather significant specifics too if Cindrich is essentially accusing a coach of being the signing authority on paychecks, but I will admit, part of me would like to see  exactly what he has on Nick, if anything (a copy of Trent Richardson's W-2 would be a good start, yes?). He certainly doesn't offer much at all in the actual interview - here. The interviewers sort of let Cindrich control  the flow of topics and buy into what is at best rambling equivocation by Cindrich as well. 

I'm all for "Competitive Advantages."

Interesting and also great timing right before the big one. Curious to see how it plays out, although I won't get my hopes up.

There were rumors for years that OSU had a pay for play set up and Tressel was looking the other way, if not facilitating it.  The NCAA only stepped in when the media got a hold of the story and the periphery characters involved (drug dealers, tattoo shop owners, etc) were too shady to ignore.

At the time, I was claiming that OSU was going down for pay for play as well as several players being involved with moving dope, but it never came to fruition.  Everyone blasted me on here, and fairly so, but I still know what I know from two very reputable sources.  One who was with the NCAA at the time and one who was a parent of a kid on the team at the time.  Even OSU thought they were going to get punished much worse, but the NCAA basically slapped them on the wrist for only what had gone public already.  In that case they chose not to open pandora's box.

Everyone can call bullshit, and I would probably feel the same way if the info was coming from anonymous guy on internet, but the corruption was much, much deeper in Columbus then anything that came out.  And the whole Tressel as a beacon of character and integrity was a sham long before that if you look at his record at Youngstown State.

Point being...Wouldn't be surprised if Bama players and those at many other major college football program are getting extra benifitis under the table.  However, any big time coach, while they would almost certainly have knowledge if not enable this activity to occur, would be too foolish to get directly involved (phone calls, emails, records) for fear of the fallout. 

Tressel's "crime" was not cheating, it was getting caught and exposed by the media, thereby putting the NCAA in a situation where they had to act, as much as they would have loved nothing more than to look the other way when it came to a cash cow like OSU.  I doubt Saban would make the same mistakes of having emails and evidence lying around.