OT: Trent Richardson Booster Trouble Article by SbB
Found this article on SbB regarding Trent Richardson and his supposedly cozy relationship with (now) estranged booster Tom Al-betar:
http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/rogue-boosters-photo-trent-at-the-new-home-29855
There are also a couple of articles regarding tickets T. Richardson received in a couple of very pricey vehicles of which he is listed as the owner:
http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/docs-richardsons-other-new-car-georgia-plates-29856
http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/docs-richardsons-2011-yukon-with-large-rims-29854
Does this impact the game we play with Alabama? Given the evidence presented by SbB is it possible for Alabama to state ignorance (pull an ohio) and get off with little or no punishment? What possible sanctions would impact the 2012 Michigan-Alabama game? I ask because I have very little knowledge with regard to compliance and I know Mgoblog has recently become very well versed thanks to our love of ohio Schadenfreude. SIAP I searched and found nothing, including Mgoboard and other media outlets!
September 27th, 2011 at 6:00 PM ^
I think Hoke has changed the tide on the rivalry. Hell people in Ohio are starting to believe him. Never in a million years I would have thought that. Selling Michigan jerseys is a good start.
September 27th, 2011 at 6:03 PM ^
So I take it this has already been discussed?
September 27th, 2011 at 6:08 PM ^
Haha I love how many times I've seen that now.
September 27th, 2011 at 8:39 PM ^
I read this whole thread from the post from earlier today. Still laughing...
September 27th, 2011 at 6:03 PM ^
Considering the speed with which NCAA investigations occur, I think it's safe to say it won't affect next season's opener.
September 27th, 2011 at 6:07 PM ^
He's going to be a first round pick this year. He wont be around for us anyways.
September 27th, 2011 at 6:13 PM ^
has basically become the exact opposite of Charles Robinson for me. Any time I see his byline I assume whatever follows is a bunch of crap.
September 27th, 2011 at 6:19 PM ^
I don't read his stuff often. Is there a good example of him posting poorly investigated material?
September 27th, 2011 at 7:47 PM ^
I think he posts things that are of quesionable quality and tries to tie a bunch of loose circumstantial stuff together as if it is bulletproof evidence.
As much as I would like all the allegations about OSU players selling stuff to be true, it is entirely possible (not likely) that some game worn items are bought by fans at things like garage sales, signed by the players who wore them, then sold by the owners on the internets for cash money. SBB tries to use unprovable things as iron-clad proof of corruption of the programs.
I think he sensationalizes as much as he possibly can to get as many clicks as he can. I would rather see some serious investigation as done by yahoo, but he doesn't really typically seem to do that.
September 27th, 2011 at 8:49 PM ^
September 27th, 2011 at 7:13 PM ^
Take a deep breath, again, that's it...
September 27th, 2011 at 6:16 PM ^
The NCAA will probably write their name up on a chalk board, possibly even with a check mark next to it. Then they will sternly tell them if it happens again they are going to have to miss recess for a week. Alabama will then go all OSU and kick their chair over and tell the NCAA to go fuck themselves.
September 27th, 2011 at 6:27 PM ^
Holy crap I think I just found one of my second grade classmates!
September 27th, 2011 at 8:07 PM ^
When Saban is fired, Richardson bolts early for the supplemental draft, the other autograph peddlers are suspended for half the season, Alabama's 2010 season is vacated (including Sparty's trip to the woodshed in Orlando), still to be determined ncaa sanctions & a 6 month colonoscopy by every media outlet from espn to school papers to d-bags bloggers like Brooks Melchoir, then you can say Bama got away with it like OSU did.
September 27th, 2011 at 6:19 PM ^
For a long time. The NCAA and Alabama won't do anything.
September 27th, 2011 at 6:21 PM ^
The difference I see is the ownership of expensive cars. Howeva - If he paid for them with his summer job / parents money then I can understand the lack of interest by compliance.
September 27th, 2011 at 6:46 PM ^
His mom works at KFC full rime and he has a daughter that he provides for as well. I doubt that they can afford a $60,000 car and a $60,000 house within the same year. The car sheds more light on the situation, but where a normal person only needs a flashlight to see in the dark, the NCAA needs floodlights and a guide dog. The NCAA is a joke.
September 27th, 2011 at 6:50 PM ^
Wish I could double moderate. Or hybrid moderate. or Pos-bang. Damnit I miss all that pos-banging...
September 27th, 2011 at 7:13 PM ^
September 28th, 2011 at 9:17 AM ^
and babies are not cheap. My wife and I just had a baby they sure are more expensive than I thought they were.
Most days in college, when the only bills I had were $350 a month in rent and a credit card, I often had to choose between ramen noodles, cigarettes or beer (ever try to use dried ramen bricks as "bread" for a sandwich? don't). I did not have rims on my 78 Cutlass Supreme. Gassing it up was expensive enough, and at that time gas was about a buck and a quarter a gallon. Im going to go out on a limb here and say something isnt right.
The NCAA knows exactly how corrupt everything is, but so long as they're cashing in, what incentive do they really have to change things?
September 28th, 2011 at 3:19 PM ^
...as bread only works for peanut butter sandwiches. And don't include jelly, it will only further complicate things.
September 27th, 2011 at 6:42 PM ^
Eh, not gonna get too caught up in this. Richardson is first day draft lock so he'd be crazy to stick around. It'll be a healthy dose of Eddie Lacy and (sigh) Dee Hart against us in Jerry World next year.
September 27th, 2011 at 7:21 PM ^
I've stopped caring about "what the NCAA will do." They continue to baffle me with how they distribute punishment. If Ohio State were a non-BCS conference school they would have gotten hammered, but since Gordon Gee used to be the NCAA president's roomate and Ohio brings in tons of revenue they get off with the equivalent of a spanking, and not the type of spanking where you choose a switch, more like the erotic S & M type.
September 27th, 2011 at 7:59 PM ^
to see the NCAA hire Brendan Shanahan to be the head of rules enforcement.
Every time some type of rules infraction happened, we would get a video explaining what rules were broken and how badly. Then he would address repeat violator status. He would then bring the wood to these programs.
OSU? Repeat violator? BAM. 10 years probation, 50 scholarship loss over 5 years, recruiting reductions. 3 year bowl ban. Want to challenge? Sure, double or nothing. And the Shanahan doesn't lose.
September 28th, 2011 at 3:43 PM ^
I would pay cash to see Shanny break down the violation and the punishment in detail. If only he could have done it for OSU; that would have been a cinema-length epic.
September 27th, 2011 at 7:37 PM ^
September 27th, 2011 at 7:45 PM ^
If your almost a shoe in for the first round of the NFL draft could you just get a loan and start paying the bank in a year? I'd give him a loan.
September 27th, 2011 at 7:57 PM ^
No, the instant one leverages one's future earnings as a professional one loses amateur status. That loan would be a NCAA violation. The only exception is an insurance policy protecting against injury. Maybe the car is insurance against the injury to his pride that would occur if he looked like a poor college student when he picked up women at the club?
September 27th, 2011 at 8:03 PM ^
I read "Terry Richardson" and my heart stopped for a second.
September 27th, 2011 at 8:52 PM ^
September 28th, 2011 at 12:00 AM ^
Richardson will be in the NFL by next year.
September 28th, 2011 at 12:02 AM ^
SbB is good for the sporting world just because he calls out everyone. He exposed Dennis Talbot on the UM sidelines a few weeks ago. For institutions that take themselves seriously, SbB can be a good wake up call. For institutions that live by plausible deniability, its a persistant annoyance. OSU, Auburn, Alabama and Oregon are almost constant features on SbB. Once in a while, he hits one and it stays fair. Many times, it at least raises an eyebrow. I love the Oregon one. Good times.