NFL sports agents accuse Saban of paying players at Alabama and MSU
Kind of a strange story, but Pittsburgh NFL sports agent Ralph Cindrich has accused Nick Saban cheating and paying players. Claims he has proof but offered no evidence in the interview. The weird part is how he brought this up in a discussion about Penn State. The agent is Pennsylvania native but a Pitt grad so no real strong ties to Penn State either.
http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2012/07/pittsburgh_sports_agent_accuse.html
The kicker is Alabama fans have been attacking him on his twitter, and Josh Luchs joined into the fray:
@RalphCindrich Good advice Ralph. Mine extend beyond Bama.
@RalphCindrich Yep. Saban was HC at MSU when Doc & I were bankrolling T. Banks and others.
It was covered here a couple days ago, too.
http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/ot-everyone-has-something-nick-saban-paying-players
But the Michigan State part is a new development, although Luchs had revealed in the past that he had paid Banks.
I wish they could prove this. I would be happy to see Bama and MSU get sanctions.
I don't think MSU would get sanctioned. Saban's been gone from there for 13 years.
He was Saban's DB coach.
...it couldn't have been much more than minimum wage.
This isn't news until ESPN airs it.
and ESPN will involve Lebron James and the Miami Heat into this...or possibly Tim Tebow...somehow
And more recently, "PEYTON WAW-TCH!"
Some LSUfreek Gif's on St Nick.
is talented, no doubt. Here are a couple of my favorites......
So much attention to detail. Notice how each of the outfits already match the correct team colors. Priceless.
Should I know about this Josh Luchs guy?
A finger wagging from Babu is pretty harsh.
Vedy bad man.
Probably around 2001 I was at a party in Detroit. A lot of people were there and I ended up talking to a former Spartan wide reciever. We talked for a while and he told me that when he was playing there (under Saban), he'd find an envelope inside his locker every week with a few hundred dollars enclosed. "and I was only third string, imagine what the starters got", he said.
What a coincidence, I accuse Nick Saban of paying players while at MSU and Alabama too. That's crazy....
I just got out of Batman ten minutes ago (i know, i know, late to the party) and that made me lol.
to leaving them where they were?
Weve known this has been going on with Bama and Saban AND the SEC FOR YEARS....theres been ALOT of smoke throughout the years regarding Saban and Illegal recruiting..Theres gotta be some Fire there..YET....years later the NCAA is clueless? Why are they AWAYS the last ones to know?
Because they want to be. The SEC is a huge cog in the NCAA exlploitation-money wheel.
Because, constitutionally, they are not a detective outfit. People ALWAYS make this mistake in thinking they are. The Freeh Report, the FBI's investigation into how Ed Martin made his money, Yahoo!'s discovery of the Tressel emails -- they springboard off the investigative results others find much more effectively than they do it themselves.
Obviously I agree with you in thinking the NCAA be more proactive and keep their nose to the ground, but that's just never what they have fancied themselves to be. Sad but true. Until the NCAA gets subpoena power, they are a joke and people should never assume otherwise.
Major NCAA scandals almost always occurs when the law is broken and law enforcement gets involved. This has been true in the Ed Martin situation, the OSU situation, the USC situation (remember, Bush's benefactor was suing) and virtually everything else.
Note that the quoted agent says the players he knows would talk "under oath." No oath and they say nothing. And the $EC continues to cheat.
What kind of heinous, disgusting program would pay their players? Any program that's that morally bankrupt should get the death penalty, no questions asked.
So many programs have had similar aligations, nothing will come of this.
Cindrich was asked who is watching the NCAA. "That's a very good question," he said. "No one's watching them. You want to know who's watching them? Nick Saban. You want to trust Nick Saban? "You people are sheep. SHEEP!"Okay, I made up last part up, but it felt so right.
I like how he used the word payola in the interview. Never in my life have I used this word.
Send lawyers, guns, and money; the shit has hit the fan.
As for "hard evidence," the NCAA changed everything about enforcement with PSU. Let's see if they are as willing to punish cheaters as they were to punish the people fooled by Jerry Sandusky.
This story has been out for a day or so, but if the little twitter convo starts to go further, things could get really interesting really fast.
Saban's last year in East Lansing was a surprise 9-2 before leaving for LSU as the bowl games were about to start.
Otherwise, Saban's MSU teams went 6-5-1, 6-6, 7-5 and 6-6. He was 0-3 in bowl games (being outscored 134-49 in those 3 games). He had a dismal 3-11 record against top ten teams, although it was pretty funny watching them beat #1 OSU in 1998 yet still not qualify for a bowl game.
His MSU teams had plenty of choke jobs, plenty of personal penalties and too much looking ahead to the Michigan games that cost them the prior week. Remember the blocked field goal against Northwestern in '97?
If Saban paid players at MSU, it was money NOT well spent.
It bought him a couple wins against us. Hated that SOB. Still do.