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BY JIM FLINK
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New allegations of pay for play in college football.
HBO Sports talked with four Auburn University players -- who talked about money changing hands -- starting with the recruiting process.
(McGlover)“ I don’t even know this person and he was like, we would love for you to come to LSU. And he gave me a handshake and it had 500 dollars in it.
(Reporter) “500 dollars in his hand?”
(McGlover) “And that’s called a money handshake.”
(Reporter) “Money handshake. And what are you thinking?”
(McGlover) “And I grabbed it and I thought wow. Hey I thought 10 dollars was a lot of money.”
The same day -- ESPN talked with a former college football coach -- who says agents shopped LSU star Patrick Peterson to several schools -- for tens of thousands of dollars.
“If you want this kid, there are other schools that want him as well. But they’re willing to pay certain amounts of money. And around the $80,000 mark was something that we were gonna have to beat to obtain the services of this kid.”
No sooner than the two reports were broadcast -- and they were being discredited by players and coaches. Fox Sports has current Auburn coach Gene Chizik’s reaction to the HBO special.
“It's very sad to me, very sad, that HBO is going to run something that, admittedly, they've got no proof. I think that's pathetic and I think it's pure garbage.”
Peterson tweeted his denial via the LSU Football Twitter page.
“...I resent the fact that my name has come up in these allegations. I never received nor was I offered anything to go to LSU and anyone saying otherwise is being dishonest.”
Not all coaches were distancing themselves from the discussion. Former Michigan head football Coach Rich Rodriguez sat on an HBO panel, saying, if the system is broken, don’t blame it on players and coaches.
“There’s a level of mistrust. And you can see why sometimes, and there are some poor instances where coaches aren’t doing the best thing for the student athlete, but I think in the majority of the cases they are.”
CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd says, pay for play would be shocking, if the allegations weren’t becoming so common. At some point, you just accept it as true.
“...this is an athletic version of ‘Entertainment Tonight.’ SEC-schools-paying-players is the equivalent of Lindsay Lohan entering a courtroom. Sooner or later you get numb to it all.”
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