great qoute from an aTm recruit

[untbowler]

Look at the quote.  He's not talking stipend.  He specifically makes mention of how aTm takes care of people, not how college athletes are taken care of in general. 

Is it really such a surprise to anyone that players at schools with more money than the GDP of Saudi Arabia get paid to sway their commitments?  If so, I hope you never find out the nasty secret about Santa Claus.

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What is the nasty secret about Santa??

[Green92]

Sure, there has been brushes with the local law.  But I don't recall hearing anyone getting paid at North Texas or recall us EVER being on probation for inapropriate actions.  Gee I wonder much someone would have paid for TJ "Leon don't tackle" Covington, a nickel?  A wooden nickel?

Rick

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I'm not talking about brushes with the law. I don't see our kids with BMWs or things like that, but to think there hasn't ever been any minor improprieties is naive. I’m not saying it to put down our school only that we live in a glass house. My only knowledge on the subjec comes from knowing players when I was in school. Different regime then too.

[firstclassmortgage]

Being a big school has nothing to do with it. Here is the list of schools that are on probation with the NCAA:

Arizona State

Auburn

Baylor

Benedict College

Fresno St

Cal-Northridge

Dominican University

Florida A&M

Florida International

Gardener-Webb

Georgia Tech

Jacksonville University

Lewis University

Lincoln University

MacMurray University

Millersville University

Mississippi St

Morehouse College

Nichols State

Ohio Northern

Oklahoma Panhandle

St. Bonaventure

Stony Brook

TEnnessee St

TCU

Texas State

Alabama

Arkansas

Cal-Berkely

Illinois

Memphis

Michigan

Minnesota

Missouri

Oregon

South Carolina

Utah

Washington

Wisconsin

Villanova

Weber St

[H-towngreen]

The sad thing about all this is that we all know nothing will come of it. And if anything ever does it will happen 3 years from now and they will just get a slap on the wrist.

[SCREAMING EAGLE-66]

---He commented on TV last night here in Midland and tried to explain his comment by saying that the school would try to get athletes jobs to earn money if they got little or none from home... Either way the guy was really stupid to shoot his mouth off. I am not that knowledgable about regulations about athletes on schlorships.... but is that not a problem also? I am betting that guy (and the coaches) wished he to could find a hole to hide it...... and I expect he has learned a lot about arrogance and attitude out of this deal if nothing else.

Edited February 4, 2006 by SCREAMING EAGLE-66