Seriously, how many of you are actually surprised by this?
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Former USC basketball player O.J. Mayo, a projected lottery pick in this year's NBA draft, received thousands of dollars in cash, clothes and other benefits in apparent violation of NCAA rules while he was still in high school and during his one year in college, a former Mayo associate told ESPN's "Outside the Lines."
This also begs the question - how much of this is happening around the country?
Not quite the case. They haven't been national title contenders or anything, but they've been a legit Pac 10 team for a long time. It's not like Mayo was the first NBA caliber player to come out of that school.
In a just world, USC basketball would have something in common with SMU football in the near future.
The death penalty.
It's not going to happen, because NCAA bylaws don't work that way. And besides, they're not likely to ever again disband a program for a year after the smoking crater it left at SMU.
So you take the Bush allegations, add a side of Mayo and ask the question: Has there ever been a more textbook definition of "lack of institutional control"?
But it gets better: The swag allegedly was financed by a man named Rodney Guillory, who previously had gotten former USC guard Jeff Trepagnier in trouble for accepting agent kickbacks. Not only did that fail to get Guillory banned from campus, he also wound up a fixture within the program. Of course, who wouldn't want a 43-year-old scammer hanging around a college freshman?
Not quite the case. They haven't been national title contenders or anything, but they've been a legit Pac 10 team for a long time. It's not like Mayo was the first NBA caliber player to come out of that school.
definately not the top school he was originally looking at probably though. the gifts and girls of cali probably changed his mind.
Mayo took gifts at USC / Who else pays?
Seriously, how many of you are actually surprised by this?
