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05-11-2008, 07:09 AM
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Believe the Hype
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Mayo took gifts at USC / Who else pays?
Ex-Mayo confidant says he gave USC star gifts including TV, cash
 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."
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This also begs the question - how much of this is happening around the country?
What other schools do you think do this?
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05-11-2008, 07:52 AM
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Veteran
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Re: Mayo took gifts at USC / Who else pays?
how else do you think you get a star in a crappy basketball program like USC?
i bet he declared there because of the girls as well. kind of like that part in 'he got game'
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05-11-2008, 08:09 AM
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Re: Mayo took gifts at USC / Who else pays?
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crappy basketball program like USC?
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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.
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05-11-2008, 08:33 AM
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Baberaham Lincoln
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Re: Mayo took gifts at USC / Who else pays?
It happens everywhere. The sad thing is most any other school would get punished but USC will not.
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05-11-2008, 05:24 PM
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Re: Mayo took gifts at USC / Who else pays?
Pat Forde never holds back...
USC, Tim Floyd have no excuse for turning a blind eye
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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?
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05-11-2008, 07:57 PM
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RUSH for Three says Owen
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Re: Mayo took gifts at USC / Who else pays?
I guess when Coach Huggin bought in Beasley at KSU could not afford Mayo
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05-11-2008, 08:19 PM
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Re: Mayo took gifts at USC / Who else pays?
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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.
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definately not the top school he was originally looking at probably though. the gifts and girls of cali probably changed his mind.
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05-11-2008, 08:27 PM
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Re: Mayo took gifts at USC / Who else pays?
i would be shocked if even a single school in division one didn't do some sort of illegal recruiting activities.
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05-12-2008, 02:49 PM
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Re: Mayo took gifts at USC / Who else pays?
My blog 
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05-12-2008, 07:39 PM
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RUSH for Three says Owen
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Re: Mayo took gifts at USC / Who else pays?
yeah LSU I know paid Lester Earl before he transferred to Kansas
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05-12-2008, 08:29 PM
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