Following the commitment of Jamarkus McFarland, alot has come out from him about the recruiting practices of UT, USC and LSU.

 

Whores, drugs, and money at LSU and UT. Stretch Hummers and Hollywood opulence at USC

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/26/sports/ncaafootball/26recruit.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&ref=sports

 

And insiders at UT claiming that his mother asked for compensation for her sons services. Supposedly she even put the request in writing.

 

 

Remember this kids name. This story may just have legs.

Edited December 26, 200816 yr by Ray Herring

Read this story earlier today and didn't know what to believe. NY Times isn't too much of a credible source anymore IMO.

 

However, I'm not surprised about the parties at SC and LSU. The allegations about UT did surprise me because I think that Mack Brown runs a clean program.

 

IMO, the mom did not come off very well in this story. She was offended by an email from Mack Brown indicating that they were going to give both her and her son time to think about their choice? Sounds a bit sensitive to me.

Read this story earlier today and didn't know what to believe. NY Times isn't too much of a credible source anymore IMO.

 

pardon my french, but what the hell do you base that statement on???

pardon my french, but what the hell do you base that statement on???

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayson_Blair

http://www.city-data.com/forum/elections/423126-nytimes-admits-aip-story-false.html

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/alaska-party-official-says-palin-was-not-a-member/

http://news.google.com/news?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4DMUS_en__204__204&q=ny+times+false+stories&um=1&hl=en&sa=X&oi=news_result&resnum=11&ct=title

http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/nj_20081018_8644.php

http://mediamatters.org/items/200702090015

http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn08182003.html

http://www.regrettheerror.com/newspapers/ny-times-article-examines-the-spread-of-false-news

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D94DQU5O0&show_article=1

http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=146057

http://minnesotaindependent.com/17591/ordinary-voter-in-new-york-times-recount-story-has-strong-gop-ties

http://confederateyankee.mu.nu/archives/142972.php

http://www.brocku.ca/MeadProject/NYT/NYT_1909_10_28.html

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1511/is_/ai_53501807

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/bushscan.asp

 

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4DMUS_en__204__204&q=ny+times+false+stories&start=10&sa=N

 

 

To be fair most of these stories are non-sports related. Most reporters no longer reports just the news but they try to scoop a certain story in order to get ahead. An example in sports would be Jay Glazer getting the "scoop" on the Brett Favre story talking to the Lions. This kind of thing happens in all sports when players are traded but Glazer made a mountain out of a molehill.

 

I'm not taking this kid's claims lightly but the story had something negative to say about all of these teams, especially the ones he didn't commit to.

EXTENSIVE nice find. Great research.

its probably all true but i dont think its a problem for us to compete with that-- they may have naked girls but we have difficult classes-- they may have warm weather and limos but we have cold overcast dreary lake michigan winters-- they may offer alot of entertainment-- but we are right in the center of south bend indianas spa city---anyhow where do i sign up for the naked girls, limos , entertainment, maids and personal hostesses ive decided to concentrate on academics!

All the rest of that stuff is just getting greedy...........just give me the naked girls.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayson_Blair

http://www.city-data.com/forum/elections/423126-nytimes-admits-aip-story-false.html

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/alaska-party-official-says-palin-was-not-a-member/

http://news.google.com/news?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4DMUS_en__204__204&q=ny+times+false+stories&um=1&hl=en&sa=X&oi=news_result&resnum=11&ct=title

http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/nj_20081018_8644.php

http://mediamatters.org/items/200702090015

http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn08182003.html

http://www.regrettheerror.com/newspapers/ny-times-article-examines-the-spread-of-false-news

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D94DQU5O0&show_article=1

http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=146057

http://minnesotaindependent.com/17591/ordinary-voter-in-new-york-times-recount-story-has-strong-gop-ties

http://confederateyankee.mu.nu/archives/142972.php

http://www.brocku.ca/MeadProject/NYT/NYT_1909_10_28.html

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1511/is_/ai_53501807

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/bushscan.asp

 

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4DMUS_en__204__204&q=ny+times+false+stories&start=10&sa=N

 

 

To be fair most of these stories are non-sports related. Most reporters no longer reports just the news but they try to scoop a certain story in order to get ahead. An example in sports would be Jay Glazer getting the "scoop" on the Brett Favre story talking to the Lions. This kind of thing happens in all sports when players are traded but Glazer made a mountain out of a molehill.

 

I'm not taking this kid's claims lightly but the story had something negative to say about all of these teams, especially the ones he didn't commit to.

 

umm, yeah. "non-sports related" is right. and glazer works for who? fox sports, right? whatever problems the NYT may have had in it's news division those problems have not, to my knowledge, carried over to the sports section.

NYT has a seperate group for every section, news totally differs from sports, I would say by all the denying most of this is true.

i've heard stories, from UT fans mind you, that, yes UT alumni did bribe McKfarland's mom, no one affiliated with the UT program was involved and that OKie was up to no good either. Apparently this writer is an OKie himself. Take this all with a grain of salt and a shot of pennicilin if you hung out at LSU

i've heard stories, from UT fans mind you, that, yes UT alumni did bribe McKfarland's mom, no one affiliated with the UT program was involved and that OKie was up to no good either. Apparently this writer is an OKie himself. Take this all with a grain of salt and a shot of pennicilin if you hung out at LSU

 

Didn't know that the writer was an Okie. I'm a bit skeptical about all the allegations made in this story and think that there are some exagerations.

I wish it had some more dirt on u$c.

i've heard stories, from UT fans mind you, that, yes UT alumni did bribe McKfarland's mom, no one affiliated with the UT program was involved and that OKie was up to no good either. Apparently this writer is an OKie himself. Take this all with a grain of salt and a shot of pennicilin if you hung out at LSU

 

 

Writer played basketball at Oklahoma Wesleyan University but writes a lot of stories about the Sooners.

 

http://www.newscred.com/author/show/name/thayer-evans

Edited December 27, 200816 yr by mcdougal93

I believe this stuff happens all the time...

 

In High School, the coach of our Football team, told me i had to give the (star) RB my Math homework.. My school had guys that were not being recruited by anyone, i can only imagine what special favors the big recruits get!! .... Anything they want.

This kind of thing has been going on for years. Tim Brown's family was offered property if he went to SMU. It sounds fantastic, but I'd be naiive to outright dismiss it just because of how it sounds. Its clear from hearing about kids like OJ Mayo and Reggie Bush that there are a lot of shady dealings with these collegiate choices.

I agree with you Calves, by the way nice to have you back here at DD. I just do not know how one can cut boosters out of the pie on these matters.