Hooped Up

Shocking news!  A high profile college athlete was offered and excepted gifts in college and high school.

According to a report on ESPN.com, potential lottery pick O.J. Mayo 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 at USC, a former Mayo associate told ESPN’s “Outside the Lines.”

Louis Johnson, who was a part of Mayo’s inner circle until recently, said Mayo accepted around $30,000 in cash and gifts during the past four years from Rodney Guillory, a 43-year-old Los Angeles event promoter.

In exchange for the payments and gifts, Mayo entered into a verbal agreement to allow BDA represent him when he turned pro.

ESPN

Really who cares!  Everybody else makes money off these kids so why shouldn’t they make a few bucks out of the deal.  These colleges and some high schools charge admission to see these kids play, and don’t exactly give a share of the revenue to any of the players let alone to star of the team that everybody wants to see.  God forbid these players use the same system that is using them.