Former NFL Agent Admits to Paying College Athletes

[RollTide72]

This cover story was just posted over at SI.com

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/magazine/10/12/agent/index.html?eref=sihp

There is a lengthy disclaimer from SI that they met with agent Josh Luchs for over 20 hours and confirmed his stories through players, pictures and third party accounts. The NCAA has a statue of limitations of 4 years and according to Luchs the most recent violation was in 2005.

:nono:

 

[RollTide72]

Apparently around 2000 this guy hooked up with Gary Wichard who is at the center of the North Carolina scandal.

Gary used his contacts in the coaching community to help him get players. This has recently come into public view, as the NCAA and the state of North Carolina are investigating the Tar Heels football program and whether John Blake, a Carolina assistant coach since 2007, steered players to Gary and received money from him. It's no secret in the agent business that some college coaches steer players to certain agents. I laughed when I heard Gary deny in the media that John ever worked with Pro Tect.

When I was with Gary, John worked hand in hand with us, and Gary called him his "partner." John was the defensive line coach of the Dallas Cowboys when they won Super Bowls XXVIII and XXX, and the head coach at Oklahoma from '96 through '98. He was one of the best recruiters I'd ever seen. He was just electric, and I leveraged him to get clients whenever I could. In '02 two of the biggest clients we got were due, in large part, to John. He went with Gary and me to meet with Fresno State defensive lineman Alan Harper, and Gary and I had John work out defensive end Kenyon Coleman from UCLA before his senior year. That was an NCAA violation, but it wasn't like paying a kid. It was helping Kenyon become a better player.

 

[betty01]

spam

 

[ageecee]

shocking

 

[MadJack]

shocking

:142smilie

 

[kickserv]

In other news...........humans need oxygen to breath.

 

[The Joker]

Who didn't already know that this happened......:shrug:

 

[cbrown334]

EVERYBODY KNOWS IT HAPPENS, BUT I FOUND IT A VERY INTERESTING READ......

 

[saint]

Thanks for sharing. Yes we all knew they got paid but I'm sure you didn't know how much they got, how it worked. Good read :0074

 

[RollTide72]

In other news...........humans need oxygen to breath.

Am I shocked/surprised? Hell no. But there is a difference between suspecting something and learning the real story.