Not claiming to be an insider and Pete can't post this information bc he would be exposing the system and the bull**** paying players going on in college football but with McFarland Maryland paid and dad asked us to match and we said no. Miami does not pay prospects since Shapiro screwed us. Devante smith was paid more than 90 percent of the country make in a year to not go on his Miami visit from Saban and Alabama. Would be shocked if he didn't end up there but them losing the guy he has a good relationship with may push him to LSU. Pete just do a winky face to confirm but have someone who is always spot on tell me about this stuff year after year and it's always funny to me how the NCAA won't shut this **** down. We will put it this way better get ready for dissapointment of lingard next year unless we drastically change our system this year and start paying again.
Been going on for ages.
Back when Jimmy Johnson first arrived at the U, he was recruiting an explosive RB/WR from Arlington, VA named Eric Metcalf. Happened to be the son of a former NFL star, Terry Metcalf.
We thought we had him...but then we didn't. Near the end of the recruiting cycle, JJ was quoted as saying that he thought maybe Notre Dame got to Eric's mother in Seattle. (I guess the parents were divorced.)
All of a sudden, Eric ends up signing with Texas. I remember Sam Jankovich, who was our AD, was furious. He said something--although not mentioning the Metcalfs by name--that the IRS should start investigating the recruits and their families for not reporting the income.
Actually, when a kid or his family all of a sudden gets tens of thousands of dollars, plus other consideration, for signing, that's a significant amount of income that's not being reported. The IRS
should be very interested, but it's hard to turn anybody in when you don't have more facts. Of course, to most of you, the IRS is not a sympathetic victim, but still, families that get many tens of thousands of dollars tax-free, if not more, are taking advantage of the rest of us.
If the NCAA won't do something, i wish the IRS would. I guess nobody wants to touch these kids. Seems like a volatile situation, all of a suddent thousands of fans will yell it's persecution and/or racism if the NCAA or I tried to go after the kids, the programs, or the uncollected tax.
