Stanley McClover Alleges Improper Benefits During Recruitment
McClover picked Auburn over Ohio State on Signing Day 2003. As always, be discriminating when you read these confessions, but it's certainly interesting and plausible. Transactions like these happen more often than not in college football recruiting. There's more to the interview than what's listed below, but I've excluded parts for space reasons.
Host Andrea Kremer’s voiceover: "McClover said it wasn’t until he attended an all-star camp at Louisiana State University that he realized how the game is played. A game of money and influence."
Stanley McClover: "Somebody came to me, I don’t even know this person and he was like, ‘we would love for you to come to LSU and he gave me a handshake and it had five hundred dollars in there. … that’s called a money handshake … I grabbed it and I’m like, ‘wow,’ hell I thought ten dollars was a lot of money back then. Five hundred dollars for doing nothing but what I was blessed to do. I was happy."
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Kremer voiceover: "But McClover says there were money handshakes from boosters at other football camps too. At Auburn for a couple hundred dollars and at Michigan State. All the schools denied any wrongdoing. And things really started heating up a few months later when he went to Ohio State for an official visit where schools get a chance for one weekend to host prospective athletes. McClover says there were money handshakes from alumni there too. About a thousand dollars. And something else to entice him."
McClover: "They send girls my way. I partied. When I got there I met up with a couple guys from the team. We went to a party and they asked me to pick any girl I wanted."
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Kremer: "McClover committed to Ohio State right after that weekend. The recruiter at Ohio State who says he dealt with McClover that weekend denied the school was involved in any wrongdoing."
* On what caused McClover to sign with Auburn over Ohio State:
Kremer voiceover: "McClover says what he asked for was money. A lot of it. And that he got it. Delivered in a bookbag, exact amount unknown."
about 1 year ago
Tyler T.
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I believe I’ve heard former players come out with stuff like this in the past – normally with an axe to grind. But unless they are going to name names and offer hard proof, nothing will come of it.
by golfballs03 on Mar 30, 2011 10:59 AM EDT up reply actions
Cam Newton isn't worried.
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by Culp's Freaking Hill on Mar 30, 2011 11:48 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Who still has their head in the sand and pretends this doesn’t happen at every major university?
Is this really news to anyone?
"I want my unwarranted optimism back." -Dilbert
The NCAA is trying to put out a forest fire with a squirt gun.
by Tyler T. on Mar 30, 2011 12:49 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I have said on many occasions, that this happens at almost every big time school. We just rarely hear about these transgressions. I honestly believe that there should be a Johnny B Goode movie remake.
I don’t think every major university does this. i think every major university that regularly gets top ten or top fifteen recruiting classes does this, as well as some smaller universities, but not every single university. For instance, i haven’t really heard any rumors of Iowa doing anything like this.
by justsomehawkeyefan on Mar 30, 2011 5:39 PM EDT reply actions
I have seen it at small FCS schools, ergo it most likely happens at the big name schools as well. You don’t hear the rumors at Iowa because a lot of it is really hush hush. Rich alumni provide benefits to lots of scholarship athletes that the administrations kind of just turn the other way on. It is only when the administrations/coaching staffs become immersed in said benefits that the NCAA really starts to get involved.
I had a conversation about this with a good friend of mine, who was briskly recruited into mid-major football. He told me that he was exposed to quite a bit of “mon-ay and puss-ay” by various schools looking for his talents, This happened over 30 years ago. So, talonk, I’d agree with you that this stuff is pandemic in recruiting. Like a lot of things; just because you don’t hear about it doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.
"I'm not a psychopath, Anderson, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research." - Sherlock Holmes
It’s everywhere. Boosters want to feel involved, fans want to win as much or more than coaches, and there’s little anyone can do to stop it. The NCAA would need to massively expand its investigative capacity to handle it, and even then, schools would need to cooperate.
There’s a sort of magnification process in terms of money exchange at work too. Some booster gives Joe Quarterback a $500 dollar handshake, and at the other end of the spectrum, the NCAA rakes in $100s of millions in revenue.
The NCAA doesn’t want to handle it, they want to make PR moves to try and look like they’re handling it, but maintaining their product.
"I want my unwarranted optimism back." -Dilbert
by Simmsinns on Mar 30, 2011 6:49 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
On cue, another story breaks. Dez Bryant received $200,000 worth of jewelry on credit while at Oklahoma State.
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