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Former Auburn Player Stanley McClover

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Glad to see you here, HH!

Interesting to hear about McClover - maybe he can bring Hart with him!

HH, when you get a chance, could you fill us in on McClover's original recruitment, and what exactly caused him to switch schools at the last minute. Thanks, and welcome again!
 
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I don't want to get into exact detals, I will someday, after next year...

But he was paid by "someone" to go there. He felt the money would help him and his family, even though his Dad said he did not want his kid to take money and really wanted him to be a Buckeye. But at the time, it was a financial decision. If he was coming out today, he would be a Buckeye.

*** This is just my opinion, with no inside knowledge of the shady circumstances.



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Kinda weird, his dad called me last night. We just talked about how Stanley is looking forward to the spring game, how hard it was not being able to play and have everyone talking about him, and how he knows he made some mistakes and feels badly about them....

Just the whole timming has me a little currious....
 
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Very intersting about the money thing... I sure hope it is not true... We joke about the SEC paying players, however I hope that those days are in the past.

If true, does Stanley realize that he could have just trashed his college eligibility (sp?)...? I hope it was for a ton of money, if not why take that risk?

Do the OSU coaches know there was monkey business involved? If so, I doubt coach Tressel would want the kid on the team... it would become OSU problem if the money did occur...

Oh, and welcome to the board HH :wink2:
 
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That explains why JT does not want to touch him. I wish he had this wisdom when a year ago.

FYI, I personally know a number of football players on one of the historically worse SEC football teams and they did get paid, not a whole lot, but definitely enough. Sadly, I believe if the players from this school were getting paid, it is likely that it happen more than you would imagine.
 
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$EC $uck$

If anyone saw the "Outside the Lines" this weekend on ESPN, you would have an even worse opinion of the SEC. It was all about the Alabama and Tennessee recruiting wars, and how Bama used massive pay-offs, and Tennessee (Phil Fulmer, to be exact) sent information to the NCAA to get Bama busted & save their own hide when they were being investigated.

If you don't get to see the show, here are some notables:

1. There's a Bama booster who seems to have given every HS kid in the South a hand-out, & one of the kids (later a Tennessee recruit) was grilled by Fulmer (while he was enrolled at UT) to give up info on the booster so he could report 'Bama to the NCAA.

2. That same kid supposedly went to 10% of his classes (or less), and the only disciplinary action Fulmer took was to run him repeatedly after practice. He claims that Fulmer knew all about his skipping class, and gaining aid from a tutor for one paper.

3. The NCAA Investigation into Tennessee's Academic fraud allegations was dropped 2 weeks after the NCAA had an interview with Fulmer regarding Alabama's recruiting violations. It is assumed that Fulmer traded disparaging info on Bama to save his own hide, a la Sammy "The Bull" Gravano.

4. There's also a lot of ex-Bama coaches that cry that Tennessee cost them their jobs by reporting them to the NCAA. One of them is a cell phone salesman today and won't get touched for another coaching job.

There's more, but the point is that there is some majorly shady stuff going down in the South .. those schools play dirty.
 
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Help me out

Outside of our vaious buckeye message boards, what is being said about McClover elsewhere. HH statement about McClover taking money is a pretty serious allegation. Someone provide me some more info please. I know Auburns reputation and history so other than that what's up.
 
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gbear:

I have no clue how much they're paying, but the kid in question got $20K from the Bama booster, and didn't even end up going there. The thing was, they only mentioned one Bama booster, and they mentioned pay-outs that he made ranging from $100K to $20K for a bunch of different kids (you'd have to assume that his total pay-outs over the years would have to come close to a mil, if you watched the show). That's a lot to pay from one man because he likes his football team.

And as far as Auburn is concerned, they're going down soon, so no worries anymore. You gotta figure that Tuberville was doing something wrong, because it shouldn't be a choice between Auburn and OSU for any recruits. Auburn is no National Power (far from it, they're more like SEC West fodder in the Title Game each year), they haven't made as much as a ripple in the National Championship race in many years, they've got a very old fashioned Southern Administration, they're always in and out of investigation/probation, and Tuberville has a rep as a gimmicky coach who'll never make it big time. I can't imagine what Hart, McClover, etc. were thinking unless they were getting paid.

I mean, the most Auburn's done in over a decade was get picked as Pre-Season # 1 by Matt Hayes and a few writers last year, and they couldn't even hold that ranking past the first game. Compare that with what OSU has to offer, and its not even close.
 
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