This is going to be real interesting...
Bob Simon. He's been bitter at UA ever since. Even retweeted a tweet wondering if Alabama would get in trouble because of Sexton and Petty.
Amazing he still so butt hurt. No new job yet?
TIFWIW, but a friend close to the basketball program said there is a recording between the apparel guy and the agent where a payment was in place for Sexton's dad but the feds can not find the trail where the $ got to him. We are in the clear and Sexton will be eligible.
That's still a dangerous game to play...
If that's the truth, I don't like us playing Sexton. Forget the FBI. The NCAA doesn't require evidence. While they prefer it, they don't have to have it.
Exactly. Alabama might have a legitimate defense on the matter, that there is no paper trail. This doesn't seem anywhere near as dirty as the Cam Newton situation, where it was all about finding the bag man, and established fact he was shopped. Here the question is if the family was even willing to accept payment. The problem with this defense though, at least as I currently understand it, is not that the family necessarily refused payment. Not that the FBI is saying that there's proof he didn't take the money, but rather they can't find proof he did. That's a big, big difference!
It is a less serious SCam situation. Cam's dad admitted he was offered $180,000 but the NCAA could not verify or find a paper trail. This is not the case with the Sexton's. I heard the $ amount they had planned for was much less than SCam's amount. Again, don't know the accuracy and TIFWIW.
That depends on whether we owe our position to someone in or close to the program who broke the rules. The fact that we're being told the feds can't find a canceled check with the signature of Sexton's dad should be of little solace to any of us.
It doesn't appear at this time that Baker's transgressions had anything to do with recruiting. As Mystical said the transgression seems to be steering players to an particular agent. It was for personal gain, not institutional gain.
Poor ol Chuck will have the IRS hollering his name now. They'll want their share!
