Brookie with a knee to the gut....

[The Prowler]

(Uh Oh...Tom's Myspace photos, Sept. 2008)


http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/befor-duke-game-with-my-boys-fitting-there-suit-29832

rayben57 - Custom suits cost a lot more than tatoos. Which OSU just got nailed for.
Bama hung themselves by claiming to send a letter on the exact same day that the OSU
story took off. That means they knew before hand and didn’t do anything until they
got worried they would be caught. Also if a school is watching players for extra benefits
then they would have noticed an unemployedulio wearing a new custom suit every week.

[Saniflush]

OK, outside his inability to know the difference between "there" and "their", didn't I see somewhere that he had a contract with the athletic department to supply suits?

Not defending the guy.  I think he is dirty as hell but if there was a contract like that in place then wouldn't each player have to be measured hence be there.

[Buzz Killington]

I hear that inseam measuring time is a special one for Trent and Tom.

[Townhallsavoy]

OK, outside his inability to know the difference between "there" and "their", didn't I see somewhere that he had a contract with the athletic department to supply suits?

Not defending the guy.  I think he is dirty as hell but if there was a contract like that in place then wouldn't each player have to be measured hence be there.

A couple of things that could go wrong here:

1.  Why did Alabama disassociate a person who has a contract to supply suits to players if all he was doing was simply measuring them?

2.  Why is Trent, Julio, and others signing merchandise for a guy who already has a contract with Alabama which would ultimately involve some kind of payment in merchandise, money, and/or gameday passes?

3.  Why is Trent, Julio, and others going out to dinner multiple times with a guy who is only supposed to be providing suits? 

I'm still not saying any of these things are major violations, but it's really fishy.  Like old tuna smelling fish.

[JR4AU]

OK, outside his inability to know the difference between "there" and "their", didn't I see somewhere that he had a contract with the athletic department to supply suits?

Not defending the guy.  I think he is dirty as hell but if there was a contract like that in place then wouldn't each player have to be measured hence be there.

You can't give suits to players every week. 

[The Prowler]

OK, outside his inability to know the difference between "there" and "their", didn't I see somewhere that he had a contract with the athletic department to supply suits?

Not defending the guy.  I think he is dirty as hell but if there was a contract like that in place then wouldn't each player have to be measured hence be there.

I heard that too, also heard that team pregame team apparel must have the team logo on it.  Also, uat fans had better hope Tom didn't have any kind of contract with the University, because then he becomes a little more than a normal booster.

[Buzz Killington]

Looks like Clay Travis has even become uninterested in this.  Brooks is the lone holdout.

[JR4AU]

Looks like Clay Travis has even become uninterested in this.  Brooks is the lone holdout.

He lives close enough the threats probably felt real.

[Token]

I'm starting to feel embarassed for Brooks.

[RWS]

Also, uat fans had better hope Tom didn't have any kind of contract with the University, because then he becomes a little more than a normal booster.

What does that make him? A SUPER booster? If you read the NCAA rule on what makes you a booster, a supplier of apparel for a team is covered in that. I haven't seen different levels of boosterism or anything in the NCAA bylaws.

So, does it make him a super duper, super, or sorta-kinda booster under NCAA bylaws?

[djsimp]

I'm just gonna be honest, I'm tired of even hearing about any of this. My dislike for Brooks doesn't really help the situation either.

[RWS]

Looks like Clay Travis has even become uninterested in this.  Brooks is the lone holdout.

Pretty much all it will come down to is can anybody prove what happened? I think Token hit the nail on the head the other day with his post in another thread. This dicksneeze Albetar is bad news. I don't like the fact that he was around the players. I'm sure a meal was paid for here or there. I don't like it. Brooks' problem is he doesn't even know what button to push. He's just giddy as hell that he has something. For example, he keeps pushing the signed items for display in the store. Newsflash: The NCAA isn't going to come down on anybody for somebody displaying signed stuff in their store on a display only basis. You can spin that all you want as "endorsement or advertisement of an athlete's name", and he has been. But at the end of the day, I would almost guarantee you the NCAA won't interperet it that way. If they open that can of worms, then there would be a fuckton of programs feeling some heat.

As Token said, if he were smart, he would actually dig and try to find something of substance. As it is, he just keeps posting the same shit over and over.

[JR4AU]

I'm starting to feel embarassed for Brooks.

I never felt embarrassed for Gayer Evans, and he had exactly jack shit.  At least Brooks has pics. 

[Snaggletiger]

Token was the one who said he had a contract yesterday.  So take that for what it's worth.  Have you seen that guy's eyes?  I'd get strict proof before I trusted what he had to say.

We need some kind of super secret forum to talk about guys like that.  And have coffee.  We'll call it Miss Lucille's

[JR4AU]

Have you felt embarrassed for the likes of Scott Moore, Finebaum, and Sheridan for their constant banging of the Auburn bought Cam drum?

[Token]

I never felt embarrassed for Gayer Evans, and he had exactly jack shit.  At least Brooks has pics.

Pics from facebook.  Which makes it even more embarassing. 

[Token]

Have you felt embarrassed for the likes of Scott Moore, Finebaum, and Sheridan for their constant banging of the Auburn bought Cam drum?

Hell no, I joined every Bama website on the internet and posted it in every place possible. 

[AUChizad]

I never felt embarrassed for Gayer Evans, and he had exactly jack shit.  At least Brooks has pics.

I don't care about anything he has typed.

The pictures are worth a thousand words.

Bama players unequivocally are being paid to hang out with this dude and sign his shit. You have to be braindead to think otherwise. Unlike the logical leap it takes to assume Newton was paid by Auburn simply because his dad entertained the idea of payment at MSU, there is an abundance of pictoral evidence.

As much as the media and bama fans, those here included, want to say "Nothing could have been foul because Saban wouldn't allow it." Sorry, but Saban is dirty as hell in all of this.

He mentioned the dissociation letter and said he didn't see any reason they shouldn't hang out at his store because "no one has convinced him that anyone had done anything wrong". Two days later the university says "Oh yeah, we dissociated him too". Why didn't Saban mention that two days earlier? Isn't that more tangent to his point? Isn't that bigger news? Why did the university dissociate someone who didn't do anything wrong? A 40 year old middle eastern man, who judging by the captions on his photos, can barely speak English, is best fucking friends with every star on the Alabama football team. Throws them birthday parties, takes them to dinner, etc. They autograph piles and piles of jerseys for him. That latest Brooks article shows pictures from Al-Betar's facebook of Julio in several of his 20ish suits on game days. He says he "suits the players off the field".

You have to be Terri Schiavo to not see that this dude is absolutely paying players.

This is worse than tattoos at Ohio State. There is tons of evidence supplied by the guilty party himself. Saban is just as guilty of trying to cover this up as Jim Tressel.

It will be probably amount to nothing though because of the combined effect of the fact that people have scandal fatigue and would just rather turn their heads and the fact that it's actually football season. Doesn't hurt that Alabama is a favorite son of the media.

But make no mistake, this situation is about as dirty as they come.

[JR4AU]

Pics from facebook.  Which makes it even more embarassing.

Oh, so they're not credible since they came off the net?  Farked?  Photoshopped?  They are not what they are aight?  The Cease and Desist and Dissassociation Letter aren't a concern?  Actually, they probably shouldn't be because you have the state media willing to do anything to protect da tahd.  Seriously, it all looks completely appropriate and innocent?  Seriously?

[Jumbo]

Looks like Clay Travis has even become uninterested in this.  Brooks is the lone holdout.

I've lost intrest as well, he posts the same pictures over and over. He also broke a story about Auburn this week that's at least six months old.