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[Godfather]

Yahoo Sports 2013.  The NCAA's response?   


Five Southeastern Conference football stars violated NCAA rules by receiving extra benefits prior to completing their collegiate careers, a Yahoo Sports investigation has found. The benefits – which in some cases came from multiple individuals – were conveyed to University of Alabama offensive tackle D.J. Fluker, University of Tennessee quarterback Tyler Bray, Tennessee defensive end Maurice Couch, Mississippi State University defensive tackle Fletcher Cox and Mississippi State wideout Chad Bumphis.

Fluker, Bray and Cox are all currently on NFL rosters. Bumphis was recently released by the Miami Dolphins. Couch is a senior starter for the Volunteers this season.

The identities of these players were revealed in a web of financial and text message records belonging to former Crimson Tide defensive end Luther Davis. The records were turned over to Yahoo Sports by a source with ties to the NFL agent community who alleged that Davis was acting as an intermediary between several high-profile college football stars and multiple NFL agents and financial advisers.

Davis declined to comment for this story. However, Yahoo Sports was able to authenticate text message records, Western Union fund transfers, banking statements, flight receipts and other financial material linking both Davis and the five college football players. Yahoo Sports also found that three NFL agents and three financial advisers engaged Davis in transactions totaling $45,550. The three agents were Andy Simms, Peter Schaffer and John Phillips. The financial advisers were Jason Jernigan, Mike Rowan and Hodge Brahmbhatt.

Simms, Schaffer, Phillips, Rowan and Brahmbhatt, through his attorney, each confirmed giving money to Davis – but each said they had no knowledge of, and did not instruct Davis to provide benefits to players. Jernigan declined comment. Another agent who was listed on a travel itinerary in Davis' records, Isaac Conner, said Davis was a point of contact to reach multiple SEC players but denied any knowledge of Davis' financial dealings.

A defensive end for the Crimson Tide from 2007-10, Davis acted as a "concierge" between budding NFL draft picks, agents and financial advisers following his college career, five sources told Yahoo Sports. Davis signed with the Buffalo Bills as an undrafted free agent in 2011, but has not been on an NFL roster since being released in training camp prior to that season.

All told, the records show agents and financial advisers moved at least $45,550 to Davis between September 2011 and December 2012. During that same timeframe, records also show at least $12,700 in cash, airfare, living expenses or other receipts moving from Davis to the five players. In addition to that amount, Yahoo Sports also obtained a line-item invoice of 49 transactions from February 2013 that Davis emailed to Fluker's onetime financial adviser Hodge Brahmbhatt. Within the email, Davis listed $33,755 in expenditures under the subject line "D.J. Fluker Invoice."


If proven by the NCAA, the transactions could violate Bylaw 12.3.1.2, which prohibits athletes from receiving benefits from agents or marketing representatives. Like the highly publicized NCAA case against the University of Southern California and Reggie Bush, a violation of that bylaw could retroactively nullify a portion of each player's eligibility, including Fluker, who was an All-American at offensive tackle during Alabama's 2012 national championship season. It could also raise additional issues for Tennessee and Mississippi State, which are both currently on probation until the summer of 2015 for previous rules violations in their respective football programs.

Dear Booster and or Coach,

Cease and Desist.

Signed,
Bama

[jmar]

Erect a statue of Freeze in the Grove to mark the highest level these shitheads are capable of producing with unlimited funding.

[Kaos]

Erect a statue of Freeze in the Grove to mark the highest level these shitheads are capable of producing with unlimited funding.

I've seen several of them refer to "the Freeze era" as the best they've ever and will likely ever have. 

He signed 11 five star recruits.  Never won anything that mattered. 

That's defeatist on a level I can't comprehend.

[wesfau2]

I've seen several of them refer to "the Freeze era" as the best they've ever and will likely ever have. 

He signed 11 five star recruits.  Never won anything that mattered. 

That's defeatist on a level I can't comprehend.

They're realistic about their place in the pecking order.  I'll bet that makes football season a lot less stressful.

[WiregrassTiger]

They're realistic about their place in the pecking order.  I'll bet that makes football season a lot less stressful.

You just wanted to say pecking, didn't you?

[Godfather]

You just wanted to say pecking, didn't you?

Who doesn't?

[Buzz Killington]

Dear Booster and or Coach,

Cease and Desist.

Signed,
Bama

You forgot to back date it.

[Kaos]

This is the guy who brought Ole Miss crashing down to earth. 



Steve Robertson, author of the upcoming Ole Miss expose "Flim Flam"

That's really sad.  Still sort of wish we had some lunatic willing to risk life and limb to document Alabama's transgressions and make sure they were exposed for what they are.

Say.  Has anybody seen Prowler lately?

[War Eagle!!!]

I thought this all stemmed from Nutt lawsuit.

It will take someone from the inside to take Alabama down. Someone that uncovers everything. But that won't happen because Alabama has a big payroll and no one wants to upset the apple cart. It MAY happen after Saban leaves, but no one will want to try and bring down the god that Alabama fans worship while he is still in power.

[Snaggletiger]

I thought this all stemmed from Nutt lawsuit.

It will take someone from the inside to take Alabama down. Someone that uncovers everything. But that won't happen because Alabama has a big payroll and no one wants to upset the apple cart. It MAY happen after Saban leaves, but no one will want to try and bring down the god that Alabama fans worship while he is still in power.

I'm quite sure there are plenty of peeps that Saban and Bama have stepped on and crushed on the way to the top.  Problem is, when things are revealed like the Yahoo story above, the NCAA turns a deaf ear to it.  I've said this before but one thing I'm 100% sure of is that Finebaum is well aware of what's going on at Bama under Saban.  Because the day that story broke, I tuned into his show just to see what would happen.  When the first caller mentioned it, PF's only reaction was that "This will be a non-story by this weekend."  It was!  He knows they're untouchable.  Plus, who wants to wind up like Logan Young and fall up the stairs?

[Godfather]

I thought this all stemmed from Nutt lawsuit.

No the taking down of Freeze stemmed from Nutt's lawsuit.  That had nothing to do with the NCCA allegations, outside of Ole Piss saying most of the allegations were under Nutt's leadership which was one of the reasons he was suing, which also wasn't the case.

[Kaos]

Wall Street Journal hooked Nutt's escort calls to recruiting trips. 

[GH2001]

Wall Street Journal hooked Nutt's escort calls to recruiting trips. 

Nutt got hookers too?

[Kaos]

Nutt got hookers too?

Dammit.  Those evangelical rebel akbars are interchangeable.

[The Prowler]

Wall Street Journal hooked Nutt's escort calls to recruiting trips. 

Ole Miss about to be the SMU of the SEC

[GH2001]

Ole Miss about to be the SMU of the SEC

Nowhere near as defiant or egregious (that was bama with Albert means) but yes, they'll be the sacrificial lamb.

[Godfather]

Nowhere near as defiant or egregious (that was bama with Albert means) but yes, they'll be the sacrificial lamb.

They had the audacity to beat bama twice!

[The Prowler]

https://www.seccountry.com/mississippi/report-hugh-freeze-made-hundreds-calls-disassociated-ole-miss-booster

Tic toc

[Kaos]

https://www.seccountry.com/mississippi/report-hugh-freeze-made-hundreds-calls-disassociated-ole-miss-booster

Tic toc

You forgot your K's.