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there's nothing terribly new here. Thirty-five years ago, Digger Phelps, then the coach at Notre Dame, told a New York Times reporter during the Final Four in New Orleans that the going rate for big-time recruits was about $10,000 a year in basketball and $20,000 a year in football. The Times put the story on the front page. Phelps was pilloried by many colleagues — not because he was wrong but because he'd broken the coaching omerta that you don't talk about players being paid.
After wringing his hands and saying he couldn't believe anything Phelps said was true, NCAA President Walter Byers said two years later that, if anything, Phelps's numbers were low. The numbers quoted now by the FBI are well into six figures.
Link to whole story: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/ct-rick-pitino-college-coaches-know-20170927-story.html
there's nothing terribly new here. Thirty-five years ago, Digger Phelps, then the coach at Notre Dame, told a New York Times reporter during the Final Four in New Orleans that the going rate for big-time recruits was about $10,000 a year in basketball and $20,000 a year in football. The Times put the story on the front page. Phelps was pilloried by many colleagues — not because he was wrong but because he'd broken the coaching omerta that you don't talk about players being paid.
After wringing his hands and saying he couldn't believe anything Phelps said was true, NCAA President Walter Byers said two years later that, if anything, Phelps's numbers were low. The numbers quoted now by the FBI are well into six figures.
Link to whole story: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/ct-rick-pitino-college-coaches-know-20170927-story.html
