Re: Now that the cat is out of the bag, how long until Michigan

I usually hate throwing race into things, but I can't help but think race plays a factor with people who think like this. They're basically saying that this black family couldn't afford a house and cars without someone buying it for them. It's not like Thomas is the only one things like this have been said about. How many times have we seen similar things posted about other players and recruits who happen to have a nice car?

I'm not saying that shady things don't sometimes happen out there, but if your only "evidence" is seeing someone driving in a new car then perhaps you should keep your opinion to yourself?

I also always love the posts about recruits getting jobs from boosters, or being in some business deal, and stating things like that as a known fact when the only thing they're basing the statement on is something they read on the message board of a rival fan base.

Let's even say that a family in a similar situation doesn't have a ton of money. Many Americans spend well beyond their incomes and find themselves in debt. I'd imagine that many families of 5 star recruits and/or high profile college football players find themselves spending above their incomes while racking up credit card debt while assuming they're going to be super rich in a few years when their son goes to the NFL. I'm sure many have gone bankrupt whenever it ends up not working out for that particular player as well.

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Oct 24, 2019, 11:37 AM

I also find it funny that people like this think Clemson or whichever other team they want to accuse of cheating has this great system in place to buy recruits while not getting caught, but then turn around and call something like this out as cheating.

Let's pretend we were cheating, we'd obviously not want to get caught right? So why on earth would we have a booster be the one to pay a ton of money to buy the business of a potential recruit? For starters, if we're sending money through the church as so many say, then why didn't we just do that instead of having a booster buy the business? Buying a business comes with a lot of paperwork doesn't it?

Even if we were going to do the whole buy a business thing, then why wouldn't we find a non booster to do the purchase? Wouldn't a program who has been cheating for years without getting caught be smart enough to have a set of people with money not become boosters so they could do things like that without being connected to the school?

Then, apparently we've been smart enough to cheat like crazy without getting caught right? But we aren't smart enough to educate the family of our players to not post about the big money items they're buying?

Also, just how much money do these people actually think is being handed out? This post mentions buying a house and 3 cars at the very least. Are they seriously thinking we were dumb enough to just simply hand over hundreds of thousands of dollars at once so they could pay for those things in cash?

Or are they saying they still got a loan for the house and cars, and are just using our money to make the monthly payments? They do realize the banks would still need to approve their credit and income level in order to approve those loans right? I don't think the bank accepts "A booster from our son's college gives us money for him to play football" under the employment line on the application.

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Now that the cat is out of the bag, how long until Michigan