Did a $250K-a-year assistant hoops coach go broke paying recruits? (Yahoo/Wetzel)

[huskymedic]

Did a $250K-a-year assistant hoops coach go broke paying recruits?

Emanuel 'Book' Richardson was making nearly $250,000 a year as an assistant coach for Arizona, yet he was still essentially broke from spending money on recruits.

sports.yahoo.com

>>Richardson's story should humiliate everyone in college athletics. To have a job with a national power such as Arizona, Richardson needed to land top recruits. Yet to land top recruits, and keep them happy while on campus, Richardson needed money. And so it seems like everything was a scheme.

Richardson said he preferred payments to come in installments rather than a lump sum to both keep recruits/middlemen on the line and avoid scrutiny that tens of thousands of dollars would bring.

“Where do you put it?” Richardson said. “Because you can’t put [it] under your mattress. Now you’re dealing with the alphabet boys, not the NCAA, the DEA, the CIA.”

He didn’t know that it was a different bunch of letters, the FBI, that was recording him at the time.<<

Even taking out the braggadocio factor that occurs when “friends/acquaintances” get together, this is still wild.

 

[UconnU]

LSU paid $300K for Naz Reid!? Holy that’s a lot of money for one year.

 

[don356]

I think if the Ncaa even wants to exist after this is over they have to basically put these programs whose asst.'s paid these guys on the death watch for a few years. It's kind of become irrelevant in the Az case whether Miller survives or not. It's so out of control they have to come down with the stiffest punishment.

 

[HooperScooper]

LSU paid $300K for Naz Reid!? Holy that’s a lot of money for one year.

If he got $300K how much do you think Waters got?

 

[UConnNick]

I think if the Ncaa even wants to exist after this is over they have to basically put these programs whose asst.'s paid these guys on the death watch for a few years. It's kind of become irrelevant in the Az case whether Miller survives or not. It's so out of control they have to come down with the stiffest punishment.

The NCAA has already essentially outlawed its own death penalty because of what it did to SMU's football program. If anything deserves to have it brought back it's this current mess, but don't hold your breath waiting for them to pull the trigger. They're a bunch of spineless wimps. They're more interested in punishing Cal-Poly for misspent book stipends than in prosecuting the huge cash cow programs of the P5 conferences.

 

[Engineer90]

If he got $300K how much do you think Waters got?

Or how much Precious is being offered? I wonder if these kids know the FBI is watching now?

 

[djct1999]

LSU paid $300K for Naz Reid!? Holy that’s a lot of money for one year.

That is the definition of SEC money.

 

[djct1999]

If he got $300K how much do you think Waters got?

50 - 100k. Better yet, how much did Duke pay Zion?

 

[polycom]

50 - 100k. Better yet, how much did Duke pay Zion?

Enough for Zion’s family to live in one of the nicest neighborhoods in the Durham area.