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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.