College athletics is one of the dirtiest, grimey businesses there is. The way the NCAA tends to pick & choose who they want to go after is just a joke. The father of a freshman at Texas A&M is saying his son was offered $600,000 by more than one school to come there. His son, Ricky Seals-Jones, who was rated the #1 receiver in the country coming out of high school decided to sign at Texas A&M and avoid any future problems related to going to a school that offered money. Hit the jump for more.
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According to Sports Illustrated:
In a soon-to-be-released book on college football, the father of freshman wide receiver Ricky Seals-Jones said two schools offered his son around $600,000 during his recruitment for his commitment to their programs — twice as much as the $300,000 offer Seals-Jones reportedly fielded from another “top-20″ program, according to Yahoo! Sports’ Dan Wetzel who viewed an advance copy of the book. Details surrounding the Jones family’s $300,000 are in the upcoming book, “The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football,” by Armen Keteyian and Jeff Benedict. In the book, Chester Jones, Seals-Jones’ father, said his family opted to decline the offers and sign with Texas A&M, fearing potential problems with Seals-Jones’ eligibility. Jones claims that a high-profile program other than A&M offered “$300,000 in cash, use of a luxury suite during football season, eight season tickets and $1,000 per month for Ricky and $500 for the family.” But ensuing offers from one SEC school and one ACC school were “a lot higher than that,” according to Jones.
This is a pretty big statement the father made. People are going to want answers as to what schools tried to cheat by offering money. He better be prepared for this story to not die anytime soon.
