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    HS School football coach says Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia paid him cash

    Sounds like this scandal just got a wee bit bigger.

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    Ex-prep coach: 3 schools paid me
    Posted: Wednesday January 26, 2005 12:49PM; Updated: Wednesday January 26, 2005 4:12PM

    MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- A former high school coach told a federal jury Wednesday that he got offers of money, a job and free law school for his wife before he accepted a $150,000 payoff to steer his best player to sign with Alabama.

    Lynn Lang, the former head coach at Trezevant High School, testified for the second day at the trial of Logan Young, a Memphis millionaire and Alabama booster charged with bribery and manipulating bank withdrawals to hide the payoff.

    Lang has pleaded guilty to taking the money from Young to convince defensive lineman Albert Means to play for the Crimson Tide in 2000. He is cooperating with prosecutors while awaiting sentencing.

    In testimony Tuesday in U.S. District Court, Lang said that he was paid money by coaches at two other Southeastern Conference schools, Kentucky and Georgia. He also testified that Tennessee, Mississippi, Michigan State and Arkansas offered money for Means but never paid.

    Under cross examination by defense lawyer James Neal on Wednesday, Lang added Memphis to the list of schools that offered him a deal, testifying that then-coach Rip Scherer said he would arrange for Lang's wife to attend law school for free at the university.

    Lang also told jurors that Arkansas offered him either an assistant coaching job worth more than $80,000 a year or $150,000 in cash if he delivered Means and another player.

    Means, who has not been accused of wrongdoing, previously testified that he let Lang choose his college.

    Lang said he began shopping Means around to various colleges in 1999 when he realized how many schools wanted him.

    Lang testified that former Kentucky recruiting coordinator Claude Bassett gave $7,000 for work at a camp and a Means visit to campus, and that former Georgia head coach Jim Donnan gave $700 cash for work at a camp. He testified that Bill Harper, a Georgia booster from Memphis, gave him a $100 bill.

    But he said that when he was referred to Young by former Crimson Tide assistant coach Ivy Williams, he started the bidding for Means at $50,000. Young "took to it like water," Lang said.

    Lang, who made less than $30,000 at Trezevant High, said he kept upping the price until it reached $150,000, which he received in a series of payments each smaller than $10,000, the threshold at which bank transactions must be reported.

    Young told him that since the payments were in cash, "If anything happened, it was his word against mine," Lang testified.

    Young's lawyer, who said Williams and Scherer will be called as defense witnesses, began laying the groundwork for that asking Lang detailed questions about what he said and when in his dealings with the different schools.

    Neal also questioned Lang about denials of taking a payoff he made to federal investigators, the NCAA and officials with the Memphis school system.

    Means stayed at Alabama for one football season before transferring to Memphis after reports of a payoff to Lang became public.

    Alabama's recruitment of Means became part of an NCAA investigation that led to sanctions in 2002 depriving the team of scholarships and bowl eligibility.

    Williams and Ronnie Cottrell, another assistant coach who lost his job at Alabama after the investigation, have filed a $60 million defamation lawsuit against the NCAA over the investigation.
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    Re: HS School football coach says Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia paid him cash

    I am shocked, shocked that $EC schools would do something like that. It's like a Wheel of Probation down there. They all seem to take turns going on probation there - everyone except for Vandy.
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    Re: HS School football coach says Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia paid him cash

    I'd be totally shocked if SEC schools cheated on a regular basis.

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    Re: HS School football coach says Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia paid him cash

    Vandy actually was on probation recently
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    Re: HS School football coach says Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia paid him cash

    $ECheat. And UK still blows despite the crookedness.
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    Re: HS School football coach says Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia paid him cash

    You're all fooling yourselves silly if you think it doesn't go on in each and every conference, the SEC just isn't as good at hiding it
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    Re: HS School football coach says Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia paid him cash

    Quote Originally Posted by KronoRed
    You're all fooling yourselves silly if you think it doesn't go on in each and every conference, the SEC just isn't as good at hiding it
    That just means they aren't as smart as the other conferences. :

    But you're right. It does go on in all conferences. Just look at all the stuff that has gone on in Columbus over the past few years. But it just seems that some school is always on probation or some kind of trouble in the $EC.
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    Re: HS School football coach says Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia paid him cash

    This is old news for UK fans, this guy is the reason we've been on probation with the whole Hal Mumme/Claude Bassett regime. Alabama and Georgia though, that's new...

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    Re: HS School football coach says Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia paid him cash

    Quote Originally Posted by KYRedsFan
    $ECheat. And UK still blows despite the crookedness.
    Except in basketball

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    Re: HS School football coach says Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia paid him cash

    Quote Originally Posted by KYRedsFan
    $ECheat. And UK still blows despite the crookedness.
    Hmm, maybe it's because they've been on probation and lost a ton of schollies? Don't you remember when they made 2 straight bowls before they got caught?

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    Re: HS School football coach says Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia paid him cash

    I remember Tim Couch. That was fun for a while, otherwise UK football is embarrassing to the university and its solid hoops tradition.
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    Re: HS School football coach says Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia paid him cash

    I wouldn't call it solid.

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    Re: HS School football coach says Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia paid him cash

    Quote Originally Posted by fielder's choice
    I wouldn't call it solid.
    Care to elaborate?

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    Re: HS School football coach says Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia paid him cash

    It's too bad that boosters get so out of control with the "power of their money". It can sure hurt a lot of kids as well as the school in general. If the school is complicit in the activities (as is apparent with the wife's law school promise), then that's a whole 'nother ballgame. But rogue boosters are gonna be tough to curtail unless 100% of the kids can resist the temptations...
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    Re: HS School football coach says Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia paid him cash

    UK pays illegal money and they still can't beat teams like Ohio University. That football program is beyond hopeless.


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